South Park episode is so realistic that the exact story is happening in real life

Do you watch NBA games?
Huston Rockets has made a big mistake.
Their manager Daryl Morey posted a tweet supporting HongKong protesters and antagonizing ChiComs. China has threatened to end all commercial partnerships with the NBA and as a consequence, Morey's word was quickly disavowed by the owner of Rockets. The NBA has apologized to China. The stake is billions of dollars.

This is exactly what South Park S23E2 portrays. It's so realistic that when Randy Marsh flies to China, there is an NBA manager aboard the same flight seeking to expand their viewer base in China. And they all know this: You gotta lower your ideals of freedom if you wanna suck on the warm teat of China.

China will help Americans with their standards. ChiComs will decide how Americans think and speak, as the episode says.

Why is China so influential? Well, ask who made China so rich through one-way trade and investment.

Now, do you see the rationale of Trump's victory in 2016?

 

Oh, by the way, South Park was just totally banned in China because of this new episode that makes them look bad.
You displease ChiComs and you lose your life opportunity to become rich.
You praise them and speak for them, you can have a share of the blood money out of 1.4 billion slave labors.

 

In a totalitarian society where you have to get state permission to do everything, it's easy for government to exert control over people.

If you've done something that offends them, all they have to do is say 'no'.

It's gotten to the point the Chinese government can easily exclude citizens from riding a train, which in a society where most people do not have a car, means you could find yourself tough out of luck.
They've perfected automatic facial recognition into an art. If you illegally cross the street, your electronic account on your cellphone will automatically be billed. Automatic fine. Not because there are sensors tracking your cellphone (which wouldn't be hard to do) but because the cameras see who the person is and the computer can automatically recognize the person in less than a second.

And that's just in the big cities.

China is experimenting with the very cutting edge of social totalitarianism in its muslim provinces.

 

In an ironic way, the winner of the cold war is getting crushed by a semi-communist country.

South park is indeed quite impressive for their clairvoyance.

 

Sorry not communist at all straight up totalitarian which is neither left nor right, just really paranoid and bossy.

 

It's a thing that both Islam and Communism share : everty time it turn to be horrible, it's supposed to be not true Islam/communism.

But, yes, it's why I said it's "semi" communism because it abandonned a big part of collectivism for a long time, even if they still claim them of Mao.

 

About the dystopian fact.
China was the poorest coutry of the world or among one, poorer than India or Subsaharian Africa. Yet in 70's years they managed to become the second/first to become world power and managed to improve a lot the life of people living in China.
I don't say that China is a model or good, but they managed to do what every african countries or India dreamed off. That's pretty impressive.

 

Please note true communism as espoused by K. Marx has never existed in fact given human nature likely cannot exist outside the insect world. It's like one size fits all jeans ain't no such animal.

 

Yes, I would agree on that. However, that and other part of history should remind us that over-idealism lead to disasters. I don't have a problem with Marx. He did what he thought would be right on his time. I don't have a problem with communist in 1917 in Russia or 1930 in China. They both had terrible condition of living and I understand that for them revolt was the only solution. I have problem with communism after the 50's.

 

Killing people that owned as much as an eighth of an acre of land was such a huge problem. Note both the Bolsheviks and Mao destroyed utterly nascent democratic movements in their own countries on the way to total power. IN the end nothing got any better in either country and much was made nearly infinitely worse. The American Revolution was largely a Middle and upper Middle class affair. Largely because of that it managed to avoid throwing out the baby with the bath water. The French Revolution was taken over by extremists and under Robespierre became a slow moving night mare in which yesterdays assemblymen became madam guillotine's next guest today often on the flimsiest of pretexts. Some changes are good some changes are awful most are neither. Wisdom lies in the ability to differentiate between them.

 

All the part on Robespierre is a black legend. Robespierre was never a tyrant. Maybe he screwed up a little bit, but globally he earned his tittle of the "uncorruptible". Most of what is told about him is slander about him. If by extremist you mean he was against war and for the universal right to vote (for men), yes he was an extremist. We could always redo the past, but he have shown a lot of clairvoyance on many points such as saying that "if we lead war against other countries, we will make the revolution being hated and it will lead a general to power". He didn't said that exactly that way, but that's the spirit. Lesson is : he predicted two things that would happen 10 years after his death.
I think the biggest difference between US war and other revolutions is that USA was an indenpendance war. The ancien regime was too corrupted to be saved, the burden of nobility to heavy. Furthermore, the USA had always plenty of "free" lands to use to enable their developpement. In China, Russia or France, if you didn't had a place to cultivate, you had to take it away from the nobles.
I was reading about the life of the general Sylla.A lot of problems root in economical problem, and Rome saved herself by offering lands to cultivate to small peasants and former soldiers, lands which were monopolized by the richest before.

 

Meanwhile the lines to madam guillotine were filled with his political opponents, and there was a reason for it being called the reign of terror. And the most politically adroit man of France appears to have been the amazingly ambidextrous Fouchet.

 

The thread isn't about Robespierre. There would be a lot to answer. You can open another thread or send me a private message if you want to talk more about him.

 

It's happening.