Munrock ☭
香港，中国
I got a new one yesterday. White guy in Hong Kong says to me “no you mustn’t eat pork when you go to the Mainland, that’s how they hide the bodies.” This was from someone who takes as a point of pride that they read the NYT cover-to-cover every day, but idk where they got this gem from.
So in case anyone’s wondering, according to this guy the “CCP” has been promoting pork as a major part of Chinese cuisine (Which Chinese cuisine you ask? All of them) because it tastes similar to human flesh. He says “you’ve got to tip your hat to them” because it’s evil genius: it lets them hide evidence of their crimes and it solves famine issues.
The best bit, he then says to me, dead serious: “how else do you think North Korea did so well in the Olympics?”
They were really good at battlefield coordination because they shared the one butt sponge and wore no pants.
They all had identical gut biomes, and that allowed them to coordinate. If one soldier on the front line got scared or killed he’d shit himself, and that would alert the gut biome of every soldier who smelled it. It meant that their instincts were intensely accurate.
The term ‘ass kisser’ actually originated from Gaius Julius Caesar’s senior officers while he was on campaign. Every officer observed the practice which ensured that any soldiers close enough to smell his breath would know that he spoke with Caesar’s authority.
Those feel like legitimate worries.
Legitimate worries, but still a drop in the bucket compared to the death and misery that US foreign policy is serving up. Of course, thousands of deaths from direct bombing and sanctions starvation doesn’t weigh up to bodily autonomy oppression when the latter are voters and the former are half a world away.
Meanwhile Jill Stein is anti-war, pro-Palestine and pro-bodily autonomy, but ask any liberal why they refuse to vote for her and it’s because they don’t want to ‘waste their vote’ because every other liberal isn’t voting for her.
The survey disproportionately sampled from urban populations over rural. It’s not representative of the whole Chinese population.
It’s a study by a US university about China, cited in an article about China by the Guardian. I knew I was going to find something like that before even opening the link. One would hope that after Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the Guardian would no longer have any credibility re China in this community.
China is 1.8 billion people. It’s moving slowly on progressive issues, but it’s moving forward. What it’s not doing is following the West’s example, where it rushes forward on progressive issues at the behest of half the population and then rolls back again next election cycle, letting capitalists commodify progressive virtue, letting the political classes use it as a wedge to divide and rule, and causing the slower half of the population to drag the country into fascism every now and then.
The founding fathers, in their infinite wisdom, designed the three branches of the government of the United States of America to have a series of checks and balances to protect their fragile republic from threats such as this. Now we all get to see it in action:
The Judicial branch has ruled that Google is an illegal monopoly and should be broken up, but it doesn’t have the power to do so directly, it has to advise the Legislative and Executive branches to do it. However, the 4th and 5th branches of government - the CIA and the Lobbies - both want Google to remain intact. The CIA finds Google’s tech dominance extremely useful, and the Lobbies’ patrons make a lot of money from it.
So, the Judicial branch advises the Legislative and Executive branches what they should do, but before they do anything the CIA and the Lobbies review the advice and then tell the Legislative and Executive branches what they will do, which in this case will probably be some massive (small for Google) fines.
See? Checks and balances! The different moving parts all working together to ensure that the Government serves the people it was created to serve.
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