Some photos are just too good. But sometimes you have to look real carefully. Indo-Myanmar Friendship Store! Yours in friendship. Oh, ah, eh, maybe not. We’ve annotated accordingly. Hap tap The Economist.
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How not to stop corruption
For the degenerate blog author, vicious dictatorships are the gift that keeps on giving. It’s just so much fun to point out how utterly foolish their actions are. On the other hand, we also seem to spend a great deal of time bashing democratically elected politicians here too. So, I guess you could say we’re equal opportunity bigots.
We hate all the human race. We’re all ruined. Please make your plans accordingly. My guests support this theory. They have volunteered their services to bring about our Eventual Doom. Celebrations are to be planned. Fun to be had.
Anyways. So China’s overlords once again want the little people to know they care. The State’s on the path to slaying corruption.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-29797985
If you’re a poor peasant, and a party hack just ejected you off your family’s ancient farmland using thugs, so they could build an apartment block so ugly Soviet dudes would cringe, you’re designated recourse is to:
“After receiving a report from someone who provides his real name, the procuratorate should do a risk assessment and must, in a timely manner, implement a protection plan and prevent reprisals on the whistle-blower,” it said.
Ah, I see. So, like, if we blow the whistle on Xi Jinping’s ~$2B personal fortune, do my guests & I get the support of the State to “prevent reprisals on the whistle-blower”?
What about Ilham Tohti? Lots of people say he’s a well-deserving whistle-blower type. He’s said such interesting things like acknowledging Chinese rule over Xinjiang and promoting racial harmony with such delicious statements as: “do not place hatred between the two people, Uighur and Han”.
So you know this guy is accorded all the protections of China’s just laws, right?
Except he just got jailed for life. For life.
Just get a look at this guy. Now here’s a man who looks like he’s ready to start shooting Reds in the streets tomorrow. What a freak zealot. Man, the Reds really dodged a bullet by locking his dangerous ass up forever:
Oh, so, ah, I guess they’re not serious. Hmm, I wonder if this is just about Xi using the excuse of fighting corruption so he can crush all opposition to his benevolent, wise rule. But he wouldn’t do that. He seems like a real standup, honest guy. Just ask Ilham Tohti’s family. I’m sure they’d back him.
The Arcturus Project’s Weekly (Not Weekly) Stormy Cloud Award goes to His Eminence President Xi Jinping, Billionaire, Hypocrite, Dictator & Overlord of the Chinese People
How not to win a protest
Attention Occupy Central, this isn’t going to work. Mass civil protests do not usually succeed when you live in a country without a civil society. If the Reds killed you all tomorrow, what do you think the rest of the world would do? Protest? Sanction Red China?
It’s not going to happen. The entire planet’s iPhone 6s are made there. This is apparently a strategic industry more valuable than oil, gold, or rhino horns. Nobody’s going to help you. The Earth’s people need that phone. They use it to talk to their friends, watch drunk cat videos, and read shitty blog posts produced by idiots.
By clogging up the streets you’ve given the Reds the chance to paint you as obstructionist lunatics. And they can just wait you out. The election’s not until 2017. Eventually you’re going to have to shower, use the bathroom, or pay the bills somehow. When you leave, the Reds will just carry on with the same plan as if nothing happened.
The way we see this you have two legit options:
1) Start burning the city now in a reckless attempt to provoke a wider civil war
2) Calmly & methodically negotiate with your Communist masters; and use the power of freedom & justice to progressively expose their fraud-hack-dictatorship over many decades until they collapse
As much as we’d enjoy watching the chaos of the former option, we strongly endorse the latter as your best bet.
They won’t need gunfire, it’ll get cold soon enough
I’m going to meddle in Hong Kong’s politics
So if I don’t make it back? Avenge my death.
How will you know if I don’t make it back? Well, I guess you’d notice I’m not posting anymore. But if you’re reading this, you already know nobody reads this blog. So it’ll be real hard for anybody to notice I’ve stopped posting because the People’s Armed Police strangled me in a Kowloon back alley using a sharpened violin string.
Read the BBC article to get the background if you don’t know the story:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-28994123
But in short, what’s the story? Beijing wants political and cultural control of Hong Kong. Because dominance is the Communist Party’s thing. It’s what they do. And fortunately for the Reds, there’s just enough turncoat rich assholes that grew up in Hong Kong who’ve realized they can make a shit ton of money helping Beijing by screwing their fellow Hong Kong citizens out of their freedom.
What’s that? The Reds don’t want foreign countries “meddling” in China’s internal affairs? Ah, I see.
Good news Ukraine! China’s in your corner! On the next UN Security Council vote, you can bet China’s got your back against Russia’s “meddling” inside your sovereign nation.
Oh, wait, no. Uh, …
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