Posted on 05/23/2021 7:58:42 AM PDT by DFG
The latest model of Chinese car manufacturer SAIC’s Roewe RX5 PLUS SUV will come equipped with an application that indoctrinates passengers in “Xi Jinping Thought,” Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported on Thursday.
The Alibaba-produced application, Xuexi Qiangguo, debuted for mobile phones in 2019. Its name translates to “Study to Make China Strong,” and it works by offering select quotes by dictator Xi Jinping, excerpts of his writings, and other communist materials. The application has a quiz element in which it helps users memorize Xi’s teachings through question and answer sessions, as well as a social element so that users can share their favorite quotes with friends.
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Our buildings aren't real strong. They do tend to fall over on their sides a lot. But China is strong!"
I cannot express adequately how even a single cent of taxpayer money is given to NPR or PBS.
It enrages me. I don’t watch television. My wife does, and last night I walked by, and there was some youthful expert on PBS opining on how the world needs a new organization, one set up specifically to handle pandemics and such.
I nearly spit on the floor of my own house. I don’t have to wonder if she knows why I leave the room when she puts the television on...she knows.
I’ll bet there is also a data base developed that the party can access to find out who the good citizens are.
US version: Tesla.
The new official vehicle of the NYT motor pool?
As you can tell, sometimes opposites attract.
A ‘mixed marriage’ used to mean one of two things, either the couple were of different races, or perhaps like my parents, they come from different religions. My Dad was Catholic and Mother Baptist. We kids were raised Catholic, but Mom kept her own faith. Somehow, though, it was never that much of an issue throughout their 44 year marriage.
So now you are in your own style of a ‘mixed’ union.
There’s much more to a person than just their political beliefs.
High tech little red book.
Tell that to many on the Left.
You can recognize a fundamental structural problem when the state supports an individual leader rather than the individual leader directing the state. The foundations of the state are critical to the health, wealth and wellbeing of the people who make up the state. The shift in focus means that the health, wealth and wellbeing of an individual leader is more important than the people. It’s a critical point of failure. (The same is true of Putin. There is no clear succession.)
I was the only manager at an Israeli company who trained my replacement. The Israelis kept viable replacement candidates in the dark. As a reward, I got laid off first. The situation is similar except, unlike me, Xi and Putin are more concerned with their persons than the state they “represent.” I went on the much better and happier things. I’m afraid Xi and Putin will move on to the next phase of existence. Becoming the ultimate power means you also must, by definition, shoulder ultimate responsibility. Tiger...tail. Oh, well...
LOL, for me, this boils down to something less than a political opinion as much as a disagreement on two things:
1.) How important politics is at a given level
2.) How much freedom from interference we have from each other in personal matters.
I think politics matter, because eventually, politics does have individual and personal ramifications. As Trotsky once famously said: “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” I feel much the same about politics.
My wife is interested in running our home, personal finances, etc.
I view everything in a historical prism simply because I read, pay attention to, and study history.
However, the old “joke” about a married couple’s roles has some humorous truth, that the husband decides who we should go to war with, how much should be spent on national defense, how high or low the national debt should be, which treaties should be signed or broken, and so on. The wife decides how much to spend on a new car and when, what schools the kids should go to, how much can be spent on food, clothes, etc...
As for personal freedom between a husband and wife, my wife and I had an interaction some years back that illustrates differences in our personal tastes in things media-wise:
There was an author who called Ronald Reagan an “Amiable Dunce”, and he was all the rage on the morning letter network shows, “Good Morning America” and such. Now, I don’t watch any of these things, and stopped watching television news broadcasts, or reading newspapers back in the mid-late Nineties.
But my wife has them all on, all the time. She says they are there for background noise, and watching her closely, I have to believe some of it is true, since she appears not to be paying the least attention much of the time. But she does pay attention as well, and just having it on as “noise” still allows it to hit your ears and eyes. Plus, she watches “Ellen” and “Oprah” and junk like that. She is no leftie or even a liberal (as unsolicited comments on a variety of things has ably proven to me) so I have had to pass off her watching those things as some kind of female thing I don’t understand.
Anyway, one morning I walk into the kitchen, and for the third day in a row, they still have this author on. It just pissed me off, and I blurted out “WTF is wrong with these people? You would think there wasn’t a damn thing of significance happening anywhere for days on end but the opinion of an author who called Ronald Reagan an “amiable dunce” and she confronted me:
“I don’t comment to you or get on your case for anything you watch, read, or listen to. Don’t inject commentary on anything I watch, read, or listen to.”
Heck, what else could I say except “Okay.”?
China is an amazingly creepy place.
Coming soon, to a country near you…
Yeah but Teslas have an app so you create 7 different fart sounds and place them wherever in the vehicle.
Ford introduced an electric truck that I doctorates owners to worship biden
The “Little Red Book” on wheels
When she’s right, she’s right! Let it be.
LOL, like I said, what could I say?
I still have the underlying issue of what kind of respect could I have for anyone who watches those thing, but...had to write it off to some female thing I have no hope of understanding.
Caught me by surprise with that one... LOL Good one DFG
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