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  • Any economic prosperity China has is built on mountains of corpses.

:thonk: Tell me again, how TheWest(TM) got its "prosperity" exactly?

  • DragonNest_Aidit [they/them,use name]
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    3 years ago

    The covid cope is definitely going to be talked in the same way we talks about medieval people throwing cats into bonfires to stave off the plague.

    Also why the fuck did every of these gusano stories, no matter the place, ALWAYS involves eggs in some way.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It's always kind of been a thing, maybe it's become more common recently but even years ago I'd notice this pattern of interaction happening a lot online.

      User A: <vicious racial stereotype about Asian people>

      User B: "Dude wtf that's not okay."

      User C: "I'm Asian and I found it funny."

      That said, I've met real Asian people IRL who would be willing to shit on Asian people to fit in with white social groups so it's hard to say who's pretending and who's actually just an Asian Uncle Tom.

      • cresspacito [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Asian people IRL who would be willing to shit on Asian people to fit in with white social groups

        That "Uncle Roger" guy who puts on a stereotypically racist Asian accent to tell white TikTokers how to make rice makes me feel sick

        • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah, it was only a good bit when he'd shit on western chefs trying badly to make Asian food.

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  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    a few eggs a week was lucky

    Unlike in pre-revolutionary China where broad popular prosperity meant an abundance of food, clothing and luxuries for everyone.

    The Chinese people were happy and content until one day Mao flipped the communism switch and everybody started to kill their landlords for no apparent reason.

    • fairport [he/him,comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      This is the same thing as people who post a picture with an upper-class woman in a miniskirt and say that Iran under the Shah was a paradise until the evil Islamists took over and turned the country into a backwards theocracy where women have no rights.

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The same kind of nostalgia for the lost luxury of the elite exists for tsarist Russia and Batista's Cuba.

        • KasDapital [any]
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          3 years ago

          TIL Cuba had some of the best hotels and casinos in the world, until Castro's communist revolution destroyed them.

  • eduardog3000 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    a few eggs a week was lucky

    Probably because of the egg monopoly that one blue check's grandfather had.

    • Judge_Juche [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Help I'm being oppressed, I only eat one egg a week, cause I'm too lazy to cook for breakfast

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    So his uncle isn't even dead?

    Just """""re-educated"""""?

    Should have gone whole hog and said he was ripped apart with rusty chains or something

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      3 years ago

      oh no mean old Mao sent him to the countryside to do farm labor with some peasants for a couple years. The absolute cruelty. At least he had 17 million other students to keep him company.

      At least say your fake uncle got blown up by a backyard pig iron furnace or something :mao-wtf:

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        • Judge_Juche [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Both my parents were Sent-Down youths who lived 2 years in the country side and my dad is still very vocal that China should have kept doing this and they should do this in America. Based on the stories he tells, those two years were the most formative of his life.

          Chinese gusanos pretends that this was so horrible and called the Sent-Down youth 'China's lost generation' becuase it delayed them going to college for one or two years and it forced sheltered city kids to associate with the rural peasantry.

          • RNAi [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            Unlike the civilized West(TM) were they had mandatory military service that it's totally good akchually.

            And in a sense it was cuz randos got training in firearms but sadly also brutalized and fuck off with mandatory service

          • SoyViking [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I also think a year of mandatory "community service" for everyone would be a great idea to build solidarity and break down artificial divides.

            I also once read that in Czechoslovakia they had regular communal labour days where everybody was expected to help clean up their neighborhood. A great way of getting useful things done, build community and getting a break from everyday routine.

          • summerbl1nd [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            just wanted to add that farm work and manual labor, despite being labeled “unskilled”, is actually technically challenging. those city kids were basically coasting on the farmers who provided room, board and food for free while being fairly useless for at least the first few months or so.

  • My_Army [any]
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    3 years ago

    Real "I promise I'm one of the good ones, please don't hit me on the streets" type energy

    • opposide [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      “CHINA IS CENSORING REDDIT!!!!” Meanwhile there is anti-China hysteria news on the front page of Reddit every single day

  • ultraviolet [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    My grandparents were born in the early Mao era and they never had any problems finding enough clothes for everyone lmao.

    The thing with the eggs is true where they lived. Most of the time you'd sell the eggs at the local market so you could buy other stuff. Eggs were typically eaten during special occasions so it was like a delicacy.

    • KasDapital [any]
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      3 years ago

      My wife's parents (in America) had chickens, and the one thing that seemed consistent about them was that they were very inconsistent. One year they'd have eggs to give away, the next they'd only get a handful. Under those circumstances it absolutely makes sense to sell some and get more shelf stable or immediately usable food