Yeah, Deng knew he had to grow the economy somehow so he did what the party would let him. Tiananmen Square squashed any idea of freedom pretty effectively.
I had a discussion with another long timer, join date of1998, on that luxury house thread. They were pretty adamant that things are much better in China than we think.
I know just enough to know that is pure bunkum.
Where are the China lovers coming from? I just don’t get it.
Russia, Germany, Romania, they can have all the democracy they want
They can have a big democracy cakewalk
Right through the middle of Tiananmen Square
And it won’t make a lick of difference
Because we’ve got the bombs, OK?
John Wayne’s not dead, he’s frozen
And as soon as we find a cure for cancer
We’re gonna thaw out the Duke and he’s gonna be pretty pissed off
You know why
Have you ever taken a cold shower?
Well multiply that by 15 million times
That’s how pissed off the Duke’s gonna be!
I’m gonna get the Duke, and John Cassavetes
And Lee Marvin, and Sam Peckinpah, and a case of whiskey
And drive down to Texas and
Dennis Leary - “A__hole”
Either totally fake accounts or some old American white guy with a small, um, member, who probably married mail order as a result and is now held to some degree hostage in China would be my guess.
United front propaganda efforts.
Metal Man and vannrox are all straw men posts.