CRACKDOWN, CRACKDOWN CRACKDOWN!
Crack down on deez nuts, lmao gottem.
Some gems from the comments:
This is a classic case of why centrally planned economies don't work. Political ideology takes precedence over efficient markets. It was destined to fail.
But... China's economy has not failed. Putting the cart a thousand miles before the horse.
It’s also why Putin is willing to throw an entire generation of Russians, including the convicts and addicts at Ukraine. Russia is dead for 40 years because he failed to fulfill his mob boss promise to Xi. China is now clearing farmland in Siberia because the typhoon floods last August and September wiped out the Chinese people’s food storage.
Wake up, babe, new BlueAnon conspiracy just dropped.
Xi's just not into him or her; only Xi.
Found Elon's account.
A lot of those, like "cracking down" on NEETs and the gaming industry, would benefit the economy if done successfully.
Liberal infighting... It's so much more boring than leftist infighting. What will happen to the NEETs when Xi presses the button?
Huh! Hooh! Huh! Hooh! Huh! Hooh!
Crackdown on Bitcoin, all other crypto currencies, and all other crypto related activities like mining (monetary movement seen as a potential threat to Xi's 3rd term)
not the crypto. Why do they defend that shit to the death, all it's good for is buying hrt online.
Because they all want to get rich quick and saw Crypto suddenly shoot up that one time 8 years ago and think it's their tickets to the good life.
It's the poor people that want something for nothing, according to them though
Crypto also pushes a lot of libertarian/ancap delusion buttons: code-as-law eliminates the need for human trust and consensus, the network is immune to the meddling of the state; you no longer need banks/middlemen/regulators as we know them. Proof of stake and proof of worth are both basically flavours of "buy your own authority."
Would not be surprised to see parentheses around some of the nouns in some versions of those arguments.
There is the occasional conceptually interesting thought on the philosophical aspects of money as a social construct, and attempts to solve pain points in financial ecosystems, but it pales in conparison to the speculative shitshow cryoto became.
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Work entire life: "want something for nothing"
Join the electric burn pyramid scheme few years too late: "ticket to good life"
all it's good for is buying hrt online.
Wtf, best argument I have ever heard for crypto???
you can read my kinda cringy guide https://hexbear.net/post/876371
It's harder now that local Monero shut down. I think you buy Bitcoin via bisq and then use atomic transfers to convert BTC to xmr. The issue is fiat to BTC usually.
So far I've used it to buy VPN access, Anna's Archive fast lanes, and temporary real phone numbers, with it. Other then that its been pretty useless.
(Though those three things have been really useful)
might threaten against Xi's 3rd term
Oh he's just doing all these cool things because not doing it might be a threat to his 3rd term. Also Americans need to realize that not everybody follows the 2 term, 4 years per term limits.
Xi running for another term: evil authoritarian tankie dictator behaviour, no better than Hitler
Merkel being Chancellor of Germany for 15 years: cool and normal beacon of freedom and democracy
The only thing that could threaten Xi’s next term is the obsolescence of the state after achieving full communism
Isn't Xi Jinping about to hit the maximum age for politicians in China? This is his last term regardless.
Also Americans need to realize that not everybody follows the 2 term, 4 years per term limits.
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When westerners did it
was cool and good leader of democracy and freedom and western values and the forces of light against darkness and the garden vs the "jungle" therefore its only natural we keep electing the same person.
When China does it
is just a straight up dictator.
is willing to throw an entire generation of Russians, including the convicts and addicts at Ukraine
This is an old school one. They use the same "hoardes of desperate Russians" shit to dismiss the Red Army winning WW2
A lot of those, like "cracking down" on NEETs and the gaming industry, would benefit the economy if done successfully.
Let me guess, the liberals want to "crack down on NEETs" by removing safety nets and criminalising anyone who refuses to or can't work?
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Ukrainian-President-Signs-Law-to-Send-Prisoners-to-Front-Lines-20240517-0007.html
[China] is a classic case of why centrally planned economies don't work.
Comrade Xi is just mad that the third Crackdown game was terrible and is making his own.
Incidentally, I think the inhabitants of /r/China are way closer to 4chan 1488 Nazi types than libs. They don't even pretend to be non or anti-racist.
crackdown on NEETs by giving people educations and restrictions on gaming to prevent addiction and abuse by companies
These attacks on NEET culture will not be tolerated.
