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  • davel@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHard to swallow pills
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    3 hours ago

    If that’s what you jump to, you might want to introspect on that. They’re not savages for being xenophobic, that just makes them human like the rest of us.

    You are the one saying that they are xenophobic, and I reject your racist, orientalist, essentialist claim. Yours is an idealist position, not a materialist one, yet you’re the one trying to argue that communism as idealist.

    It’s not in “China’s nature”, but if they decided to invade in a world that looked like ours today but without the US, there would realistically be nobody to stop them.

    You say, “if they decided.” What’s the point of this hypothetical? You’re doing a lot of mental gymnastics to construct a straw man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc



  • davel@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHard to swallow pills
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    4 hours ago

    Either Communism is a realistic political system that can be implemented with humans as we are, including all of our base animal impulses

    That is precisely what it is.

    or it’s a fantasy that requires humans to achieve a higher level of consciousness first or something.

    That is precisely what it is not.

    I think there’s ~0% chance you’re interested in understanding dialectical materialism or historical materialism, but I’ll link to this anyway: Elementary principles of philosophy





  • davel@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHard to swallow pills
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    17 hours ago

    China is super xenophobic, like many Asian countries.

    Those savages. Yeah, that doesn’t sound racist at all, not orientalist at all. Are you Josep Borell?

    If China then decided that they want to finish the job on making the Korean peninsula Chinese, who would realistically stop them?

    What are you talking about? Koreans are still in Korea, speaking Korean. If it were in China’s “nature” to make Korea Chinese, then why didn’t they do it at any point over the centuries?


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    22 hours ago

    Winnie the Pooh is banned in China

    Winnie the Pooh is not banned in China, despite Western propaganda to the contrary.

    There’s a reason you can find a lot of Americans talking about how they don’t like the American government, and not a lot of Chinese people saying they don’t like the Chinese government, and it’s not because the Chinese government is perfect.

    No government is perfect, but Chinese people like their government a lot more than Americans like theirs for good reason: their material conditions have been steadily improving over the last several decades while ours have been steadily deteriorating under grinding neoliberalism.




  • davel@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlHard to swallow pills
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    1 day ago

    Imperialism is human nature, yes.

    It is human nature in the sense that humans have been known to do it. It is not human nature in the sense that humans will always do it when the opportunity presents itself.

    Are you really trying to argue that Communists can’t be imperialist?

    That would be a strange form of communism. Imperialism is, however, baked into capitalism, because once the capitalist class has absorbed the domestic, it tries to exfiltrate new resources abroad and subjugate new labor abroad and access new markets abroad. That is what the UK did, and that is what the US, as the global imperialist hegemon, has been doing for decades, along with its imperial core junior partners.









  • davel@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlForest of trees
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    4 days ago

    I don’t know your situation, and I don’t have a crystal ball, but I think Trump’s rhetoric is going to rub up against the will of the bourgeoisie which relies on exploiting immigrant labor. Republicans talk a big game about immigrants and then exploit the precarity & fear that it generates. Not to imply that the fear isn’t justified, because it’s not all talk.