• DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    The kind that also thinks that capitalism is evil and the US is bad but somehow everything the US State Department says about a socialist country is correct.

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      3 hours ago

      Wrong, I’m an anarchist. I don’t believe any nation state has a great track record, and I’ve been 100% correct in this so far.

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          21 minutes ago

          Please stop. As said in another reply to you: I’m not arguing China is bad for a state. But the government of any nation does fucked up shit. Maybe it’s necessary, maybe there was truly no way around it. I don’t know. But it is a reality you have to accept.

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            19 minutes ago

            “Please stop forcing me to move my goalposts with single images that show my critiques to be idealistic and divorced from material reality.”

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          40 minutes ago

          Did you make this just to discredit me by vague association with a stoner hope looking dude?

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            17 minutes ago

            Its probably a decade old meme at this point, which is besides the point, and is why you dodged the content of the meme. No revolution will ever meet your standards. Millions of people are too busy building socialism and lifting people out of poverty to care what some western anarchist thinks about them.

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          2 hours ago

          I get where they’re coming from, China certainly gets a lot right. But some people here are denying that any of the bad parts exist and just unquestioningly glaze the government of a nation state.

          Like why do they simp for a country so hard that the only thing separating them from a nationalist in that country is the fact that they never actually participated in its culture and have even less of a clue about the reality of living there?

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            denying that any of the bad parts exist

            Could I get a list of the bad parts you see denied frequently on here?

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              No, I got enough reasonable-looking but ultimately dubious canned responses. It’s weird that drone footage and other videos are enough to convince some people of bad things happening in countries they don’t like while the same level of evidence doesn’t have the same sway for bad things happening in countries they like.

              I get that socialism can’t be perfect in a world so shackled by capitalism. I don’t get why some people convince themselves that China is a perfect example of socialism.

              I’m really not in the mood to watch Very Convinced individuals try to e.g. ridicule violence protest suppression by calling it “tinyman square”.

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            But some people here are denying that any of the bad parts exist and just unquestioningly glaze the government of a nation state.

            Show me a single one. This is what you guys always do: pretend that the communist is a religious zealot and the Bad Guy States are his religion, because the idea that support for a socialist country could actually be the outcome of a sober calculation instead of exposure to dark communist magic or something is, i guess, unfathomable? Too threatening to your own ideas of ideological purity and superiority to seriously consider? Anyway yeah, show me one

            Like why do they simp for a country so hard that the only thing separating them from a nationalist in that country is the fact that they never actually participated in its culture and have even less of a clue about the reality of living there?

            See what I mean? This is fanfiction, you’re writing fiction in which communists are the mindless simp wojack and you’re the chad who supports nothing. None of it has any connection to reality unless you can show me this “simping”. Super cool that you use incel lingo BTW.

            And you wanna talk connection to reality? We have people in China, including one with a degree in Marxism, here. We’re constantly talking about the actual conditions in the country with people who actually live there. The idea that we’re all just sat around telling each other stories about China with a certainty and fervor that belies a complete lack of factual data is, franky, some wild projection by western leftists.

            On the one hand we talk about the actual conditions of the country with people who live there, then on the other hand we get to turn around and deal with the most cliche, easily disproven US State Department dogshit about any given socialist country, day in day out, from people like you who think you’re rescuing us from our own understanding.

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              I’m not even saying that China is bad for a nation state. I’m just saying that bad shit is happening, state-sanctioned, in every nation state.

              I’ve shown people drone footage, they don’t believe it. No evidence is enough for people who already made up their mind.

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                16 minutes ago

                Damn, bad shit happens sometimes in human societies?

                Well, time to shut it all down. It’s been nice knowing you everyone, but now that I realize there’s no point in striving for better I guess I’ll see you in the woods. Some stuff happened and now we can’t have water purification or modern medicine.