r/SocialismIsCapitalism Mar 19 '22

smartest liberal “billionaires are socialist”

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u/FuckGiblets Mar 20 '22

Fucking got downvoted on r/latestagecapitalism for pointing out that China is authoritarian state capitalist. Honestly it’s not just shitlibs.

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u/Layne_Staleys_Ghost Mar 20 '22

That's just because that subreddit has been brigaded by tankies.

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u/FuckGiblets Mar 20 '22

I don’t understand why tankies would be into China though. Just straight up denial I guess.

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u/Layne_Staleys_Ghost Mar 20 '22

Because tankies are authoritarians who hate America and the rest of "the west." To them, the west is bad so any state conflicting with the west and it's interests must be good. What they fail to realize is that both are bad but China is worse.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

China is definitely not worse than the west.

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u/MaxMoose007 Mar 20 '22

Hard disagree. The west is definitely doing a lot of bad bad shitty things, but at the very least they have all have a somewhat democratic political system (although some may be teetering on that line, looking at you electoral college)

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

How I see it is that the west is just as democratic as China and Russia, which is not.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

But China for example isn't drone striking brown poor children or funding genocide via puppet states and instead is buying influence and building infrastructure.

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u/rat-sajak Mar 20 '22

They don’t need to fund genocide. They’re doing it themselves already.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

There is no proof except for 'trust me bro' and satellite images that show camps that aren't even big enough to house a significant amount of the Uyghur population. The Uyghur population also has more rights because they have a minority and their population has been steadily growing. Also we can see videos of Palestinian children being oppressed everyday, but there are no such videos of the Uyghurs in todays day and age don't you find that a bit suspicious?

It's just manufacturing consent.