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Monoi's avatar

China is far from a beacon. They've taken their people out of abject poverty which was mostly created by psychopaths like Mao, and are now an totalitarian regime which is happy to lockdown 25 million people for weeks on end. You may talk sense on the west propaganda machine but you should take off your rose tinted glasses on China. By the way, capitalism is what made the west rich (and China as well by the way, not communist central planning), is not perfect (nothing is), but what we have now is crony capitalism. All due to corrupt politicians and a state that has expanded way too much. The solution is in cutting it down, and removing a lot of its and politicians powers.

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J M Hatch's avatar

Keep eating that spam from the NED. Taste good, formatted and formulated to supercharge your bigotry.

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Monoi's avatar

Well argued.

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J M Hatch's avatar

Thank you, bigot.

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Scuba Cat's avatar

Agreed. I think everyone knows about what is happening to the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, even if they don't know about what the CCP is doing in Africa. The U.S. is certainly a warmongering empire, but I wouldn't choose to live under the CCP and it's social credit score system and intense censorship and totalitarian lockdowns for anything. I mean, if Caitlin was Chinese and she wrote about the CCP this way they would throw her in jail. It's a false dichotomy to say that because the U.S. government sucks that the CCP must somehow be good.

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J M Hatch's avatar

If you don't respect the way China has been able to pull so many of its people out of extreme poverty, and don't get why such actions would cause such unified support for their government, *it's simply because you lack an adequate understanding of the anguish of extreme poverty.*

Both Strawman and ignorance, better check your air tank for catnip.

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Scuba Cat's avatar

You can go and live there then. No one is stopping you.

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J M Hatch's avatar

ah, the reply of the bigot here too. You must be a dog in disguise, hence the mask.

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Scuba Cat's avatar

I know you are but what am i

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J M Hatch's avatar

You don't know what you are, but you see fit to tell others what they are. That clarifies it, you are an intentionally ignorant bigot. There you go, you're welcome.

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