• aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    It's more about trajectories. In China, statistics such as life expectancy keep going up, and have actually overtaken the US, whereas these quality of life indicators in the US are stagnating or even going down. Is China an ideal society at this point? Of course not, but one can still recognise what has been accomplished by their plans, weather you want to call it state capitalist, socialist or whatever other label, the results are there when compared to the quality of life 40 or 50 years ago.

    That's why it's pretty funny for Biden to try deflect to China.

    Don't know what any of this has to do with sexual violence though.

    • masquenox@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Political elites allowing a certain segment of the society they lord over to not be mired in poverty to better secure their own power and privilege is no sign of "progress" - as the US proves, such economic manipulation can be very temporary.

        • masquenox@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Yeah... it's still capitalism with Chinese characteristics - no matter how much you masturbate to pictures of Xi Jinping.

          • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            It's only a matter of time before liberals bring out the weird homophobic insults.

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Why do they do that? It's so weirdly consistent. "Fact supported by evidence" "oh yeah, well... uh... uhn... you're gay!" Like okay, so? I can't speak for othe instances in the Fediverse but Hexbear is one of the queerest places on the internet, and the lib is still wrong.

              • ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml
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                1 year ago

                I have to imagine they've somehow convinced themselves that if they call us all gay enough, that we'll burst into rainbow coloured flames like vampires exposed to sunlight.

                • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  That would be pretty cool usually you need to burn a huge chunk of radioactive graphite for that.

              • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Well the short answer is Patriarchy. Accusing people of behaving in a way contrary to traditional ideas of masculinity is a classic technique for shaming people with heterodox views.

                • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  Yeah, yeah, good point. It's honestly shocking, I spend so much time in Hexbear I forget how common and casual misogyny and queerphobia are out in the ret of the world.

              • masquenox@lemmy.ml
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                1 year ago

                “Fact supported by evidence”

                Oh, a tankie with facts, eh? Come on... do that little psychotic tankie thing where you paste a wall of text to try and pretend that China isn't capitalist.

                I know you want to.

                • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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                  1 year ago

                  Admitting that your worldview requires you to actively never read anything is a hell of a flex

                  • masquenox@lemmy.ml
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                    1 year ago

                    Admitting that your worldview is based on nothing but the fevered gibberish written by bourgeoisie-wannabes is no flex at all.