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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Whenever someone says "authoritarian," you can mentally substitute in "Anyone the West doesn't like, regardless of their actual poltics."

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

Unless that person is also popular with the masses. Then they are an "authoritarian populist" and the people are "brainwashed."

Hey while we're at it, what time is the 4 millionth military flyover at the sports game, again? I need to apply lotion to get ready to jerk off the flag.

[–] kot@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Every government has a class character and is authoritarian against a certain class. When they accuse others of being "authoritarian" they really just mean "authoritarian against my social class". To people like her, sending the military to repress a worker's protest is not authoritarian, but redistribution of land is.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How did Chiang Kai-shek become president again?

Pretty sure it was because he ran a solid campaign and focused on the fundamentals

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

say what you will about mass killing your opponents, but a corpse cannot stand for election in the Republic of China think-about-it

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Air Bud 37: Rockin' in the ROC

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

EXTREMELY NORMAL for a "democratic leader" to have a monument bigger than the actual emperors' wtf

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair they built a giant golden mao statue lol

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ooooooooooooooh GONE ooooooooooooooh

in any case no mao statue, even that one is as large as that fucking eyesore lol

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

Ha, the irony that entrepreneurs built a statue of Mao only to be denied by the CCP.

[–] BovineUniversity@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sun Yat Sen still has a big one on the mainland, literally built on the same site as a bunch of old emperors. China's just kinda like that I guess.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

actually he was elected, tho

[–] oktherebuddy@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

SYS is worthy of being venerated though, the Xinhai revolution gets kinda dwarfed by the tumultuous events of the latter half the 20th century but all republican revolutions are really fucking cool and worthy of study.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

Chen Weihua might have something constructive to say here.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

she's a White Terror all right

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

weihua we need a LowTierChen emoji

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

"Taiwan has totally disavowed the White Terror, tho"

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago
[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Oh shit. I was there last month lmao I drank too much water before going and had to pee really bad the entire time

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Mao is getting upset! costanza-maoist

[–] commiespammer@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

Authoritarian is when yellow man (inferior)

[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH