The Communist Party And Its Functionaries Dominate Political Life At All Levels Of The Highly Centralised

The Communist Party and its functionaries dominate political life at all levels of the highly centralised "party state". Political opposition movements are suppressed and their representatives prosecuted. Meanwhile, the power of President Xi Jinping, which is accompanied by a heightened cult of personality, has reached a new high.

Well, that would be something for the misanthropic ex-president of the disunited states of america. he as the great leader of the nation with a parliamentary yes-man system.

This would seal the usa's decline as a superpower and make the rise of the XI unstoppable.

First, XI grabs Taiwan while trump professes in his infinite ignorance of history that the welfare of XI is his right and does not affect the economic interests of America.

Thank you for being a friend!

The man who understands dictators and their leaders. What's all this nonsense about discussing culture in democracies when you can do everything better for yourself and the people around you.

It's interesting that he is releasing his own alliance for attack.

If you have allies like that, you don't need enemies.

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I assume the Chinese laughed their heads off and thought taiwan was ours as soon as the Orange Man was in power.

With men, there is never such a hype when they get old, and the same should apply to everyone else, full stop

This also includes being able to age. The more you are in the public eye, the greater the attention paid to the loss of youth by the general public.

We were born to die but no matter how old someone gets the true fire of lust for life can be seen in the eyes.

The eternal delusion of youth in our societies is like trying to catch the wind with your hands and then realising it's gone.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Vernus more or less

Everyone has the right to age as they like and to use every aid to make this as bearable as possible.

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Plastic surgery is the management of flaws, once one is removed the next comes to light. The state of perfection is therefore unattainable. It is okay for everyone to exhaust all means to come to terms with ageing. Even if you ultimately become grotesque to yourself, it's ok. The beauty of old age is based on a misconception coupled with the myth that wisdom is inherent in old age.

Youth is sweet and well, But doth speed away!, Let who will be gay, Tomorrow none can tell"

Lorenzo de' Medici

Stupid remains stupid - even age doesn't help.

mod...... Unfortunately, I had to watch it thousands of times.

“Quant'è bella giovinezza,

Che si fugge tuttavia!

Chi vuol esser lieto, sia:

Del doman non v'è certezza.”

Lorenzo il Magnifico

Putin has history books rewritten for schools and universities. Ted Cruz has books banned in schools.

Fathers of an idea who ultimately do not differ in their view of society. Neither of them wants responsible, enlightened, self-determined citizens.

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When books are banned or history books are rewritten, the approach is never to protect the citizens but only to preserve the power of individuals.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Heinrich Heine

Education is the friend of propaganda. Anyone who can think for themselves and can form an overall picture based on different facts from different sources is unfortunately useless for populist propaganda.

Just ask the British what happened to the oh-so-much money they supposedly had to pay to the EU after they went through with brexit.

Oh, the money didn't exist and the bus with the cool print was just propaganda from the brexit supporters.

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However, there was a problem with this fact: it was patently untrue. Technically, the UK paid a gross £19.1bn into the EU budget in 2014, which equates to just over £350m a week. But thanks to Margaret Thatcher's hard-nosed negotiating skills in the 1980s, the country also receives a huge rebate of around £4.9bn, which never leaves Her Majesty's Treasury. The British also benefit from billions in various EU subsidies to the public sector. Add it all up and the UK's net contribution is around £9.9bn, just over half the amount touted by Brexit supporters. The total drops even further if you include things like the research funding the EU provides to UK universities.

You could have read about it in various sources, including books, but what the heck, gut feelings and felt facts are cooler!

There's a really clever saying: those who can read have a clear advantage.

International Women's Day 2024: International Women's Day on 8 March

For more than 100 years, women around the world have been taking to the streets on International Women's Day for more women's rights and equality.

And I admire that, but the way the world looks now, they will have to take to the streets for another 200 years to fight for equality.

The current backward-looking attitude of some social groups towards the alleged good old days must be disenchanted by all of us by any means necessary.

There was no good old days at all

A real man is a feminist who doesn't understand the issue of equality is ignorant of the challenges that we can only solve together.

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Someone explain to me why you waste your time following bolgs when you have an empty blog!

Kind of a complete waste of life time, little tip if you can't create content, porn always works! Or cat videos, which is harder than porn.

Nonsense, they are so cute, those little bird killers

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