• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    The average workers are seeing the effect of socialism. Within living memory, workers have gone from foot binding and mass famine on a regular basis to a modernized socialist society. Real wages dramatically improve year over year:

    Extreme poverty and homelessness have been eradicated. Home ownership is among the highest in the world, and every day technology is made to benefit the people over corporate profits.

    I think you have a caricature of China that exists in your head, but it isn’t the China that exists in reality. Had China adhered to your moralist stance on socialism, that private property is a sin, then the average worker would not have the same levels of dramatic improvements year over year. This is dogmatism, not Marxism.

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        10 hours ago

        Are you from China? Let’s see your work contract.

        Jumping straight to chauvinistic racism I see

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        10 hours ago

        No, and I find the implication that I must be Chinese and/or paid to talk about socialism seriously to be a pointless rhetorical dodge at best, and chauvanist at worst. If you cannot meaningfully engage with the discussion and would rather insult users while adding nothing of value, then I don’t see why you don’t have a better use of your own time elsewhere.

        • diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.deBanned from community
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          and I find the implication that I must be Chinese and/or paid to talk about socialism

          Never claimed that. I am implying seeing what people say within this amazing country you are describing, of course ones that have found a VPN or something.

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            10 hours ago

            Are you under the impression that the firewall prevents outsiders from looking in? The biggest limiting factor is translation of Mandarin to English, and who chooses to perform that, not China trying to keep any information from leaking.

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                8 hours ago

                “China is authoritarian because they speak Chinese instead of English,” you can’t make this shit up.

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                  5 hours ago

                  Don’t forget what they said earlier

                  I’m gonna just drop the truth nuke here so that I can get closer to my “banned from .ml award” quicker:

                  As usual, people with a lot of hate towards .ml reveal themselves to be chauvinistic and racist. EVERY TIME. Probably going to make a stink over on yet another .world feudposting about .ml and crying about how much of a victim they are.

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                9 hours ago

                why the de-facto world language isn’t widely available in such an amazing country

                have you considered why English is the “de-facto world language”? And therefor the context on “world”?

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                10 hours ago

                I can and do speak to people from China, but in any case the propagation of English translations depends almost entirely on how western organizations choose to publish them or not.