TheLastHero

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Rachel Corrie wasn't a famous EU liberal darling before they ran her over though. Even though I'm sure the entity is salivating over nuking pflp-octoplushie she may actually be too famous for it to be worth it

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Grok AI: the whales are singing "kill the Boer" actually

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

maybe the real therapy was the potions we distilled along the way

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 months ago (6 children)

because hanging out with your co workers or boss still feels like work, and work sucks and is alienating

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

they exploit vulnerable individuals and perpetuate violence

so do the police lol

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think this is it, if you pay a Dr. Feelgood to prescribe it then it doesnt count as drug use

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

What happened to "he's never leaving this is the end of democracy"

obviously, trump is gonna chicken out on ending democracy, so let's just go back to brunch and not worry about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

yes it is just party custom, it would basically just be discrimination otherwise to bar the children of officials from office. But PR China is a party state so the CPC can regulate their officials in ways beyond legal statues. And a princeling can overcome the custom if they are competent, but your work will be held to a higher standard within the party. Xi is technically a princeling, his dad was a high officer who was purged in the CultRev and later rehabilitated. But Xi did good work in state bureaucracy at the lower levels so the party kept promoting him. Xi for his part has kept up the suspicion towards other princelings during the anti-corruption drive.

Western media about princelings is delusional though, talking about them as like some elite aristocracy within the party (projection). The truth is that they are just the generation who was able to get the earliest benefit from the Chinese economy and culture finally modernizing (higher education, new industrial sectors) and as more Chinese people get those opportunities I think princelings will become less relevant all around.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Trump's mistress starting ww3 trying to kidnap xi's daughter would be a pretty funny casus belli ngl

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

they are called "Princelings" if your parent was a high ranking CPC memeber and basically you are seen as cringe if you try to get into politics. You won't get promoted to high levels just because you have that label. A lot of Princelings just go into business now instead of politics.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

US President Donald J. Trump says: "Hatred and Radicalism have no place in the USA"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is definitely something one of his advisors told him while prepping his oafish ass for negotiations at some point "what ever you do don't say nuclear, it is like the n-word of international diplomacy, just think of it like that Don, it's very bad to say"

and he thought it was funny and now its like a personal bit only he understands

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