mustardman

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So you agree it has nothing to do with communism and you're just trolling around the internet. Got it.

Correlation or causation? You know that industrialization increases life expectancy, right?

It's not hard to double your life expectancy when you're starting out with the same life expectancy that existed in the Roman Empire almost 2,000 years prior. Thanks, Mao!

Mao died in 1976, which is where that life expectancy graph is somewhere in the mid 50s. Super impressive.

Deng was alive and well when two of those stock exchanges were opened and the whole argument was "look at the improvements only possible under Communism".

How do you say "moving the goalposts" in Mandarin? Actually, no need to answer as you are all ~~suburban~~ petit bourgeois kids from the US.

Communism increasing life expectancy!?

Shanghai Stock Exchange: http://english.sse.com.cn/

Beijing Stock Exchange: www.bse.cn

Shenzhen Stock Exchange: https://www.szse.cn/English/index.html

That's more stock exchanges than the US, comrade!

Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand. In Fountainhead, she goes in depth about how Chinese life expectancy statistics are generally made up.

I would expect you to understand unless you've read theory.

China never manipulates data coming out of their authoritarian country so good thing we can trust it. I'm sure their life expectancy is great with all their industrial pollution that regularly causes smog in their inner cities.

Celebrating an increase in life expectancy from 30 to 40 years old is not remotely the win you think it is.

Debatebro? That's what Hexbear does best.

I would actually love to engage in good faith discussions, but Hexbear users only operate in bad faith, particularly by sealioning. Like clockwork, you don't engage in ideas but rather give reading assignments.

I've read Das Kapital and agree with virtually all the premises about how society is unfair to those who actually generate the surplus value and think that we need to fix a system that breaks cyclically, as Karl Marx correctly predicted in volume I. The only solutions I've seen presented are a total revolution a la 1917, which occured before globalization. Anything close to this in the current globalized world will kill at minimum hundreds of millions globally due to interdependence on products that Marx would consider "needs", such as medications and medical equipment like dialysis machines.

The difference between you and me is that I'd rather work to reestablish democracy away from capital interests. I don't want a dictatorship, I want a functional democracy. Propaganda is often used to disillusion the working class from democracy, and if you don't vote in elections then you are clearly part of the problem.

Edit: Lmao. Citing"theory" gets crickets from the people who endlessly say "you just haven't read theory". It's like they don't know what to do with someone who reads to understand, rather than "reading" just to virtue signal.

Oh silly you.