lechekaflan

Conservative reactionaries since the French Thermidor Reaction opposed it, believing communalism and eventually socialism undermines their existing hierarchical, feudal system. Stalin also did not help matters at all.

How unsurprising this oligarch. Always betting on the fucking elephant.

Never had a swishy because they were then expensive 33 years ago as they are now.

I’m not underestimating the bastards behind Trump, as he’s a puppet.

It’s one thing to say, it’s an entirely different matter when actually acting on an idea.

We’ll watch this chess game unfold.

Yeah, and that orange chucklefuck can go fuck himself.

Fucking suit. Congratulations for destroying your brand.

But it merits pondering how this undemocratic government could successfully slash its poverty rate when the richest and oldest democracy in the world wouldn’t.

My favorite idea is that the Mainland regime – then under Deng – took their economic development ideas and business customs from Japan – including industrial espionage – and basically modified those for Chinese needs while addressing the problems which led to Japan’s later bubble burst by the late 80s. That local corporations were given first priority, with a lot of incentives, tax breaks, programs to increase productivity and cut away inhibitions, hire young people from the far provinces who are willing to work for less, anything to have the world buy cheap from China. So they treated business like warfare, as essential for national survival and prestige where by 2049 the world must look up to Mainland China, never to be humiliated again.

However, China in its current state has its younger generations in urban areas having to deal with overwork burnout (996工作制 or 996 working hour system for example) and so creating basically its own anti-work culture. That there are godawful displays of wealth by tuhao almost everyday, while most others complain how it’s so expensive to live in, say, Shanghai. I could try to go on, but I put it that it’s still not a happy place as long as there is class conflict.

Most of them are practically disengaged from politics and only follow their (male) partner’s political beliefs. If they’re from one of the surrounding rural (white and low income) areas, the chances they’re like this are higher. Not shockingly, a fair amount of their partners are cops.

Also, some of them have scary levels of religious fanaticism.