Mao: “Oppose book worship” (writes greatest book ever)

Deng: “liberalize the economy” (puts socialism on a firmer basis)

Xi: “Complete the reform and opening up” (eliminates absolute poverty, curbs corruption, re-emphasizes Marxism, and strengthens the state sector like a boss)

Chinese leaders’ troll game is on another level.

REFORM REFORM REFORM REFORM!

The western media always brings her up, I notice, in some sort of dehumanizing sexualized way. (You probably remember the disgusting “Kim Yo-Jong step on me” stuff liberals were doing online a few years back). It’s a way to get gooners and idiot racists vaguely interested in supporting US foreign policy.

What we’ve lost most since the airlift, when the US and UK poured into Europe money, information power, and military might for the first time in peacetime, is mojo. We held back Stalin with a remarkable resilience, and one damn great, if not entirely true, story. It’s good we’ve grown more truthful, but not that we’ve lost fighting spirit.

This becomes funnier if you imagine it said by some 80-year-old guy in overalls, sitting in his rocking chair and chewing a straw.

For lack of a better word, yes

Don’t take this the wrong way, but you could have a brilliant career as a ghostwriter to some US politician.

MSS head Chen Yixin here – we’re honestly kind of surprised it worked. Either this Gordon G. Chang guy is a disinformation genius, or Americans are just a whole lot dumber than we thought.

I mean, I rule an authoritarian state, so it checks out.

Cyberbullying with Chinese characteristics

Islamo-socdemism

“Stupid” is pretty rich, coming as it does from one of the two or three stupidest men in America – and believe me, the competition is pretty stiff.

Yeah, but have you considered that you criticizing this guy’s grammar is basically the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Adrian Zenz adding Mzuark to his list right now

Dude sounds like his father never gave him “the talk.”

“On your Marx, get set, Zo” – instant gulag for writing that stupid pun.

At this point I’m convinced that a whole lot of the people defending the sex industry online – those who aren’t, as you indicated, feds – are sweaty dudes sitting in their bedroom, and deciding to pen a manifesto in between rounds 2 and 300 of jerking it to violent porn. Call it the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism-Epsteinism.

These “US politician meets Chinese politician” pictures are turning out to be comedy gold. Here’s US secretary of the treasury Scott Bessent meeting vice premier He Lifeng in Kuala Lumpur (preening like some cross between a peacock and a youtube beauty influencer doesn’t make you look more in control of the situation, Scott):

Add some quote by Nietzsche gotten off wikipedia, and we have Twitter Fascist Bingo. (They always ignore the fact that Nietzsche openly said that when races combine, great civilizations result – Spain, for instance, which he admired much more than Germany).

That I’ve actually heard people say “I became a fascist when I realized communism failed everywhere it’s been tried” never ceases to astound me.

That makes sense, unfortunately. Most people are not deep thinkers – nor should they be – and explaining to the oppressed a world beyond imperialism is like explaining the real world to the shadow-watchers in Plato’s cave.

Somebody I don’t otherwise admire said that the what makes communists different from philosophers is this: while the philosopher returns to the cave to tell people about the ideal world of forms he saw, the communist returns to the cave to smash the puppets casting the shadows, beat down the puppeteers, and drag people kicking and screaming into the sunlight.