• GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Yes, you are absolutely the smartest ones in the room. All rooms. At all times.

    As opposed to you, who definitely doesn’t roleplay being the “smartest one in the room” and speak in condescending generalizations about a large group of political others. Never ever.

    • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      If you are still seriously reading communist theory beyond the age of 20, I’ve got some truly terrible news for you. You should probably stay out of rooms altogether before anyone puts it together for you.

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        We all know you’re using that isle of man flag as a coward’s version of the afrikaner flag. You’re so god damn bad at this.

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            Mate pull the other one. You write like a yank and you spell like one too. It takes 5 seconds to see every single little thing in your user history is american, not british.

            Fooling absolutely nobody.

            • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              Yep. Doesn’t change where I was born. Us filthy “libs” are a bit more mobile than you lot. I’ve lived in a lot of countries, and I’ve visited half the world including China which is why I don’t need to engage any further on this. None of you have a clue what you are talking about. You are singing the praises of a country that is a living hell for 99% of its inhabitants, even moreso than filthy capitalist strongholds.

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                  Under threat of being disappeared. That’s the thing about totalitarian regimes: If you poll the local population, they enjoy almost total support for some reason. Gee, I wonder why that could be.

                  It’s the same everywhere these shit heels operate. I did not hear a bad word against the government in Laos in the early 2000’s either. They must have been doing a stellar job, no other reason.

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                    The approval rating being referenced was a 10+ year long study done by Harvard University, not some poll done by the government while pointing guns at people. You’re just in full and complete denial of reality and can’t explain why Chinese people are happy, since that conflicts with your own programming, so you handwave it away with this pure fiction that they’re all lying because the government is just so scary lmao.

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                Us filthy “libs” are a bit more mobile than you lot. I’ve lived in a lot of countries, and I’ve visited half the world including China which is why I don’t need to engage any further on this. clueless

                This is a fantastic way to piss off poor and marginalized people, flaunting your privilege and using it in a context to assert some flavor of chauvinistic superiority over us. You’re only digging the grave of your class further and further by being a jerk that thinks their own shit doesn’t stink, which is fine with me as I enjoy skipping to the end of direct class conflict. The people you step on are the vast majority on this planet, and they recognize which class actually shares their interests based on how they are treated, so you’re just giving us more comrades and bolstering solidarity by throwing them into our open arms, critical support to you in that regard.

                You said you’ve “visited China”… When? When precisely did you visit China, and where did you actually go? What’s your story here?

                You are singing the praises of a country that is a living hell for 99% of its inhabitants, even moreso than filthy capitalist strongholds.

                Complete projection here. Everything you said is basically true in regards to specifically the United States, but also the Western world in general, which is only worsening in living conditions for the working class as time goes on. You failed to elaborate on why you assert China to be a “living hell” for 99% of its inhabitants. Do you have any actual tangible examples, or is this just like all the other bullshit claims that are taken at face value as Gospel Truth because liberal media monopolies in the West, with the US at its core and main source, endlessly hammer these things into the heads of the population?

                See, unlike you, a person who speaks, condescends and sneers from an ivory tower of privilege, the vast majority of us cannot afford to just take luxury vacations and go wherever we want. Your demographic treat the poor of other countries like zoo animals, finding it a good time to travel to poorer places and ooo and awe at the less fortunate to reinforce your confidence in grandstanding to flex and scoff at those that oppose your class interests and intend to fight against them.

                Here. I may not have the wealth to travel around the world, but I’m resourceful enough to have found some concrete examples of this “living hell” you spoke of. Check it out:

                Things You CAN Do in China (You CAN’T Do in America) Americans WON’T Believe It…
                Apartment Tour in China | What can $300 a month get you? 🇨🇳
                China vs USA - Please DON’T Compare… (Americans Crying) (CW for the vegans: meat carving/eating)
                China LEADS the World in Electric Cars! (America Shocked)

                Next time you want to talk about socialist nations being inferior to the living hell that capitalist nations have cultivated for their own people, bring receipts. If you refuse to engage in the concrete examples I have provided, don’t even bother replying because I’m not interested in bad faith conversation.

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                China is a living hell for 99% of its inhabitants which is why they overwhelmingly approve of their government and are overall happier and more optimistic about the future than people living in western “democracies” , you sure are smart dude

        • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          So which one is it: round up all the intellectuals and cast them out to carry out farm labour, or let them sit in their ivory tower and read theory?

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            Your point was “No adult reads Marx!”, which I disproved readily with people of status and learned people that do.

            The funny thing is that one of the professors does actually carry out farm labour, as they are involved in international brigades and works for 30 years for food security with sustainable practices in precarious countries. Did quite a bit of their study in AES countries, too.

            I would start with casting you out to do farm labour (which you seem so into) and also having to read/discuss various things, too.

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        There’s this reactionary trope that Communism is just something teenagers who have never had real jobs are into, that somehow the basement-dwelling children of 1st world small business owners are able to easily blaze through all The Manifesto, Grundrisse, Anti-Duhring, German ideology, All 3 volumes of Das Kapital, All 3 volumes of Theories of Surplus Value, etc. etc. etc. before they’re old enough to drink, and then after getting an associates degree abandon it because they learned to adult… it’s patently absurd. If anything the type of people in question don’t even begin to question Capitalism until they’re well into their 20s and sufficiently addled with student loan debt and long hours and a bleaker future than their parents.

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        Okay, explain how the following mathematical formula that’s used to examine the rate of profits of a company, which tends to fall, is invalid and shouldn’t be studied

        p’ : p’1 = s’ (v/C) : s’ (v1/C1) = (v/C) : v1/C1

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        What a silly statement! It is so ridiculous that it doesn’t even deserve a rebuttal

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        Yes who would ever want to study the leaders of succesful revolutions? Why should we want to learn from those that managed to fight off the capitalists?

        Also that sectarianism is probably working super well for you. Great way to build a mass movement.

        You’re just parroting the most basic of chud clichés, but I guess that shouldn’t be surprising when you’re petite bourgeoisie