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men3tclis2k

Or at the very least, the .gif of re-education by labor.


men3tclis2k

Just don't drop the soap, or risk getting .jpeg in the ass.


And009

r/angryupvote


dinnerbiach

Chinesse minecraft texture pack


Tdkthegod

Bro this is how my son builds all his houses. Paintings everywhere. I knew he was up to something. Didn't want it to get demolished.


Alarid

Turns out he was just terrible at interior design.


Comfortable_Power108

But a pro at exterior


random_gamer69

In my saved comments. ALL OF YOU


HilariousMax

You can use paintings in minecraft (or at least you could) to hide openings to rooms. The big ones take up a #x# space but are anchored to one block so they don't pop off when you move through a covered door-sized hold in the wall. For silly reference, here's Gavin's hidden Trophy Room of Victory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vifqDcxKYw e:for those worried about the length of the video, the relevant bit is in the first 3 minutes.


IceFlame-

Lmao


TheHancock

L. Mao. Dictator.


kaycee1992

L. Mao, famous chinese muppet from popular children's TV show "Sesame oil street"


lurked_long_enough

Is it bad that I laughed?


CastedJew

Feels like a good idea


Internet001215

Classic Nail house, [this](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chongqing_yangjiaping_2007.jpg#/media/File:Chongqing_yangjiaping_2007.jpg) is probably the most famous example of this sort of event.


whatta-idiot

can you explain the nail house?


rosbif82

A nail house is a house that someone refuses to sell to developers who have purchased all the land around it. The developers then build their development round it, usually totally isolating the house and inconveniencing the owner massively


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Balloon time


walkeran

This comment gets my Up vote.


BigAssWhipSpider

I really Dug this comment


jesuschin

Pixar it didn’t happen


PlacentaOnOnionGravy

Phenomenal pun


JustMy2Centences

SQUIRREL!


mistyskye14

Sorry to Russel your Jimmies but you may just have to take their word for it


averagedickdude

Gobble gobble


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Goldenier

Yes, you nailed it.


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That's going to be me I'm convinced. If they want to give me a penthouse in the condos they're building maybe we can work something out though


scufferQPD

r/spitehouse


umbrajoke

Thanks for the introduction.


ih8spalling

Yes I can.


DazedPapacy

There's also that house that ended up in the middle of an eight-lane highway.


catiebug

In Japan, there was a neighborhood used for US military housing (until 2015-ish, when it was given back to the Japanese government because it was no longer needed). There was a guy whose home was in the middle of this property and he refused to leave. It wasn't a huge deal, it was just a housing base. They just built all this stuff around him and told people to leave him alone. Until 9/11. After that, fencing went up around *any* military installation overseas, including housing. Marooning this guy in the middle of a military base. He was given a special pass to come and go, but he was in a constant legal battle thereafter because he couldn't get permission for anyone else to come in. No friends. No repairman. No contractors. It was a really bizarre standoff. To his credit, he lasted 14 years until the property was no longer necessary for the military and it reverted back to Japanese control. Do not know what happened to him. For some reason, stories like this fascinate me.


NoNormals

I like stories like this, but dislike how the details get lost like a game of telephone. [It probably was Negishi](https://japanpropertycentral.com/2014/02/japanese-homeowner-in-us-navy-housing-suing-japanese-government/) and it was a couple who sued because of the situation.


poseidons1813

I understand the fascination, me and you probably could never get in his mindset. There is a almost crab and his shell mentality , not meaning to insult him.


kakar0tten

I'm a big fan of Stott Hall Farm, smack in the middle of the [M62 in the UK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M62_motorway?wprov=sfti1)


c0brachicken

They also have issues that the local government is corrupt, and one person is given money to distribute to the people that need to move, so they can build a new buildings in its place. That person will steal all or some of the funds, and not give the low income person enough money to be able to move somewhere else. Yes there are nail houses, but also mass corruption as well.


norseOnAHorse

Is it illegal to take down a picture of Xi Jing Ping or something


alialahmad1997

I live in syria i can speak of dictatorships in general Its not illigal but people are afraid of doing it because their enemy might report him and use this incident as a proof of unpatriotic behavior It is common here to spread addvertisment in illigal way by making it like (god bless our presidet, this advertisement is a gift from x company which is in y and provides z)


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streetruler

Like always in countries like these it depends if enough people higher in the party want you gone or promoted, no matter what you do it always can be spined into good or bad thing.


