It’s lemmygrad, we’re the spectre. I’d bet at least half of the other instances out there block us, there’s only like 300 dedicated users on this instance, and they still can’t stop complaining about lemmygrad/tankies

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    Ok but in all honestly, just because there are rich people in China doesn’t mean it’s a ‘capitalist ogliarchy’. Sure, there are billionaires in the party, but they have just as much power as any farmer or worker, no more and no less.

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      That’s not true in the slightest though? I mean the very fact that there are different wages, there’s poverty, China invests heavily in foreign companies (both the government and private Chinese corporations), that’s all capitalism. The farmer doesn’t have any say in what tencent or the China Evergrande Group does. The CCP controls the media and limits free speech, and makes decisions for everyone. Even if you’re to somehow convince me that the people who control the CCP aren’t rich oligarchs, they’re absolutely still in control of the CCP, and it’s not communism.

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        Oh my god there are companies, guess there’s no more socialism guys!1!1!!1

        Just because there are companies does not mean that China is revisionist. And Tencent and China Evergrande have nothing to do with the government. Why would they?

        edit: What do different wages have to do with socialism? Also it’s CPC, not CCP.

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          We’re talking about communism here not socialism, I didn’t say China doesn’t have socialism

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            I’m confused. Do you expect China to be instantly fully communist without money or class? Do you know that China started as a poor and feudal country and has constantly been under pressure and sanctions from the west?

            It’s like giving you control of an island full of people with almost no food and enemies thirsting to attack at any moment. Go on, build communism.

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              No, I’m saying China is a capitalist oligarchy. Currently, right now. I don’t believe it can ever become communism with the current people still in power. That can be debatable, but what they are right now is definitely not communism, and that’s all I was saying

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                Yes, it’s not communism right now. But Xi Jinping is not a ‘capitalist oligarch’. And China has pulled millions out of poverty, build an advanced public transport system, given massive amounts of aid to third-world countries while helping them develop, and has cracked down on corruption. If this is a ‘capitalist oligarchy’ then I will gladly support it.

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                  I mean, I would also call the US a capitalist oligarchy, wouldn’t call Biden an oligarch, and would say they’ve done the same in the past, so yeah I would still call it that personally. That’s generally how industrialisation under capitalism goes. I’d even go as far as to say the US and UK had a lot of influence on it getting where it is in the first place, and it’s very difficult to do trade with the west in this world without shifting towards capitalism. (Not impossible, but difficult)

                  Edit: In the definition of oligarchy, a small group of people hold power. I take that as relatively small, so maybe I’m mis using the term. Aristocracy might be a better term, but it’s somewhere in the middle

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                    The US has not eliminated poverty. Where did you get that from? In addition, the US has done nothing to help 3rd world countries at all, only to exploit them for resources. Before you say that’s what China is doing too, it’s not.

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          I also want to add, I feel like I was legitimately trying to engage with you and you’ve become defensive/lumped me in with others, which isn’t really fair

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            Not the person you replied to, but we get a decent amount of bad faith posters here from other instances, and you were repeating some of those points. I don’t think there was ill intent by either of you, but I can understand the confusion.

            I hope we don’t feel like a hostile place and I hope you learned something!

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        The CCP controls the media and limits free speech,

        In my country like three completely unnacountable megacorporations control the media and limit free speech. The CPC at least gives a shit about public health and safety

        and makes decisions for everyone

        I don’t remember being consulted on the decision to invade Iraq, continue the illegal blockade of Cuba, send missiles to Nazis in Ukraine, make food twice as expensive, have the sky turn blood red from fire every couple years, be watched by police snipers at a football game, live in an endless pandemic, or drink microplastics for the rest of my life.

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          To the first part, to my knowledge they only care about health and safety in specific cases, but they allow for working conditions with things like lead, asbestos, toxic chemicals, etc. Foxconn is the first example that pops into my head, where workers were searches and beaten, and some were committing suicide. And back when China was buying US E waste, workers would be scavenging through dangerous phosphors and mercury, plus some mild lead exposure.

          To the second part, I am not comparing China to the US, I don’t believe the US government is good either, so that’s irrelevant

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            Foxconn is a Taiwanese company, headquartered in Taipei. While China has a ways to go on working conditions, the overall trend (as with pretty much every other metric) is that their conditions continue to improve due to increasing regulation, ours continue to decline in the dearch for increasing profits. I’m definitely hoping they achieve a better work/life balancr, although having been to Taiwan, I’ll say they certainly can’t throw any stones in that department either lol

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              Yes foxconn is taiwanese, but the factories I’m talking about are in Shenzhen China, therefore subject to Chinese labor laws. I do agree that things are improving over there, but they have a long way to go before I would say the country cares about health and safety of everyone