Entire worldview and ability to think mediated by movies and tv
- Crackdown on Corporation
- Crackdown on Corporation
- Crackdown on crime
- Crackdown on Corporation
- Crackdown down on US influence
- Crackdown on Corporation
- Crackdown on NEETs by giving people educations and restrictions on gaming to prevent addiction and abuse by companies (They targeted gamers. Gamers.)
Crackdown on Chinese fintechs like Ant group(who might threaten against Xi's 3rd term)
UNLIMITED GENOCIDE ON FINTECH!
Crackdown on for profit afterschool cram schools, tutoring, and education (Guise of helping the middle class citizen but actually locks them out of the little social mobility they have. Reality this mobility lock is seen as a stabilizing factor which helps Xi after he gets his 3rd term)
How to say "at what cost?" without saying "at what cost?".
Crackdown on gaming industry. Insisting full block M-F and 1hr max on weekends. (No fun allowed. No studying allowed. Only CCP school teachings. Afterschool is for CCP homework and restudying Xi JinPing thought)
Gamers: the most oppressed minority.
Crackdown on inflation (a threat to Xi's 3rd term) by with authoritarian pricing controls and market manipulation which causes unnecessary monetary losses
Reducing inflation by reducing costs of seldom bought high price goods while the cost of neccessities skyrockets 😍 🥰 💖
Reducing inflation by implementing price controls 🤮 😡
Crackdown on foreign tech companies
Laughs in tick tock
So the weirdo you're quoting is angry that parents can't pay for private after school tutors for their kids and also their kids can't play videogames all day every day. But then the weirdo you're quoting says: "No fun allowed. No studying allowed. Only CCP school teachings. Afterschool is for CCP homework and restudying Xi JinPing thought". And I think that's a weird jump in logic, isn't it? "No fun allowed", "Afterschool is for CCP homework", but China is surely not banning hanging out with friends, which is one of the main sources of fun I enjoyed when I was a kid. It looks to me like Xi is mandating that kids touch some grass, not that they become little communist robots.
Videogames aren't the only source of fun I guess is what I'm saying.
Xi is mandating that kids touch some grass
noooo we can't have that! They must consume endless slop produced by our big tech overlords!
Capitalist economies never fail meanwhile. 1929, 2008 never happened and it was definitely not the Government that temporarily patched up the market failures.
Someone actually wrote this fucking essay
I Overdosed on liberalism
• You never get out of debt to a Russian mobster
•Paul Manafort owed the Russian mobster/oligarch Oleg Deripaska $17M a few days before he became trumps campaign manager. From 2002-2014 he took in hundreds of millions to get Yanukovych reelected as the kremlins puppet in Ukraine. Before that he did it for the dictator Marcos in the Philippines. Before that Manafort and Roger Stone started a lobbyist agency in 1980 listing trump as their first client.
•When Jair Bolsonaro lost the Brazilian election to Lula he skipped the inauguration and flew directly to mar-a-lago (stopping only at a KFC) and repeated, almost verbatim, the stolen election line. Don Jr. tried repeatedly to make it stick in Brazil as well, but as Brazilians are a few generations into dealing with corrupt politicians they weren’t having it.
What do these 3 things have in common?
China imports 40% of its grain from (in order) the U.S., Brazil and Ukraine.
Obviously the second China tried to invade Taiwan the U.S. would sanction exports and remove U.S. grain from that equation.
And without Bolsonaro in office willing to slash and burn the Amazon rainforest to turn it into Chinas food supply, and without Ukraine in the bag in 3 days, the CCP is unable to invade Taiwan and take over microprocessor production without putting 300-500M of its poorest people into famine.
Donbas Ukraine, specifically the 4 regions of the donbas that Putin insists he is saving from what he calls “Jewish Nazis” also happens to produce the worlds supply of high grade neon used for microprocessor lithography. Had Putin delivered ukraine in 3 days as promised, Xi would have been able to cap his Olympics with a naval blockade or political takeover of Taiwan that would have forced the world to ask the CCP for the microprocessors it needs to make everything from Ford trucks to laptops. I’m not sure how long Silicon Valley would last without the silicon but it would probably destroy the FAANG stocks that make up your 401K.
Oleg Deripaska also happens to be the Russian Oligarch that bribed the FBI agent Charles Mcgonigal into investigating another Russian oligarch. He probably didn’t need the information as much as he needed the leverage over Mcgonigal as he conducted the investigation into trumps election campaign and unsurprisingly found zero evidence of Russian collusion. McGonigal then went to work for the company called Brookfield that bailed Jared Kushner out of his toxic 666 5th Ave real estate investment. McGonigal pled guilty last fall and was sentenced recently.
