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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The bottom right would translate better to "Please try harder" or "Please use more effort" than "Please cheer up" in this context.

"加油" in this case is used a bit more ironically, and it's extremely difficult to translate to begin with.

It literally means "add oil" and is generally meant in "further intensify efforts". In sports, if you're yelling it at your sports team, it means "go team!". When it's someone sick, its "get well soon". In this case its very "try harder".

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Words cannot capture how much I hate this fucker. Everything is a grift. You'd think someone like this would go to university to get a degree and actually contribute to society.

Instead he grifts because he has no motivation to actually have a net value.

In a just world, lenin would have let this guy starve to death.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nah his grift contributes net value... to the interests of the bourgeoisie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

He can just grift like Andrew Tate or Nick fu*ntes.

Why does he need to bother socialists and communists?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

🤓 bu..but he is baaasedd 😖 ackshually all of you anti baseed cia podcast loving hipster woke lgbtq millionaire consumers would not understand real ones like hinkle 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 Do your research and stop consuming cia disinfo 🤬🤬🤬

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

9/11 was a national tragedy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

These tankies say 9/11 was in 1973, but I know it was in 2001 because I saw it on television :smuglord:

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

US politician gets ratio'd by someone calling them an AIPAC shill dean-smile

It's Jackson Hinkle again dean-frown

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wait what

There's no way this is true, right? Is there some obscure metric he's using or is he pulling this out of his ass entirely?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Wow, congratulations!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

is that image faked or did this motherfucker really meet Xi

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

I figured, but then you see this clown pop up at conferences and shit. relieved to know it's fake

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He loves photoshopping himself next to people he likes. Did it with trump too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

just look at it lol.. photoshopped very poorly

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Fiending for more comments from that thread

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

It's going to be entertaining when the ruse implodes. meow-popcorn

Just hope too many don't get sucked up this fedposting trap.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Communist Party of America (ACP)

(ACP)

Nice quirky acronym.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are they making fun of the fact that the communist party of China is almost always abbreviated out of order?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i didn't even notice that at first but they have to be. which is a great bit tbh

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, this is just due to machine translation.

The party itself calls itself the "American Communist Party (ACP)"

Source: https://acp.us/ itself

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

oh yeah, i know that. i'm saying that the Chinese poster calling them the Communist Party of America would be a funny bit, since americans insist on calling the CCP the Chinese Communist Party

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the website alone screams cia/fbi

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Lmao more... MORE

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago

Replies to top comment: “Are some of them doing double duty?” “So there’s another two guys getting paid for doing nothing?”

Reply to bottom comment: “Historically the Americans have tried something similar, but failed for a simple reason - too little support from the ordinary people”

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

It's clear now that the Golden Shield Project is for the benefit of westerners, otherwise the Chinese posters would just dunk us out of existence

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Who is this guy? I tried looking at his Wikipedia but it just made me confused and broke my brain when i saw the words "American Conservative Marxist-Leninist". Wtf does that mean?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

That's the only way that makes sense, I suppose lol

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can somebody please bring me up to speed on this American Communist Party stuff I am totally out of the loop

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Jackson Hinkle, a ~~national~~ patriotic socialist, Trump fan, grifter, hack, intelligence asset, etc… started another right-wing faux-communist "party". Not sure how he keeps getting so much spotlight, must have connections in high places

Edit: His new "party" also has a cryptocurrency scam attached.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that's ... very strange. wasn't he recently in Venezuela chatting up Maduro IIRC?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Yeah, he's everywhere lately. Highly suspect

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Love to see it!

Tangentially related: Does anyone know anything about the RCA party? I've heard little bits about how they just started up but people here always seem to know so much more about all these orgs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I recall someone mentioning that they're trots. I don't remember anything else.

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

damn... always the damn trots