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196 came into being on reddit long ago, and that is a cute (imo) holdover from then. The original community (195 I think) had 1 rule, post before you leave, and a second "rule", include "rule" in the title as a reference to the 1 rule.

It's not actually enforced of course, but it's part of the 196 culture

2032? That's so far away :/

please mark as nsfw 😳

Locking. This meme complains about misogyny, with people immediately jumping in to imply misogyny isn't real and start complaining about irrelevant stuff to the meme in an inflammatory manner. Please behave in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China

As you ought to

Source for that claim please ?

Noooo please stooop

It certainly did a bunch of imperialism, yeah

You are using the term technically incorrectly :P

I’ve had piles of tankies try to convince me that the workers in China are in fact the ones in control of the government (no mention of the means of production though 🤔),

I was referring to this. If the workers in china were actually in control of the government (which they aren't), and the businesses were controlled by the state (which quite a few of them are, but not all), then that would be a form of socialism.

As it stands however it's a capitalist oligarchy.

I would also like to say that I'm not arguing for this specific implementation of socialism, I'm elaborating on what is required for socialism in reference to how a tankie might deluded themselves into thinking that china is communist.

Technically, a sufficiently democratic state would make the workers indirectly in control (or directly in a direct democracy) if the businesses are state owned. Would make them socialist however and not communist, but that might be a bit pedantic.

The soviet union had unions or just the one involuntary one if I remember correctly, but since it was essentially controlled by the state it wasn't all that powerful. Cuba today does the same thing.

Should be noted that the soviet union was neither fascist nor communist. Fascism is a form of capitalism, and while many "communist states" (such as china) are capitalist, the SU had a planned economy.

I had one tankie try to convince me that since there was some limited workplace democracy in the SU this meant that workplaces were democratic, but if that is all that is required then I'm happy to announce that plenty of liberal democracies today are socialist.

Edit: oh woops the fascism vs planned economy thing was intended for another comment