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What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, or something like that parenti

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[–] Dr_Gabriel_Aby@hexbear.net 90 points 1 year ago (5 children)

China does something:

Western media: “The red moon risen, The technology panda, the nuclear tiger, the economic noodle king, the supercondumpling”

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also the west “why are people being racist against Chinese people?”

[–] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

lol that was fucking infuriating 4 years ago. feels quaint now

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago
[–] DerRedMax@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

*Latest Fad

[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tsg ourself, I'm Plato Goes to China

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I'm Red Flags.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago

Don't forget pandas and the PERFIDIOUS YELLOW CLAW OF THE ORIENT

[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn Communism must be awesome if China managed to go from failed tech revolution to tech superpower in a single day.

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

TFW you lose a war of attrition because consuming everything possible is your way of life

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

He did it, Xi pressed the big science and technology button!xi-button

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the only way to escape economic stagnation is to give more power and property to landlords.

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd just like to take the time to say I appreciate you still here doing this after all this time

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

where is this quote from?

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

Don’t forget the financial institutions!

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fidel-bat are you implying we were ever away in the first place?

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 90-2010 period must have been horrible

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Let it be known as the Communist Dark Ages.

Only a bright future ahead for the proletariat.

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That telescope is a nice metaphor for the trajectories of the US and China. The Arecibo Telescope was similar. Built in Puerto Rico on indigenous land and against locals' wishes, it was eventually abandoned to decay there, defunct. No cleanup. It's just there, slowly collapsing, a danger to anyone that would tread on it. The local population has never been compensated. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, on the other hand, was built recently by China, is larger, is fully functional, and just plain performs better. It incurred the relocation of the people there to nearby towns, but they were very well-compensated, and in fact the costs for relocation were greater than building the telescope itself. They moved from villages without running water or electricity to nice apartments.

[–] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It incurred the relocation of the people there to nearby towns, but they were very well-compensated, and in fact the costs for relocation were greater than building the telescope itself. They moved from villages without running water or electricity to nice apartments.

Is there a source for this?

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

The articles I originally read were Chinese language (translated to English using Google Translate) and I'm having trouble finding them now.

Looking up more info about Pingtang county will probably yield more good info.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

but it will backfire

dang that sucks, sorry to hear that

[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago
[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)