November 27, 2022

Unsaid things.

44 comments:

Achilles said...

China is going to fall apart over the next 20 years one way or another without a massive demographic intervention.

Their demographic graph used to look like a pear.

It now looks like a diamond.

Soon it will be an upside down pear.

Demographics are a perfect economic/social predictor of the future.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

I read somewhere that covid rates in China are actually low.
Xi wants zero. Never going to happen.

Xi and Whitmer are similar.

Achilles said...

Blank sheets of paper become the symbol of defiance against censorship and lockdowns in China protests.

This will upset Klaus Schwab and the WEF and the people pushing Build Back Better.

The model they are trying to replicate in China is failing.

tim in vermont said...

The same people cheering on these protesters are demanding censorship in the US. It's kind of funny how closely the views of 'liberals' align with the interests of the CIA. I am for free speech for everyone.

Jefferson's Revenge said...

So there are ongoing demonstrations in China and Iran.

I remember the Polish Solidarity demonstrations that were the first chink in the Communist armor. They were breathlessly covered by our media and supported by our intellectual community..Same with the Philippines and Marcos. Multiple examples come to mind.

Yet I hear no support from the women’s movement nor the LGBT community about Iran. I hear nothing about China other than a quiet support and curiosity about how the social credit system there can be implemented here.

There is something fundamentally rotten in the West’s political, moral and intellectual leadership now. I can’t think of one person of deep thought and clarity now. Maybe the Italian PM in politics and VDH in the media?

This does not end well for anyone.

Wince said...

Tabula rasa.

Temujin said...

The simple things brave people do in China to protest. Those blank sheets of paper might change the lives of their entire families. And not for the better.

Saint Croix said...

God bless them.

Dave Begley said...

Yesterday I heard an interesting theory on the Covid lockdowns in China. It’s not because Covid is a real problem, but because Xi wants to stop inflation. China’s economy is a mess with the real estate market being a real mess.

Michael K said...

Klaus Schwab could not reached for comment on his ideal governance model.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

The trouble with unsaid things is that you can’t hear them unless you are paying close attention.

Ann Althouse said...

Notice that some of them don’t even have the paper and are just holding their hands as if they had paper.

So there’s the blank sheet of paper and the even blanker absence of a sheet of paper.

tim in vermont said...

Remember when Canadian truckers were protesting COVID policies? Those people were assholes and these guys are heroes.

“Using protests to demand changes to public policy is something that I think is worrisome” -@JustinTrudeau

Who would think that a dreamy guy like Justin Trudeau would be so authoritarian?

Don’t worry liberals, you arrived at your conclusions about the Truckers, J6, and China on your own , nobody assigned you those positions. 🙄

narciso said...

Ht they live john carpenters prescient film about manufacturing consent

Butkus51 said...

No guns, no free speech, its a "liberal" paradise! This is their aim.

As the stuttering cluster fuck once said, "China, they do things right".

PJ57 said...

Very brave of them. And also likely futile. Although there may be some loosening of the zero Covid regime. The survival of authoritarian regimes is based not only on fear and intimidation but on how many people are dependent on the continued largesse of the party or the state. Most of these brave folks, even if they are willing to risk themselves, will not be willing to risk their family's well being. Which is completely understandable.

planetgeo said...

It's brilliant. And very brave.

tim in vermont said...

Important distinction:

The protests now erupting in Chinese cities are not your typical anti-COVIDvaccine protests in US-EU countries.

The Chinese demonstrators protest against violation of human rights, political repression, totalitarian control,


Wouldn't want these prairie fires we have started in Iran and China to get out of hand... "We will tell you lousy truckers what 'human rights' means, and won't be lectured to by people who work for a living and come up against our policies daily while trying to do their jobs! Who told you workers you could unite?!?"

Sebastian said...

"So there’s the blank sheet of paper and the even blanker absence of a sheet of paper."

When nothing is better than nothing. Exceeding the Althouse standard.

"Ceci n'est pas une protestation."

Wince said...

Official statement of the CCP when the protesters are shot...

"Paper cuts are the worst!"

Gusty Winds said...

Of course the Washington Post's residential clown Taylor Lorenz basically came out as pro-Chinese lock down, and claimed there is no such thing as natural immunity. Think about the waste of time idiots and lying pro-censorship propagandists like Taylor Lorenz and Jennifer Rubin that Jeff Bezos keeps on staff. She is probably supports mandating the poison mRNA shot for children too.

As Jefferson's Revenge points out above, there is silence from the women's movement and the LGBT community regarding Iran and China because they actually like this type of totalitarian bullshit. They really don't give a shit about women in other countries.

Must be comforting in some strange way. I don't get it obviously.

Gusty Winds said...

The common people in China and Iran fight for freedom against totalitarian regimes.

Liberals and Feminists in America ignore the plight of these people, and try to impose their totalitarian beliefs on the rest of America.

I give. Abort whatever you want, whenever you want, and however you want. It's exhausting. Leave the rest of us alone.

If American Liberals and Feminists can ignore China and Iran...why can't they ignore the rest of us too??

Narr said...

Huh.

Unmentioned: the music. It's the Internationale.

What do it mean?

Narr said...

IMO China is going to undergo some . . . fundamental transformations in much less than 20 years. The entire global system is evolving, and all the old structures are breaking up, including the corrupt oligarchic US empire.

The Chinese just went farther along the dead end road than most regimes have managed, and their collapse will be spectacular.

