Are You Xiao Ming*?

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Are You Xiao Ming*?

I don’t know if everyone has noticed or not, but recently there have more and more Fifty Cent Party [wu mao dang] members on major forums and the comments of news sites. Of course, I don’t support calling anyone who disagrees with you “Fifty Cent Party“, but the Fifty Cent Party is very easy to recognize because people who’ve sold their souls, especially people who’ve sold their souls for cheap, have no [emotional] foundation for their words so even the climax [of what they are saying] lacks drama. When I first discovered this phenomenon, I was perplexed and thought it was just the relevant departments increasing the [number of Fifty Cent Party members], but I read a piece of news that said the economic crisis has spread to the Fifty Cent Party. Section 17 of the fifth chapter of the “Hengyang Internet Comment Management Methods” states that internet commenters will be paid 10 cents for each post. From this we can infer that across the country the Fifty Cent Party is being paid less; this could explain why it seems like suddenly there are five times as many Fifty Cent Party members: actually the people are still the same, but now they’re working overtime! Before, one often found that when there was a Fifty Cent Party member everyone could surround and watch them, but now with all the deletions and scrubbings [i.e., increased internet censorship], at some places one can now see Fifty Cent Party members outnumbering and surrounding [regular people].

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According to classified files about the makeup of the Fifty Cent Party, 50 writing experts, 100 talented writers, and 500 other writers constitute a “fifty cent agency”. This outpouring of Fifty Cent Party members, according to my judgment, is mostly focused on those “other writers”, but from time to time a talented writer will come out to test the waters, and as for the expert writers, they probably have duties within the system as up to now very few of them have appeared. Of course, the main reason is that with Spring Festival coming they’re busy with social visits and receiving gifts.

The recent flood of Fifty Cent Party members is one reason I opened this Sina microblog, first because the reactions of the Fifty Cent Party are relatively slow and I think that to many “talented writers” registering and logging into QQ is already the most they can do. Besides, on microblogs, you cannot speak anonymously and they are afraid to register. Moreover, if they perform well on microblogs, the authorities may notice and ask them to use their cell phones to guide public opinion moment by moment. To them, this is a disaster: at first it was 10 cents for one post, and that was good, but sending a text message to influence [public opinion] costs ten cents, plus there’s the cost of electricity for charging their phones, anyway they’re losing a little bit of money. Don’t ridicule them, they sell themselves for one mao, for a thousand kuai they would sell a kidney; to them, a little money is still money. They are truly living at the lowest level of society, but they are the species with ideology that most directly aligns with that of the ruling class

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I have a different reading of the Fifty Cent Party. First, I feel we should permit the Fifty Cent Party to exist; everyone has the right to hire someone else to speak for them and those hired have the right to speak anywhere they please. If you can beat Xiao Ming* once, and then with the money stolen off of him hire someone to curse him once, that counts as a talent. Every government has a mechanism for propagating their perspective, [so] that is excusable. But the Fifty Cent Party is the government’s mistake, before I thought they existed to guide public opinion, but it seems I was wrong, because you wouldn’t, upon seeing a crowd of people eating shit, squeeze your way in to have a bite yourself. The Fifty Cent Party is a result of the higher levels toadying to the highest level, but in the wake of the Fifty Cent Party’s rampage, many glorious and correct personages need only to open their mouths, which clearly costs nothing, and they become [referred to as] Fifty Cent Party members, which greatly hurts their enthusiasm. Originally, if you went into a hotel and booked a room for a one night stand, when you came out the next morning the whole world would call you a chicken [i.e. dick], this goes without saying. If you suddenly found the Fifty Cent Party, [... suddenly] all of your former supporters are suspicious of the Fifty Cent Party. Why do I rarely praise the government? First, I fear being called a Fifty Cent Party member; second, if you criticize the lack of freedom then praise is meaningless; third, I have already paid my taxes, and the people’s taxes pay the fees of the Fifty Cent Party, which is equivalent to me indirectly supporting the government.

