I can’t understand it. Look at what Covid is doing right now. It’s fucking awful. Why couldn’t they just stay with Zero-COVID till everyone got vaccinated? Why haven’t they vaccinated everyone by now? It’s so frustrating. Who the fuck cares if someone assholes protested with blank paper? Just…why?

      • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I mean I’m getting anarchist vibes from your comment but you said you got bamboozled by China before? I just don’t know what your solution to covid is.

        • shiteyes2 [any]
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          2 years ago

          There isn't one besides just taking a beating and hoping they come up with a better vaccine.

          Go watch Rising Sun from 1993 and then take a look at Japan's current economy. Getting caught up in the growth hoopla of industrializing Asian nations assuming they will grow forever at the same high rate as when they were picking up the low hanging fruit then watching them slowly plateau out into blah economies has been a thing for a while.

          Marx's theory of the falling rate of profit applies to good communists as well unfortunately.

            • shiteyes2 [any]
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              2 years ago

              Yeah sitting there in stasis forever is definitely a strategy. If the CCP's prolonged existence wins us concessions I'll be far from mad. I'm just not seeing any kind of utopia worth lauding unless they somehow convince the rest of the planet to do the same. Which it will, eventually but I probably won't be around to see it.

              In the end I think praising or envying China is just taking the exit too early when humanity has much further to go yet. State of ascendancy for decades and all that yes until just around right about now. Give it a few years and tell me how they look then, probably not much better or worse than anyone else. From here on out it's just empty arguing on who thinks what will happen so I really am stopping here.

                • ClassUpperMiddle [they/them]
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                  2 years ago

                  The move to relax covid restrictions is shrouded in western propaganda. Say if it is a disaster, people are getting horribly sick at alarming rates.... China has the ability to just resume restrictions. The framing weve been getting is "china will now all die because they turned on the covid switch and it can never be turned off"

                • shiteyes2 [any]
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                  2 years ago

                  Yeah I get it, you think parabola of progress keeps going up and this is just a short waffle, and I think parabola of progress flattening out and this is the inflection point. Lots of progress yes! Nothing lasts forever. Who's right? Future will tell! Bye bye.