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Some real estate dickhead just rang my mobile (which is not advertised anywhere) saying they were "just in the area" and wanted to do an appraisal on a house we own in .

It's an agency we don't use for any purpose, have never used for any purpose, and have never approached for any reason.

Is there some sort of legal issue with some smarmy sales knob looking up property owner details and cold calling them?

Makes me feel all gross that their grubby mitts are pawing through my deets somewhere in the hope of being able to stick a tongue up my bum and get a taste of some back door cash.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Mao directly called for the Cultural Revolution and was instrumental in it, alongside his pathetic little red book.

And no, the Guangxi Massacre's and the cannibalism happened years after and not in places of famine.

France and the US are authoritarian, but not to the same degree as China. You can freely and publicly criticise the government in those countries, good luck doing that in China.

Local democracy in China is a joke, orders are top down from party officials and carried out by prefecture leaders. It's almost as much as a sham as Western representative democracy.