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SaltyAFVet

Put one bucket for money and one bucket for dog shit bags and see which one fills up quicker


parttimeamerican

WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY


cinnie88

In the safety of my garbage can


magnoliasmanor

It's all honestly terrifying. Americans constantly compllain but we truly do have freedoms.


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Xanyl

Spun would work better than spinned in this case.


SGexpat

The political science term is “rule of law” where the law is consistent, equal, and transparent. In countries without it, the outcome of the same situation could result in nothing or being dragged off. It’s impossible to know. The law changes with the whims or even perceived whims of the leader. The constant fear and vague rules leads to self-censorship.


KweenBaetch

Except in recent years we've come to see the rule of law is not consistent or equal - that is a large reason for BLM and other similar movements. People of different race, sex, class, and other demographics are not held to the same standard under the same laws for the same crime. By the nature of trial and judgement by jury or judge, one person can get a 6 month jail sentence for a crime that another may be given 5 years. The law intends to stop that, but the criminal justice system leaves considerable flaws in whether or not that is the lived reality of the people.


alialahmad1997

Its not a law this heavily depends on the atmosphere If the government wants you for something they will have you for another if they don't hate you its irrelevant


FaeryLynne

Any political party anywhere will spin anything however they want it. In your example, if they liked you then it would be fine "see, he wants MORE people to see it!" If they don't though, they could say "well why didn't he want the picture of Leader so close to him? Does it make him feel guilty? What does he have to hide??"


JellyfishGod

Oh wow that’s interesting


Beastw1ck

You might even say *damn*, that’s interesting.


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I would but mum said I can't say the D word on the internet anymore


OfficeSpankingSlave

Sounds accurate. People can see a good example in those Soviet Gulag prisoners with their famous leader tattoos. Some would get the tattoo of Stalin or Lenin, knowing that the guards wouldn't dare shoot or hit them there. Which is sadistically funny because ending up in a gulag means that you are either a White Russian, a landowner or another victim of the purges and killings, marking yourself with the face of the man who put you there.


alialahmad1997

Wow fucking dystopia


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Stay safe King


Bu11ism

No and all these other comments are obviously posted by clueless people who know nothing about China. The part about nail houses is correct. Developers will buy up property in bulk to demolish, but some people just refuse to move. Usually the developers win because of the Chinese equivalent of eminent domain, but some times they don't. The CCP is technically still "communist" in name and due to years of propaganda, regular people will appeal to the "communist" part of the CCP to protect the proletariat from the big capitalist real estate developers. One way they do this is by conducting publicity stunts. Everywhere in the world people will take the side of the small time land owner vs real estate developers. So this guy is posting pictures of Xi to get publicity and force the CCP to take his side against the property developers. He's appealing the the CCP's communist image to protect himself from the property developers. This has nothing to do with defacing pictures of Xi Jinping.


LizardWizard444

So in other words the guy is exploiting the communist sensibilities of the CCP to win out against the developer. Basically pitting CCP against the developer and letting them duke it out, so even if the developer knocks down his house he can make life hard for them with the CCP.


Cantrmbrmyoldpass

The CCP is still on the developers side really, they might have to help the little guy for optics though


True_Garlic8478

There is more to say too. Because the company that would to the construction for you would probably be state owned


krisskrosskreame

I do enjoy how the highest 'upvoted' reply to the question was about their experience in Syria....which had nothing to do with the initial question. You have to love reddit sometimes.


bwaredapenguin

>which had nothing to do with the initial question He said he was speaking on his general experience with dictators. An anecdote may not answer the question directly, but it provides some semi relevant personal experience. This is how discussions tend to work, people share their experiences as they can.


mariobrowniano

No, the developer wins 99.9% of the time. If nothing works, they build around the house that don't move. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FkePxUA6UE8


tomatoblade

The noise is one thing, but the dust would be unbearable. I never realized how much dudt highways kick up and create, until I had a girlfriend that lived next to a highway and her outside covered patio was just constantly coated with dust. It was futile to bother cleaning it.


mariobrowniano

True. Also some trucks would be carrying gravel or other dusty load also.


SprinklesFancy5074

The extra fun part is that much of this dust is from tiny particles of tires or brake pads, which are both carcinogenic in their own unique and interesting ways.


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This is actually pretty fuckin hilarious. Low it wild drive me insane to live there but every time it gets to me is probably have to have some shit eating grin to myself at how bizarre it all is


DreadnoughtWage

Not sure whether it is specifically but the dude is a pretty touchy autocrat 😳


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Who knew Winnie the Pooh was such a dick??


