



  1. It unifies the Chinese people.
  2. It makes China more equal.
  4. It makes people funnier.

China's smog problem [Image Source: Sensible Reason]

Sources: Yahoo News, Time Magazine

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By techxx on 12/11/2013 12:56:39 PM , Rating: 2

But seriously... I can't believe they're writing it off like nothing. Quite an interesting culture over there.

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By Argon18 on 12/11/2013 12:59:22 PM , Rating: 5
This is not culture. This is Communism. It's what happens when the government controls everything including the media.

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By Beefmeister on 12/11/2013 1:27:38 PM , Rating: 5
Yep, because never in the history of time has a private company caused pollution, and tried to put a positive spin on it.

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By dsumanik on 12/11/2013 2:31:00 PM , Rating: 4
Communism vs capitalism? OMG WAKE UP PEOPLE

Whether a lobbyist successfully gets a law changed, or the government simply does it without proper democratic process.... the reality is that its the very small and greedy few, are ENSLAVING and abusing the greater populace for profit, and control.

How is communism worse than the NSA listening to your phone calls for no reason?

Why is ok for an oil spill to wipe out the coastline and go back to business like nothing happened meanwhile a single mother can be sued for millions cuz she shared some song files?








Why does a terroist attack in new york justify the errosion of the basic rights and freedoms that FOUNDED YOUR NATION. It doesnt, if anything it should make you fight for them even harder.

It is not the responsibility of the "president" to protect your life or save your country from the toilet america is swirling.




You guys had it right in the american revolution, you were willing to FIGHT TO THE DEATH in order to do the right thing.

And now look at you:

warm safe at home reading this on your precious ipad and and boo hoo OMG paul walker died how sad!!!!!

Your country is going broke.

The rich are going to get richer, and the poor are going to get poorer and the system of control you were born into and have supported every single day of your life will continue until EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN gets off their ass says enough is enough.


Seriously, if you had to picture "evil communism" wouldnt those three things be at the top of the list????

Go watch the movie "sneakers" its an old robert redford movie, all the things they fear and fight against in that move are what is part of our daily lives now...systematically weve been desensitized to the point it doesnt matter and it is only going to get worse.

20 years from now america is going to look more and more like a communist state, it already is if when a company that stands to lose profit for one reason or another

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By Totally on 12/11/2013 4:19:19 PM , Rating: 3
Wow, you sure missed the sarcasm there. I'm pretty still there behind that wall of text if you want to go looking for it.

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By ClownPuncher on 12/11/2013 4:20:44 PM , Rating: 2
Your post was just a springboard for a rant, don't be mad.

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By JediJeb on 12/11/2013 4:59:12 PM , Rating: 2
I would agree with most of this, but instead of the movie "Sneakers" think of the book "Animal Farm".

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By Reclaimer77 on 12/11/13, Rating: -1
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By Jeffk464 on 12/11/2013 6:17:02 PM , Rating: 2
So how do the people get candidates in office that actually represent them and aren't taking big money? Answer that and we will have the US were suppose to have.

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By powerwerds on 12/17/2013 6:34:57 PM , Rating: 2
I feel ya whole-heartedly on most of your points. A few, however, lack sense.

Printing money is the Federal Reserve's job. They help balance the worth of the dollar both to its previous self (inflation) and to other currencies in a dynamic, unpredictable landscape. When they print money they aren't increasing their wealth. The entirety of American dollars is worth something, and printing more dollars doesn't make the worth of the entirety go up, it makes the worth of each individual dollar go down.

Many Americans do receive multi-billion dollar payouts because they can't pay their rent. Its a cornerstone of the ridiculous amount of money we spend on social services. The reason they can't pay their rent is because the won't. And the reason they won't pay their rent is because they know the government will help pay it for them. Yes, greed, debt, something for nothing, and stealing from the rich to give to the poor are very scary reasons America needs to wake up.

It is perfectly reasonable to genetically modify food. I know this might sound spooky and ccrrraazzy, but humans have been directly genetically modifying their food supply since they first became a part of the chain. It began with the ignorant pressures of hunter-gatherers on their local flora and fauna. This lasted for many thousands of years and had sweeping changes on the genotypes of the consumables.

This transitioned into the cognizance of a generational affectation through animal husbandry and a seasonal affectation on agriculture. Human selection over time yielded quite extreme genetic changes from the parent original.

