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sorry you're living in a liberal bubble where you don't even realize the statistics neoliberal shits like Stephen Pinker rely on to peddle the image of capitalism improving global poverty draws almost all gains against said poverty from China
Weird how China's responsible for all that and not, say, India, or the recovery of post- Soviet Russia, it's almost like, gosh, having a communist party running things results in constant improvements for working people, who'd have thunk it. Quick, what's the rate of homeownership in China vs the west?? Man, love to be renting until i die, thanks capitalism. It's worth it for all this free fucking speech
Enjoy your declining standard of living and life expectancy if you live anywhere in the west!
P.s. and soviet Russia took the country from a dirt farming tsarist shithole to a space power in the span of a few decades despite three absolutely devastating wars (WW1, 2, and the civil war) and despite being far behind the rest of Europe's industry at their start.
It used to be you liberals would cry about how all that was built on the back of gulag slaves or whatever (despite America having the largest prison population both in absolute numbers and per capita, by far, with legalized slavery via the 13th amendment (and more widespread quasi slavery with prisoners paid pennies) and how America is the bastion of free speech. Well, guess what! None of that free speech has done a bit of good, at least not since the democrats entirely sold out to corporate interests. We speak, they listen, the american empire continues to plod along burning working people to death.
So yeah I guess I'm a tankie because if I'm going to live in a shithole without free speech I'll take the one that actually improves my life. Hey, it's almost like that's why the CPC is actually incredibly popular in China, hmmm! (P.s. China's not a shithole though)
Don't associate me with these douchebags you've come to associate the United States with.
Wasting my time yet again, thinking I am talking to real people, only to find out they are tools of some foreign government looking to make cheap political points.
oh my fucking god
"this person ranting at me CAN'T be some guy who just rolled out of bed and hit a huge bong rip then got actually mad at some liberal who continues to persist in anti-China authoritarian brainworms while literally every bit of anti china propaganda turns out to be western projection. they MUST be an AGENT OF A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT looking to make CHEAP POLITICAL POINTS"
i'll admit I'm here to shitpost but my god, be fucking grateful you get to interact with a real person on the internet while you still can. Pretty soon I'll be in a camp and you'll just have chatgpt to jerk off to
Lol. I haven't eaten enough lead paint yet today to understand wtf you're trying to say.
and here I was worried my own rambling comment would yield such insults, thank you comrade
I would never insult you, you're a good liberal. We have to band together against these tankie scum coming in and supporting the authoritarian United States empire.
Lol i wrote out and then deleted a post about like do you think this guy thinks maga fascists are tankies because Authority!!
The answer is no
Fascists don't consider anyone to their left to be human. Are you a fascist?
the enlightened big-brain take of "YEW ALL MUST B SEESEEPEE PUTIN AGENTS!". Truly a vexing one.
The only "tool" here is the one gargling State Department (now full of TrAiTors, according to you) nonsense on socialism/communism while you live in a nation that relies on entire nations and a reserve army of labor domestically of terrorized minorities that work 6-12 workweeks on starvation wages. The political points out of your fuckin' mouth would be cheap if they weren't bought off by the blood of the marginalized, destroyed nations and cultures this "government" is built on.
While you're at it, gripe and whine about traitors and SCOTUS while both sides of the aisle fund genocide.
Get off the high pedestal or use it to dunk your head in the toilet, nerd.
I'm so glad you've figured out and declared that you're the only real and non-political person here. So very enlightened buddy.
As a Chinese bot who is paid by Chairman Xi himself (it's a tough job but I've got a tiny little robot family to take care of), I'd like to invite you to use that superior human mouth to consume a bucket of sewage and expire.