One month ban for pointing out that consumerism bad. What a shithole of a site over there on the grad.
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If you live in China then by all means go ahead and criticize China's relationship to production, though it is probably more productive to so that on platforms that have a majority Chinese userbase rather than lemmygrad and Hexbear
If you live in the Weϟϟt, then shut the fuck up about China's imperfections. Every demonization of a country which the Weϟϟt has set its sights on helps oil the imperialists' guns.
Even if you also criticize the terrible crimes of the West much more harshly, China is exempt from even the lightest criticism 👍
Like, don't get me wrong, the imperialist machine is absolutely trying to tear down China through criticism among other things, but are we as Communists not allowed to discuss what we could do differently, not for the purposes of improving China, but for the purposes of honing our own goals and methods? Or is learning from the mistakes of others only allowed after Gorbachev dissolves them?
We are allowed to, sure. I don't see you doing that in your screenshot.
I don't see how I'm not