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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 69 points 2 days ago (1 children)

See, Republicans? You and the CCP aren't all that different! There's common ground here!

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 57 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They also have something in common: neither of them practice communism ☺️

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Also both are in favor of racial genocide.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And both call a lot of things communism that aren't actually communism.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 6 points 2 days ago

Like themselves 😅

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Both have a cult of personality around the leader and the concept of an ethnostate.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 10 points 2 days ago

Both also like forced labor of incarcerated people.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Oof don't say that around @dessalines@lemmy.ml they get bigly mad when you point out bad things about the CCP lmao

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 13 points 2 days ago

Name an ML who doesn’t cry about Gaza but totally turn a blind eye to China.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Inb4 they show up in this thread with a bunch of apologia for a fascist state

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

@dessalines@lemmy.ml won't, judging by his profile he's too afraid to post his propaganda and shit takes outside the safety of the .ml echo chamber and the "friendly mods"

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

You have been banned from /r/pyongyang.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is not the current CCP, but China has the award for the most stupid censorship of all time.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in the province of Hunan, China by the KMT's government, beginning in 1931, due to its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals which act with the same level of complexity as human beings. The censor General Ho Chien believed that attributing human language to animals was an insult to humans. He feared that the book would teach children to believe that humans and animals were on the same level, a result which would be "disastrous."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_China

[–] match@pawb.social 16 points 2 days ago

fursecution at its finest

[–] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

-Could they turn into westeners? -no, sir even wose. They could turn unto vegans

[–] SassyRamen@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Imagine being sent to the labor mines for reading Twighlight.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Sounds like a good start.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Oh good, wouldn't want thoughtcrime to pop up.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m actually curious which books they have bought.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

None of the corruption cases publicly reveal what reading materials the fallen cadres had accessed. But a list of banned titles published by China Digital Times offers some possibilities. The list includes writings on Chinese politics and history, including the Tiananmen Square massacre and the disastrous Mao-era policies that saw millions die from famine, violence, and political purges. There are books scrutinising the modern CCP’s politics and power, or sharing the views of political enemies and critics like Hong Kong tycoon and activist Jimmy Lai, the exiled Tibetan Dalai Lama, and Bo Xilai, the fallen political foe of Xi Jinping. Hillary Clinton’s memoir is on the list, as is Machiavelli’s The Prince, and Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 2 points 2 days ago

Clearly they hadn't reached O'Brien's status in the Party.