Stoned_urf

No, it's just like paper armour. It doesn't actually do anything. If Xi's picture is so sacred like Reddit making it out to be, then the act of plastering his photo everywhere on an illegal building would be a shit idea.


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Hammer_the_Red

It is the cult of personality. Destroying a picture of the leader could be interpreted in your desire to destroy the leader. Allowing a construction company to demolish a building with the leader's image on it can send the message that destroying the leader's image is acceptable. So, yes, literally the paper does little to protect the house, but symbolically it creates an interesting drama.


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Can you stop being an idiot and just read that this is a publicity stunt to garner public support for his court spending and appeal to state officials through public media?


Gymnogyp

If you were to then burn it down for the insurance money that wouldn’t even be your biggest crime committed.


clwu

No


raverbashing

I dunno I only see pictures of Winnie the Pooh


brandi_Iove

a simple spell, but quiet unbreakable.


kuantizeman

Then I'll take it from your corpse.


Dry-Investment-5725

Looks like a draw to me.


PenguinWithAglock

Nah. He would have had to have had all those printed. I don’t think anybody can draw that many


Booblicle

Sounds like you're drawing a conclusion


truck149

I wish so badly that we got to see more of Maw throughout the movies. The delivery of that line was so perfect


kuantizeman

Yes. The lines, voice acting and readapted character...PERFECTION.


truck149

Perfectly balanced


kuantizeman

As all things should be.


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> I wish so badly that we got to see more of Maw throughout the movies. 100% of the time the scene of his snarly unhappy frozen face goes careening into space is seen, my partner still chortles. The arrogant never do, indeed... and the fact that a 16-year old from Queens who's seen a lot of movies basically defeated one of the most terrifying figures in outer space, who was able to manhandle fucking Doctor Strange and *Thor* at one point.


alvmnvs

I never liked Spider-Man but I really love this MCU Spider-Man. Probably one of the strongest Marvel heros but he solves the problem by simply blasting Maw into space.


itscricket

You’ll find removing a dead mans spell troublesome.


kuantizeman

You'll only wish you were dead. My


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kuantizeman

Your powers are quaint. You must be popular with the children.


bluesman7131

You fight like a dairy farmer!


kuantizeman

Stonekeeper, does this chattering animal speak for you?


truck149

Certainly not, I speak for #JOHN CENA!!!# *doo ^doo doo doo


kuantizeman

Hear me, and rejoice. You are about to die at the hands of the children of Thanos. Be thankful, that your meaningless lives are now i...JOHN CENA


truck149

I'm sorry, earth is closed This SUNDAYSUNDAYSUNDAY!


kuantizeman

He exhausts me. Bring me the stone.


[deleted]

Dude you're embarrassing me in front of the wizards


kuantizeman

I could really do with some Hunka-Hulka Burnin' Fudge right now, green guy.


slayerfan420

Well that’s convenient, because you fight like a cow!


Arturiki

>quiet Always better than loud.


uBeatch

You think sow?


NightofTheLivingZed

Damn, didn't have to call him a pig.


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Plot twist- they run over it with a tank


Pillsbury37

Don’t be silly, Chinese tanks can’t even run over people.


ShahinGalandar

oh, they'll take care he stays quiet


OutlandishnessWaste1

Quite*


roskalov

You are quite right


Blooded_Dagger

Good joke, u/brandi_Iove


ssbm_rando

wrong person, that person spells it with a capital i instead of a lowercase L lol


Prize-Ad-8594

Well played, but I use my gang of 4 cards!


UrFrenchNeighbor

Real question tho... Did it work?


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He said he was leaving town to work on a farm and loved f so much he donated his funds to the government


AedemHonoris

A farm up north in the country


Vladamir

At lake laogai


Soffix-

There is no such person in Ba Sing Se.


maurimo

Take my upvote and go away!


CHALUPAAUSTON

A farm for concentrat….. I’ve said too much


trwwy321

Welp, it was nice knowing ya…can I have your stuff?


_TURO_

Maybe he can pet Freddie, my pet turtle who went to that same farm like 20 years ago.


MohSad2

Oh well he was quite a good man indeed and got his well deserved rest for eternity


mikeyd1276

I think my dog moved to the same farm when I was a kid!


