Communism looks good on paper

and looks even better in the real world

    • StonksDiff13@lemmy.today
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      7 hours ago

      How about 30-50 million dead from starvation while trying to implement communism under Mao? How about Tiananmen Square?

      Do you realize that the government punishes those who bring it up and leave it out of the history books for the younger generations?

      What about Uyghur genocide?

      You can walk around the campus of a Chinese university, ask person after person about the Tiananmen Square massacre and no one knows what the hell you’re talking about.

      You think this is the shining example of socialism that should be implemented across the globe?

      No thank you.

      • BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        What about Uyghur genocide?

        You mean the one a coalition of multiple Islamic countries investigated and all agreed wasn’t a genocide? The one the UN also investigated and did not call a genocide? The one for which Wikipedia changed its article name to “Mass detention of Uyghurs” because there wasn’t sufficient grounds to call it a genocide and doesn’t give a body count? The one which, despite allegedly occurring in a country with very high rates of cell phone ownership and internet access, has produced no evidence of kill sites or mass graves?

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        7 hours ago

        Yup, that’s what I thought: you’re as propagandized as everyone else in the imperial core. Just as propagandized as I was 20 years ago.

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          You want to know who taught me about these things? My Chinese native guide that I traveled with to Tibet, Beijing, and all over rural / urban areas inbetween.

          But I guess this real person talking to you with actual experience will just disappear in your thoughts as a nothingburger.

          Fine. Tragic, but fine.

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            6 hours ago

            Funny how, when they disagree with you, Chinese people can’t be trusted because they’re all kept in the dark by their government, but when they (allegedly) agree with you, they can’t be questioned

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              6 hours ago

              I live with someone who is Chinese currently. So my personal experience and opinions are constantly being validated and corrected in some cases.

              Frankly, I’m just not the person who can be assumed as an ignorant idiot on this topic. I lived there, I speak the language, I stay updated.

              Statistics are released by their government controlled media. It’s not all that funny. The US is waking up to realize their media is completely controlled as well. They just didn’t admit it as openly as China. But the independent journalist is now dead in America. Or buried by 30 million AI generated articles per day.

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                6 hours ago

                “Independent journalist” is libspeak for “cia stenographer”

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                , I’m just not the person who can be assumed as an ignorant idiot on this topic.

                Don’t worry, I didn’t need to assume it, you’ve demonstrated it.

                The US is waking up to realize their media is completely controlled as well.

                You say, believing everything they say about China