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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

I mean... No one on any Lemmy instance thinks the US has any leg to stand on.

Even righties I know think the country has kinda gone to hell. Not that any are here.

[–] Ozymandias1688@feddit.org 0 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Both are shit. Easy answer.

[–] cheeso@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 minutes ago

China is way better.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Easy, but wrong. The US Empire is orders of magnitude worse than the PRC, which itself is a progressive and continuously improving force for good. The PRC is imperfect, but the fact that it is consistently improving both domestically and internationally makes qualitatively different from the US Empire.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 3 points 4 hours ago (4 children)
[–] cheeso@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 minutes ago

eating up that propaganda like you're in a famine

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Xinjiang: A Report and Resource Compilation

The PRC is not murdering Uyghurs. It's genuinely a complex situation, but you can absolutely rely on the west to uncritically report their paid propagandist and christian nationalist Adrian Zenz of the "Victims of Communism" state department propaganda outlet.

[–] bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

haha! Yeah a wikipedia link! Im sure the content anybody can edit isn't being controlled by Western narratives 😂

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime ...

  • Amendment XIII, Section 1.
[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck the US, but saying "lol x is better" is whats silly. Both can be shit at the same time and both can need revolution

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Only the US needs a revolution. The vast majority in the PRC support their system and believe it is working in their interests. That makes sense, considering the PRC is socialist, and not under a dictatorship of capital. A revolution in the PRC would only result in the restoration of capitalism, and likely plundering from the US, setting back the global progression to socialism by a century by letting the US Empire last even longer.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

the difference here is the uyghur thing is american propaganda while the prison thing is reality.

there's plenty of other things that makes china look REALLY bad, but it's not the uyghurs since it's just the american pot calling the chinese kettle black and; even if it were 100% true; it's not anywhere near as bad american prosecution of SOOOO many groups.

[–] Flaqueman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, like everywhere. Remember Tienanmen square protests?

[–] bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A well debunked western propaganda? I remember the debunking ya!

[–] Azhad@lemmy.world -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So what's your deal? Does russia and china pay you to spew this shit or is just that you like to suck up to dictators?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Most socialists/communists support the PRC, it isn't particularly unusual.

[–] Flaqueman@sh.itjust.works -1 points 3 minutes ago

Source: the PRC probably

[–] pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Umm, no, they don't. The PRC is about as far from communism as the US.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

Yes we do. The PRC is in the developing stage of socialism. The large firms and key industries are publicly owned, the medium firms are heavily controlled and planned, and as they grow they are further integrated into the planned nature of the economy. This is the general path to sublimating property and gradually collectivizing it. The US Empire, on the other hand, has private ownership of the large firms and key industries, and runs on imperialism, ie vast expropriation of wealth from the global south via financial and millitary domination.

I suggest reading Marxist-Leninist theory, if you want somewhere to start, I wrote an introductory reading list targetting those interested in theory but who don't know where to start.