• RNAi [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      :angery: :jokah-messy: :jokah:

    • xXSWCC_DaddyYOLOXx [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      It's fine, they're just buying black market US military technology from Israel, like the J-10 fighter jet

    • Ryan_Holman [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I think I laughed far more than I should have at the picture Henry Kissinger and Xi Jinping. They look like they could be brothers.

    • machinegobrrrr [none/use name]
      2·
      4 years ago

      What about this photo

      https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSleqL6iNmD1fmlKTjl6zNkxVblXJrWk2ug_A&usqp=CAU

          • RedArmor [he/him]
            ·
            4 years ago

            Oh fuck. I accidentally hit the austerity button for my own population! Oh well.

                  • PowerUser [they/them]
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                    4 years ago

                    Series creator Charlie Brooker, who wrote the episode, quickly denied any prior knowledge of the allegations, calling the situation "a complete coincidence, albeit a quite bizarre one."

                    Meanwhile the former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull probably killed his (ex) girlfriends cat in the 80s.

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Bro, just become Trotsky and mash the permanent revolution button after purging Stalin and bring about global communism with no war.

        • Veegie2600 [none/use name]
          1·
          4 years ago

          Bruh China doesnt really have expansionist qualities, which is evidence i would need to see in order to classify it as colloqiually Imperialist (even though Lenin's definition is x1000 more useful in today's context).

          Bringing territories such as Hong Kong back into the fold after they were stripped away by western colonial powers is not expansionism, in fact its quite the opposite: it is China starting to say "enough" and pushing back against the Imperial core's neverending bloodthirsty desire to balkanize the PRC and buy up all the SOEs and Coops like hotcakes.

          And border disputes are still extremely common outside of the imperial core, with factors ranging from shitty colonial border partitioning to less resources available to keep track of changes in parts of borders that are based on geographic features like rivers. Its not imperialist just cause military=spooky or whatever lib shite.

    • Gang_gang [none/use name]
      15·
      4 years ago

      claiming china is good and socialist is basically believing in q. he has to get it on the inside so he can fulfill the prophecy of communism

      • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
        1·
        4 years ago

        I'll venture that believing China is trying to achieve socialism is slightly more grounded in reality than believing a bunch of U.S. politicians have been secretly captured, executed, and replaced with clones.

            • MagisterSinister [he/him,comrade/them]
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              4 years ago

              It seems that the people who tried to kidnap that governor a few weeks ago believe there's an actual ground war with China going on that nobody is telling us about. Right-wing conspiracy theories about the Chinese secretly infiltrating America for an invasion have been a thing since the 1950s, but now they've stepped it up a bit and claim that Canada and Maine have somehow already been occupied by the PRC without anybody noticing and that they're coming for the rest of the US now.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          China's just a demsoc nation with ML characteristics. They aren't some ultra pure leftist haven or anything. They're pretty liberal, but at least they still have the mechanisms in place to massively mobilize their labor power to achieve public good. Criticisms that venture beyond that framing of them are usually in bad faith or poorly researched/sinophobic.

            • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
              3·
              4 years ago

              It's wild to me that support of China is contentious in western leftist circles. It's one of the only countries that is actively executing members of their domestic bourgeoisie. They have extensive social programs and pretty high union membership. They also attach union labor stipulations to foreign investments and provide no interest loans like crazy both domestically and abroad.

              They're the poster child of what western radlibs preach, but for some reason it's the radlibs that hate them most.

        • QuillQuote [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          that reduction of poverty in china is one of the main contributors to the claims libs love to make that capitalism raised hundreds of millions from poverty right? Like it's actually mostly just china?

          if someone knows a source for this that'd be nice, I never actually checked into it just heard it on the internet so

          • PowerUser [they/them]
            ·
            4 years ago

            There was a good citations needed episode on it, and I recall a decent source in the show notes that went into more detail