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[–] [email protected] 54 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Egg fried rice is seriously taboo cause some guy died 75 years ago? Lol

[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago

It’s fascinating how authoritarians demand respect, but throw fits over such petty symbols. “Our DIVINELY chosen, absolutely perfect leader’s own son was killed while DEFINITELY NOT cooking with eggs. How dare ANY true citizen take pride in making such a VULGAR dish?! Egg fried rice shakes the very foundations of our flawless, unshakable regime!”

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The dumbest thing about that to me is that if the story about Mao is taboo, then people are not supposed to be talking about it.

If it's also something as mundane as egg fried rice, then it becomes possible that this chef simply forgot the taboo story because nobody talks about it.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Also, by making something as inherently inocuous as egg fried rice taboo, they are only drawing attention to the rumor. And the fact that the CCP are so bothered by it would make any reasonable person conclude that there must be some truth to the rumor.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Well the CCP isn't exactly known for being smart. Or good at anything at all other than oppression.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy.ml allows that image to be hosted there? I’m surprised.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Of course they do, it's a picture of their glorious leader.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Am missing something about my chosen-on-a-whim instance?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s the instance run by the main Lemmy devs that happen to also be tankies. Read the modlog sometime, I’ve had some (imo) benign things removed from communities on there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What is a "tankie"? I've never heard of that before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Leftists that praise and defend authoritarian communism and oddly enough oftentimes anything right wing too if it happens to be aligned against the west like Russia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some guy died 75 years ago cooking egg fried rice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago