Do you know any liberal refutations of what you call myths about the PCP in this thread like there were of "Private Life of Chairman Mao"?
Our Gonzalite friend is wrong about an number of things, but there is real criticism to be made about Deng radically increasing poverty by undercutting the systems installed under Mao that brought poverty to low levels. The "Chinese miracle" was in many respects solving problems that it itself caused and is a sort of liberal historical revisionism, though of course the more contemporary extreme poverty eradication initiative made real headway that was not made under Mao.
Nothing you said is more unserious than
The PCP is the most advanced political party of our time
So you're probably good
I was late in checking up on things but I appreciate what you shared
I think some of it is liberal propaganda and Deng's reform was mainly useful for survival in capitalist encirclement, as it produced a massive degree of impoverishment for the common people early on.
I think so? I've been blind before but I thought I remembered "agenda" being on there too.
Makes perfect sense, thank you. I would have had no problem with an explanation of any length (and the forum might be interested in you making a post on this topic at some point) but I respect your time and patience.
My issue was the "gorillion", not the 20. There are other options like, idk, "bazillion" that work just as well, or just a nice simple "trillion" for the absurdity.
Thank you!
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If reunification has become less popular, is there a general cause of this that wouldn't require you writing out a treatise for the sake of an offhand question?
Singapore isn’t a “city-state” in Malaysia, it was booted out of Malaysia to fulfill the comprador Malay feudal classes interests here in Malaysia,
I know nothing about this subject. Is it sort of like what happened with Hong Kong and/or Macau?
What about a male prostitute?
They are vastly, vastly less common and this is just a poor attempt at a counterpoint because conservatives also dislike male prostitutes, but the answer is that to the socialist male prostitution also represents a problem. It is a smaller problem in absolute terms, but on a "per capita" basis it is of similar severity.
"If we just remove the context of the largest human trafficking disaster Europe has seen in 30 years, it makes sense to want to be a prostitute in Ukraine!" Ukraine is literally the worst place on the continent to be doing that right now, not that it's really the best place to do anything other than die.
You generally have a point but
and all three of those things being assumed as the only roles a woman would play in a war is just gross
??? Cooking and first aid are normal things for volunteers to do, male or female, it's not that she's a woman, but women seem to mostly have the good sense to not fly halfway around the world to get blown up as soldiers like some functionally-suicidal men did, even though there are certainly women on both sides of the war in combat roles.
There are some other normal volunteer roles, e.g. sanitation is very important, but you'd surely say the same thing if people were commenting on her not pursuing that ("oh! so women should be cleaners?"). Anything beyond that, like being a mechanic or nurse or something, requires a serious level of training
Your reading comprehension isn't great. The problem isn't that this woman is a prostitute, it's that it's normalizing the framing of "these men at war need access to sex," which if you think about it for even a few seconds should raise red flags. If it is a "need," then it is "necessary" to a war effort that it is accounted for, and suddenly you see the implication of a military prostitution industry, the existence of which would be a threat rather than a boon to impoverished women because, for this industry to be supplied, the powers that be will be sure there's a minimum number of people who are desperate enough to sign up or else a good enough PR covering for what is actually slavery (such as corner cases of, to pick a totally random example, some woman flying halfway around the world to prostitute herself for free).
Missing "totalitarian," "red fash," something or other about Tibet, and of course no food holodomor
Pick a fake number that isn't used by Holocaust deniers
He shares a handful of views, but overwhelmingly is a psychotic cult leader and social chauvinist. You are unlikely to get anything but uniform hatred towards him here.
It might be interesting to start a conversation on the appropriate comm there about whichever rule is being enforced (check the modlog) and challenge the rule.
Philosophy has a tendency to need to use very specialized language to avoid problems of ambiguity and to precisely identify concepts that have no reason to come up in the vast, vast majority of conversation among laypeople.
Survey questions should be reversible anyway