“What are we, a bunch of Asians??”

I don’t really know what you’re after. You can either try to earnestly understand why the CPC doesn’t do what you expect or throw up your hands and become an anticommunist. I hope it’s the prior.

No one is obligated to do anything. Why would China behave as if this is the case?

You can say every country should do x, but that’s only weakening the relative position of any country that chooses to comply. There’s no way to make the West follow suit. They obviously won’t.

You’re falling into the same error of thought that anarchists commit when they say “all states are bad, so China AND America should be balkanized/destroyed/resisted.” You are not rising above the fray. You’re not even declaring neutrality. You’re jumping in on the side of our class enemies by demanding our allies diminish their power for nothing in return.

You ask these people what they’re doing to fight Zionism and they’ll just insist that they’re posting and fighting in the information war, meanwhile this is what they post.

It’s just incredible how western leftists will expect real revolutionaries and real leaders of real communist societies to imperil their many hundreds of millions of citizens and their thriving socialist projects to clean up messes borne of our own sins. Yes, Palestinian genocide is evil and it must be stopped, but how is that China’s burden to bear? As if we haven’t foisted enough burdens directly onto them already…

“Something caused it to change” isn’t the same as “it changed itself by living the way it once did.” I know that’s granular, but that distinction is important.

You don’t need a source. Just point out that Norway’s economy isn’t any more separate from Britain’s economy than Nigeria’s economy.

If they had a little awareness, they’d notice how closely these fictional atrocities committed by foreign powers mirror their firsthand knowledge of atrocities committed by their own governments.

Not me dusting off my (REDACTED)

DiaMat takes a long time to come to grips with because we are consistently made to think in non-dialectical and non-material terms. We are taught to conceive of systems as being created by a higher power with objectives in mind. Your heart is there to pump blood and your lungs are there to take oxygen into your body because if they don’t your cells can’t respirate and they will die. Plants bear flowers so pollinators will move gametes from plant to plant. It’s not true, but it’s the way we’re taught to think.

It makes no more sense to say “this young man is strong and healthy so he can work for his boss and fight for his country. This young woman ovulates so she can bear children for her husband.”

If you understand that these statements are nonsense, it shouldn’t be difficult to understand that banks are not there to provide loans and credit, that groceries are not there to feed people, and that factories are not there to produce material goods. They aren’t there to make capitalists rich either. This is just a reframing of the same unscientific thinking

The unscientific way of thinking says “the system is the way it is because that’s the way it works. If it didn’t work this way, it wouldn’t exist.” It’s completely circular.

The scientific way says “This system is this way because existing the way it used to caused it to change into what it is now. Existing in its current form will cause it to change further in the future.”

“Won’t someone rid me of these turbulent forests?”

The way this is being framed as “law enforcement” is wildly chauvinistic. What laws? I know I should be jaded and cynical and know to expect this nonsense, but I really didn’t see that one coming.

Economy bad —> less consumption —> economy bad —> less consumption —> economy bad…

People saying that China “capitulated” to global capitalism or whatever can start apologizing now.

“Some are saying the color of your skin can help determine whether or not you can make your mortgage payments! For those with bad credit, it could be a blessing.”

My money is on Trump shooting a couple missiles at them, declaring victory, and bouncing out. Has this man ever committed to anything?

It’s sexual harassment and misogyny and exploitation unless it’s in its purest form. Thank you! I do not get this at all.

Thank you, sister

THANK YOU! The way people suddenly act like it’s fucking normal is absurd! Who trained these dogs to bark like that?

Thank you, I don’t agree but I hear what you’re saying. I wanna clarify I’m not interesting in judging sex workers. I’m just gonna speak on a couple points.

Selling my body and selling my labor are two completely different worlds. The factory managers are only interested in my ability to perform a series of discreet tasks to keep the line moving. They don’t care how big my tits are, because that’s not part of the job. It’s about my work, not my body. This is not a superficial point. I hope this is obvious. Do I really need to explain that this is safe, dignified, and secure, and sex work isn’t?

About the cotton picking thing, my people have for several generations been forced to the absolute margins of society. We were barred from all traditional occupations for our nonconformity. We served as erotic curiosities and human sex toys for misogynists and rapists not because we organically loved doing it or thought it was a good idea, but because we needed to in order to survive and there were very few other options. We endured decades if not centuries of horrific violence and humiliation from people who hated us for even daring to exist, but were more than happy to get off by using us as sex slaves and beating us to vent their shame after the fact. Yes, it is like picking cotton. This is a dark chapter of our history. And even now, you and other queers (I see the pronouns) reflexively associate ourselves with weird kinky sex and the associated puritanical reactionaries who hate us for our alleged perversions.

You are a human being. You deserve decent work and to live in mainstream, polite society, and your sexual life is not for display or critique. Have some pride.