How do we get to Sesame Street?
Read "What Is To Be Done?"
I thought the senator from the other time was Tom Cotton?
"You have to vote for Biden for now, but once we get ranked choice voting you can vote third party."
"Oh, does Biden support ranked choice voting then?"
"No."
I’d definitely describe myself as a communist, but I do realize we never had a proper communist state on this planet, just authoritarian states that acted like communists to win over the workers. Capitalism needs to be regulated as fuck to create a fair society, so for now, I strive for socialism, because I understand going straight to communism probably won’t work.
Sorry if this was uncalled for, I just wanted to show there are sensible communists who don’t excuse Russia and China for the shit they’re pulling. But neither do I excuse the west for a lot of shit we are pulling.
Chauvanists like this will spell out China's economic system and reasoning for taking the path they took, and then immediately denounce them for doing exactly what they claim to want. And while they might claim to criticize their own government, they will then turn around and feed you lines that come straight from the state department
This idea is strengthened by reports of r/GenZedong (a tankie subreddit) showing aggression towards Uyghurs online.
Oh gee, that sounds awful! I wonder what that was about?
"As an American, I am very proud of working for the US government in Guantanamo..."
Oh I just had an idea - why don't the rich simply give away money until they're poor, and then they'll get all the protections poor people get? Let some other dumb sap deal with the burden of having money.
Good thing Stalin stopped him.
Hmm, I wonder why they didn't include what their posts said
:::spoiler emoji
Is it narcissistic to post my own?
Lib: Basically, every thing wrong with the ccp, every evil, is just western propaganda. They deny the Ughur genocide, tiananmen square, they deny everything and call it western propaganda.
Me: Wow, they really deny that stuff? Do you have any good sources I can throw at them next time I see that?
Lib: Nothing really, they just call it western propoganda. Theres no point.
Me: Maybe some would listen if we showed them strong enough evidence, I mean all that stuff is pretty well documented, right? Aren't there like, pictures or something? At the very least, if we force them to deny strong, reputable sources, it'd make the pitch to defederate stronger.
Lib: It is well documented, they have been shown sources, and they do not care. I really hope they defed from hexbear soon.
Me: I know, I'm just asking you to share them with me so I can use them too next time.
Famines were extremely common before the CPC came to power. Most Chinese people lived in extreme poverty, and life expectancy was less than 35, with no significant improvement under the KMT. In between Mao coming to power and his death, life expectancy in China nearly doubled. Today, average life expectancy in China has exceeded that of the US, a feat that would've been unimaginable back then.
It's true that Mao made misteps (which the CPC readily admits), but those specific, dramatic events have been disproportionately elevated to obscure the more general trend, which has been drastic improvements in the lives of the people of China.
Of course, in addition to minimizing the frequency and severity of famines in pre-industrial China, your history books likely did not place the same level of blame on the British for the intentional famines which Ireland and India were subjected to, in which Britain did not only refuse to provide aid to their colonial subjects (often on the express basis that it would motivate people to work harder), but also did not cease their plundering - in both cases, food was exported out of the country while the people starved.