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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2017 05:28:23 UTC Hallå Kitteh

   • Hector
   • ay
   @ayy @hector
   
   Did you just say monarchy makes sense because owning and profiting from a country gives you incentive to take care of it? :-O ;-)
   
   Side note: After 5 years as President, Wen's extended family are, purely coincidentally I'm sure, among the richest in China. We'll see how the Xi clan fares.
   • Hector (hector@gs.smuglo.li)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2017 04:37:37 UTC Hector
     "Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the glorious future of the Communist Party."
     
     https://gs.smuglo.li/url/989349
     Hallå Kitteh repeated this.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2017 04:58:07 UTC Hallå Kitteh

     • Hector
     • ay
     @ayy @hector He is a difficult one to pin down.
     
     First, he is an affable, inscrutable always-smiling panda.
     
     Second, he has helped the country deal with many of its ills and he is setting a good agenda, domestically and internationally, apart from the naval armament and the ridiculous claims in the South China Sea.
     
     Third, he fought corruption mainly by fighting it among his adversaries, not among his followers, and now he's pulling shit like this.
     
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     He is the first person since Mao to get his name into the constitution (outlining Xi Jinping Thought, the new socialist doctrine), and he has all the important posts to his name. Under Wen/Hu leadership was divided and that arrangement went a ways back, but now you never hear about prime minister Li. Never.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 23-Nov-2017 05:04:28 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     • Hector
     • ay
     @hector @ayy Oops. Wen was Premier, Hu was President. Just goes to show how the balance has shifted.