The post has 200 upvotes and the top comment is calling us please dont remove this one
PugJesus is low-hanging fruit. They are Ultra-coded, but wrap back around to supporting NATO and western Imperialism, and denouncing every Marxist group, even the Black Panthers directly.
They wax poetic at every failed Leftist movement, and purely side with the losing side whenever there was Leftist infighting. It wouldn't be surprising if they were a fed, seemingly nobody on the fediverse hates leftists more than them.
Edit: fuck it, finally blocked him. That asshole defended transphobia and started calling everyone else a fascist, mask-off. Can't deal with that shit.
Invading other countries. Like....what? What country has China invaded in the last 40 years?
·1 month agoNone of course. The last invasion, as we all know, was Vietnam in 79 (45 years ago). Besides minor border skirmishes since then they haven't done anything. Also someone remind me which governments China has toppled?
It's just low-effort bait from idiots. Well, one persistent idiot in particular, that worthless shitlib who seems to be the loudest anticommunist on the site.
The only thing worthwhile about this is that comment the OP makes about the People's Billionaires and so on, because they're a neoliberal but are happy to coopt the perspective of a leftist for the purpose of criticizing China. It shows you that they don't really believe in neoliberalism or any kind of leftism, they believe West Good and Others Bad, but dress it up with different ideological disguises to make it more palatable.
Yep, PJ will also wax poetic at Anarchist movements and whatnot, but only the ones that lasted very briefly. They also support every color revolution.
It's like they were grown in a CIA vat.
For once, I want to see one of these libs define imperialism. I know it's not going to be in any way coherent, but I still want to see them at least try.
Imperialism is when countries do bad things to other countries. Depending on the lib, they will either excuse US imperialism of the global south by saying that wealth extraction is actually just free (🦅🦅🦅) trade or will acknowledge that the US is imperialist but is still better than those other imperialist countries because at least gay people have (some) rights (for now).
This is how I engage with libs. Authoritarian, Totalitarian, Imperialism, Democracy, Dictatorship, and so many other terms should be strictly defined and by forcing them to define those terms will expose them as the shallow thinkers they are, and give you a glimpse into how disjointed their perspective is.
Yeah, that's what happens every time. They're so emotionally engaged with this shit but otherwise totally mentally checked out. They would rather just rage at people trying to help them understand the world than do any sort of careful thought and discussion.
Uh, yes, it is an argument, whether or not you want to close your eyes to reality. Billionaires do not occur without individuals using concentrations of capital or power to extract large amounts of value from laborers. The wealth inequality in China is very present, due to the fact that it is capitalism.
You would do well to join the people capable of observing objective reality instead of scouring the web for essays that cite philosophers instead of data. That would require confronting your cognitive biases, though.
Did Losurdo write it? It looks like it credits Roderic Day, or is there another article somewhere?
Too ideological to stand Reddit, no theory to leave Liberalism and stop stanning the status quo.
I can't stand reddit on an ideological level and I refuse to think about why!
You need to consider why the reddit exodus happened: they were mortally pissed over slight inconvenience in getting their treats - so they are the most distilled privilege.
Considering China's poverty is zero (at least according to the CIAs website) I would say they are already doing a pretty good job at empowering the proletariat
There is a meaningful difference between Biden and Trump, you need to do le heckin harm reduction. There is zero difference between the country that invaded Iraq and the country that had a border skirmish with Vietnam and India 40+ years ago, you imbecile, you fucking moron.
Great post: https://redsails.org/china-has-billionaires/
And then the Western Left bursts onto the scene with a litany of harsh recriminations, determined to build up China into a villain worthy of war: “China has billionaires.” “China still has inequality.” “China still has wage labour.” “There’s no free speech there.” “Suicide nets.” “Free Tibet.” “Xinjiang is East Turkestan.” “Liberate Hong Kong.” “Neither Washington Nor Beijing.” Their indulgence in atrocity propaganda is unparalleled, and they’ll often outdo original sources and even the most vicious reactionaries in their preening paraphrases of Chinese horror.
