Zhou Enlai, born on this day in 1898, was a communist revolutionary, statesman, and military officer who served as the 1st Premier of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to 1976. “All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.”

Zhou was educated in a missionary college in Tianjin before studying at a Japanese university. In Tianjin, he met his future wife, Deng Yingchao while participating in a radical political group known as the “Awakening Society”. In 1920, Zhou moved to France, where he helped form the overseas branch of the Communist Party of China. He also lived in Britain and Germany before returning to China in 1924.

While working in the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy, Zhou was also made the secretary of the Communist Party of Guangdong-Guangxi, and served as the CPC representative with the rank of major-general.

After the Chinese Civil War broke out in 1927, Zhou served in the communist forces, helping establish and oversee a network of underground cells of communist resistance. Zhou played a leading role in the Long March of 1934-35, an arduous military retreat of communist forces over 8,000 miles.

Following the Zunyi Conference in 1935, Mao Zedong became Zhou’s assistant. After the conclusion of the Long March, Mao officially took over Zhou Enlai’s leading position in the CPC, while Zhou took a secondary position as vice-chairman. Both would hold their leadership positions until their deaths in 1976.

Zhou was a prominent participant in the 1955 Asian–African Conference, held in Indonesia. The conference produced a declaration in strongly in favor of peace, the abolition of nuclear arms, general arms reduction, and the principle of universal representation at the United Nations. Zhou was critical of American imperial aggression and stated “the population of Asia will never forget that the first atom bomb was exploded on Asian soil.”

Zhou passed away from bladder cancer on January 8th, 1976, just nine months before Mao Zedong’s death in September that year.

“Today the first unification of the Chinese people has emerged. The people themselves have become the masters of Chinese soil, and the rule of the reactionaries in China has been irrevocably overthrown.”

Zhou Enlai, from “Chinese People Will not Tolerate Aggression” (October 1950)

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  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    A band i was in used to do occasional jams where we would play free form sludge to an elderly crackhead who mooched off our drummer and swung by here and there, he would just ramble into a mic and we would pop on a shitload of delay and reverb. Some of his lines still stick in my mind 15 years later such as “take me down to the Paradise City where the sexy girls are pretty!”, "Bill Cleeton (he called Clinton Cleeton), he drives by the white house. He says ‘wow, that’s a really white house!’ And ‘America is the land that plays Freebird!’.

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    Ill post pics in a bit but ive figured out a solid method of making gunpla stands using leftover plastic lids, shaved runners, plastic spoons and hot glue. Tske a round and wide enough round lid, and flip ot inside out, mostly white is best for painting. Cut the spoon part off the handle of the spoon, cut and shave the bits off two runners, one longer and with an L curved part from a corner and one shorter stick the longer one up the gundam’s butt and make sure it fits snug. Remove it. Make a lil hole on the center of the lid and push the single runner through. Hot glue the second runner to it at the base, it should be a bit shorter than the first so the first can still go up the gundam’s butt. This is so the first runner doesnt bend. Put the spoon part cover side up under the lid and glue it to the runner using the curved bit. For heavier kits you can use cheap modeling clay for counterweight under the base, jusr smear it in there and let it dry

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    If we still had real high-quality American crazies like in the 60s or 70s someone would imagine seeing an encoded message in The Pendragon Cycle telling them to kill Mike Johnson and then they’d actually do it

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    For anyone that doesn’t work in an office, have you heard it’s March already? Can you believe it’s already March? Where is this year going? Everything’s happening so fast. It’s March already, can you believe it?

    There you go, you’ve had your fill of office banter for the day

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    All of my co-workers are on team Iran in this war. They were also pissed that our prime minister decided to declare our support of Israel and murica cause of that wasnt implied in the first fucking place. We’re already the 51st state where it counts! Even the white dudes, one of whom I had to explain who Khamenei was and like…the bare basics of Iranian history cause this dude is powerfully ignorant, but he knew anyway that America threatened to annex us recently and that the word Canada is probably spoken less than 100 times a year in the Iranian government, who’s the threat here? He’s a smart dude, just amazingly politically and historically ignorant but he does admit that isnt a good trait and is eager to learn.

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    They should have made one more season of Seinfeld where they were in prison. George could get recognized from his stint accidentally impersonating the head of the Aryan Union and mistake his newfound friends as The Bald Gang. Jerry would get shanked every episode. Everyone would think Kramer was the biggest badass in the place cause of how casually he would mooch off of people. Elaine just leaves cause it’s a male prison so it’s easy to convince people she isnt a prisoner. You could have a visitation where Uncle Leo insists that Jerry’s cousin Jeffrey at the parks department is pulling all the strings he can, he wishes he had cousin Jeffrey around when he committed his crime of passion, ill tell you that!

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        I was figuring several times. All the comedy bits at the start and end would be interrupted by him being stabbed and then all of his plots would result in or be a result of him being stabbed. Even just as the character he plays and not considering the scumbag the man himself is, character Jerry would just totally get stabbed every day in prison.

        Kramer: I just popped a man for a pudding!

        Jerry: You pudding popped him?!

        Kramer (with three teardrop tattoos): Jerry…Bill Cosby stayed here, and that word has a different meaning, you two share a career. They really dont like that kind of wordplay bullshit here.

        Jerry: Aggggghh (cause he got stabbed)

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    Did a bit at work that went pretty hard and ended out having a lot to work off, I was talking about my grandfather being a pioneer comedian and talking about the first time people heard old common jokes. Like he saw the first person to tell a knock knock joke and everyone just rushed to the door. How im places like Chicago and New York ‘Why did the chicken cross the road?’ went over well but on tour the people didnt have roads and were just upset you let the chickens loose. One nice woman offered my grandfather a chicken, and that eas my grandmother. Once knock knock jokes got big and people stopped going to the door it became the first form of crowd work. They were so happy my grandpa was glad he didnt say banana, it took until the joke was om radio for them to even hear the Orange pun