You can have 499, not 500.

Today we will ban breathing of more than 30 breaths a minute

Tried to get into an apartment complex once during the lockdown. The guards were cool and tried to help, gave us a ride over to the local party office.

Extremely attractive professional lady comes out and asks for different documentation, what local ties I had, etc basically like trying to establish that I'm not just some dude off the street and I actually know people there and have been invited

Got dicked around for two hours, then told there is no exception to the policy. Why not just tell me that upfront?

Sounds like due diligence gone retarded

So we got our host to come out in his car, go around the corner, and we piled in the trunk.

Ah we also hate the DMV here

CPC is a lot like the DMV

DMV and department of environmental quality are pains in the ass here

Environmental quality<:TheodoreRooseveltLaugh:585130800870195200>

We have the Department of Cat Delete here

Cut that bitch off and weld a straight pipe

Yeah DEQ is like our state level EPA

@TheBasedPanamanian They're so interwoven with the government and often synonymous with it that they can't collapse

So the Chinese guy is lying then?

Technically there's two parallel chains of command

Like how we have mayors, governors etc. Well they do also. But at each level there is also a party secretary/political commissar, same in military except at platoon level

Xi Jinping actually holds more than one office, as President is not the same position as General Secretary/Chairman

Years ago they were different people but right now it's just him, and he has no term limit

Sounds like a great job to have

No

They're not allowed to leave the country even after they retire

Hu Jintao, Jiang Zemin, all those guys can never leave

Well that blows

He keeps saying CCP is evil. CCP persecutes people. CCP makes it where no one wants to innovate. CCP is gonna collapse. CCP is etc etc.

True

Both things could be true

CPC just is.

It doesn't persecute any particular group. You can be Christian, Muslim, whatever. Legally you cannot join a religion if you're a party member, or you automatically lose your party membership.

But churches are full, sadly so are mosques

Problem with innovation there is they are capitalist with private companies and publicly-traded companies, but also socialist with state-owned enterprises

Imagine if Ford was created by the US government, and belonged to it, there's automatically some preference there. Kinda like the whole bailout thing but continuous and not just a one-time deal

The Chinese dude said he and his family "escaped" when he was young

And that he wants to go to Singapore to escape the collapse

Some state-owned enterprises make good shit. Norinco for example makes great guns.

That and have his sex doll

But having government prop up these, it disadvantages wholly private companies

You won't see a collapse though, likely ever. The people *love* the military and law enforcement. It's unlike anything I've ever seen. You can't get a mostly-unarmed populace to declare war against their beloved armed forces.

One other thing I found weird was his insant support of HK

And how the CCP is just taking over HK to continue their evil reign and hold off the decline