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I can feel storms before they arrive. Like I sense the air change so I'm in tune with things like this. I couldn't sleep for a few days so I spent the time watching videos about China imminently doing things. The same sensation occurred and I could see Chairman Xi out of the corner of my eye, but he was a shadow version of himself.

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

Xi shot a three pointer playing basketball today and said "wowa that felt good, today I will invade Taiwan." Please pray for them.

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've been watching scooby doo episodes and before they unmask the villain I'm hollering it's Chairman Xi. It hasn't been yet.

[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

He's the devil.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

I do the same thing with the “Who’s that Pokemon” at the end of every episode of Pokemon. So far, it hasn’t been Xi 😢

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

Had to listen to several of my coworkers discuss China's "empty cities with houses for millions" and tried my hardest not to have a stroke. I desperately wanted them to understand how anything relating to city planning works, but only 1 of them actually pays any attention to the things I say and the other 2 think I'm too young and naive to really understand the world, which is annoying to hear from some of the most privelledged people at my place of employment.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

"More houses than people, stupid commies. Don't they know you're supposed to have less houses than people so the people have to fight each other for them and the people who lose don't get a house to motivate everybody."

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

Not even the whole "stupid commies have more houses than people" more like half-remembering the stories about the Chinese ghost towns that were popular prior to the neighbourhoods in Chongqing being completed and people actually moving in.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile 30 minutes outside of most major cities look like the setting of a fallout game because of the logical conclussions of capitalism.

[-] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

I visited chicago and there was, at the entrance near the like on-ramps for the highway (off-ramp?) densely packed tents along the road.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

the US has more houses than people, what are they talking about.... a lot of them just stand empty so homelessness can be maintained.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

Those aren't empty houses they're unrealized investment opportunities.

Unlike the Chinese who lack the ability for forward thinking.

The most famous ghost cities are Pudong (5 million inhabitants), Chenggong (A quarter of a million inhabitants), Ordos City (Between 300000 and 2 million inhabitants depending on how you count it) and the Zhengdong New Area (1 million inhabitants)

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was reading the same dumb ghost city bullshit when I was in high-school, in the 90s. How does shit like this stay alive?

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 10 months ago

Because westerner's view of China was frozen in time in the 90s. They imagine the country being filled with cramped, dirty, overpopulated cities that look like they came out of a dystopian novel. They can't imagine that China was building "ghost cities" to house people, because everything China does is just to trick the west.

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Honestly, a lot of people in the West seem to be stuck in the 90s. Thats why they keep voting for SucDems who hate them, think Russia is falling apart, think China's armed forces are completely degraded due to corruption and graft (lmao, this was said by a coworker the same day it came out that Danish Naval Ships had no functioning cannons).

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

It's the Francis Fukuyama "History has ended" idea. The US defeated their enemy the USSR and as well all know, when a big empire defeats their biggest enemy they just stay in power for all eternity and nothing changes because they won the game of Civilisation.

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

I suppose you're right. It's just incredible to watch people encounter reality and choosing of their own free will to believe what they've been told over their litteral eyes and ears.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago

I don't think people are naturally materialistic thinkers. I think the "default" for people is magical thinking, and we need to train ourselves to examine material reality properly. Our perceptions are always subjective, so it can feel like reality is subjective. And for 99% of people, this kind of idea that "reality is what you make of it" works fine in their day to day life, so it is never challenged, so they assume it is true.

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[-] invo_rt@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

That story was all the rage in the late-00s. The westoid mind cannot comprehend future planning.

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

ah, they are too old and indoctrinated to understand new concepts

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[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

29 Days Until Something Happens

Xi Jinping Terrified! Markets in Turmoil!

Could this change everything? It might!

Crowds in the Streets. Young people in record numbers are saying "Things must change". Social media uproar.

STONKS!!!

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

I watched this 14 hour video essay about China literally collapsing because all its buildings were made out of jenga blocks to save money. It's that corrupt.

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

Also, I've been told a few times recently that China is absolutely doomed by declining population growth...so taking any serious interest in their vision for the future is really stupid.

I haven't personally examined any claims about Chinese demographics, so if anyone has any insight, I'm very interested to hear it. In the meantime I'm just assuming it's like all of the other assertions regarding China's forever imminent collapse.

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[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 20 points 10 months ago

china is about to collapse because of the "lie down" movement where young people choose to not work because they see that the future is hopeless. or something, i dunno, please do not look at the american prison population.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

The only reason American youth don't lie down in far greater numbers is that most of them will fucking starve to death if they ever stop working.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months ago

Is it weird that I legit think there's now a chance that something major actually happens with China in the next couple days now because it would make this post very funny in hindsight?

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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Those are just the tip of the iceberg. The trick is to prime your algorithm for 3 straight days. Then it shows you the real shit.

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

Xi personally called me today to say he is gonna get groceries

What will China do next smdh

[-] buh@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

He melted down stalin’s comically large spoon to make a comically large shopping cart so he can take all the food in china

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago
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[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 16 points 10 months ago

Why does he need food? What is he plotting?

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

I don't know but it has to be something bad, what sort of person goes out and gets groceries?

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago

Sounds like something the devil would do. sicko-satan A real photo of Xi I took today.

[-] Sphere@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago
[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

I learn new things about China every time I sniff some superglue and watch 10 more videos. Very concerning things.

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

geordi-no Mayo Munchers

geordi-yes Adhesive Inhalers

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago

Yeah I thought I could feel a weird electronic change too, but when I sobered up I realised it was just Xi playing a theremin upstairs (he's my neighbour)

[-] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago

I could feel a weird electronic change

chicanery

[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago

Lmao, this was almost word for word a comment dropped on a blog I hung out on back in the early 2000s, only the comment was about Obama. And boy oh boy, did this dude take a far right turn in the coming years.🙃

[-] hackerwacker@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago
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[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

What will Xi do next? Stay tuned for the next episode of Dragon Ball ZeeZeePee. some-controversy

[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

Dragon Ball Xi

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[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

I hear Chyna is going to take all of the forks in my house because I'm not communist enough ooooooooooooooh

[-] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

china might actually do this thing before we know it and its no less than we deserve

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

They abstained from the SC resolution against the Houthis like cowards rather than voting against it so honestly a lot of critique in my support rn.

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