Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

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    1 year ago

    The fact that you don’t even see just how absurd this line of argument is really shows just how far off the reservation you’ve wandered.

    Every single survey that comes out of China done by domestically as well as by western organizations consistently shows that people in China overwhelmingly support their government and see it as democratic. The only people who say what you say are invariably westerners who have never been to China or talked to anyone actually living there.

    Thinking that it’s somehow controversial that people living in a communist country who overwhelmingly support their government identify as communists is laughably absurd.

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      Every single survey that comes out of China done by domestically as well as by western organizations consistently shows that people in China overwhelmingly support their government and see it as democratic.

      You changed the subject, I was speaking of communism and socialism being much less popular than they should be.

      people living in a communist country

      A country with almost as much wealth disparity between the poor and wealth as the US?

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        No, I didn’t change the subject at all. I provided you with background evidence supporting my point. Communism and socialism are very clearly popular in places like China, Cuba, Vietnam, and Laos. You’d know this if you actually interacted with people from these countries.

        Meanwhile, the reason it’s not popular in the western shithole countries is because colonizers live like parasites off the backs of the rest of the world, and majority of westerners are perfectly happy with the arrangement.

        A country with almost as much wealth disparity between the poor and wealth as the US?

        A country that’s seen biggest poverty reduction in human history, where practically everyone owns their home, and people see their lives improve dramatically each and every year. The fact that you ignore all that just shows how intellectually dishonest you really are.

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          colonizers live like parasites off the backs of the rest of the world, and majority of westerners are perfectly happy with the arrangement.

          100% true, Western capitalists have been exploiting cheap Chinese labor, and labor of other Asian countries, for decades, plus stripping them of natural resources. With the consent of their (according to you - Communist) governments. This is where the government should be regulating labor, tariffs on imports and exports, and regulating involvement of foreign corporations. Instead, these governments are colluding with Western capitalists to enrich themselves.

          A country that’s seen biggest poverty reduction in human history, where practically everyone owns their home, and people see their lives improve dramatically each and every year.

          https://www.bbc.com/news/56213271

          A very dramatic improvement, but about a quarter of China’s population still makes less than $5.50 a day, and $600 million make just $154 a month. Meanwhile, China has about 500 billionaires.

          If communism looks like a huge number of people living on less than $5.50 a day, while billionaires still exist, I’m really going to dislike communism for the exact same reasons I dislike capitalism.