• kureta@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      23 days ago

      I was banned from /r/Latestagecapitalism for not agreeing with “China good”, tried to explain the opposite: “China bad ≠ America good”. They didn’t care.

    • mamotromico@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      18
      ·
      24 days ago

      Yeah but it’s a very easy/not even contest that “China better than America”. You don’t need China to be good for that to be true.

      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        23 days ago

        imperialism is when the middle east, because everyone knows that only one country can be bad at once and america runs a monopoly on genocide

        go read a book, I’m done with talking to you illiterate morons incapable of understanding any sort of nuance

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      22
      arrow-down
      14
      ·
      24 days ago

      Yeah it’s annoying when any criticism of Occupied China results in them talking about America

      • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        arrow-down
        12
        ·
        23 days ago

        Drag noticed something after the election: All the non voters say it’s not their fault, because Kamala is more to blame. They think blame is a limited resource. They think you can only blame either the DNC OR the voters, not both.

        It’s the same as with China. They think if America is bad, then China has to be good. If there’s evidence of China being bad, the counterevidence is that America is worse.

        Tankies think only one thing can be bad at a time. It’s the same with genocide, too. We can’t care about Ukraine and trans people and West Bank, because WhAt AbOuT gAzA.

        The tankie mind only has room for one single bad thing in each subject. Only one bad genocide. Only one bad empire. Only one bad politician. They can’t conceive of two things being bad at the same time. It does not compute. When they say they understand two things being bad, they’re lying. They can only understand it in short term memory. They can’t internalise it and apply it to long term memory. Fifteen seconds after they admit two things can be bad, they forget it. It’s like clockwork. “America and China are both bad… 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15… China can’t be bad because America is bad! I’m not to blame for Trump’s win because Kamala ran a weak campaign! Gaza is the only genocide that matters!”

        • DerKommissar@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          23 days ago

          When you have the same energy for the ongoing genocides of both the Native Americans and the Black descendants of slavery in America that you have for Ukraine or bearing water for Israel, apparently, that’s the day I believe these four paragraphs of uninvestigated drivel isn’t projection and cope

          • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            arrow-down
            7
            ·
            23 days ago

            1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15… and you’ve forgotten that two things can be bad again. Drag said genocide in West Bank is bad, so you assumed drag doesn’t oppose genocide in Gaza and must support Israel. It’s like clockwork.

            • DerKommissar@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              5
              ·
              edit-2
              23 days ago

              Since I know you’re gonna be a pedantic little weasel about this otherwise, here’s my list of things that I consider ‘bad’, to minimize and compartmentalize my views into your narrow little field of cope: any and all nations that profited, from the colonial age to modernity, off of the trade of African slaves, or off the extraction of resources from a motherland they have already spent 400+ years fundamentally violating. America, Europe, Spain, Portugal, France, every single fuckin’ one of the Nordics, all of them.

              Beyond that, I consider all settler-colonies said white settlers have spawned since the colonial era ‘bad’-- which is to say, Israel too. I think you’ll find that’s a great deal many more than just two– they’re just not the people you want me to be sharpening a spear for.

              And westerners-- American, european, doesn’t matter which-- have not given me reason to extend the benefit of the doubt in over a year that they aren’t zionist settlers or waterbearers for such. After all, most westerners are settlers themselves; and birds of a shit feather often flock together.

              Fact of the matter is, our definitions of “imperialism” are two different definitions. You crutch yourself on the ignorant neoliberal definition, that “anti-imperialism” is just “against ALL empires”-- a naive, idealist stance. MY definition of “anti-imperialism” stands against the settlerdom I have been forced to live under the thumb of, all my life.

              You are manifestly unserious.

      • pressanykeynow@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        13
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        24 days ago

        Well given how Lemmy is mostly American ultra-leftwing it’s weird when they talk about changing China when they can’t even change their own neighbourhood, or even their own home.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            6
            ·
            23 days ago

            Depends on the instance, Lemmy ranges from liberal to Anarchist to Marxist. Most instances lean in one of those major directions, or at most 2.

      • AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        12
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        23 days ago

        What the living fuck are you talking about ‘occupied China’

        that is the most brain broken anti-historic nonsense I’ve ever heard. The CPC is literally the result of decolonizing themselves. It was occupied until then. Not to be cliched but crack a fucking book holy shit

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          12
          ·
          edit-2
          23 days ago

          I am aware of the terrorists sitting back while Real China 🇹🇼 tried protecting the people from the Japanese then not having the strength afterwards

          • AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            9
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            23 days ago

            So you’re literally a genocidal fascist or too stupid to bother reading the history you’re claiming as the source of your righteousness.

            My money is you’re dumb af

            • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              2
              arrow-down
              8
              ·
              23 days ago

              Are you trying to deny that more Nationalist forces died during the 2nd Sino Japanese War than CCP forces and trying to call me dumb or are you just pro-Imperial Japan and trying to say they freed China?

              • AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                8
                arrow-down
                2
                ·
                edit-2
                23 days ago

                As a matter of fact I will take this opportunity to call you dumb because your red herring of ‘who lost more troops against Japan’ has literally no bearing on any point of contention thus far raised.

                • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  3
                  arrow-down
                  8
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  23 days ago

                  Real China 🇹🇼 tried protecting the people from the Japanese then not having the strength afterwards

                  Related to this

                  Your pro-Imperial Japan pov is related to this

                  The CPC is literally the result of decolonizing

          • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            edit-2
            22 days ago

            Chiang Kai-Shek was kidnapped by his own guards because he was too preoccupied on hunting down the communists to the ends of the earth to stop the Japanese from running rampant.

            I’d love to hear your explanation of how 8000 people hiding in one of the most remote regions of China came to win the civil war, if not through widespread popular support.