I swear unanimous appreciation of china was a pretty common sentiment and now I'm consistently seeing upbeared comments about how china isn't and never was a socialist state, and how actually their use of markets is as bad if not worse than america. What's going on? IDK what to think or what side I'm on here but it just seems like opinions fundamentally changed so quickly, it's weird.
Oh yeah, 100%. I try to analyze things through a nuanced lens. In this case I just noticed popular opinion, or at least popular expressed opinion, seemed to have shifted recently. Personally I'm of the opinion that we should support real world applications of socialism, and regardless of whether or not china is truly socialist, support their stand against western imperialism, while also noticing and criticizing their faults. Additionally I will never not defend china to libs who come at me with blatant sinophobia, but that kind of non-nuanced discussion doesn't often happen on this site, only everywhere else.