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This is China's century.

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Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 2d

Some foreigners with full bellies, and nothing better to do, engage in finger-pointing at us. China does not export revolution, it does not export famine and poverty and it does not mess around with you, so what else is there to say?

Xi Jinping

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 17m

It's turned out that the constitution isn't worth the parchment it's written on.

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 21m

An entrepreneur is just someone who can't follow instructions.

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 23m

The issue (inequality) has, nevertheless, been addressed conclusively.

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 28m

HRT.

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 8h

Well, of course. All the laws, rules and regulations to do with money are designed, and agreed to, by the rich. The rest of us, who have no money, don't take an interest, although clearly we should.

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 8h

Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others.

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 9h

Before they destroyed Baghdad, the USA promised to rebuild it. They didn't. The rich members of the Bush administration were queueing up to invest. They didn't.

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 9h

He described the conditions he (and Engels) found in Manchester. It wasn't a fictional account. And then he articulated the reason(s) for them, and the solution.

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Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 9h

The Oslo Discords

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 12h

No, you said you're in Hungary 🤣.

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 12h

Hungary 🤣

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 14h

Who's your country killing today?

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 14h

Wtf is a "gauntlet of emotions"?

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 14h

You don't understand what came before, do you?

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 14h

Communist China was strong in ways you'll never understand.

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 14h

It is still run by the Communist Party of China, and led by President Xi Jinping. China now has the best of both worlds. A communistic society, and a capitalistic economy.

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 14h

China's GDP is now 5x that of India.

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 14h

The capital initiative was set loose in 1978 (by the Communist Party of China).

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 15h

And whose counting do you think was more reliable?

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 15h

Don't employers have a duty of care to their people in Trump's country?

Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 15h

I wonder if we'll ever get her kiss-and-tell story, Me and Daddy?

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 15h

Let’s be clear:

Republicans are 💯 responsible for the government shutdown. They don’t need a single vote from Democrats to reopen.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for firing thousands of federal workers. They don’t need a single layoff to offset the shutdown. It’s their Project 2025 playbook.

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Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 15h

Russia, Canada and the USA are geographically larger.

India's population exceeds China's.

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Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 15h

Other, much weaker countries, are bigger both in terms of geography and demography.

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Black Top @clickbaitwizard.bsky.social · 15h

Scottish resources are British resources. You aren't independent.