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Got the one-two punch of anti-Chinese nonsense and eugenics adjacent fetishization of IQ. It’s literally reddit-logo

edit: I’m sorry I’m such a chronic abuser of rules one and two :(

https://lemmy.world/post/45635912?scrollToComments=true

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 61 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 40 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The Western brainpan cannot fathom doing something beneficial for another without trying to extract a profit

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean they probably are trying to build core infrastructure so that they can reap profits once the area has a higher standard of living, but obviously that's mutually beneficial

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 25 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Sure, and it reflects a different manner of thinking

China's 'investment' is lifting a country up so that they can engage in additional dealings further down the line, which also helps build goodwill (which will no doubt help with such dealings)

Western 'investment' is trying to rip out everything down to the studs while giving as little back as possible

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 25 points 4 weeks ago

To add, it isn't simply due to a different mindset, but due to a different mode of production. Western imperialism and China's socialist market economy express clear, demonstrable differences when it comes to foreign policy like this.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 24 points 4 weeks ago

it-is-known that hospitals are Hamas

[–] BeanisBrain@hexbear.net 56 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Chinese "imperialism": "As agreed, we have built a railway in your country. You don't have to pay us for it all at once, we won't charge interest, and we might just forgive the debt anyway."

American imperialism: Bombs schools, drone strikes weddings, assassinates leaders, blockades countries for decades

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 50 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

We don't know what bad thing China did because they're hiding it from us.

very-intelligent

[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And it MUST be worse because they feel the need to hide it

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 20 points 4 weeks ago

Soviet Union: researches psychic phenomenon, realizes it's bullshit and stops after a few years.

USA: Learns about the Soviet experiments, does MKULTRA in response.

[–] bunnossin@hexbear.net 50 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

As everyone knows, imperialism is when you have a civil war and win but the opposing side manages to keep an island and you want that island back.

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 42 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Imperialism is when a country puts military bases in all of your neighboring countries, including an island that was once part of your country, and constantly threatens you, and so you build ships to defend yourself.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 weeks ago

You're all being so disingenuous. Imperialism is when you get colonized and partitioned so you lose control of your peripheral mountainous areas, and then you come back and liberate the slaves but make a weird monk sad because he lost all his slaves.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 44 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The really funny part is that the whole "lesser evil" is completely throw out of the window when they speak about China.

Okay let's assume China is doing imperialism. How choose China is different them voting for Kamala shitlibs?

Person1: "Do you want Trump genociding more or Kamala trying to end genocide(heh)?"

Based person: "I want no genocide"

Person1: "TANKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"


Person1: "Do you want America imperialism or China imperialism?"

Person2: "I want China imperialism"

Person1: "TANKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 27 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

You must support the lesser evil

No not like that, not with those untrustworthy asians

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 weeks ago

Nobody really believes in lesser evilism, it's just that people are willing to compromise as long as it's not crossing a line.

Genocide isn't a moral line for them. Defending a rival state is.

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 41 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

MEN WITH HIGH IQ SMELL OWN FARTS, STUDY FINDS

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 13 points 4 weeks ago

All the water in it means I look like centrist irl.

[–] Packet@hexbear.net 18 points 4 weeks ago

GUYS IQ IS ACTUALLY A VERY GOOD MEASURE FOR INTELLECT, TOTALLY DISREGARD MATERIAL CONDITIONS!!!!!

[–] RondoRevolution@hexbear.net 40 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Liberals being so illiterate they think imperialism is when country does stuff outside it's borders.

[–] ComradeRat@hexbear.net 21 points 4 weeks ago

-Kautsky about Lenin, 1916

Too many marxists take a kautskyite position on imperialism (its a set of policies a state can decide to choose or not choose) instead of lenin's position (its a whole era of capitalism predicated on monopolies and exporting capital)

[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 weeks ago

Somehow that doesn't apply to the US according to the same liberals.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 weeks ago

outside it’s borders.

That's very generous of you. Most of what they call "imperialism" is stuff that China does within its own borders.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 27 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

ot, but I don't think this post is worth discussing anyway: Do other instances just don't have any emojis?

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 26 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Lemmygrad had a few until someone shot their pictrs server kim-gun, now they have almost none.

Beehaw has some bees bee flag rainbow emoji

Blahaj has more than I remember seeing last time I logged in spinny_cat, cat, spinny, trans

[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

oh wow, blahaj actually has a lot. Btw, lemmy-emojies can be used to check what emojies an instance has without an account.


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[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I forget about your extension because I’m almost always on mobile kitty-birthday-sad

It’s definitely a lot more than I remember them having! I know db0 has some too, but don’t have an account there to check which, and the only computer I have handy right now is a work laptop that’s not about to we-fucked-up

[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 9 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

yea

It... uh... "works" on android firefox too if need be, but it was never made with android in mind.


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[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago

Unfortunately, I can’t even get “works” kitty-cri-screm

[–] rattlethatlock42@hexbear.net 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nope, it's a Hexbear thing

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 17 points 4 weeks ago

Must be a joyless existence

[–] Soot@hexbear.net 24 points 4 weeks ago

What even is the point supposed to be? That 'bad imperialism' is NATO doing genocides in your country, while 'good imperialism' is China building railways and hospitals in your country? You can mess up the semantics if you want but it doesn't exactly make me think China evil.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 22 points 4 weeks ago

:glasses-off: Men with higher IQs are less conservative, study finds

:glasses-on: DON'T THINK

:glasses-off: Bad Imperialism / Good Imperialism

:glasses-on: STAY IGNORANT

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 19 points 4 weeks ago

“I know you are but what am I?” final boss.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@hexbear.net 18 points 4 weeks ago

Big “stop hitting yourself” energy to their IQ fetish this time around.

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 15 points 4 weeks ago

While it isn't tue. It be cool if it was.

[–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

What is the manner and methodology with which they calculate IQ? Why did they focus only on men to study conservatism? What about women with higher IQ? Does men include transmen too? NBs? Also, what do they mean by conservatism?

[–] simpletailor@hexbear.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

Trot org near me considers China an imperialist, capitalist state. Please recommend me anti-trot literature

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 7 points 4 weeks ago

This account is permanently on my block list. Very frustratingly annoying lib who pretends to be an anarchist because liberal sounds wack.