Mentions (12)
"The MC of Poppy War is literally just Mao, but Mao was a straight Chinese guy (that's Han supremacist patriarchy!!!). So Kuang rewrites Mao Zedong into a black-skinned indigenous Taiwanese woman addicted to opium... R.F. Kuang ends the trilogy by having her Mao Zedong stand-in commit suicide because"
"Fucked over by Mao during the Cultural Revolution purges and exiled to a factory job in the countryside (his son literally being paralyzed from Red Guards throwing out of a window). Purged again 10 years later, after he had finally been allowed to return to Beijing, because he was seen as too much o"
"Maybe Mao was right. Closing the border, erecting a great firewall, and removing the landlords sounds more reasonable every day."
"No great biopic about Mao? What the fuck are these people thinking???"
"I said something along the lines of how I couldn't believe being Mao's wife didn't save her from a death penalty. He looks me flat in the eyes for about two seconds and goes "Well they were counter revolutionary""
"'unironically landlords' thread by poster who made epic Mao jokes about killing landlords"
"The modern sign is reportedly referencing the buttons of Mao's jacket -_- :)"
"You can't say anything positive about communist countries without someone immediately retorting that 'Stalin and Mao killed 50 trillion people'"
"https://www.theage.com.au/world/mao-proposed-exporting-millions-of-women-to-us-20080214-ge6q47.html"
"all reactionaries are paper tigers. in appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. - mao zedong"
"seriously how do ppl read abt the great leap forward and think it was in any way shape or form successful like gj u caused the biggest famine in human history by swatting birds have some revolutionary fervor for dinner"
"all reactionaries are paper tigers. in appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. - mao zedong"