And now we are at the point where we aren't just molding clay anymore, we are building bricks, and architecting an infinity stymied only by our menial imagination of what we can currently fathom of the incredible wonder of that which is LIFE. Whatever we make still has to compete and be viable, it doesn't exist outside the fierce competition for resources and life in a soil microcosm. It is all evolution, and I am hardly afraid of a rogue "genetically modified" organism ruining an entire ecosystem.

The danger is people who want something for nothing. People who feel entitled to things such as a house, food, or healthcare, or anything for that matter, in the sense that they deserve to have such and such things that someone else would need to produce just because they simply happen to be alive. This process of the haves supporting or carrying the have-nots is mind blowing to me. How can that ever EVER lead to anyone having anything at all?

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By Etsp on 12/11/2013 1:44:52 PM , Rating: 1
You... really don't know what communism is, do you?

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By MaDeuce on 12/11/2013 1:55:05 PM , Rating: 1
I'm not expert in it by any means, but why don't you educate yourself on the tenets of communism and get back to me on that...

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By ClownPuncher on 12/11/2013 1:57:57 PM , Rating: 1
China isn't a communist country. It has roots in communism, but it is a far cry from even Marxist/Leninist communism.

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By Etsp on 12/11/2013 2:55:48 PM , Rating: 3
Communism isn't about regulation, or "control by the government". It's about ownership by government.

Government Regulation: You can't sell food products that you know are unsafe, and do not meet specific standards of safety.

Communism: You will sell these specific food products produced using these methods, at this price, in this amount. We expect this much profit ("Profit" goes back to government, as the government is the business owner).

Again: You really should open an encyclopedia and study up on what communism actually is, if you're going to be using it to describe the United States.

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By melgross on 12/11/2013 3:09:44 PM , Rating: 3
Your notion of communism is interesting, but totally incorrect. There has never been a communist country, and it's not likely that there will ever be one.

What we call communist countries are really socialist countries, even though the ruling parties call themselves communist.

True communism means no government at all. Everyone is doing what they should for their country because they know that's what should be done, and they want to do it. It assumes that people are perfect, and care about everyone else. The part of the definition that matters here is that everyone does what is needed, and receives what they need back. No greed, no hoarding, no individual wealth or power. In other words, an ideal that humans can't possibly meet, a utopia.

So we can forget it.

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By Etsp on 12/11/2013 4:04:30 PM , Rating: 2
I would argue that the term "communism" has been co-opted into also meaning a totalitarian government that owns most or all industry. Many people refer to-and have referred to-the old USSR as communism. Some of these people were heads of state.

Just because it wasn't pure communism as described by Marx, doesn't mean that many of its concepts weren't implemented by these totalitarian governments. They limited the application of communism to their economic structure, and certainly made exceptions to whom even that was applied to, but the many of the major tenets were there.

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By melgross on 12/12/2013 7:26:56 AM , Rating: 2
You are looking at something that has nothing to do with real communism though. They are socialist. Real communism begins with the "withering away of the state". Only once the state (the government) is gone can communism be accomplished.

It doesn't matter what these parties called themselves, or what outsiders called those governments, the weren't communist. The parties themselves weren't interested in promoting the withering away of anything except freedom.

Not communist at all. Idealism such as communism or other economic systems always sound nice at first, until you have to live with it.

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By FaaR on 12/11/2013 4:40:44 PM , Rating: 2
China is not a socialist nation (any more). If you can't afford to pay for things like hospital or child care, education, retirement benefits and so on then generally, you don't get them.

If you don't have money, you're as fucked or more in China as in the US for example. Europe is by and large far more socialist than China is, minus the dictatorship, mostly. Unless you live in Belarus, Khazakstan and a few other places (including Russia, arguably.)

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By Reclaimer77 on 12/11/2013 5:39:57 PM , Rating: 1

It's sad that is your definition of a utopia.

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By melgross on 12/12/2013 7:30:57 AM , Rating: 2
You don't know what Utopia means if you say that. Utopia means an ideal that can't be met.

Look it up. It's not my definition. It's THE definition.

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By TSS on 12/13/2013 1:17:02 AM , Rating: 2
Wrong. No government at all = Anarchy. Which, like communism, always leads to dictatorship.

Communism = central planning. Which is where the dictatorship comes in, absolute power corrupts absolutely, so those who plan the whole shindig always come to belive they're just a bit more equal then the rest of the proles.

