https://twitter.com/commieactivity/status/1413970138953564161?s=21
people are so unhinged, i think this is the denial phase of living in a decaying empire that everyone kind of hates but doesnt really want to admit it cause they're too dumb and indoctrinated to imagine things any other way where they aren't on top subjugating the whole world to their shitty fucking whims
His name is whitepoc. Not surprising his response would be that unhinged
i think this is the denial phase of living in a decaying empire
Oh, it definitely is.
Can't let people think China is the new First World or we might question our ability to bomb it back into the stone age.
I think the term "core" is more apt. The numbered worlds thing is more about relationships to colonialism and the international conflict of the 20th century.
First world is the capitalist imperialists, second world is the first wave of revolution coming out of the first and the third world is the rest/vast majority of the world that carried out revolution and liberation struggles during the cold war.
But I understand what you mean lol
I think the term “core” is more apt.
Ok, fine. Perhaps "Middle Country"? Or, 中国 , as it were?
Lmao yes
I was just bringing this up because I think the equating of development/wealth with the "worlds" and not analyzing their history as a division between socio-economic systems is kinda buying into Modernization theory. The third world will become more prosperous and harmonious than the first world ever was.
As historian Christopher J. Lee has written, it was the Konferensi Asia-Afrika, held in Bandung in April, that really solidified the idea of the Third World. A remarkable gathering brought the peoples of the colonized world into a movement, one that was opposed to European imperialism and independent from the power of the US and the Soviet Union.
Some of these countries had managed to break free of imperial rule in the nineteenth century; some earned their independence when fascist forces retreated at the end of World War II; some attempted to do so in 1945, only to be re-invaded by First World armies; and for many others, the war had changed little, and they were still unfree. All of them inherited economies that were far, far poorer than those in the First World. Centuries of slavery and brutal exploitation had left them to fend for themselves, and decide how they would try to forge a path to independence and prosperity.
The simple version of the next part of this story is that newly independent countries in the Third World had to fight off imperial counterattacks, and then choose if they would follow the capitalist model favored by the United States and Western Europe or attempt to build socialism and follow in the footsteps of the Soviet Union, hopefully moving from poverty to a position of global importance just as quickly as the Russians had. But it was more complicated than that. In 1945, it was still possible to believe they could be friendly with both Washington and Moscow.
- Vincent Bevins, Jakarta Method
Part of me hopes he's trolling but after looking at his account I'm not so sure. Poe's law and all that.
A reply to the tweet...
Video of train underwater: this is china
Picture of fine train in china: this is fake
you know this happens to me occasionally in real life
I mention China's high speed train system and then it's just a firehose of Winnie the Pooh, concentration camps, spying, dictator, etc from people who are otherwise not even engaged politically
The whole Winnie the Pooh thing is so weird, from what I heard the Chinese don't give a shit about it, let alone Xi himself. My Chinese language partner had never heard of the whole thing, she thinks Xi is great and when I asked her about it she was like "Hahaha wow he does look a bit like him, so cute!"
It's just westeners circlejerking over how edgy and revolutionary they're being while making themselves look like bumbling morons.
when they do that you got to channel your inner boomer "well you can't believe everything you read" :grillman:
they will break sometimes if you just don't auto agree with them
People never seem to apply this standard to other countries. An NHS post sparks 2 million comments, not one of them talking about British warcrimes in Iraq or crackdown on free speech. And why would they? Its not related.
I comment upon antisemitism of the Labour left or the silencing of speech of anyone who dares question the trans mafia whenever Britain is mentioned
Bring up Churchill’s Indian genocide whenever the UK is mentioned, then accuse them of being genocide deniers when you get the inevitable backlash.
How many people with takes like this are the same ones who said that “at least hitler made the trains run on time”
No, you're thinking of the biofuels program during the end of the war when they were low on coal but had an excess of dried herbs. He made the trains run on thyme.
Ugh that is the most cursed comparison, please do not make that a thing
Sure SH has a great metro system, but you'd expect that from a huge, well developed, international business city. Cool thing about China is even provincial capitals have metro systems that are better than many national capital cities in europe.
I live in the northern part of the Netherlands and a car is nigh-on mandatory or else your travel times quite literally triple lmaoooo European public transit is great btw.
The things happening in China: 1.4 billion people living mostly happily with 95% of them being enthusiastically happy with their government.
tHeY aRe oNlY hApPy bEcAuSe tHeIr aUtHoRiTaRiAn gOvErNmEnT dOeS STUFF fOr THeM! tHeY cAn'T eVeN :vote: fOr tHe lEsSeR eViL! :rage-cry:
Something tells me 🔻 Sarah ( General Secretary may not be anti china like aWhitePoc is
Does a photo of a beautiful beach in Florida also downplay the police brutality issue in the United States?
