U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday called China a "ticking time bomb" because of its economic challenges and said the country was in trouble because of weak growth.
as someone that lives under capitalism and has had that horrible thing happen to me, no, no it is not the same. two things can be awful without being the same
It’s more about trajectories. In China, statistics such as life expectancy keep going up, and have actually overtaken the US, whereas these quality of life indicators in the US are stagnating or even going down. Is China an ideal society at this point? Of course not, but one can still recognise what has been accomplished by their plans, weather you want to call it state capitalist, socialist or whatever other label, the results are there when compared to the quality of life 40 or 50 years ago.
That’s why it’s pretty funny for Biden to try deflect to China.
Don’t know what any of this has to do with sexual violence though.
Political elites allowing a certain segment of the society they lord over to not be mired in poverty to better secure their own power and privilege is no sign of “progress” - as the US proves, such economic manipulation can be very temporary.
Why do they do that? It’s so weirdly consistent. “Fact supported by evidence” “oh yeah, well… uh… uhn… you’re gay!” Like okay, so? I can’t speak for othe instances in the Fediverse but Hexbear is one of the queerest places on the internet, and the lib is still wrong.
I have to imagine they’ve somehow convinced themselves that if they call us all gay enough, that we’ll burst into rainbow coloured flames like vampires exposed to sunlight.
Well the short answer is Patriarchy. Accusing people of behaving in a way contrary to traditional ideas of masculinity is a classic technique for shaming people with heterodox views.
Yeah, yeah, good point. It’s honestly shocking, I spend so much time in Hexbear I forget how common and casual misogyny and queerphobia are out in the ret of the world.
Oh, a tankie with facts, eh? Come on… do that little psychotic tankie thing where you paste a wall of text to try and pretend that China isn’t capitalist.
Yeah, I completely thought up “capitalism with Chinese characteristics” on my own and totally didn’t just replace one word of a thought-terminating mantra invented by (supposedly) “big, scary rational” tankies at all.
You got me, tankie - it’s all pure originality on my part.
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Well the important thing is you found a way to feel superior to both of them.
True… but it wasn’t exactly a high bar to clear.
How embarrassing for you.
It’s very difficult to be embarrased when surrounded by tankies and fascists.
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Nope… still difficult. Do you have something else?
sexist weirdoes on lemmy stop using sexual violence to refer to anything challenge [impossible]
I’ve been describing capitalism as “rapacious” for about a decade now - because that’s what it is.
It’s interesting that it only becomes a problem when China’s capitalist exploitation becomes a point of discussion.
as someone that lives under capitalism and has had that horrible thing happen to me, no, no it is not the same. two things can be awful without being the same
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I think your mind is best studied while running down a tile wall towards the drain
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I know it’s hard for you tankies to be forced to speak to us working-class folks - but picture-based language isn’t going to cut it.
Yeah… your little 4chan picture language is becoming boring - so I’m just going to ignore it, okay?
If you are ignoring it then why did you respond to the comment?
I’m not ignoring you, tankie - just your 4chan speak.
It’s more about trajectories. In China, statistics such as life expectancy keep going up, and have actually overtaken the US, whereas these quality of life indicators in the US are stagnating or even going down. Is China an ideal society at this point? Of course not, but one can still recognise what has been accomplished by their plans, weather you want to call it state capitalist, socialist or whatever other label, the results are there when compared to the quality of life 40 or 50 years ago.
That’s why it’s pretty funny for Biden to try deflect to China.
Don’t know what any of this has to do with sexual violence though.
Political elites allowing a certain segment of the society they lord over to not be mired in poverty to better secure their own power and privilege is no sign of “progress” - as the US proves, such economic manipulation can be very temporary.
Yeah… it’s still capitalism with Chinese characteristics - no matter how much you masturbate to pictures of Xi Jinping.
It’s only a matter of time before liberals bring out the weird homophobic insults.
Why do they do that? It’s so weirdly consistent. “Fact supported by evidence” “oh yeah, well… uh… uhn… you’re gay!” Like okay, so? I can’t speak for othe instances in the Fediverse but Hexbear is one of the queerest places on the internet, and the lib is still wrong.
I have to imagine they’ve somehow convinced themselves that if they call us all gay enough, that we’ll burst into rainbow coloured flames like vampires exposed to sunlight.
That would be pretty cool usually you need to burn a huge chunk of radioactive graphite for that.
Well the short answer is Patriarchy. Accusing people of behaving in a way contrary to traditional ideas of masculinity is a classic technique for shaming people with heterodox views.
Yeah, yeah, good point. It’s honestly shocking, I spend so much time in Hexbear I forget how common and casual misogyny and queerphobia are out in the ret of the world.
Oh, a tankie with facts, eh? Come on… do that little psychotic tankie thing where you paste a wall of text to try and pretend that China isn’t capitalist.
I know you want to.
Admitting that your worldview requires you to actively never read anything is a hell of a flex
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China is a socialist state.
“Capitalism with Chinese characteristics” is socialism now?
One little mistake though. It is actually Socialism with Chinese characteristics
In other words… it’s capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
just insisting that you’re right doesn’t actually work
Aaaaaaand… it’s still capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
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Yeah, I completely thought up “capitalism with Chinese characteristics” on my own and totally didn’t just replace one word of a thought-terminating mantra invented by (supposedly) “big, scary rational” tankies at all.
You got me, tankie - it’s all pure originality on my part.
they larping as communists? 😂
Soooo… the more uniform the suits, the more communist-er they are?
Tell me another one, tankie.
I guess you didn’t even bothered to check my link and where it leads to. Yes it leads to your favorite Wikipedia site: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_characteristics
Oh, you don’t have to guess… I’ll tell you straight up that I won’t bother retreading well-known propaganda created by tankies.
I’m already perfectly familiar with it - I just called it something a bit more honest… as in capitalism with Chinese characteristics.
well known tankie propaganda site, wikipedia.
Are you trying to say wikipedia invents China’s propaganda?
Quite the extraordinary claim… but I’ve seen tankies make worse.