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    How are Muslims treated in the DPRK, China and Cuba? How are LGBTQ+ people treated in China? 🤔

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    “Oh yes honey, the famine in China was the liberals fault and praise the Eternal leader, I’d love to visit Castro since you know him. Can you shower now?”

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    It does make sense that they are bragging about converting their Moms into supporting totalitarian authoritarian regimes. After all, Mom is the only one visiting them in the basement.

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    or China! Where you can’t protest the government or the banks and have to follow a strict routine of uniformity.

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      Top: Streamers going to rich neighborhoods to attract local viewers and donations after China implements policy of forcing all Internet content to show their approximate location

      Bottom: largest art school examination in the world, where ~14,000 applicants invited to the exam must compete for ~800 spots

      Most jobs are normal and like the western world. While there are tons of valid criticisms like the protest one you mentioned, “strict homogeneity” is not one of them and just gives tankies more ammunition. There are way better arguments you can make from these images.

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        If you believe there are better arguments to be made, go ahead.

        The streamers are up until, sometimes, past 3 am to make money off the rich. So much for your communist China. People need to lug all of their valuables with them to make fools of themselves to entertain the rich and powerful, comfortable and happy in their warm mansions, while the streamers have to shiver in cold temperatures just to make a few hundred bucks at most. A man is dressed as a literal clown, and the girls have to wear short clothes in winter.

        And the bottom, yes, is commercialised, mass-produced art where you’re stuck in lines, competing with who can be the better artist (if there even is such a thing)—no food, no drinks, cramped with no escape. If your art is not arty enough for the elites, then you are the ‘worse kid,’ which is an ideology in China where there is always a better child—Failure is not an option.

        I have yet to see both of these images be recreated in the Western World.

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      “They’re also racist, but that’s fine. At least I’m not conservative!”

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          The posters for Marvel films in China.

          Chinese people really don’t like black people. So Disney, not wanting to disturb racist Chinese Audiences, removed black people from their posters.

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    Indeed.
    I support the people who support the current era U.S.A, where black folk get killed on the street by police and abortion is made illegal.

    Didn’t the soviet commies bring in voting rights for women before the U.S.A and many other nations?
    Very evil commies indeed

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      they did! Lenin, despite his solution to everything being mass murder, made some great strides.

      … Then Stalin reversed everything back to how it used to be; he effectively killed communism. And now Stalin is celebrated by tankies despite his reign ultimately leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Lenin warned them, damnit, he warned them!

      I always wonder if Lenin’s solution to everything wasn’t to kill everyone, would the Soviet Union still be around today?

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        Lenin, despite his solution to everything being mass murder

        Isn’t that the USA foreign policy solution?
        Genociding Guatemala.
        Use chemical weapons in Vietnam against their people.
        The only country to ever use nuclear weapons on civillians.
        WMD quests.
        Smuggle drugs into their own country, in black neighbourhoods and such, to increase violence and unrest in such populations.

        Stalin is celebrated because of the rapid industrialisation and his correct prediction of the need to do it to defeat enemies, which came true with the WW2 and the Nazis being defeated by their army.

        And when some people include POW imprisonment for gulag data and Nazi deaths in the war as Stalin’s kill count, some leftists would counter it.

        And their HDI indeed improved under communism.

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          yes, the US is shit, moving on.

          Stalin is celebrated because of the rapid industrialisation and his correct prediction of the need to do it to defeat enemies, which came true with the WW2 and the Nazis being defeated by their army.

          Hey, now, don’t be disingenuous. Stalin was perfectly okay with Nazi Germany and wanted an equal share in the invasion of Poland. They only helped the Allies after Nazi Germany betrayed them. If Nazi Germany didn’t betray the Union, then the Union would’ve been okay with their existence.

          And when some people include POW imprisonment for gulag data and Nazi deaths in the war as Stalin’s kill count, some leftists would counter it.

          And you doubt this? Do you doubt that Stalin’s soviet union rounded up Jews, queers and minorities for the main purpose being extermination?

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        It’s almost like there’s nuance in just about all things…

        It’s too easy for us to take the “simple” reality we think we understand and feel superior to others like the example about libs loving to bomb Muslims…

        If it were just about that there are a fuckton of other places we’d be doing that as well…

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            I’m not the person you were initially talking to, I was trying to (and apparently failing) support you. You had provided nuance. :P

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              Oh yeah, I can see the different names now, my b. I thought your comment was sarcastic lol. I’ll delete it!