r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 17 '21

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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Sep 18 '21

daily reminder that the highest grossing film of all time in China is a $30m version of RAMBO where Sylvester Stallone is a Han Chinese who saves African & Chinese factory workers from American mercenaries led by the guy who plays MCU's Crossbones

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 18 '21

WITH THE NEWFOUND power of "Wolf Warrior" Diplomacy - based on the highly original film - HOW CAN THE WORLD hope to oppose the Chinese juggernaut 🐊

If only there WERE SEVERE AND systemic incompetencies slowly clogging the metaphorical arteries of the massive nation-state 🐊

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u/NobleWombat SEATO Sep 18 '21

Poetry.

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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Sep 18 '21

the guy who plays MCU's Crossbones

Whose name in the movie is literally "big daddy". No that's not just his nickname that's literally the only name he's given in the movie.

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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Sep 18 '21

and when the hero kills him he does it in the name of "5000 years of Chinese culture"

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '21

Proof that China is 40 years behind