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The Chinese Socialist MMOG
GP writes "How different is China? In the online game version of the idealized Socialist state, you gain experience points by 'doing good deeds' and 'thwarting spys'. You can even meet Chairman Mao!" From a great writeup by Scott Jennings on the game: "And now we have the online MMO version, 'Learn From Lei Feng Online', which allows you to... mend socks. Again - not making any of this up. To quote from the original Xinhua story 'For beginners, sewing and mending socks is the only way to increase experience and to upgrade,' said Jiao Jian, a six-grade pupil in Yuexiu District, quoted by the newspaper. He then continues. 'Every time you are promoted to a higher level, your clothes will become more average,' he said. I'm pretty sure this isn't a translation screw up. The longer you grind, the more you look like everyone else. I guess new users wear designer pastels or something."
Does it run on linux?
perpetually dwelling in the -1 pits
- in America the manifestation of anything evil, repressive or stupidly unrealistic is labelled 'communism'. Satan is a Communist, no doubt. Nobody knows why.
Er, Stalin had Satan beat cold. Check the body count when you total up Soviet, Chinese, Cambodian, et al. murders of their own citizens.
Communism is also institutionalized theft. Any country you can't leave without getting shot in the back is evil.
To an American an expression such as 'communist democracy' is an oxymoron, something that makes no sense. To the rest of the world this is not inherently contradictory, and indeed there are examples of countries that approach this - Denmark, Sweden and Norway have at times not been far from that.
Communism != Socialism. BTW, take another look at the so-called socialist paradise of Scandinavia.. Their standards of life are stagnant or falling, what's the unemployment rate again? White power movements? You're SOAKING in it! Oh, and thanks to unchecked Muslim immigration, you're going to have some serious race riots very shortly, and your precious "social liberty" will burn. While in America immigrants go thru the wringer but at least at the end they're Americans, ready to put the next batch of immigrants thru the same wringer. The enemy will laugh as you drown in your own correctness.
America's defeat of Communism was at least as important as the Union victory in the Civil War IMHO. A Manichean struggle which we won thanks to the stalwart strength of the great troika (Reagan, Thatcher and JP2).
The very strange and indeed scary thing is that America - or at least their president - think they have to go out in the world and teach everybody else how to think. But how can one even comtemplate such a thing when Americans are mentally so far from the rest of us?
Thinking so far from "the rest of you" is what makes America great. Even at our worst, our unemployment rate is better than any in Europe. Where did the PC come from? Where did Unix come from? Where did the Internet come from? America is the land of disruption, of creative destruction, and Old Europe is the senile old (and getting older) grandpa.
BTW, read your history, Reagan was called a cowboy and a warmonger, and he beat the Russians. Keep calling Bush a cowboy and a warmonger, and he'll beat the terrorists! How many times must Europinkos be wrong before they admit it? Have they no shame??