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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

Oh... yea

SNEAKY CHINESE COMMUNISTS EXPOSED

Is there a word for when the world becomes what used to be satire? I remember when The Red Scare of the fifties was made fun of as ridiculous hysteria (Hank Hills dad, Fallout and Harvester come to mind off the top of my head of jokes the 90s' used to make about The Red Scare), and here we are repeating the mistakes that we used to shame the past for.

Vidya game was right, war never changes

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[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 73 points 6 months ago
[-] MaoTheLawn@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I go to so many second hand book stores and this is completely dead on, to the extent I want to carry one at all times, just to put on shelves whenever I see the sorts of book it's mocking.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Peak posting

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 14 points 6 months ago

"controversially irrelevant" is chefs-kiss

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

Damn, hardcore socialist dragons? This China place sounds pretty cool.

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 53 points 6 months ago

Also lol @ "Exposing how the Chinese Communist Party is reshaping the world"...they fucking televise that shit, it's not a secret master plan just because you can't understand Chinese and don't seek out translations.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Hell the "Governance of China" had most of them included, Xi literally promised all that publicly. But in Poland only first book in the series was published by the specialised publishing house covering diplomacy and international relations. Then they probably had visit of people from lettered agency explaining it wouldn't be wise to continue.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago

The strange death of Europe
Immigration, Identity, Islam

Starting to think those lulags can't reach the rest of the world soon enough.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It's right next to the MLK book too. You can't make this shit up

[-] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago

It's ok when it's only 99% Mein Kampf

[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 39 points 6 months ago

"Russia's secret plan to defeat america"

Let me guess, it's election interference?

[-] What_Religion_R_They@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago

no, actually

it's women and minorities

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago

The real plan sit-back-and-enjoy

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago

Pop history is such insufferable lib shit. Ironically, bookstores are the last place you will find intelligent works.

Go to the library while you still can.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Libraries in Poland are also full of that, because older books got purged and for 35 years only such shit is published so they don't even have the choice.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I buy books online or pirate them most of the time. I hadn't visited a real bookstore for a while and was in an area I don't usually visit so I took a look out of curiosity. I wish I had stayed away, touching grass was a mistake.

[-] pinguinu@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 6 months ago

Yeah i rarely go to book stores too, mostly just to browse the scifi section, but the politics section reeks of shit, sometimes with whole rows dedicated to anticommunism

[-] GeorgeZBush@hexbear.net 36 points 6 months ago
[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

Oblivion NPC Putin

[-] blobjim@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

alien putin posadist-nuke

[-] yuli@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago

oo "where the rich own the truth" sounds like it could have some leftist messaging let’s see what the reviews are!

In this book we also see the dangers for their work in the current world. Truth risks being bought, processed and distributed. In Mexico, Russia, China, India and soon in other places a journalist writing like Tom Burgis will be killed after the first investigations and propaganda will be called reality. It’s for us all to support this work and preserve the liberty that we still have. For how long? It’s on us all.

yea

'If Orwell were with us today, he'd be writing books like this' PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE

'A true-life thriller' ANNE APPLEBAUM

deeper-sadness

i honestly might prefer the anti-communist slob to these almost-leftist writers that take any spark of discontent with the status quo and encase it in a thick layer of ideology.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 6 months ago

Every bookstore in Poland looks like this on the shelves with "history" and "politics" cathegories, only there is much more anti-USSR books.

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

price of toilet paper never dropped down under from the 2020 prices, did they?

[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

Hidden Fist - How the chinese gommunist party is reshaping my bussy

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 22 points 6 months ago

Good theory at the book store? At best you'll find the Communist Manifesto.

[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 6 months ago
[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sure thing, done.

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

those prices seem untenable, even in down under funbucks

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

Oh my sweet summer child

[-] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago

After de-radicalising in my early adulthood, fake history / politics / theory must have added another five years onto my lib journey.

[-] Sebrof@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago
[-] lil_tank@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 6 months ago

The sheer angst when walking into a book store's "history" section

[-] Sebrof@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

And it's wall to wall books on military "history" (solely on WWII) combined with books on "authoritarian dictators" like Stalin and Hitler, who are exactly the same person.

Bookstores used to be my favorite place to go to when I was a wee kid (no big library where I grew up). :(

[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago

It gets worse with every book lmao

[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

incredibly surprised they even stocked Rudd's book after seeing the rest of the selection

[-] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago

They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em.

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago
[-] 666@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago
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