A Russian oligarch is a powerful tool, but the truth is more powerful. Light and dark cannot exist in the same space. It’s physically impossible. Truth is efficient. You say it once and you are finished. A lie however requires a constant stream of follow up energy, money, murder, obfuscation and more lies to keep it covered.
If you raise your lens high enough lying is an unsustainable business model. Russia proved it by invading Ukraine. Vranyos is the Russian word for it. The 40km long column of tanks and vehicles that came down from Belarus into Ukraine was all overhauled by oligarchs that got a $1B contract for tank maintenance, passed Putin $200M back under the table, spent $700M on a yacht in Monaco, bribed a General, a Colonel and a Sergeant to make a Private give everything a rattle can overhaul. But a worn out engine is and always will be, a worn out engine.
This is why trump is so desperate to get re-elected. His best case scenario is 400 years in ADX Florence. Money laundering for the dozens of Russian oligarchs that lived in trump towers with him and manafort, selling IP3 nuclear plans to the Russian/Saudi alliance, selling or giving CIA asset names to the Russians, trump is and always has been compromised. He just didn’t know when to quit. Now he just has to count on the fact that most of his voter base doesn’t know how to read and keep the ones that do so busy just surviving that they don’t have time to dive deep into his 40 year history of laundering money, fraud, and human trafficking for the Russian mob using casinos first, then commercial real estate.
It’s also why Putin is willing to throw an entire generation of Russians, including the convicts and addicts at Ukraine. Russia is dead for 40 years because he failed to fulfill his mob boss promise to Xi. China is now clearing farmland in Siberia because the typhoon floods last August and September wiped out the Chinese people’s food storage.
Xi, for his part diverted the waters from the dam away from his pet project, his mothers ancestral home, and flooded hundreds of thousands of people and drown one of his own military brigades that was helping with the flooding.
The elders of the CCP were terrified to leave their gated community at Beidaihe for over a month for fear of being torn apart by the locals. The Chinese people tolerate the CCP but only as long as the economy is good and famine is not on the horizon. The CCP broke that social contract on both counts.
Xi was willing to bet the entire Chinese economy on his emperor ambitions. Had he succeeded he would have been able to use BRICS to take over the USD as the Worlds reserve currency. That would have let him finish what he stated in 2010-
that he would control the internet.
With that control means everything we do or say online is subject to the approval of a central party censor. The basic right to disagree with an authoritarian becomes a distant memory.
Xi, Putin and MBS are simply trying to systemize and modernize the suppression of their biggest hassle. Freedom of speech.
Ukraine is fighting for their lives now, free from the oppression of the drunken tyrant who wants to decide their fate at every decision and pull them back behind another iron curtain of censorship and the tax of corruption where dissenting voices disappear so that the oligarchy can continue to feed unobstructed.
Putin and Xi have declared themselves best friends in the fight against democracy. MBS and the ruling family of UAE have done the same quietly using their sovereign funds and Kushners SPAC as money highways.
Just rich, out of touch oligarch doing what oligarchs do.
Despite the fact the the central party model has proven itself incapable of making decisions that are best for the people, they persist. Because there is a very lucrative business in being slave owners. But logistically the mass of it requires artificial intelligence, and the microprocessors that make A.I. to keep 8 billion slaves under surveillance and control. Freedom is one hell of a drug. And knowledge makes a man unfit for slavery.
Recent attempts on Xi’s life from inside the CCP have backed him into a corner.
The loss of crops in northern China means Xi can’t invade Taiwan without Ukrainian and/or Brazilian farmland.
Now the reason that the GOP is stalling southern border control budget and seems to make wildly irrational moves is because the GOP is imploding. 45 years of lies and grift have circled the globe and are eating their own tail. The ouroboros was a warning about corruption at the highest levels. Lying about climate change, human trafficking, pandemics and corruption to preserve their own business models are all extinction level events
Light and dark cannot exist in the same space. It’s physically impossible. Truth is efficient. You say it once and you are finished. A lie however requires a constant stream of follow up energy, money, murder, obfuscation and more lies to keep it covered.
If this was true, the entire world would have been communist by 1850.
what even is that metaphor
like, are truths never forgotten, does night never fall? What about infrared? Clearly written by someone who's never had to stumble around in the dark
Someone go in and ask whether they have 72 hours or 28 days before China collapses.
Or whether they're FINISHED for real this time.