In their “David vs. Goliath” worldview, heroism is characterized by evanescense or futility (Rosa Luxemburg, Anarchist Catalonia, Leon Trotsky, Rojava, CHAZ in Seattle, Bernie Sanders, the Communist Party of the Philippines), whereas victory and longevity are in themselves proof that principles were betrayed and sadism is the rule (Joseph Stalin, Kim Il-sung, Deng Xiaoping, Nicolás Maduro, Xi Jinping). Though socialist groups in the West tend to be secular, Christianity remains culturally hegemonic to such a degree that figures are appreciated in proportion to how well they fit a narrative template of martyrdom.
They’re the people who left reddit when their apps for redditing more efficiently stopped working. They’re reddit fundamentalists who’ve been echoing back to each other for the past year like The Disintegration Loops
I made it this far and then quit:
Hell, even central planning would be more socialist
China should try centrally planning their economy, since they're definitely not doing it right nowlmao. Tries to call us out but their entire is too afraid of us to even federate. Little baby liberals preemptively scared of learning something that contradicts their extensive research of Googling lines from the US State Department for 15 minutes.
Sadly in my experience libs are too scared to disagree with the state department because they hate to think our country's the bad guy, let alone the worst guy. It's not even going to be a hundred years from now that when you read about different countries and why they had horrifying events take place, the answer is 'because America'.
How did Chile lose their elected leader? because America
How did Chile get such a violent dictator, Pinochet? because America
How did North Korea lose 20% of their population in such a short amount of time and all their infrastructure was destroyed? because America
How did North Korea not recover from that destruction for so long and without so much hardship? because America
How did Libya lose their leader and get stuck in a horrific civil war? because America
etc etc.
You'll note by the way the very bizarre nature of how geographically far apart these nations are; to the sensible man it seems insane that countries so far apart can be so horrifically altered by the very same force as though you're reading about the ravaging of Middle Earth by Sauron and his orc and goblin armies.
Their "Umm acktually, I hate America too, tankie" nonsense is interesting, they will usually say it as a "gotcha" but will exclusively target enemies of the US using info directly from the US state department. They honestly seem to think in their head that they hate China and the US "equally" when you'd never see them using Chinese government information to talk about problems in the US. They honestly think they are "unbiased" while being about as blatantly biased as you can get.
feel like my brain gets a little scrambled everytime i try to think about the logic to equivocating between the people bombing millions of people and the people not bombing anyone. i try to understand, i really do, but this shit didn't even fly when i was a liberal: China bad? sure, but where the fuck was the imperialism?
I think you're kind of caricaturing genocide and imperialism don't you think? Genocide and imperialism aren't about the mass slaughter and theft of resources or occupation, it's more a state of mind than anything else. In the grand zeitgeist of our era, China administering unilateral governance over their extraneous territories without discussing it with the international community is an imperialism of sorts; Our brief visit to Iraq and Afghanistan however was just military tourism but can be thought of as a form of imperialism as well. They're both not good but surely you can see how China's efforts are worse, no? There were certainly mistakes made in Iraq but you need to remember Africa will now forever be a province of China thanks to their debt trap policies, and please don't compare that with the IMF because we both know what kind 'ism' that is. You think Palestinians or Native Americans would ever trade what happened to them to instead be ruled over by the Chinese Empire under a forever debt? Yeah I didn't think so either.
Edit: I hate that liberal thought has gotten so unhinged my post is being taken seriously. My guys, my post is patently absurd; I'm not being serious.
Absurd, 0 facts, 0 citations, just vibes
Should checked the profile, lol
Tbh if I see something is from a poster here I loosen the screws on my bullshit detector and assume they're trying to say something in good faith. This is too much though, of course its a bit or this comment wouldn't even stand lol.
I definitely tried to put some extremely overt nonsense in the post ("Genocide and imperialism aren't about the mass slaughter and theft of resources or occupation, it's more a state of mind than anything else" and "You think Palestinians or Native Americans would ever trade what happened to them to instead be ruled over by the Chinese Empire under a forever debt?") but sadly even I had to wonder if perhaps some libs would encounter my post and start nodding in agreement without actually comprehending what I was saying.
(I quoted those two lines in my post, but honestly everything in there was patently absurd but we're at a point where libs say stuff like this unironically)
sure, but where the fuck was the imperialism?
Muh south chyna sea, muh occupied tibet, muh occupied east turkestan, muh debt trap diplomacy!!11!
is still around?
