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22 Apr 2020, 4:22 am

my dad back in the 60s drove some kind of austin that he said had mg stuff in it, it had a more powerful engine that was out of the MG, and it had a hydrolastic suspension, it rode like a cadillac but handled like a mini.



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23 Apr 2020, 3:07 am

Ihavestandardsjust wrote:
I'm fully aware and the a CCP are not real communists.


What's a real communist?


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23 Apr 2020, 9:31 am

Ihavestandardsjust wrote:
I'm fully aware and the a CCP are not real communists.
What makes you think the members of the Chinese Communist Party are not real Communists?

Are they also not really Chinese?


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23 Apr 2020, 1:50 pm

Fnord wrote:
"Morris Garages" (a.k.a., M.G.) is now owned by the SAIC Motor Corporation of Japan.


China.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC_Motor

Neither SAIC nor MG is owned by any Japanese entity.


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23 Apr 2020, 1:51 pm

Fnord wrote:
Ihavestandardsjust wrote:
I'm fully aware and the a CCP are not real communists.
What makes you think the members of the Chinese Communist Party are not real Communists?

Are they also not really Chinese?


Well, their own definition of communism, for starters. Image


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