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Xi Got Lucky This Year. He Shouldn’t Get Used to It (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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https://archive.ph/9a20k

The massive cope and nonsense is off the charts.

Here's to an even "luckier" 2024. xi-lib-tears

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[–] LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net 94 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

The entire article is laughable of course, but I have to just admire the sheer audacity of the last part:

If Xi’s government privatizes inefficient state-owned enterprises, expands access for foreign businesses, and provides more social services and better protection of private property, the economy would embark on a much stronger growth path.

As no such reforms were implemented in 2023, the stalled economic recovery should not have come as a shock. Things could get worse for China in 2024 without new pro-market initiatives. Xi might then have to pray for a bit more luck.

Wow. I wonder why this commentator thinks US/West who already do these things are struggling right now, even more than China?

[–] Juice@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Its this guy's job to convince the readers of Business Insider: dentists, chiropractors, sea doo dealership owners, petty land lords-- not to invest in Chinese businesses. If people see China as a place that's thriving they'll invest in Chinese markets, which will make it harder to convince these petty bourgeois investors to go to war with China

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Simple, they're not doing enough

Commie Joe needs to cut corporate taxes to a flat 2%, increase incentives for businesses in the US, and levy heftier tariffs on Chinese goods

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

No wonder we call economists the high priests of capital. Indistinguishable from some priest doomsaying the next harvest because we didn't sacrifice enough bulls this season.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 65 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The part in every anime where the self aggrandizing villain gets hit by the unassuming hero after their training arc, then they fly back and make a crater in a wall, then after going Huaa?? they wipe off a little mouth blood with their sleeve and say something like "Heh, beginner's luck. Let's see how you deal with THE TRUE POWER OF THE FREE MARKET!"

I can hear the guitars already

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Tuesday: "A Chinese bookseller recalled a book. Somehow, this *shuffles deck* means that Xi's hold on power is slipping"

Wednesday: "Xi got lucky this year"

Thursday: "Xi's grip is tightening! Please release me!"

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago

Replacing The Atlantic with a tarot deck may actually improve the accuracy of reporting.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Recently i saw this book in a bookstore, it goes:

"Xi Jinping - the most powerful man in the world and his empire"

Inside is the exact last year reddit drivel you could expect.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

no dragon art

no oriental font

no reference to chess

no reference to the color red

0/10

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Huh, Polish uses Imperium as a loanword from Latin?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, we have two words for empire, imperium and cesarstwo, both from latin. Their meaning in Polish are roughly the same, though imperium sounds more menacing and its more often used figuratively.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's what happens when you all got rid of your Chuck, and didn't bring a new Charlie in. rat-salute

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I have no idea what that metaphor mean.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

your karól

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

You know, your Charles. The last time you had a Chad was 198 years ago, you had a Charlesdom after WWI but did it without ever appointing any sort of Charles, which is kind of based.

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Someone create a headline generator for body language/astral analysis of Xi’s psychology based on mundane events

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

2024 is the year of the wood dragon

Good luck and prosperity to China is foretold by the stars!

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Year of the long, thick, stiff wooden dragon panting

[–] blashork@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

volcel-judge

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

b-but his grip on his people is too strong!

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

xibe-check

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 years ago

lemmygrad mods pls expropiate this emote

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity xi-lib-tears

[–] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It seems like China gets lucky every year while most of the West is very unlucky. It must be their crickets.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

The year of the dragon is right around the corner. 🐉

[–] buh@hexbear.net 29 points 2 years ago

Got lucky with who??? 😳

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The West: slams dick in car door

Also the West:

[–] fox@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

Finance capitalism inventing new derivatives of derivatives of derivatives while China makes actual products

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

America in 1980: Relied on China for 2% of its imports

America in 2020: Relied on China for 20% of its imports

does-he-know is it luck?

[–] charlie@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think it’s closer to like 95% if you pull back the layer of Chinese exports going to Canada/Japan/Mexico for assembly and then being imported to the US. Those show as Canadian/Japanese/Mexican imports in figures which I find misleading.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago

That's a very good point I hadn't considered

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's no way a materialist analysis of economy can continue to get this lucky!

[–] fox@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

All that matters is that the line goes up and we'll pay unlimited money to economists to divine the entrails and cast the bones to determine how best to disenfranchise the poor to make that happen

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

Yea it's not like they can count on America being a dumb as shit reactionary dumpster fire NEXT YEAR.

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

Very lucky of Xi, taking advantage of the fact the US is self sabotaging

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

> Does nothing

> Wins

xigma-male

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Xi has gotten lucky 10 years in a row. Here's why his streak's about to break: