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China doesn’t claim to be communist, “yet”.

China … [is] socialist

No it isn’t, Socialism “with Chinese Characteristics” is doing some extremely heavy lifting.

It’s a capitalist state, pretty evidently. The government having state run companies doesn’t negate this. Further, those state run companies are not beholden to their workers, nor the people at large.

Without worker control, that’s not socialism.

Workers unions are functionally illegal (the state run one, most certainly does not count as it doesn’t authorise strikes in almost all circumstances, as far as I’m aware).

Look up China Tobacco, a great example of how just having industries nationalised, doesn’t make something socialist.

China is just as bad as the rest of the capitalist nations, they’re just bad in their own unique ways.

All the cool comrades know that “socialism” in the mould of Stalinist USSR or China isn’t a great model.

Inb4 USA is worse! - nah, they’re both capitalist states. I’m not a “China Bad” believer, much of what we hear in mainstream western media is overblown or inaccurate to manufacture consent for a conflict between us.

The ruling class in all countries simply use the rest of us for their own gain.

I feel like most liberal democracies* have a large section of the population who think the welfare state, or UBI, is socialism. But yeah, the US seems particularly nuts on the definition of “socialism”.

* Using this term liberally (heh) - capitalism making actual democracy impossible notwithstanding.

That’s what I was thinking. In what country can a foreign country sue you in your own country?

And this is a very stupid state of affairs, in my opinion.

Fuck the crown, and the former Governor General John Kerr specifically

Recently?

You’d think they’d change DNA test methodologies so this sort of thing doesn’t happen again

Practically everyone.

If you were searching for a tutorial, it was a fantastic time saver.

The irony of having this in the middle of the article

I don’t think the UK gets to be part of the “normal units” gang with this hodgepodge they have going on

Japan, have an extremely high murder conviction rate. They do this by not labeling it a murder unless they find the murderer and enough evidence.

Press X to doubt that their false conviction rate is actually significantly lower

As a non-american: they are both right-wing parties by international standards. One of them is super-duper far right.

this was done very much on purpose, for what they consider to be a good reason

This is worse than just making a mistake

I’ll live with the extra 7 seconds if it means I don’t have to see ads using ublock and sponsor block

You mean, don’t let Apple give us any ideas:

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Not sure if I’d count what Green did as bad, in any way.

Petty, maybe, but justice demanded grey have some social consequences for their behaviour, and green most certainly delivered.

From one socialist (me) to another (you, presumably), the lemmy.ml hate comes from:

• Conservatives who dislike socialism
• Liberals who dislike socialism
• Socialists who think Stalin and Mao were anti-democratic fuckheads, and don’t enjoy being around “socialists” who like them.

I like Lemmy, but can at the same time dislike people who like things I consider to be authoritarian, even if those people created the platform in the first place.

Viewing lemmy.ml content on ‘All-Top’ is a rather happy medium for me, still get to see some of the best memes

We did just fine before these existed. They should just be outright banned, and the existing ones be phased out in some way where the owners aren’t completely screwed (though, if I were being vindictive I’d say tough shit, you shouldn’t have participated in this arms race)

People who don’t want politics as part of a story have no business watching/reading sci-fi or fantasy.