Xi Jinping is also a dictator.

I was gaming with friends on Discord when the topic of China passingly came up and one guy started going off about how China and Russia are both socially backward authoritarian dictatorships and how China is communist in name only, oppresses its minority groups and no true socialist should support them.

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Anyway, they're also pro-NATO

  • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    I think this whole thing is just westerners universalising their own local experience and projecting it onto China - they aren't eradicating poverty they're just cooking the books, they don't trust their government because all (my) government is untrustworthy, they can't be making immense strides in infrastructure because ours is crumbling so everything they build must also be tofu dreg construction etc.

    100% correct. most americans are so thoroughly poisoned by capitalist realism that they believe unconsciously that it is impossible for a government to improve its society. so when they encounter evidence that china has done just that, their brains short circuit and they are forced to conclude the evidence is made up. depressing

    Death to America