“Xi Jinping sat 5 centimeters to the right of usual position. What does this mean?”
- Western media headline 5 years from now, probably.
“Kim Jong-un has blinked 44 times per minute while giving speech instead of usual 43”
“he wants to show his age as a sign of experience, clearly a sign that he feels he’s losing power”
“he wants to seem young as a sign of energy, clearly a sign that he feels he’s losing power”
Ya know, I remember when these same things were being said about president of Turkmenistan.
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In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
– Michael Parenti, Blackshirts And Reds
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“Aging? Is this something those poors do?”
Is this the same Pax Americana advocates who claimed that Xi’s support to migration is bad because it erodes local cultures and languages despite their contradicting claim that unrestricted migration is a human right?
I love how people act as if communists revere good leaders like they are Gods (despite the fact that a key aspect of Marxism is critique) when in reality these are the mfs who think Xi can defy space time continuum and sabotage global economy and every other ridiculous lie they perpetuate.
George Clooney is allowed to have grey hair, even being labeled as a “silver fox”, but when Xi does it’s a bad thing…