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[-] [email protected] 77 points 2 years ago

The Economist on its way to Proving Lenin He Was right everytime they make a dumb Article

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago

CHINA'S COVID FAILURE

which country has over a million COVID deaths again?

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago

Failure to give their citizens the right to drown in their own lung fluids.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Over a million and not counting

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

You don't even need to go too deep into the narrative honestly, just headlines like this are memorable enough to me.

April '20New York City reports a record 800-plus coronavirus deaths in one day

May '21 Bodies of Covid-19 victims are still stored in refrigerated trucks in NYC

Anyone that thinks the US handling wasn't a humanitarian disaster just deserves to suffer the same kind of death honestly, fuck these idiots when the reality as reported by own western MSM isn't enough to convince them. Libs that believe China COVID narrative are just as stupid as chuds and deserve the same fate.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Beat me to it...like until they lifted the lockdown (will of the people...you know, actual democracy) weren't the deaths in the tens of thousands or something? For a country more than 3x the size of the U.S.?? Fucking insane. I guess unless you measure success by corporate profits.

[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago

All this propaganda layed out like that makes them look... weird, and sad, like a jealous ex that's obsessed with you and is like, hate-stalking you, but for a country.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Which is exactly why China is investing heavily in restraining orders of the hypersonic variety.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Somebody -- can't rememember who -- in the Chinese media or diplomatic service pointed out that western headlines are funnier if you replace "China" with "my ex wife."

[-] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago

Look, look! The line's gonna go down! Well okay, but it's gonna stop going up! Well okay, but it'll go up slower! Well okay, but... black-mold-futures

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

I wonder if these youtubers get messages from their watchers saying "Hey, you said China would end all these times but it hasn't, why should I take you seriously?"

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I wish I could meet a dude like this in real life.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Go to programming meetups/networking events, they're all frontpage, r/all, r/worldnews redditors

[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

Just-just one more predictions guys for real this time i swear i listen to Gordon Chang!!!!!!!

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

"Adrian Zenz told me China will collapse tomorrow!"

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I'm totally zenzing the imminent collapse of China.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

But but this time it seems very grim!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The walls? Uhh yeah, they're closing in

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

The one with the pandas looks like something one of their editors came up with in a drug-induced haze.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Drug induced haze would also explain the content of the majority of their articles.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"the London Economist, the European organ of the aristocracy of finance, described most strikingly the attitude of this class.” - Karl Marx

"The Economist, a journal that speaks for the British millionaires." - Vladimir Lenin

Having both Marx and Lenin speak out against a publication shows how this rag has been consistently on the wrong side of any struggle for the past two centuries. Their modern flashy r/designporn-bait cover designs and tidy site UI hides the sociopathy of their publication history.

For starters, the modern day sinophobia of the Economist is no surprise. They're the original China haters, and I mean that with zero exaggeration. They've been calling for war and imperialism against China for two centuries now. They lobbied in the UK for the Second Opium War using sociopathic mercantilist justifications:

"We may regret war … but we cannot deny that great advantages have followed in its wake"

It's an unsurprising stance when their founder literally earned his fortune from the forced opium trade imposed against China following the First Opium War.

The British capital-centric profit driven agenda they've followed puts them even on the wrong side of a "liberal" perspective of history. They've historically opposed the UK abolitionist movement, protesting that "the boycott they proposed of all goods made using slave labour would hurt British consumers and punish slaves."

They were the only British publication to support the Confederacy, arguing that:

"It is in the independence of the South, and not in her defeat, that we can alone look with confidence for the early amelioration and the ultimate extinction of the slavery we abhor."

In a mask-off moment, they said that the slavery issue was secondary compared to the lucratively low cotton tariffs the Confederacy could offer, which made Marx himself ridicule the rag when he wrote for the New York Daily Tribune, saying that the Economist was finally: ‘honest enough to confess at last that with it and its followers sympathy (for American emancipation) is a mere question of tariff’

Their chief editor at the time, the Confederacy apologist Bagehot, still has a "cutesy" little column named after him to this day.

Showing that they've learnt nothing in the centuries since, in a 2014 book review on a book about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, they unironically complained without a shred of self-awareness that:

"Mr Baptist has not written an objective history of slavery. Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains. This is not history; it is advocacy."

For more further reading, the Citations Needed podcast had an episode on "The Refined Sociopathy of The Economist." https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-98-the-refined-sociopathy-of-the-economist-4966767e1688

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s a shame the Soviets weren’t first with nukes — imagine if the US failed at preventing USSR domination

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Any day now...

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

this doesn't mean that china has no economic issues at all. real estate, for example, must be properly managed without wiping out everyone's investments.

[-] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

I don't think preserving investments is going to be the priority there, rather the focus will likely be on preserving jobs. What I think is most likely to happen is that large chunks of the real estate industry become nationalized.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I think the biggest thing for them to work out is the Hokuo system (and relatedly rural development in general).

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

What do pandas have to do with China's economy?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Xi stuffs dissidents up their bootyholes

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