WaPo obituary for Mao Zedong. Mao combined his passion for adult re-education with his love for camping and gifted the experience to millions in China.

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[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Mao Zedong, mass murderer of his own people. Starved tens of millions to death, while destroying the domestic economy and terrorizing and killing anyone who cared about the old Chinese culture and wouldn't change to the new culture.

Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin, Hitler. Terrible people, no one should be celebrating them.

Didn't Amazon and Jeff Bezos buy the Washington Post a couple years ago?

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that one of the largest retailers in the world is praising a former leader of a market of 1.4 billion potential consumers. Totally not pandering to the Chinese government that Mao basically built, to gain access to a market that would be highly profitable. Nah, it's just some random article about Mao! /s

Not sure what this has to do with Trump or the sub though.

[–]Snow 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I Googled the topic "Mao Zedong, austere revolutionary culturalist and adult re-education advocate, dies at 83" and there is only 2 results.

Not on their website.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Good search. You are right. I think it is a joke headline, based on this real washington post headline that generated a lot of controversy: https://www.newser.com/story/282307/wapo-catches-flak-for-baghdadi-headline.html

[–]Snow 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

You forgot to give me "insightful"...

[–]useless_aether 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

my sides! :-))

[–]Squizzel 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

i read once that Mao never bathed nor brushed his teeth (that were said to be green but retouched on the posters). despite the halitosis, women would line up to be shagged by him.

[–]useless_aether 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

yet, he was a pedo

[–]Snow 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Is it real?

Where is the source link?

[–]Nemacolin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah. I remember where I was when I heard the news. I was a freshman at university. It is nice we are printing news from the seventies.

In any case The Great Helmsman was a darling of the Republicans at the time.