My god the comments. You are perfectly allowed to not know much about a country. I don't know about PRC either. But I know to keep my mouth shut on matters I don't know about. I don't go on parroting propaganda for those things.

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[–] jankforlife@lemmy.ml 42 points 4 weeks ago

Oh no! You've poked the liberal hive now LMBO

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Westerners today have so much in common with their inquisition and crusades predecessors. They replaced Christianity with Western Liberalism and they fight for it with the same zeal. Either you adopt their values and systems or you are an evil heathen who must be destroyed.

[–] cornishon@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Makes even more sense once you realize that the inquisition and witch hunts were deeply intertwined with the forceful establishment of capitalism

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[–] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 24 points 4 weeks ago (54 children)

I don't care if they are against capitalism, I'm not simping for authoritarians.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (48 children)

What's an authoritarian?

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Define authoritarian. The PRC spent decades of anti-colonial struggle defeating British imperialists, Japanese imperialists, feudal reactionaries, and then US imperialists. Do you know more than them about how to defeat vicious empires, "non-authoritarianly"?

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

they should've just prayed and cattered to the imperialists like India.

As malcolm x once said "The West doesn't not have any love for China but it respects it, while they love India but they do not respect it."

These very same jerks would love China if it was just another uwu Japan/SKorea hosting US troops.

[–] Internetexplorer@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Lol America, land of the free, they literally arrested anyone who said they were a communist and confiscated your gold because they said it was illegal.

Yet China is frowned upon.

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[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 25 points 4 weeks ago (51 children)

authoritarians

Thought terminating cliche used by the unintelligent and uninformed to avoid reckoning with reality beyond vibes.

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 21 points 3 weeks ago

"Simping" here meaning "viewing with anything less than total antipathy"

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[–] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 21 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

All states are bad, but if we're talking about which ones are arguably better or worse on the world stage...

"USA USA USA, WE'RE NUMBER 1!"

Proudly colonizing for 250 years?

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