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[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

You forgot to post a meme

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago

Is this trying to say people who support the most successful AES state and largest democracy in the world are not real marxists, but people who just believe western propoganda with rascist characteristics are the true marxists?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (14 children)

They do actually allow protests. Western media was having a fucking field day earlier this year talking about how China had bowed to pressure from protests regarding their covid policy.

Jesus titty fucking H Christ...

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (49 children)

Hell yeah we love dictatorships of the proletariat

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

So, instead of rehashing the same old talking points for the upteenth time, would anyone be interested in discussing China's political project in a broader and more mature way? Like for example:

  • Who do you think should've come to power following the fall of the Qing, through to the civil war (if not the CPC)?

  • Do you agree with the direction of Deng's economic reforms and opening up to foreign investment? If not, should he have stayed closer to Mao's policies, or should he have gone further towards liberalization, or something else?

  • What aspects or projects of the CPC have been good or successful?

  • What aspects or projects of the CPC have been flawed or unsuccessful?

  • What lessons can be learned from the successes and failures of the CPC?

Ngl I don't have high hopes for this comment but I'm tryin' over here.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

i am once again relieved that cracker libs are too lazy and ignorant to investigate anything beyond the ccp bad that msm tells them, and that chinese libs hate themselves too much to think themselves worthy of educating their cracker lib betters about cpc atrocity conspiracy theories.

though tbf at least shit like tiananmen is falsifiable, i think i'd have an aneurysm if white people on the internet started telling me that mao never left his palanquin and ate the PLA's entire stock of chicken over the course of the long march. like big spoon stalin but in earnest mao-wtf

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I have a friend from China who's a lib and he's probably one of the most racist people I know (specifically against Chinese people). Just the other day he said Chinese people have never invented anything and that good inventions can only come from the US or Europe. He also wants to look, sound, and dress like an Ivy-league country club dude. Dude regularly reminds me of a Chinese Uncle Ruckus. Is that kind of self-hating common or is it mostly because he's from a rich family?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah it's like, typing this out really drew my attention to how much conversations about China are dominated by random noise that's largely insignificant or bullshit. It's always this 24 hour news coverage level of analysis, with no actual study of history or major trends and themes. Hell I realized myself the other day that there were two leaders between Deng and Xi who I couldn't name and know basically nothing about.

I think that most people fall into certain ideological traps that allow them to simplify narratives to the point of never really feeling the need to study anything, in part because the world is just so big that it's hard to actually be informed about things. You never have to decide how you feel about specific events in China's history if you just scream "CHINA BAD" every time it comes up, and that's a whole lot of history you never have to bother learning now.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

Hell I realized myself the other day that there were two leaders between Deng and Xi who I couldn't name and know basically nothing about.

Oh well that's easy, before Xi Jinping there was Hu Jintao, who was a kind of moderate technocratic kind of guy. Always about plans and numbers. And before Jintao there was a magic toad wizard who wore George Romero glasses and would yell at journalists when they asked him stupid shit FrogPog

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I wonder what happened to MLK and all the people who started the BLM protests in America which guarantees freedom of protest and speech. It really sucks that they all were either murdered or committed suicide and the police were never able to do anything about it.

Oh well, gotta let go and let god. Btw, did you hear that the evil Chinese Government sent someone who threw a firebomb to jail? Nasty stuff, glad I live somewhere civilized.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

I lost a parent to antvaxx stuff. A drop of her blood is on the hands on of every free speech absolutist who pushes that garbage and creates space for the worst people possible.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

Liberals be like: Yeah I love democracy.

The thing I love most about democracy is that I get zero choice or control over who represents me in government at all and I let them make decisions for me that hurt me. In fact I celebrate it when they make decisions that hurt me

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Obviously the Chinese protesting continued Covid lockdowns last year were all sent to organ harvesting camps because those asians are different and probably evil not like us good heckin anglorinos that know how to do socialism properly where we vote for the same right wing party to keep the even farther right wing party from power for another four years.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Actually the Chinese government ending the lockdown after all of these large demonstrations were purely coincidence. See in my democracy I protest and my government does literally nothing to address why I protested. That's how you know democracy is working, when the government hears my concerns and completely ignores them. Unlike that authoritarian sissypee where the people protested and the government listened to them and changed course based on their demands. Listening to your people and making policy based on their concerns is authoritarian. Ignoring your people and making policy based on corporate donors is democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (7 children)

The Maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Go back to hexbear instead of forcing politics onto general communities on the non-political instance lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

michael-laugh don't they ever talk about anything else?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Lemmy.ml get mad at people who don't like the Democracy Party. We must all support Prime Minister Biden Robinette or else the Party of the Republic will win the next Voting.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Also it's CPC

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

The point is bullshit. But that's not my problem with you. ...

This is not a meme. If I knew how to report ... or read the comm rules I would probably report you.

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