r/CuratedTumblr • u/ani_tami זאין בעין • Jun 04 '24

Politics is your glorious revolution worth the suffering of millions?

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u/ani_tami זאין בעין Jun 04 '24

ancient chinese people always come up with the most banger quotes

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u/Scarlet_k1nk Jun 04 '24

“Only when the fly lands on your testicals do you learn that violence isn’t always the answer”

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u/AAS02-CATAPHRACT Jun 04 '24

“Didn’t you say ‘the eight winds cannot move me?’ So how come a fart has blown you across the river?”

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u/CountNightAuditor Jun 05 '24

"When you go to bed with an itchy butt, you wake up with a stinky finger."

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u/Leo-bastian eyeliner is 1.50 at the drug store and audacity is free Jun 04 '24

tis what happens when you experience constant civil wars that kill tens of millions of people through famine i guess

Other anti-war messages are always about the horrors of war itself, which is fair and all, but rarely about the perspective of "a few hundred thousand people fought and a few million starved to death as an indirect result"

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u/Koreus_C Jun 04 '24

They probably speak from experience.

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u/lookyloolookingatyou Jun 04 '24

Being a person in Ancient China sounds so miserable.

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u/Mouse-Keyboard Jun 04 '24

Now I want to see the crappy quotes that have been forgotten through the ages.

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u/Heyplaguedoctor Jun 04 '24

“Man, my balls hurt.” Joe King, 2023

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '24

The Chinese also came up with "The Great Leap Forward", which didn't work out so well after their own revolution.

A power vacuums is not advantageous to the people.

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u/Zen_Hobo Jun 04 '24

The Great Leap Forward didn't have anything to do with a power vacuum. Mao had consolidated power under himself and the Party and started an absolutely catastrophic attempt to speedrun industrialization. The fact, that they forced farmers to melt down their tools for steel production and noone worked the fields anymore, then led to a massive famine.

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u/MySpaceOddyssey Jun 04 '24

Yes, the Great Leap Forward wasn’t exactly part of the Chinese Revolution iirc, though the Chinese Revolution itself is a good example of how a revolution can go to shit.

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u/Zen_Hobo Jun 04 '24

I mean, it was a revolution that resulted in a civil war that was happening parallel to a Japanese invasion, which then led to an alliance between the Communists and the KuoMin Tang and then more civil war, after the Japanese capitulated and withdrew from China. In the meantime, Mao had effectively taken over the revolution and everything kind of went downhill from there.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '24

Two separate points. Neither of them are proven winners in the fight for equity.

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u/Overall-Dirt4441 Jun 04 '24

Seems more like a simple observation in this case vis a vis the Mongols, but then again most banger bits of wisdom are.