“Sinicizing Islam” in Xinjiang just means supporting the indigenous Islamic tradition that’s been practiced there for centuries. The Wahhabism espoused by Uigher separatists is the real foreign imposition, which has no long-standing roots in the region.

It’s a dumb sport for people who don’t like sports, but who do like to spend a lot of money on gear.

This is my totally unbiased opinion.

Every time it lifts somebody out of poverty, that panda does one pushup.

The result is one very strong panda.

The Chen Weihua Doctrine (Protracted People’s Trolling)

As somebody on here said, the moment the Germans ever break free of the US yoke is the moment this kind of propaganda comes roaring back

• Ant Group
• Evergrande
• Poverty
• Deserts
• Some random weirdo’s sex drive

Man, there’s just no stopping Xi, is there?

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This isn’t even science fiction. This is Warhammer 40k levels of “current tech is magic, and if we just appease the machine spirit, he will shower blessings on us.”

As noted in that famed tankie work, Combat Illiberalism by Gordon G. Mao.

This makes me want to stay single forever

“Fun Fact: You can be for socialism and still denounce every historical socialist revolution and every historical or existing socialist state. This is totally the way to convince people that your movement is one they should join. Be like the anarchists who have gotten so much done over the past two hundred years.”

Imagine if they’d developed this earlier. That giant squid could have been a game changer in Bakhmut.

Yeah, but I’m sure their families can take comfort from the fact that they died for the (American) red, white, and blue.

So you’re telling me the laws of Freedom^TM and the Market^® don’t trump the the laws of physics?

As far as I can tell, the source is dumb anarchists vs. Caleb Maupin c. 2021. I never heard it prior to that.

Specifically, it seems to originate in a video he made called “Socialist Billionaires? YES! (Let me explain…)” It was a fairly run-of-the-mill explanation, with a click-baity title, of why China has a market sector. Of course, rather than engage in any one of the many legitimate criticisms you could make of Caleb Maupin, the terminally online anarchist crowed focused on the title alone, and were spamming “the people’s billionaires” all over the place for months afterward. It’s the same mindset that finds “borger king” funny, and it probably won the guy more followers than he lost.

The phrase has been living on “left” social media ever since.

“They don’t have to, because they do the same kind of thing internally” – Anne Applebaum or Simon Seabag Montefiore (probably, I’m not going to dig through a pedophile tome like Bloodlands)

Ultras as well. I’m all but convinced that ultraleftism is a type of adventurism from (often rightly) disillusioned liberals. He was bigger a few years back than he is now, but Jason Unruhe is a prime example of that kind of thing.

shit hole country

Plot twist: this guy is from the Baltics

I thought the title was the name of some obscure 90s punk group

Given that the followers of a certain Austrian guy were some of original bigwigs in NATO, one could certainly say there’s a kind of… precedent.