Finally, in the future, I will choose some [comments on this post] and differentiate which were written by “other writers”, which were written by “talented writers”, which were written by patriotic youths, which were written by ignorant young girls, which were unhappily written, which were brainlessly written. But if I wrong you, you volunteered. Who made your master think that an opinion the same as yours was worth ten cents?

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你是小明吗

最近不知道大家注意到没有，网络上各大论坛和新闻评论里，五毛党越来越多了。当然，我不赞同把凡是和你持不同意见的人叫五毛党，但是五毛党还是很好认的，因为出卖灵魂的人，尤其是廉价出卖灵魂的人，他们的言语是没有根基的，他们的高潮是没有前戏的。起初发现这个现象，我很疑惑，以为是相关部门加大了投入，但是，看到了一条新闻，原来是经济危机波及到了五毛党。中国衡阳党建网网评员管理办法第五章第十七条最新指出，网评员的标准为0.1元一条。可以想见，全国五毛党可能普遍下调了待遇，这也可以解释为什么感觉突然间多了五倍的五毛党，其实人还是那些，但是他们都在超负荷工作。以前往往发现一个五毛党，大家就可以围观圈养起来，但是现在随着上删下刷，在个别地方甚至出现了被五毛党围观的景象。

按照机密文件《五毛构成》里所言，50个写作高手，100个写作好手，500个外围写手构成一个五毛旅。这次涌现的五毛党们，经过我的判断，还是以“外围写手”为主，但是时不时会出现几个“写作好手”出来试水，至于“写作高手”，应该是在系统内有相应职务的，他们至今出手的还不多。当然，主要原因是过年忙着应酬收礼。



近期五毛党的泛滥也是我开通新浪微博的一个原因，一来是因为五毛党对于新兴事物的反应比较迟缓，相信注册和登录QQ对于很多"写作好手"来说已经是极限操作了，另外一方面，微薄没有匿名发言，他们普遍害怕注册。最重要的是，万一他们在微博阵地中表现突出，上头指示要巩固阵地，必须手机绑定时刻引导舆论，这对于他们来说是灭顶之灾，本来就只有一毛一条了，这下好，发个短信引导一下正好一毛钱，算上手机充电的电费，里外里还要亏损几厘钱。大家不要嘲笑他们，他们一毛钱就能卖身，一千块就能卖肾了，对于他们，几厘钱也是钱。他们才是真正的活在最底层，但是和统治阶级有着最高度统一思想的物种。

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对于五毛党，我有着不同的见解。首先，我认为我们要允许五毛党的存在，每个人都有权利雇佣别人为自己说话，每个被雇佣者都有权利在任何地方说话。你如果能够把小明打一顿，然后用从小明身上搜刮来的钱雇个人再把小明骂一顿，这也算是你的本事。任何一个政府，都有为他宣传的机构,这是情有可原的。但是五毛党完全是政府的败笔，我以前以为五毛党的出现是为了引导舆论，现在想来我错了，因为你不会因为看见一堆人围着在吃屎而挤进去吃一口。五毛党本是中高层麻痹讨好最高层的产物，但随着五毛党的横行，很多光辉正确的人士只要一开口，明明是免费的，结果全都变成了五毛党，这严重打击了他们的积极性。本来进酒店开个房间一夜情，完事了出门全世界都说你是鸡，这种打击不言而喻。你一旦设立了五毛党，除了国内外舆论影响不好以外，所有你原本的拥护者都有了五毛党的嫌疑。我为什么很少赞美政府，一来是因为我怕别人说我是五毛党，二来若批评无自由，则赞美无意义，三来我已经纳了税，人民纳的税被用于五毛党活动经费，也等于是我间接赞美了政府。

最后我将去挑选一些言论，分辨一下哪个是外围写手写的，哪个是写作好手写的，哪个是爱国青年写的，哪个是无知少女写的，哪个是不高兴写的，哪个是没头脑写的。但是如果我冤枉了你，你是义务的，那么真的没有办法。谁让你的主子认为，和你一样的见解能值一毛钱呢。