I've been on rednote for three months and if there's one thing I've learned about China, it is they are very proud of their reforestation efforts
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I really want to see Trump plant a tree. Like, take a spade, dig a hole and put a sapling in there. It would be amazing.
You’ve seen standing lessons. Now get ready for digging lessons. Stanley Yelnats style
Ahahah I loved that movie
One of the few movies where they pretty much nailed everything from the book.
Except Stanley being fat
supposedly this was because they didn't want to make the actor gain a lot of weight, or lose a lot of weight when stanley becomes skinnier. still, they should have just cast a fat kid. how many main characters are fat in children's media? im drawing a blank
the actor was shia labeouf. they wanted a celeb and famous actor, so they didn't get a fat one. it's that simple but it's integral to his character in the book and internal monologue and arc.
He did... or at least, moved around some dirt
This doesn't count, I want him to have to dig the hole.
new rule: any candidate for elected office should video themselves planting a tree
Imagine a modern us president doing anything labor-adjacent
Funnily, the only example I can think of is Bush cutting down trees
Trump worked McDonald’s drive thru for a photo op lol
Trump worked McDonald’s drive thru for a photo op lol
This was the most genius propaganda thing he ever did. Americans respond well to stuff like that.
he forgot to put the bag of ice in the deep fryer though 
Poppy or Dubya?
Idk about Poppy, but Dubya was lambasted by libs for taking too much time off during times of particular crisis. More than you'd expect, he spent the time he wasn't golfing on "clearing brush" at his ranch for some reason. Conservatives kind of embraced it as a manly thing and defended him taking time off to pretend to work on his ranch
Mfw
Same energy, different pigs
damn this picture fucked met up a bit. I though the woman on the right was wearing the grasses as a skirt, and then though that the woman on the left was bending at some ungodly angle and fitting into the tiny grass skirt that the dude (is that mussolini?) was holding and checking out.
Yea he's the 🙃 man. Also the woman on the far left looks like an eldritch horror lol, can't distinguish the hat from the face.
There might be more to this. Never underestimate communist leader planting trees. For example in 1940 Stalin and Beria planted trees around the airport at Smolensk and in 2010 fash president of Poland Kaczyński (with lots of his cronies) died in plane crash there.
It is well known that communist trees can sense nearby fascists, and then respond accordingly.
To ~~Isengard~~ Berlin! Though ~~Isengard~~ Berlin be ringed and barred with doors of stone; Though ~~Isengard~~ Berlin be strong and hard, as cold as stone and bare as bone, We go, we go, we go to war, to hew the stone and break the door; For bole and bough are burning now, the furnace roars - we go to war!
If we have any Chinese spies on here, please recruit me so that I can do ecological restoration.
wassup Beijing
plants tree
if this was about a head of state within the imperial core or periphery ignoring developments in designated foreign adversaries, it'd be rightfully lampooned as site tagline material. this is nonsense drivel on par with 'kamala green suit' epic clapback trash
Elsewhere, governments may have been glued to the television
begging for one example, the entire screenshotted excerpt hangs on this (likely imaginary) counterexample
hey quiet nerd, china good
the entire screenshotted excerpt hangs on this (likely imaginary) counterexample
This BBC article was released on April 4
This CGTN video was posted on April 4
There is a CGTN article here with another video that dates the planting event as April 3rd.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-04-03/VHJhbnNjcmlwdDgzODM1/index.html
Grandpa Xi 🥹
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I wasn't talking about the tree planting. I was talking about the text I quoted. Here it is again.
Elsewhere, governments may have been glued to the television
I think the PRC and CPC are great! I just hate this style of 'journalism'. If anything, the news here is that the bastion of reactionary liberalism in the BBC is doing it for the PRC. I.e. their trump derangement is stronger than their sinophobia.
When I wrote the bit you quoted:
the entire screenshotted excerpt hangs on this (likely imaginary) counterexample
I meant that the framing of the article, that the tree-planting was a deliberate 'message to Washington', hangs on the hypothetical (other governments glued to the television) that the author assumes to be true.
If we don't give the publisher the benefit of the doubt (and when it comes to the BBC, I don't), this is just another form of orientalist 'China-watching'. Except instead of the author picking apart some inane nonsense to paint those inscrutable orientals in a negative light, they're doing so to paint them positively.
I 100% believe Trump is glued to a television.
The others maybe not.
They weren't talking about Trump! They were talking about other countries impacted by the tariffs.
Yeah probably
Let libs enjoy things
real, this is giving 
whitepeopletwitter but red lmao
Something really beautiful about planting trees you won’t see flourish within your lifetime
Xi is just aura farming at this point
Politics aside starting a trade war with the country that has centralized control of every sector of the economy and can make rapid top-down changes to it in times of crisis just sounds like a really stupid thing to do when your own economy is just "make sure rich people stay rich no matter what nothing else matters"
Hell yeah
lol
literally this