I will agree communism as it is in theory is the perfect system for perfect human beings. Which is also it's flaw; it refuses to take into account human imperfection. Which is why it'll never work in practice, and you can be sure, both Stalin and Mao have tried to put it into practice in it's purest form. Thousands of communes in russia and millions in china starved because of it.

Your notion of history is wrong.

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By Vertigo2000 on 12/11/2013 2:13:50 PM , Rating: 2
Kevin Newman Live, a Canadian TV show, recently aired a spot about the US gov't pulling funding from CDC/scientists who want to research or create a database to log all deaths related to guns in the US. Apparently, in the US, you're simply not allowed to track that with government funding. Even in light of all the gun related tragedies that have occurred recently.

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By bah12 on 12/11/2013 3:15:57 PM , Rating: 5
Or it could be because the results of the $10mil wasted study did not support the Obama agenda so they didn't bother to fund it further.

Here is the CDC actual report.

Below are some notable findings.


2. Defensive uses of guns are common:






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By ClownPuncher on 12/11/2013 3:22:47 PM , Rating: 3
Shut your fact hole. This does not support the progressive agenda.

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By FaaR on 12/11/13, Rating: -1
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By ClownPuncher on 12/11/2013 5:02:05 PM , Rating: 2
Japanese people dress up like cats.

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By kerpwnt on 12/11/2013 6:36:10 PM , Rating: 2
Japan. Where you can buy used panties in a vending machine. You can pay to cuddle with a girl in an anime suit. And they go in to the woods and kill themselves in droves. Totally the perfect society!

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By ClownPuncher on 12/11/2013 6:44:22 PM , Rating: 2
A rich culture and interesting society, nonetheless.

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By tamalero on 12/12/2013 2:24:30 PM , Rating: 2
seems like a free culture that is not as tightlocked into following a old book that is 2 centuries old (which as outdated information of everything, favors just certain things.. and the best of all? when they hypocritically blast you for breaking X law,while they break Y law with impunity)

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By Icaarus on 12/11/2013 5:00:25 PM , Rating: 3
Here's a lesson in government agencies for you. The report you linked to was not from the CDC, it was from the National Academies. This is not a comment on its validity, only that actual source does not serve as evidence for your claim.

Here's the bit that was referenced: "Congress, after all, has long barred the CDC from funding any research that could be used to “advocate or promote gun control.”

Yes the CDC has been barred from gun violence studies, this ban however has not been as great of impediment for members of the national academies who are granted more academic freedom.

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By maven81 on 12/11/2013 1:37:30 PM , Rating: 2
Let's put an end to throwing terms around without understanding their meaning. What it really is is Totalitarianism. Just as the soviet system varied from a dictatorship to a totalitarian state. Real communism is still nonsense but it wouldn't even have a government.

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By MaDeuce on 12/11/13, Rating: -1
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By FaaR on 12/11/2013 4:35:22 PM , Rating: 2
China is not "Communist" (with or without capital "c"), it's an authoritarian, oppressive dictatorship with a capitalistic/planned economy hybrid economic system, that's all.

China has actually never been communist in more than name, but don't let little things like facts get in the way of a good propagandistic barb. ;)

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By hpglow on 12/12/2013 1:21:28 AM , Rating: 2
China is not communist. It is a totalitarian dictatorship. No country that calls itself a communism on this planet is one.

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By wordsworm on 12/12/2013 1:56:28 AM , Rating: 2
No... this is what happens when the government isn't run by liberals.

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By king_charles on 12/11/2013 1:32:23 PM , Rating: 1
A Chinese colleague assures me it was a joke, and US media are just failing to get it in their usual condescending crypto-racist fashion.

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By ClownPuncher on 12/11/2013 1:56:38 PM , Rating: 5
That's not what racism is.

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By Motoman on 12/11/2013 1:51:11 PM , Rating: 2
I think that guy has lots of relatives in the West though...for example, people who like the Metro UI and Apple consumers.

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By Jeffk464 on 12/11/2013 4:32:02 PM , Rating: 3
Hey, China hired Rush Limbaugh.

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By name99 on 12/11/2013 11:54:46 PM , Rating: 2


You mean unlike the US, where "we have no global climate change problem"?
Human stupidity is universal...

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You're breathing it wrong.