We should stand away from the falling rubble as best we can.

Whiskeybum said...

Notice that some of them don’t even have the paper and are just holding their hands as if they had paper.

I think some of the bystanders are just thinking about holding their hands as if they had paper.

Whiskeybum said...

This is really an equivalent to "Let's go Brandon" in the sense that it is a protest against the government where there is no direct offensive (to the government) language used, but something is substituted which everyone knows is a protest message.

Brylinski said...

China will require all women of childbearing or-bearing age to be pregnant.

Josephbleau said...

The best of futures would be for China to have a 1989 moment, making Iran and the Norks irrelevant. While possibly convincing the US elites that there is no good future in stealing from and lording over the common people. Now the elites try to emulate the China model. That may turn out to be the wrong choice for them.

This would even put an end to global warming, there would be no more value in it.

A key breakpoint is, will Xi invade Taiwan as a distraction before the Chinese people gain the upper hand.

mikee said...

Nicolae Ceaușescu provided the optimum example of how to dismantle a communist dictatorship.

Gusty Winds said...

It's amazing to watch the protest videos coming out of Wuhan. So sad and infuriating to think about the amount of lives Fauci and Gates destroyed with their mad scientist funding of gain of function experimentation at the Wuhan lab. And then to push the "Bat Soup / Wet Market" lie...and most of America was like...uh-kay, whatever you say...let's close the ocean.

I can't help but think the Chi-comms are going to crack down hard on these protests and many will die and disappear. These poor people are risking their lives for a little bit of freedom and to push back on totalitarian oppression. Half our country has been brainwashed to oppose freedom of speech. Heartbreaking.

The stark contrast between protestors in Wuhan and Americans illustrates the level of virtue signaling selfish sheeple that American public has become.

YoungHegelian said...

I don't think these protests are quite this far along yet to be a danger to the regime, but if they continue, the question will ultimately become "Whose side is the People's Liberation Army on?".

The PLA killed their fellow citizens at Tianamin Square in 1989, but that doesn't mean they'll do it again on a nation-wide scale in 2022/23. Remember, that of all the internal atrocities that come to mind in the history of the CCP (the bloodletting after the end of the civil war, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, etc), it wasn't the PLA that did them. Matter of fact, it was the PLA that was used to break the power of the Red Guards at the end of the Cultural Revolution.

If the PLA turns against the CCP, it'll be the shitstorm of the 21st century!

Unknown said...

A ripple from the 2020 protests in Hong Kong has reached the mainland. There the same tactic was used to protest the new security law. Brave people then. Brave people now.

Indigo Red said...

Blank paper and mimed paper protest signs were used earlier this year in Russian cities to protest the RU-UA War. Thousands of protesters were arrested.

Indigo Red said...

History of the carte blanche protest: https://theface.com/society/pulp-friction-the-unwritten-power-of-the-blank-piece-of-paper-anti-monarchy-protests

Bob Boyd said...

A lot of cops in China are wearing white hazmat suits on duty now. The Chinese people call them the Big Whites.

I saw a video clip a couple days ago, some Big Whites were rioting because they hadn't been paid. This thing is not sustainable.

tim in vermont said...

Typical college professor comment: "Note the effective use of negative space."

John henry said...

Per worldometer just now

Covid cases/mm deaths/mm

World 83,000 850
USA. 300,000 3,300

China 213 4(not a typo, 4 death/mm)

Why is the us death rate 800 or so times higher than Chinese?

Those are the kind of numbers one might expect if one sequenced millions of examples of American DNA (courtesy 23&me et al) billions of samples of Han Chinese DNA then developed a virus that does not affect Han Chinese. Or at least as much.

The riots and crackdowns are real but they are mostly for the show.

John Henry

John henry said...

The worldometer rates are not for last month or last year but are cumulative all time rates.

John Henry

pacwest said...

I wonder if any of the photoshops are going to be used by the CCP to lower social scores. Or officials could just fill in the blank and get rid of the troublemakers quicker.

boatbuilder said...

Very brave. I honor those people.

effinayright said...

@John Henry:

are you claiming the US should be locking up a hundred million people the way the Chinese are?

Is it an acceptable trade-off that the Chinese government is destroying its economy and society to achieve "zero covid"?

Just what the FUCK is your point?

Readering said...

Government using various techniques to interfere with news dissemination of anti-government protests. Overwhelming Twitter departments expert in responding to this. Because departments stripped since purchase.

Saint Croix said...

Why is the us death rate 800 or so times higher than Chinese?

Why would you trust any fucking numbers that come out of a dictatorship that fully controls the media?

Saint Croix said...

Those are the kind of numbers one might expect if one sequenced millions of examples of American DNA (courtesy 23&me et al) billions of samples of Han Chinese DNA then developed a virus that does not affect Han Chinese. Or at least as much.

You're basically suggesting that COVID-19 is a racist bomb that eliminates all those other races but keep that wonderful yellow race going strong.

I'm killing this idea at the pitch stage, all right? It's just too fucking stupid.

If it's intentional, why would you release the fucking thing in China?

Literally everybody thinks COVID-19 started in China!

If it's intentional, wouldn't you be sneaky as shit? Wouldn't you release it in New York or London or Moscow or Tehran or anywhere but fucking China?

Here's my theory.

lab leak

they're covering it up

lots of people have died in China

they're covering that up as well