• Soviet Snake
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    112 years ago

    I am reading Deng’s Selected Works and that’s pretty much what they did. If we look at the Russian revolution, Bolshevisks allied with Mencheviks in order to defeat the feudal lords. In China the CCP allied with the Kuomintang to defeat Japan, after that they started the civil war again, and in that scenario they pretty much allied with everyone they could in order to fight the Kuomintang and the biggest of landlords and feudalists. As contrary to what one might think, and this is a mistake I’ve been guilty of for a long time, just because you want to abolish private property doesn’t mean the material conditions will allow it, the previous system gears are still in place. What they did in China to win over the many was basically to not expropriate land from middle landowners, and if they did they would pay for it, lax taxes, but they would force them to reduce rent for peasants, and so on, they would expropriate land from big landlords and so on; I am being very reductionist. Basically you let them keep profiting if they take a neutral stand, and this is something that until this day keeps happening, this is the reason we say China is not a capitalist regime even though they clearly have a bourgeois sector within them.

    • @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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      142 years ago

      I’ve a silly question about bidets. So they kind of spray water on the buttocks, right? And then you just have wet butt and pull the pants back over? How does this work?

      • @201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 years ago

        Mine sprays a concentrated beam right on the ol poop chute. Of you spraying all over cheeks you either had a really rough go and need the cleaning or doing it a little excessive. Then like a few squares to pat dry.

      • @Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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        122 years ago

        No it’s a concentrated beam. You still use toilet paper (or your hand), but the bidet makes the process quicker and more pleasant. I personally would not trust a toilet paper-only butt to be clean.

          • @201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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            102 years ago

            You only need a little paper to dry off vs way more paper to wipe clean and paper doesn’t work near as well as the but spraying action. It’s not exactly a gentle spritz. It’s like a light power washing of the anus. Lmao.

          • @LVL@lemmygrad.ml
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            102 years ago

            You use the paper to dry off. If you got poop on your hands, would you just use toiler paper to wipe them off or use water to clean them?

          • ☭CommieWolf☆
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            52 years ago

            I think just paper without first washing is pretty unclean, so its probably just a better alternative.

      • Muad'Dibber
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        62 years ago

        You basically only need a little toilet paper to dry off, bc the bidet does the cleaning.

    • Ratette (she/her)OP
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      22 years ago

      I see what you are saying, maybe I’m just so disillusioned with the petite in the UK I’m stunned to see it function historically.

      • Soviet Snake
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        21 year ago

        Well, there is not a People’s government in the UK, the ones handling the helm are the international bourgeois in your country, the petite bourgeois will only cede under different circumstances.

        • Ratette (she/her)OP
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          21 year ago

          Yeah that’s fair, I need to reevaluate how I see the petite and their potential contributions.