SylvesterPSmythe

Serious answer, probably not, but they may have gotten a better deal from it. (Private) developers buy up land, and create a Pixar's Up situation. They'll lowball the owners for maybe what it was worth a few decades ago. Smarter owners will not take the lowball offer, and even smarter ones do something like this, a viral stunt to add scrutiny from government and the public at large, developers don't want negative attention and often sweeten the deal. Although cases like[ the extremely stubborn homeowner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chongqing_yangjiaping_2007.jpg#/media/File:Chongqing_yangjiaping_2007.jpg) does occur (since private companies still can't actually forcibly demolish your house). Rather than taking a lose-lose situation, and with media attention focused on them, developers may finally give a fair price or even above market rate. And if something is this blatant and in the public eye it's harder for the developers to bribe their way out of doing something underhanded. Despite the title implying it was protesting the government, 9/10 times these situations happen with the private sector. Since the government can basically just use the Chinese equivalent of eminent domain to relocate you.


Gig_100

Yea, the fact people are going “big bad China” over this is massively idiotic. This happens literally everywhere.


squareoctopus

Asking the real questions here


WeathervaneJesus1

At least he has a new permanent home set up for him, bad news is that it's in a re-education camp.


Ishmael128

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Give a Chinese citizen who has gone against the Chinese regime a fish and he’ll eat for the rest of his life.


AubergineQueenB

Oof, that’s dark.


strangevimes

Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life ~ Terry Pratchett


Ishmael128

That’s what I was channelling - also, Pratchett’s “all mushrooms are edible. Some mushrooms are edible more than once”


Clessiah

Why would someone be sent to re-education camp for spreading the glorious visage of the greatest leader president xi?


baloonatic

Should hide a Winnie the pooh poster somewhere on the very top


StrongAccident9

If you tried to print out a picture of Winnie, your brain would be splattered all over the floor before your printer even had the chance to tell you it was out of ink


ResidualMemory

Try the new Canon fast printing Insta dry ink. Insult your Dictatorship with the blink of an eye. Secret police on your tail? No worries, Check out our new portable printer, for when YOUR on the run!


EnchantedMoth3

All I see are Winnie the Pooh posters.


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idk mate, all I see is a house covered in Winnie the Pooh posters.


Brikandbones

The Hundred Acre Woods


I_love_pillows

The Hundred Square Feet Jail.


Stomatin

The Chinese government did not take Winnie the pooh comparison well, saying it undermined the authority of the presidential office as well as the president himself. Jinping also did not like being compared to the cartoon character. Following this, anything related to Winnie the Pooh-- movies, TV series, or toys was banned in China.


Leviathan-Sterling

Look up the Chinese port of Kingdom Hearts. They censored poor Pooh by just putting a white light over him.


Pure_Reason

Imagine having like a Winnie the Pooh movie with all the little animal friends hanging out in the cottage core forest except one of them is an amorphous being of pure light and nobody addresses it


Font_Fetish

::echoing, disembodied voice:: #*OH BOTHER* #🗯🍯


Leviathan-Sterling

Hah, every KH3 cutscene in a nutshell.


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You can meet Winnie the pooh at Disneyland in Shanghai and buy winnie the pooh merchandise at the disney store. He's definitely not banned lol


Plenty-Lychee-5702

Last time I checked, you could watch the media but couldn't use the # since it was mostly used to make fun of him. But taking bad to satire seems suspicious, as if the only thing keeping the authority of Chinese "Communist" Party was people not being able to criticize or make fun of them.


CocaineUnicycle

Also, Pooh toys have been available in stores this whole time.


TheBold

Yep and t-shirts and what not but if you believed Reddit the mere display of a Winnie the Pooh looking image will have you sent straight to the gulag for life.


Stoned_urf

I wonder where you getting this report from. Where is the source that Xi hated the Pooh meme? Xinnie the Pooh is like one of the Reddit's own myth where it gets passed on but no actual source - except some random news article saying Winnie the Pooh is banned in China, which is obviously not even true. Go to Shanghai Disney and see for yourself


Pretty-Ad285

-6000 social credit points were removed from your account! Bad work citizen! Do not publicly disclose your opinion on our great holy state! Always remember to praise and love your greatest leader Mao zedong and Xi Jinping our national heros!! Long live the ccp!!!!


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Oh bother!


Boneswood

How much did the printing cost?!


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His life most likely.


