• NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    "Chinese Communists destroy villages, turn rural farmers into factory slaves, and hide their trillions in their Swiss bank accounts!"

    In the Anglosphere, we call that "Tuesday." Why is every anticommunist's worst nightmare about communism just a description of the normal functions of capitalism?

      • QuietCupcake [any, they/them]
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        9 months ago

        No, the CPC does not do that. The capitalist western countries however store their wealth "offshore" where it can best be hoarded, hidden, and untaxed, and they do it all the fucking time in the most heinous ways.

        Don't ever forget the phrase: Every accusation is a confession.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        It's a projection as everything westerners ever say about China. They cannot even start to imagine a government that wouldn't worked like their own.

      • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        There was a lot of corruption in China before Xi's anti-corruption campaigns. Now it's much better, but as you an imagine it's difficult to create a totally corruption-free society.

        To me, what's really telling is that every Chinese person I've talked to, including party members, support the anti-corruption campaigns. Its only critics come from shrill Westoids.

      • NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml
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        9 months ago

        I have never even heard of this happening. Google is not saying much either. I'm pretty sure this is a wholesale lie or just the Dunning-Kruger Effect in action.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    It's proving that when someone uses "IQ" they are seconds away from breaking out the calipers. White supremacist fucks.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      White supremacists coping and seething about being the second smartest race by their own metrics.

  • huf [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    once again white people set up the rules of the game (manufacturing, trade, IQ, whatever) and when china does it better than them, they start whining that it's cheating.

  • TheDoctor [they/them]
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    9 months ago

    Just compare the map to a map of calories per person per day. IQ is extremely sensitive to malnutrition for some reason. Also, IQ is norm-referenced, so are all these IQ stats referenced against the same norm?

  • muddi [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    Europe and European colonies have been in wars constantly since the fall of the Roman empire. The first and second Hundred Years, the Napoleonic Wars, the first and second World Wars, the Cold War, the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars....

    Not to mention capitalism has brought itself to its knees pretty consistently every decade or so in recessions and depressions

    They really think they're unique from the rest of the world but can't admit that the USSR and China are the real exceptional ones in history

  • SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    Reddit really just gets the worst of all kinds of people, doesn't it? Honestly every time I see these kinds of comments all I can feel is some deep schadenfreude, however much I'd prefer things to be otherwise, that every evil the imperialist west and their stooges have plagued the world with, is clearly coming home to roost. Many decent, innocent people- and those I care about (and myself, if I don't leave or insulate myself in time) will suffer as well- but if nothing else, I can at least be spiteful about it in regards to the sorts of people showing their inhumanity in that thread. At least half of them deserve the wall; hell, the wall would be more merciful than they deserve (or than they're likely to receive here in the west- considering things are bad and only getting worse).

    I wonder, if 500~ years from now, if things continue as they are, whiteness (and "European-ness" in particular, outside of Russians/Belarusians/Serbs) will be stereotyped as "low-IQ," with a tendency towards savagery, racism and all kinds of bigotry, and general caveman imperialist behavior? Not that that would be better nor that I'd support that in any extent, but it certainly couldn't happen to a more fitting demographic considering the history of the west. Every racist accusation, every blood libel, every negative stereotype, is embodied throughout history and to this day by the white imperialists' own actions- as thieves, genocidaires, disrespectful squatters, backstabbers and perpetual liars, etc.