• NateNate60@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Same problem when discussing China. They will knee-jerk defend any country that claims to be or once was socialist. Could not realise that the modern CCP spits on Marx’s legacy and ideas, or that Western-style liberal social democracy is closer to actual socialism than whatever is going on in China

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      11 months ago

      I got banned for calling them simps on this post

      https://hexbear.net/post/1285475

      They are revelling in the future time when the great Chinese people are set free on the internet by their benevolent masters the CCP to come bully the west’s twitterati… The irony of them banning me for picking on them, mental.

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      11 months ago

      Personally I found myself knee-jerking in the face of rampant sinophobia and honestly quite bigoted takes that’ve been rising up lately but I agree that they are indefensible as a socialist bastion of any kind.