• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      12 hours ago

      What does that even mean? Do you think he personally plans and runs all of the public sector of the PRC that take’s up over half of the economy?

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        Xi can disappear anyone he doesn’t like. He doesn’t need to personally oversee every company, the threat of being visited by police is enough to keep them in line.

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              None of it says Xi can kill anyone he likes, moreover this is BBC, which frequently pays to report anti-China propaganda regardless of validity.

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                Xi can disappear anyone he doesn’t like

                Is actually what I read. But I get it, I wrote two whole sentences, that’s a lot of information right there. And if you’re not happy with the BBC, go look for other sources then. Like I said, using search engines isn’t illegal yet. I certainly won’t waste my time looking for a source you deem impartial.

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                  See, I have done research, and have come to the conclusion that Xi can’t disappear people willy nilly. The burden of proof is on you for making that claim.

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        > government runs half the economy

        ‘But how is dear leader like a CEO, unless he signs every paycheck by hand?’

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          The public sector has their own planners, Xi deals more with broad policies and decisions. That’s like saying Biden is the “CEO” of Amazon, it doesn’t make sense, plus the CPC heavily plans even the Private Sector. This is all in line with Marxism.

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            … how directly involved do you think any CEO is?

            If the state is making policy and planning decisions for both the public and private sectors, how does the distinction even matter? It’s like if Biden was Jeff Bezos’s boss.

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              It’s just an extremely odd thing to say and paints any leader as a CEO. The coach is the CEO of the football team, the Starbucks manager is the CEO of the store, etc. Etc.

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                Not an argument. You’re just complaining about how there’s multiple words for “some schmuck in charge.” Do you realize that’s incompatible with your prior insistence he is not in charge?

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                    If you can distinctly disagree with it then it’s not word salad. You’re just pulling insults from a hat.

                    The comparison between shmucks-in-charge is crystal clear. No CEO plans and runs an entire company. They have layers of people under them. They are still in charge. They pick those planners, and tell them what to do, in broad terms.

                    Your argument against this is that the state only has half the economy… and even that is undercut by acknowledging they “heavily plan” the other half.

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      Who told you that?

      Western supremacists think every country they’re in a trade war with doesn’t even elect their leaders.