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[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Why would anyone want Mao to wake up? The fuck kind of genocide denialism is this?

[–] wieson@feddit.org 33 points 1 week ago

I think the joke is built on what Mao did to landlords.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago

Mao is very popular in the PRC, and among Marxists. The modern CPC recognizes his contributions as around 70% good, 30% bad. The Cultural Revolution in particular is a touchy subject largely seen as a misstep, but certainly not a "genocide" either. Same with famine, which was previously common in China but was only ended by the communists in power.

Mao's popularity stems from establishing socialism in China, successfully kicking out the Japanese imperialists and then winning the civil war against the nationalist Kuomintang, and building up a robust system of socialism in early China, accomplishing metrics like a doubling in life expectancy, large (but unstable, as Deng would later stabilize with socialist market reforms) economic growth, banning footbinding, and more.

[–] RedPandaRaider@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Inventing genocides to discredit Mao must be a new one. Liberals are too stupid to level any valid criticism against him huh?

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Give same situation and environment to a landlord see how their reign goes.

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Sir, this is lemmy.ml. They think every bad thing you've heard about china is a CIA psyop

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not everything bad about China is CIA propaganda. They have a long way to go, economically and socially. At the same time, there's factually a large anti-PRC budget for US propaganda, largely stemming from the large amount of friction faced when dealing with a socialist country in the world capitalist market. It's accelerated because the PRC is currently surpassing the US in many key metrics, and is charted to do so in other areas in the coming years.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Meanwhile .world thinks that literally everything the US says about China is undeniable truth

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish they were just children.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Well here's hoping they grow up before they die, people live long as fuck nowadays.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

not every bad thing but quite a lot of it, yes.

[–] Iceman@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Which is why we are ready for war with them at a moments notice.