Do you wanna talk about Xi's motives for consolidating power, and how money pales in comparison to deciding which rich assholes get disappeared or executed?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you believe the people of China want Xi removed?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're having a completely different conversation in your head.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You are justifying a nonsense comparison for nonsense reasons.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Says the guy talking about fairies.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Says the one pretending leaders are CEOs.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some are real fuckin' close. It doesn't have to be all of them, every time.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Statements should make sense and have a purpose.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Again, says guy talking about fairies.

You grasped for a comparison to Biden. Biden can't fire whoever's in charge of a business. Xi can. Xi can have those people executed. That is the power this entire post is celebrating.

Drawing comparisons to the business executives themselves has a basis and a function, no matter how hard you try to pivot into nuh-uhs and non sequiturs.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

You haven't proven those claims, though. You keep stating them as though they are fact. This is deeply unserious behavior.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They're your claims.

When I say the state has half the economy - that's your estimate.

When I say they plan the other half too - those are your words.

When I point out these businesses are so clearly beneath the state, that the business's leaders can be executed - that's the only thing this post is about! It is a direct comparison of some guy doming a healthcare exec, and the Chinese government's rather fucking tight control over that entire economy.

I don't think you understand how conversations work.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, you make unsubstantiated claims of Xi being able to execute whoever he wants, willy nilly, and I ask you to substantiate them. I am not saying my claims are wrong, but yours.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's what this post is about.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

No, it isn't. The PRC executes billionaires guilty of mass crimes such as corruption, not "whoever they want."