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    1 year ago

    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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        1 year ago

        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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              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.