Random thoughts

[bellona0544]

Let me be clear: I don't think China is perfect and wonderful in every way. They could afford to take a more Liberal approach towards speech and criticizing the government. But, especially in this moment in history, I'm not going to spend much time being upset about what China is up to from deep within the American BurgerReich

Let me be clear: I don't think America is perfect and wonderful in every way. They could afford to take a more Liberal approach toward lynching black and indigenous people and criticizing communism. But, especially in this moment in history, I'm not going to spend much time being upset about what America is up to from deep within the Soviet Stalinist State.



If you saw someone say that in 1949, would you rush to the defense of America, or would you agree that one bad doesn't make another less bad and those things absolutely deserved criticism? China is just as authoritarian as we are. Centralized authority means they have much quicker reactions to global catastrophe like climate change, but it also is still a deeply hierarchical economic system with severely limited freedom for most. I would have to get my mother's permission for hormones.

I get that you hate America. Me too. This place is a hellscape and it always has been, despite the propaganda pushed about American exceptionalism. But please stop simping for a different dictator who still would throw me in jail for transitioning and who wouldn't let me live as myself unless I underwent traumatic, intensive surgery. A fascist by another name is still a fascist.

 

[cybrguy]

 

[florduh]

Let me be clear: I don't think America is perfect and wonderful in every way. They could afford to take a more Liberal approach toward lynching black and indigenous people and criticizing communism. But, especially in this moment in history, I'm not going to spend much time being upset about what America is up to from deep within the Soviet Stalinist State.

The problem with this comparison is, current day America is now doing most of the things you don't like about China. We're blackbagging dissenters and sending them to gulags. We're rolling back protections for the LGBTQ community. This is in addition to all the evil we do around the world that China does not do, like murdering a million people after 9/11 or committing genocide in Gaza. Or destroying the global economy for no perceivable reason.

We now have the bad parts of China without the high speed rail.

But please stop simping for a different dictator who still would throw me in jail for transitioning and who wouldn't let me live as myself unless I underwent traumatic, intensive surgery. A fascist by another name is still a fascist.

The simping is mostly a meme. And a ruse to get me a gaming laptop.

But, imo, Western Leftists should have a more nuanced view on America's "enemies" than Liberals do. When I praise China, I'm talking about their incredible development, social services, raising the standard of living for the rural poor... all in an astoundingly short period of time. Not their government's views on censorship or conservative Chinese peoples' views on LGBTQ rights. I think that's bad.

I support having reality-based criticisms of China! But let's be honest. The media and the Trump Administration aren't banging the war drums against China because they're upset about how trans people or Muslims are being treated over there. No, they want to destroy China because they have the audacity to try something other than Neoliberal Capitalism. Same reason we've been conducting siege warfare on Cuba for nearly a century.

 

[Radwin Bodnic]

 

[florduh]

This legal permanent resident was just kidnapped off the streets by the Gestapo. He will be disappeared to a cage in a different State for "antisemitism". Listen to his words here:

Meanwhile, this "fine person" was given a full pardon by the President a few weeks ago after doing January 6th: