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  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    What does that even mean? Do you think he personally plans and runs all of the public sector of the PRC that take’s up over half of the economy?

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      Xi can disappear anyone he doesn’t like. He doesn’t need to personally oversee every company, the threat of being visited by police is enough to keep them in line.

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        Source?

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          https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64781986 You are allowed to use search engines btw, we aren’t living behind china’s great firewall yet.

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            None of it says Xi can kill anyone he likes, moreover this is BBC, which frequently pays to report anti-China propaganda regardless of validity.

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              Xi can disappear anyone he doesn’t like

              Is actually what I wrote. But I get it, I wrote two whole sentences, that’s a lot of information right there. And if you’re not happy with the BBC, go look for other sources then. Like I said, using search engines isn’t illegal yet. I certainly won’t waste my time looking for a source you deem impartial.

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                See, I have done research, and have come to the conclusion that Xi can’t disappear people willy nilly. The burden of proof is on you for making that claim.

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                  They don’t need to prove anything, they have common sense[1][2] on their side.

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        📽

        • https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-comment-targeted-killing-disposition-matrix
        • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Matrix
        • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_black_sites
        • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
        • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hampton
        • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Clark_(activist)
        • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Malcolm_X
        • https://americanexception.com/book/
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          Oh, so you noticed the US is bad, congratulations. Let me know when you realize China is just as bad.

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            Let me know when you realize anything that wasn’t spoon-fed to you by Western governments, NGOs, and corporate media.

            “Just as bad” — are you fucking kidding me?

            • List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
            • A Detailed Chronological List of US Interventions, Invasions, Destabilzations, and Assistance to Oppressive Regimes (ending in 2002)
            • The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
            • Shock therapy (economics)
            • Are We The Baddies?
            • The blueprint of regime change operations How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
            • Infographic: US military presence around the world The US controls about 750 bases in at least 80 countries worldwide and spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined.
            • Michael Parenti: Africa is Rich
            • World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country

            .


            Feb. 2022 President Biden on Nord Stream 2 Pipeline if Russia Invades Ukraine: “We will bring an end to it.”
            Sep. 2022
            Dec. 2022 U.S. LNG exports both a lifeline and a drain for Europe in 2023
            Dec. 2024
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            It’s not just as bad though, you’re just a chauvinist.

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      > government runs half the economy

      ‘But how is dear leader like a CEO, unless he signs every paycheck by hand?’

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        The public sector has their own planners, Xi deals more with broad policies and decisions. That’s like saying Biden is the “CEO” of Amazon, it doesn’t make sense, plus the CPC heavily plans even the Private Sector. This is all in line with Marxism.

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          … how directly involved do you think any CEO is?

          If the state is making policy and planning decisions for both the public and private sectors, how does the distinction even matter? It’s like if Biden was Jeff Bezos’s boss.

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            It’s just an extremely odd thing to say and paints any leader as a CEO. The coach is the CEO of the football team, the Starbucks manager is the CEO of the store, etc. Etc.

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              Not an argument. You’re just complaining about how there’s multiple words for “some schmuck in charge.” Do you realize that’s incompatible with your prior insistence he is not in charge?

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                Xi is in the highest seat of the CPC, that doesn’t make him a “CEO.” Your comment is nonsense word salad.

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                  If you can distinctly disagree with it then it’s not word salad. You’re just pulling insults from a hat.

                  The comparison between shmucks-in-charge is crystal clear. No CEO plans and runs an entire company. They have layers of people under them. They are still in charge. They pick those planners, and tell them what to do, in broad terms.

                  Your argument against this is that the state only has half the economy… and even that is undercut by acknowledging they “heavily plan” the other half.

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                    No, my argument is that framing Xi as a CEO is nonsense. I disagree with the framing as it isn’t accurate.

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