How does the World view China these days?

[Nebraska]

On 9/8/2021 at 12:18 AM, Rubin Farr said:

I can’t imagine working 70+ hours every week for life, how is the suicide rate not higher?

i'm assuming it is, just not reported by the CCP. they're now also cracking down on “sissy idols,” “effeminate men” and all things “overly entertaining” which i'm assuming means everything interesting.

https://variety.com/2021/global/asia/china-cissy-idols-effeminate-men-entertainment-industry-1235055304/

[Rubin Farr]

2 hours ago, Nebraska said:

i'm assuming it is, just not reported by the CCP. they're now also cracking down on “sissy idols,” “effeminate men” and all things “overly entertaining” which i'm assuming means everything interesting.

https://variety.com/2021/global/asia/china-cissy-idols-effeminate-men-entertainment-industry-1235055304/

They’re fearful of the growing cultural influence of South Korea , Japan and their idol cultures. Good luck fighting that. The internet did away with most cultural isolation in Asia, except poor North Korea.

[zlemflolia]

china does not want men with $200k in plastic surgery acting with a bourgeois narcissistic personality being represented on TV

[Alcofribas]

please government give me the proper beauty standards. you’re so good at doing this. 

[Rubin Farr]

How long until they ban this? lol

[Squee]

 

Brace yourselves.

[ignatius]

[auxien]

really curious to see if this Evergrande stuff makes the government start to rein in some of the big capitalism the country is so dependent on. i think it's probably impossible at this point, but if any country could force it despite a possibly disastrous outcome, it's China.

[Squee]

50 minutes ago, ignatius said:

[zlemflolia]

4 hours ago, auxien said:

really curious to see if this Evergrande stuff makes the government start to rein in some of the big capitalism the country is so dependent on. i think it's probably impossible at this point, but if any country could force it despite a possibly disastrous outcome, it's China.

I don't think it's impossible to do it at all.  If any country in the world can do it, it's China.  They will succeed because the communist revolution is inevitable

Edited September 19, 2021 by ilqx hermolia xpli

[ignatius]

43 minutes ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:

They will succeed because the fascist devolution is inevitable

only question is who will get there first? america or china?

[zlemflolia]

4 minutes ago, ignatius said:

only question is who will get there first? america or china?

firstly you should add strikethroughs when modifying other peoples' quotes

secondly, fascism isn't a "devolution" or something that is inevitable, it's a reaction against socialism by the owning class by bringing imperialism within the borders moreso than previously

[ignatius]

36 minutes ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:

firstly you should not add strikethroughs when modifying other peoples' quotes

 

1 hour ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:

They will succeed because the cummunist revolution is inevitable

 

35 minutes ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:

secondly, fascism isn't a "devolution" or something that is inevitable, it's a reaction against socialism by the owning class by bringing imperialism within the borders moreso than previously

i think using the word devolution this way, for me, makes sense since i view fascism negatively and as a back step from any possible system. but yeah.. your definition sounds correct. 

Edited September 19, 2021 by ignatius

[chenGOD]

Mmm such excellent patriotic election. 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/9/19/hong-kong-few-select-powerful-new-patriots-only-committee

[zlemflolia]

i wonder how much democracy the poor and homeless people of hong kong had under previous leadership. let's hope the CPC retrieves power over hk and begins actually developing the society so people don't have to live in fucking fedex box sized "apartments"

[chenGOD]

27 minutes ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:

i wonder how much democracy the poor and homeless people of hong kong had under previous leadership. let's hope the CPC retrieves power over hk and begins actually developing the society so people don't have to live in fucking fedex box sized "apartments"

They had more representation than now. 
the CCP has already taken over power over HK, no hoping necessary. 
But I hate to break it to you, they live in shoebox size apartments in the mainland as well (except for in the ghost cities, where no one lives).

[thefxbip]

Someone really needs to get their head out of their little red book...

Praising China for taking power over HK and removing every civil liberty HK had???

smh

It's easy to be a CPC enthusiast from a distance and be drunk on utopia.

Go and try living there and write back to us, oh right you wont be able cause this site is gonna be blocked. People are literally rotting in jail for even speaking about democracy and human rights in HK right now. So much for benevolence...

Edited September 20, 2021 by thefxbip

[thefxbip]

When it reach autocratic level, fascism and communism are not so different. Death of freedom and human rights, no regard for basic humanity, suffering of its citizen, moral degeneration of every kind in its leaders, fanaticism, abuse of power, atrocities...

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. 

To praise autocratic communism is the same as praising fascists in my book.

 

Edited September 20, 2021 by thefxbip

[zlemflolia]

absolute liberalism.  "at 'autocratic' levels, the doctrine of liberation of the proletariat through seizure of the means of production and the elimination of class, money, and the state, is exactly the same as the oppression of movements wishing to do that, the mass murder of communists, genocide of undesirable races, and doctrine of eternal bourgeois domination"

what kind of enlightened centrist nonsense is that lol. 

[auxien]

Quote

"Chinese people, by working extremely hard, lifted themselves out of poverty - in part because some of the stupidest economic policies ever created, by Chairman Mao, were abandoned in favour of versions of capitalism."

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

[zlemflolia]

6 minutes ago, auxien said:

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

>BBC

western capitalist sources cannot analyze china better than china can understand itself, especially when they have a vested interest in pretending everything good about china is actually capitalism, rather than Socialism with Chinese Characteristics.  anything to take away credit from the chinese people themselves

if it's capitalism china is using to do this, where are all the other places where capitalism does the same worldwide? instead, capitalism results in widespread poverty and intentional non-development, and de-industrialization

Edited September 20, 2021 by ilqx hermolia xpli

[auxien]

3 minutes ago, ilqx hermolia xpli said:

anything to take away credit from the chinese people themselves

the quote literally credited the Chinese people.

[zlemflolia]

2 minutes ago, auxien said:

the quote literally credited the Chinese people.

it takes away their agency in explaining their own technique and ideology and instead says it was done through the very ideology of the author and the west

[auxien]

[ignatius]

most unfappable thread.