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Chinese artist sentenced to 3 years in prison over satirical Mao statues (abcnews.com)
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[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tankies are campists. If they weren't campists they'd just be regular communists.

[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But PRC isn't either. It's state capitalism to a T.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And actual communists whonaren't tankies would understand that and not support the PRC.

My brain is a very good noodle

[–] waltersf@bookwyr.me 2 points 2 days ago

Which is why I made the distinction.
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