People have been allowed to enjoy things for far too long
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Dunk posts in general go in the_dunk_tank, not here
Don't post low-hanging fruit here after it gets removed from the_dunk_tank
UlyssesT killed Kissinger then went on to kill Treats
HE MOVED TO CHINA AND LEFT US ALL BEHIND 😭
dude fucking ascended, and we're just here in the mud, posting
First he came for the Marvel fans, and I said nothing because I was not a Marvel fan
Then he came for the Skibidi Toilet fans and I said nothing because I was not a Skibidi Toilet fan
Then he came for the Gamers, and there was no one left to speak for me
The People’s Court hereby finds you guilty on all charges of watching a film on your telephone and watching a theme park movie. The court sentences you to extreme death by flaying then firing squad.
Good morning. It's June 4, two-thousand and twenty-four, and it's a Tuesday. Here in Beijing, beautiful blue skies, a few... wispy clouds, red sun rising. Very still. Around 65 degrees Fahrenheit right now, 18 Celsius. Should get up to the mid-eighties this afternoon, around 26 Celsius. Sunshine all the way! Have a great day everyone!
:xi-lynchping:
What it actually says is "pursuing low grade amusement". So not even bad taste.
It's not just mistranslation of the phrase; the tweet deliberately excises context surrounding it, seemingly to imply that the CPC is trying to do some sort of crude artistic censorship, as if Xi is trying to prevent the Chinese from watching superhero slop movies, playing gacha games, or reading Ulysses because James Joyce included too many fart jokes in it, that it's some sort of socialist-flavoured puritanical mass thought control project, rather than doing pragmatic and measured anti-corruption/anti-graft stuff among the elite to avoid inciting mass political dissatisfaction.
In full, Article 150 reads: "生活奢靡、铺张浪费、贪图享乐、追求低级趣味,造成不良影响的,给予警告或者严重警告处分;情节严重的,给予撤销党内职务处分。", i.e., "Those who lead extravagant lives, waste money, pursue pleasure, and pursue vulgar interests, causing adverse effects, shall be given a warning or a serious warning; if the circumstances are serious, they shall be given a disciplinary sanction of removal from their party posts." Based on the way the regulation is phrased, it's clear that the core idea behind it is essentially that the personal lives of party officials shouldn't cause detriment (造成不良影响) to the people and the Party by being wasteful or manifestly corrupt. It's the consequence that's the key ingredient, the wasteful and crude behaviours in of themselves are just the typical methods by which those bad consequence are arrived at. It's not merely enjoying kitsch hobbies that fall outside reading theory and volunteering at the local soup kitchen (btw, do they even have those in China? What's the homeless situation there? Is it a problem in the big cities? Is the CPC doing anything about it?) or spending money on stupid expensive things for personal enjoyment, but when that enjoyment is pursued to such an egregious extent/in such a way that causes material or measurable harm. A guideline published by the Guangdong Provincial Disciplinary Inspection Commission supports this interpretation, saying that "violation of this [Article 150] disciplinary regulation is based on "causing adverse effects" as a constituent element. On the one hand, the adverse effects should be comprehensively grasped from the living standards, consumption standards, customs and habits of the local people. On the other hand, it depends on whether it affects the masses' recognition of party members' practice of the core socialist values. If their extravagant life and other behaviors do not cause concentrated reflections from the masses, or the circumstances are minor and do not cause negative comments, and do not affect the masses' recognition of party members and cadres' practice of the core socialist values, it is generally not appropriate to identify them as violations of discipline.". If I read all this correctly, it's essentially just a rule against party members being involved in big flashy corruption scandals. You know, the ones that regular working folk don't like, and that the US and the West likes to point out to lecture about how communism is actually authoritarian and doomed to fail.
If you're interested, you can search online to see what weirdly specific examples/precedent cases the published guidelines cite in explaining what constitutes an offence, including a provincial party secretary being widely known to regularly (i.e., more than twice a month) drink expensive wine and dine on exotic endanged animals in high-end nighclubs (entirely on the nighclub owner's expense, and in a nighclub deliberately designed by political flunkies to fit said party official's tastes), or "spending several months' salary to buy milk, scanning the QR code in the milk bottle cap to vote for an entertainment idol, and then pouring out the whole box of milk, arousing strong public condemnation". Wild stuff.
volunteering at the local soup kitchen (btw, do they even have those in China?
I've volunteered at an equivalent of a soup kitchen before (free vegetarian kitchen with volunteer staff) a couple of times. the food was pretty good, a couple of vegetable dishes, tofu, soup and rice. it was frequented mostly by old folks rather than homeless, since I guess the town it was in didn't really have many homeless people. I know bigger cities do have bigger homeless populations though, but nothing like in the west or japan/taiwan/korea.
these kind of veg kitchens exist in most mid-large cities and are staffed by volunteers, most of which are also retired folks, except for the chefs maybe. the groceries are mostly donated, like someone will donate several huge sacks of rice or jugs of cooking oil, or help buy fresh veg etc.
GOOD post
Badposting in shambles
I knew blocking that comm was the revolutionary line
Settling the debate on The Last Jedi with my buddy by putting on the movie and seeing if the cops show up
Liberals when government officials hold themselves to high standards
bad taste entertainment
I knew it was only a matter of time until Xi came for my itch.io
kicked out of the party for blasting hotline bling during the plenary session
Pick only good songs at karaoke or else
All the songs I pick are ontologically good.
My go-to list is:
Bad Company - Bad Company
Styx - Renegade
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
Cake - I Will Survive (cover)
and that's all I can remember off the top of my head cuz I just woke up.
Finally we discover the 150th type of liberalism
Jerry Seinfeld HQ in shambles
I gotta move to China. Anyone know if they have good masters exchange programmes?
Yes actually, the government offers very good masters scholarship programmes, and from my experience when you find a decently reputable college and are able to communicate in English either via Email or Phone they're very willing to work with you.
noooooooooooooo xi please i need my fanfics you cant do this to meeeee nooooooooooooooooooooooo
Amazing things are happening in the PRC
It's alright, I didn't enjoy sitcoms anyway
Uncritical support to the PRC in its struggle against the use of laugh tracks
I worry that I'm going to imply a whole thing, but holding it back is one of the types of liberalism. It's funny to have China's revision of Marxism be the arbiter for whether people being revisionist.
I also think the humor that is possible for reporting people for enjoying subjectively bad taste entertainment is limitless
Off topic, but What’s the point of the word revisionist? I understand it has a specific meaning, but isn’t the point of Marxism that it is a living science which is revised and updated to a country’s material conditions?
I wish I were a person capable of answering that question. It's a very good one and we could all stand to have some theory on it. Seems like an incredibly useful teachable moment
enjoy bad taste entertainment
Xi is so based. China's going to have state-provided Criterion Channel subscriptions soon.