I agree with you, but I think both of us about to be downvoted by these cheapskates lol

He’s a national treasure, always puts me in a good mood.

I love that show, and Naked Gun. So funny 😂

I don’t see capitalism raising people out of poverty as bad. It’s one of the greatest achievements of capitalism.

The way they implemented it is the problem, and clearly not everyone is happy about it as we see in Tiannemen square and, more recently, the way Chinese citizens developed a coded vocabulary to express their discontent.

Thank you Tolstoy, great novel.

I’m so glad you people are too detached from reality to actually start your ‘revolution’.

Lmao those babies on hexbear are so fragile, of course they’ve come here to attack you.

And that one mod being like ‘no one mentioned Marxism’. Yeh, hexbear is famously right-wing 🙄🤣

What’s SSBN?

Yes, I don’t doubt that the totalitarian CCP took full advantage of the opportunity to grow their economy to what it is now. And they did that through state controlled capitalism and gross human rights violations.

I don’t doubt they are smart, but the methods they have used, ie being a single party authoritarian state, are barbaric. It was a mistake to help China succeed as we did.

I think dismissing an entire opposing view point as Nazis is one of the lowest forms of discourse there is, and unfortunately it’s very pervasive on Lemmy.

I don’t know if it’s naive teenagers or just a lot of out of touch people with fringe views, but it’s worse than reddit sometimes.

China is only doing so well on the back of declining manufacturing in the west. Nixon should never have normalized relations with them.

Lmao why is this comment downvoted but the one saying that most people who dislike PERA are neo-nazis is upvoted? Tells you a lot about how out of touch people on here are.

I had a job doing this. I went to see Death Blow with my friend and he brought his friend, Brody, along. Just as the movie starts he pulls out a camcorder and starts filming!

I thought it was crazy. Anyway after a while Brody gets real sick in the stomach from too much candy. My friend had to take him home, but before he leaves Brody pulls a damn gun on me and says I have to finish recording the movie!

I didn’t know what to do so I just said yes and took the camcorder. I had no idea what I was doing, so I just pointer at the screen and tried to hide from the attendants.

I couldn’t believe it, when I gave Brody the recording he said it was the most beautiful thing he’d ever seen, he even called me a genius! My bootleg tape was a smash hit. He asked if I could go film an ‘arty’ movie next, Cry, Cry Again. I was torn up inside, as I disagreed with bootlegging but didn’t want to say no to Brody. So I asked my friend to ghost-film it for me. But when I saw the crap he recorded I refused to let it go out under my name. I demanded we re-film, with three camcorders throughout the theater with headsets to coordinate. Brody said no, so I quit right there.

In the end the version my friend filmed went out, but my other friend accidentally taped over the ending with her dancing. Oh, and my other friend tried to take up bootlegging to impress a girl, but he got arrested and cried.

Anyway, what’s the deal with airline peanuts?