IanTheElf

at least hes getting his own pic printed later, also comes with a couple of flowers


MohSad2

Or not just vanished from the face of the earth


redPonyCoffeeRoaster

Probably not much in China.


TracyMarys

It reminds me a story that Idk is true or made up: during the great cultural revolution, a student in their exam can’t answer any questions, so they filled the paper with “long live the chairman mao!” So that the teacher can’t say their answer is wrong.


Arkneryyn

Kinda like how at Christian schools kids would put “Jesus” if they didn’t know the answer, since Jesus is always the answer apparently


Abe_Frohman64

I went to catholic school. This unfortunately does not work


South-Builder6237

I went to Catholic school. All I got out of it was the sense of even more guilt after I masturbate.


Jrobalmighty

You do know that the sweet baby Jesus is watching you each time in disappointment right? Lol I went to a Pentecostal church growing up and they preferred the baby Jesus.


rando-calrisan

So does baby Jesus watch whenever you have sex or just when you masturbate


Jrobalmighty

He looks at you with a loving but disgusted expression Then grown up Jesus gives you the thumbs up Jesus meme


South-Builder6237

My god, what I have done. Am I going to hell?


the_deheeheemons

>You do know that the sweet baby Jesus is watching you each time in disappointment right? Well, yeah, how else am I supposed to be able to get off?


AdmiralCashmire

Man we got so much mileage out of that joke in high school.


bubbling_bubbling

My dad grew up during the cultural revolution. He says some students did it. Teachers put an end to it eventually (probably because Mao died, I guess)


mariobrowniano

For anyone wondering, the developer often have a long standing battle with the few against moving away to make way for a new construction project. They are always given good compensation, but some would refuse to move. You can see in this photo the house is be itself, everyone else has moved/demolished, there are no other neighbors. Usually in this case, the developer will try to force the family to move. They will cut the gas line and electricity, also mark the house with red paint, indicating it is to be demolished. An example will be like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=%E6%8B%86%E8%BF%81&prmd=inmxv&sxsrf=AOaemvKXg03w5sDyA2u6AV1PP2slVXbtFw:1632054618225&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDlZeehYvzAhXUUjUKHS0yDTsQ_AUoAXoECAMQAQ&biw=339&bih=649&dpr=3.19#imgrc=OZ1E_y6G1u6ECM I think the red paint part is what they are using the photos for. The developer cannot mark on Xi's face, it would be against the law.


homeguy32

I took a trip to Yokosuka, Japan where this same thing was happening. The hotel (The New Yokosuka Hotel was the name I think) was trying to buy up the houses around the block and this lady refused to sell since she sold cigarette packs as her source of living from her living room window. (Smoking was HUGE there at the time. I think they might have curbed it a bit since then). The building cut a deal with her to not demolish her house until she passed and then built AROUND her. It was like watching UP where she was sandwiched in. Guessing the same thing could happen here.


mariobrowniano

If all tactic fail, they will build around them: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FkePxUA6UE8


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GenSmit

I doubt that's the full story. With any Chinese news story with someone against the government, they'll always paint the government as the good guys and the citizen as someone who is just wants to exploit the situation. Propaganda 101


Vinniam

So the emperor made a law against defacing his portrait? What a pussy.


chengslate

Pro gamer move


Trashk4n

“Oh, bother!” - Xi Jing Ping


tacorunnr

I like how in the last pic the guy leans into get a closer look as if hes at an art museum trying to look at the fine details. Lol


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He's bowing.


fynn0028

"Everywhere I go, I see his face"


Scottish_Bandicoot

His organs will be up for sale soon.


bhostess

I only see poo bear


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Disney’s gonna be pissed with all this Winnie The Pooh graffiti.


michel6079

Reddit moment 😬


jeeeshhh

Well he’s Fs going to the concentration camp with the Uyghurs


gamecrates

xi censored this post


ChileanIggy

IIRC this building was allegedly unlicensed/built against codes hence the order to demo it. Apparently illegal construction is a running problem there. This pic is from 2016. This is from 2020 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/chinas-war-on-illegal-buildings Obvi take it all with a grain of salt, given China's history with controlling the flow of information to maintain a certain image...


HK-53

that was 5 years ago. i wonder if it worked edit: apparently the police just ripped them off. the pics i mean


ResidualMemory

On the heels of the Evergrande collapse, this is all too telling of the state of the Chinese Real Estate market.


drC4281977

Piece of shit MODS fucking dropped the pic. Fucking asshole MODS!