• aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    It’s more about trajectories. In China, statistics such as life expectancy keep going up, and have actually overtaken the US, whereas these quality of life indicators in the US are stagnating or even going down. Is China an ideal society at this point? Of course not, but one can still recognise what has been accomplished by their plans, weather you want to call it state capitalist, socialist or whatever other label, the results are there when compared to the quality of life 40 or 50 years ago.

    That’s why it’s pretty funny for Biden to try deflect to China.

    Don’t know what any of this has to do with sexual violence though.

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      Political elites allowing a certain segment of the society they lord over to not be mired in poverty to better secure their own power and privilege is no sign of “progress” - as the US proves, such economic manipulation can be very temporary.

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          Yeah… it’s still capitalism with Chinese characteristics - no matter how much you masturbate to pictures of Xi Jinping.

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              Why do they do that? It’s so weirdly consistent. “Fact supported by evidence” “oh yeah, well… uh… uhn… you’re gay!” Like okay, so? I can’t speak for othe instances in the Fediverse but Hexbear is one of the queerest places on the internet, and the lib is still wrong.

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                1 year ago

                Well the short answer is Patriarchy. Accusing people of behaving in a way contrary to traditional ideas of masculinity is a classic technique for shaming people with heterodox views.

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                  Yeah, yeah, good point. It’s honestly shocking, I spend so much time in Hexbear I forget how common and casual misogyny and queerphobia are out in the ret of the world.

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                “Fact supported by evidence”

                Oh, a tankie with facts, eh? Come on… do that little psychotic tankie thing where you paste a wall of text to try and pretend that China isn’t capitalist.

                I know you want to.