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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If "on the planet" you mean primarily the U.S and secondarily the rest of the "west" while excluding the majority of humanity on the planet, then sure.

You're so brainwashed and conditioned into believing you have more in common with some ghoul billionaire that values your life insofar as much as they can extract wealth out of you than your own fellow worker.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Obligatory comment that brainwashing is a myth rooted in orientalism and later pseudoscience, propagated by the US in order to make excuses for US soldiers defecting during the Korean War (et al).

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I mean everywhere that isn't China or Russia or one of their satellites/annexes yeah.

Not sure where you got the billionaire thing, I've never defended them, in word or action. (Living in a capitalist country and needing a job for resources doesn't make me a billionaire apologist)

Liberalism and billionaire worship are not the same thing, same as communism and xi are not the same thing.

To be clear: just because xi figuratively leads a communist country doesn't mean this policy is perfectly communist.

Same thing goes for billionaires existing in a liberal society.

Lastly, the existence of either doesn't invalidate the tenets of either ideology

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

None of that makes any sense

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Xi is no different than any other billionaire shit head most of the communist party top leaders use there position to gain control over the state controlled businesses

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The cia literally called him redder than red and unable to be corrupted by money lmao

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09BEIJING3128_a.html

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

This is incoherent. Xi has administrative control (or influence) over state enterprises, but he isn't getting profits or stock options from them, so there are no grounds for calling him a billionaire

communist party top leaders use there position to gain control over the state controlled businesses

This is like saying you became a police commissioner to gain control over local police cars. Yeah, an explicit part of your job is that you can direct them, but the claim is so tautological that it looks like you are saying something else. It's not like Xi will retain control of these enterprises after he leaves office.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Xi first started geting so much hate from the west because he actually started purging communist party members for being too involved in the private sector. If he was encouraging the bourgeoisification of the CPC he would be hailed by the west.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tell me you know nothing about the PRC without saying you know nothing about the PRC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure dude xi is such a great leader real humanitarian bro I've read more about that scumbag than you will ever know

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm sure you've read plenty of propaganda

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your right no propaganda in china from the state controlled no independent media allowed

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You think corporate controled media is better?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Of course you agree on something that's bullshit about an AES