I mean, Cuba had a bloody history and some rough years because of the US fucking them over, but they seem to be doing better now. I respect Cuba 1000x more than China. Unfortunately, they're still a one-party state without free and fair elections. The Nordic model leads to much better outcomes, though that's a mixed economy and I know you tankies fucking hate that.
I'm a Nordic Model to Meidner Plan kinda guy.
I gave you the effort I thought you deserved ๐
Oh, I have. What's really fun is talking to Chinese expats who no longer fear government reprisal. I did a lot of interviews as part of a thesis on the concept of a social panopticon and panoptic influence.
China and Russia aren't socialist, if they were socialist then the workers would own the means of production.
They're both just capitalist oligarchies with dictators who disappear their enemies and fake elections.
Me when I get so mad that someone doesn't like Xi Jinping that I prolapse
Gotta love tankie cope graphs. "approval rating" in a country where dissent is criminal? Seems legit.
Xi Jinping is a popularly supported and democratically elected leader
Lol
Anyway, that's a lot of words to say they lifted urban populations out of poverty by embracing market economics while ignoring the existence of rural populations.
The PRC has a dictator that has written himself into the country's constitution and has a profound level of abject poverty, with 20% of the population living on less than $7/day. It is better than it was in the 70s, though, back when they were actually communist. Now they have a massive private sector. Weird that the two changes line up, right?
The Uyghurs, btw.
Pretty sure people hate tankies because they defend dictators like Putin and Jinping, not because they want socialism.
When you start denying genocide, it doesn't matter how good your economic policy is.
Anyway, Slava Ukraini.
Tankie runs .ml, supports dictators like Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, etc. and says things like invading Ukraine and uyghur genocide is good actually and/or are western lies.
Dude doesn't like it, makes lots of alts to evade bans to repeatedly post a link to a list of fully insane things the .ml mods have said or done.
Basically .ml is a tankie hellscape and cm0002 has a whole lot of spare time.
He just enjoys making accounts and the tankie is mad at his hobby? ๐
Evading BLOCKS, then? Does that make you happy?
.ml bans at the drop of a hat for even the slightest dissent, I'm sure he was banned too.