My god the comments. You are perfectly allowed to not know much about a country. I don't know about PRC either. But I know to keep my mouth shut on matters I don't know about. I don't go on parroting propaganda for those things.

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[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Westerners today have so much in common with their inquisition and crusades predecessors. They replaced Christianity with Western Liberalism and they fight for it with the same zeal. Either you adopt their values and systems or you are an evil heathen who must be destroyed.

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[–] jankforlife@lemmy.ml 40 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no! You've poked the liberal hive now LMBO

[–] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (55 children)

I don't care if they are against capitalism, I'm not simping for authoritarians.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (55 children)

What's an authoritarian?

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[–] Internetexplorer@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Lol America, land of the free, they literally arrested anyone who said they were a communist and confiscated your gold because they said it was illegal.

Yet China is frowned upon.

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[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 weeks ago (67 children)

authoritarians

Thought terminating cliche used by the unintelligent and uninformed to avoid reckoning with reality beyond vibes.

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 weeks ago

"Simping" here meaning "viewing with anything less than total antipathy"

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 weeks ago

Define authoritarian. The PRC spent decades of anti-colonial struggle defeating British imperialists, Japanese imperialists, feudal reactionaries, and then US imperialists. Do you know more than them about how to defeat vicious empires, "non-authoritarianly"?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 weeks ago

The working classes use state authority for pro-social policy and to prebent capitalists from gaining political power, as opposed to capitalist authority for pro-profit policy and to prevent the working classes from gaining political power. Authority has a class dynamic, analysis without class erases the core distinction.

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[–] 52fighters@sopuli.xyz 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If, over the next 10 years, your country became more and more like China, would you go along with the changes? Would you have any problems with the transformation?

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

modern electricity grid quickly moving away from fossil fuels
high speed train network
cheap fresh produce
affordable housing
transitioning to socialism via the development of productive forces
strong investment in education and R&D
quickly advancing tech in almost every sector that matters
people-directed governance that is not subservient to capital (foreign or domestic)
very low crime
ecological restoration that won't get cancelled by the next elected administration
cheap and good quality healthcare
bold long term vision and consistent achievement of it over time

objectively better than just about any other place

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 weeks ago

I wish my country became more like China over the next decade

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[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 19 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

All states are bad, but if we're talking about which ones are arguably better or worse on the world stage...

"USA USA USA, WE'RE NUMBER 1!"

Proudly colonizing for 250 years?

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