best part of the movie was when Xi said "IT'S PURGIN TIME!" and purged all over those guys

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• Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That’s a nice pragmatic and limited march towards progress you’re making Hu Jintao. It would be a shame if someone were to…

  Turn it into an authoritarian dictatorship

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• HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You get purged, and YOU get purged

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  You ask get PUUUURGGEEEDD

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  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Everybody look under your car!

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Damn, setting aside the China Bad hysteria, this is pretty big news

  China expels second-highest ranking general, 8 others over corruption

  According to the ministry, the Central Military Commission (CMC) Discipline Inspection Commission, the PLA’s top anti-corruption body, investigated the officers and found they had violated Party rules and were suspected of serious crimes involving large financial misconduct. The offences were described as having an “extremely serious nature and egregious impact.”

  Imagine living in a country where top officials actually get investigated and removed for wrongdoing.

  Must be nice.

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  • eta@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That depends. Were they really investigated because they did something wrong or rather because they were no longer useful politically or because they dared to oppose Xi?

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Imagine a president who found corruption in his administration and decided “corrupt officials aren’t useful, they should be removed”.

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    • Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They were trying to start a coup with the US. So Xi purging the generals also sets back his plan to invade Taiwan.

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    • stickly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Never ask:

      • The USA why it has so many prisoners
      • Saudi Arabia why they’re holding worker’s passports
      • China why the number of state executions is a state secret

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  • Godric@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ah yes, presidents for life are traditionally very tolerant of internal powerbases not their own. Corruption charges have never been dishonestly brought against potential political rivals, great point!

    Unrelated, but I have a bridge to sell someone as wise and discerning as yourself!

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      presidents for life

      He’s been in office for 13 years. Angela Merkel served for longer as PM of Germany. Narendra Modi has been in office nearly as long, as President of India. FDR served for longer. Calm down.

      Unrelated, but I have a bridge to sell someone as wise and discerning as yourself!

      The thing about your type is that you only know how to bomb bridges. You’ve forgotten how to build them.

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• mitkase@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s never not purging time!

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