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they are also Reagan posting which is kinda funny see both

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[–] Keld@hexbear.net 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's funny how China has spent the last sixty or so years letting the US run wild (And indeed aiding the US imperial project at times) not getting in the way, and minding their own business and the US has just been getting so fucking mad about it. Literally the problem here is that China succeeds on the terms the US set out without becoming a US vassal

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 days ago

Yeah the most directly oppositional the PRC has been to the US since Deng was making an app that turned the kids woke by accident

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 29 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Love the chuds malding in the replies xi-lib-tears

Lots of them saying "Yeah well Mao killed eleventy bajillion of your own people" as if they were speaking truth to power and not repeating by rote what they've always been told and wanted to believe. Then there's the ones who are taking a posture of moral righteousness while posting the most grotesquely racist shit.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Love the chuds malding in the replies

I think I'll get too mad reading their replies, I am not touching a twitter post like this with a 10ft pole

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 13 points 4 days ago

It's somewhat cathartic watching fash get extra whiny when the Communists have the upper hand. They have no bite, so bark they must.

[–] theturtlemoves@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

They're A/B testing the US.

[–] Thallo@hexbear.net 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Okay, poke it already, then

[–] sictransitgloria@hexbear.net 15 points 4 days ago

that's bad for business

[–] jack@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

That is what they are doing

[–] Calmrade@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

They have no reason to back down. Especially when this all seems to be destabilizing Trump even further lol.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago
[–] kittin@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago

Ronald Reagan and Margret Thatcher as the Mao’s of the ruling class makes sense to me

[–] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't think that's how paper tigers are supposed to work? Wouldn't that be a balloon tiger instead?

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 12 points 4 days ago

Chinese to English translation can be a little tough.

If the original quote used 绽 (zhàn) the word means split, burst, or rip/tear depending on context.

[–] ThermonuclearEgg@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 10 points 4 days ago

This one has been doing the rounds on Chinese social media for a few weeks now