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[-] GirthBrooksPLO@lemmy.world 81 points 1 month ago

I don't care if they are against capitalism, I'm not simping for authoritarians.

[-] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago

authoritarians

Thought terminating cliche used by the unintelligent and uninformed to avoid reckoning with reality beyond vibes.

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[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago

Define authoritarian. The PRC spent decades of anti-colonial struggle defeating British imperialists, Japanese imperialists, feudal reactionaries, and then US imperialists. Do you know more than them about how to defeat vicious empires, "non-authoritarianly"?

[-] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago

"Simping" here meaning "viewing with anything less than total antipathy"

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[-] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 75 points 1 month ago

My god the comments. You are perfectly allowed to not know much about a country. I don't know about PRC either. But I know to keep my mouth shut on matters I don't know about. I don't go on parroting propaganda for those things.

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[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 month ago

Westerners today have so much in common with their inquisition and crusades predecessors. They replaced Christianity with Western Liberalism and they fight for it with the same zeal. Either you adopt their values and systems or you are an evil heathen who must be destroyed.

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[-] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 24 points 1 month ago

All states are bad, but if we're talking about which ones are arguably better or worse on the world stage...

"USA USA USA, WE'RE NUMBER 1!"

Proudly colonizing for 250 years?

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[-] 52fighters@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 month ago

If, over the next 10 years, your country became more and more like China, would you go along with the changes? Would you have any problems with the transformation?

[-] culprit@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 month ago
  • modern electricity grid quickly moving away from fossil fuels
  • high speed train network
  • cheap fresh produce
  • affordable housing
  • transitioning to socialism via the development of productive forces
  • strong investment in education and R&D
  • quickly advancing tech in almost every sector that matters
  • people-directed governance that is not subservient to capital (foreign or domestic)
  • very low crime
  • ecological restoration that won't get cancelled by the next elected administration
  • cheap and good quality healthcare
  • bold long term vision and consistent achievement of it over time

objectively better than just about any other place

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago

I wish my country became more like China over the next decade

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