Since we're playing this game:
Since we're playing this game:
That wasn't the point being made. The Democrats won't let healthcare be free. If they did, they would no longer be able to dangle it in front of us to keep convincing us the Democrats are a "working class" party. It's a scheme to get re-elected and keep the facade of "Liberal Democracy", nothing more.
I wonder if the Palestinian child on the other end of the missile cares if it was sent by a Democrat or Republican president.
Maybe that has to do with the west making it their primary goal in the 40's-90's to sink the Union that was capable of providing good living to it's people and replace it with a balkanized federation run by oligarchs where a woman's only stable job was prostitution.
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I at no point claimed the PRC were angels. The entire point was that One-Party States do not inherently kill more people or are more repressive. I don't necessarily like Deng Xiaoping theory and the current socialist system in China, but to claim that it's on the same level of or worse than the United States is absurd. I also have no idea why you think the KMT would lead China better than the CPC.
Btw the KMT also ran a one-party state at the time before, during, and for decades after the Chinese Civil War.
They lynched the soldiers they sent in on June 2nd, who were unarmed. They only escalated to armed force after they murdered those they sent before. I don't think they should have sent in soldiers to begin with, given that's very inflammatory even if they're unarmed, but it doesn't justify torching unarmed people with molotovs. Need I mention liberal democracies are guilty of the same sorts of crimes(Kent State Massacre, 1985 MOVE Bombings, Ruby Ridge, WACO Siege, ICE murder just a few days ago, all of these just in the US) and regularly arm their police with military armored vehicles and fire on protesters. The US also cracks down on protests much earlier, go to any protest in the US and there's a good chance the police will deploy tier gas even if the event is non-violent. The Tiananmen Square protests got as big as they did because of how long it took the government to give any response.
Western Liberal democracies also go abroad and wholesale slaughter populations in foreign nations; Vietnam; Afghanistan; Iraq and the death toll in these places far exceeds any metric who try and stamp on Tiananmen Square protests. China, by comparison, does not conduct these foreign massacres. The PRC is guilty of many crimes, I'm very critical of it myself, but it's crimes fall far short of the United States. This has nothing to do with one or two parties, it has to do with ruling class capitalism vs working class socialism.
Your example is the PLA putting down a violent revolt, with the specific picture being of a guy who wasn't harmed during said revolt?
This is effectively the one-party state model, which is what we should be working towards. What must be noted however is that no one in the Democratic party would support this. The role of the Democrats is too serve as feeble unactionable "opposition" that in reality serve the same interests of the ruling class. What we need to do is abolish both the Republican and Democratic parties and replace them with a party that actually suits the interest of the working class.
It never WAS a democracy. The American people have never had any real choice or voice in regard to policy. You're forced to pick between electing "representatives" from two parties who are funded by the same billionaires and hold the same interests. Whether Democrat or Republican, they fundamentally still uphold the same neoliberal policies. The only difference is now they're giving up the veil of democracy.
The tweet's caption along with the circles+text try and deny Chinese Sovereignty over historical territory based arbitrarily on how long they have controlled it. This comparison is being made by a supporter of the US. The US has possessed it's entire territory for a span of time shorter that was on this map is considered "Not Really China", thus the US has no real claim to it's territory by their logic. The big difference is that China isn't a settler colony who genocided an indigenous population to exist, unlike the US.