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If you still want your Mao memorabilia, you better hurry down to Tiananmen Square, Beijing, while you still have the chance.
In China, the State Council is somewhat comparable to the Cabinet. Headed by the Prime Minister and consisting of the heads of the various Ministries (Defense, Commerce, Education, Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Justice, Civil Affairs, State Security, Public Security and so on), it handles the day-to-day running of the country while formulating economic policy.
Its operational procedures are described in a document, conveniently titled "Working Procedures for the State Council". On March 18, an updated version of that document was published, and it has a couple of changes.
First off, the State Council now has to "report any major decisions, major events and important situations" to the Central Committee "in a timely manner." Previous edition sentences like "administration according to law, seeking truth from facts, democracy, openness, pragmatism and integrity" have been scrapped, as has the requirement for the State Council "to correct illegal or inappropriate administrative actions", or to "guide and supervise" the bureaucracy. In other words, its wings have been seriously clipped.
Secondly, any and all references to Marxism/Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, the thought of Deng Xiaoping and the ideologies of former presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao are now verboten. Only references to Xi Jinping Thought are allowed, as that is "the essence of Chinese culture and the spirit of the times".
To drive the point home, the Central Committee of the CCP launched another nationwide disciplinary campaign among its 96 million members.
This round will check them for loyalty to supreme leader Xi Jinping, weeding out "black sheep" and "two-faced" officials.
(Score: 5, Informative) by mcgrew on Saturday April 01, @10:13PM (3 children)
It's something started by failed third party presidential candidate Ross Perot in the 1996 presidential elections. It's nonsense picked up by the Trump crowd, the untaxed billionaires who hate "woke" because if you woke up you'd see that the real threat isn't gays, or blacks, or abortionists, or Aunt Jemima, but the untaxed billionaires who have been stealing your labor since 1980 when the Patron Saint of Billionaires was elected president, with an anti-poverty agenda (they hate the poor), who want government to be small enough for them to walk all over and ignore at will.
In 1940, the minimum tax bracket was four times the median income. In 1965 an hour at the minimum wage bought ten McDonald's hamburgers, today it buys two. They don't want you woke to those FACTS you can easily look up like I did.
They want 1936 Italy.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 2, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday April 01, @11:27PM (1 child)
You can say that, because you've never met Aunt Jemima. That is one dangerous woman, right there! You do realize that she and Annie Oakley were contemporaries? What you don't know is, they were conspirators! Aunt Jemima took the front in the kitchen, while Oakley stormed America with her constitutionally protected assault rifle!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday April 02, @03:38AM
Figures you start moaning about a black person with a gun. That's what it took to get ol' Raygun to consider gun control laws too. Maaaan, even your jokes are dumb.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 02, @07:54PM
For me, there's a lot more woke out there than the narrow class of smelly ideological movements that triggered poor ole Mojibake. A lot of people have that one big insight that everyone else is too sleepy to see. Unfortunately, they don't agree on what it is.
And while it might stretch the analogy a bit, being woke forever is unhealthy. Woker has to sleep sometime. Maybe they'll wake up with a better insight next time after they had a chance to dream on it.