Defending against accusations of genocide? Yes. Although the phrasing can sound odd because it is largely a fabricated narrative. I think most here would support China's actions as a deradicalization program against religious extremism, especially compared to the US solution in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq.

Tankie is really just used as an insult against "communists I don't like." It's not like it has any theoretical depth. It has an etymology related to the definition they gave you but that only has so much influence on its use.

Class war is the ongoing state of things. Like infation and rent hikes. If a revoluton broke out, of course it would be authoritarian. And the resulting state would probably take an extremely cautious siege socialism approach if it wanted to survive, so yes it would probably be authoritarian. But choosing to not be authoritarian is really just willfully ceding power to the previous ruling class who are not going to give up their position peacefully, even after a revolution. Think about the media narrative and war hawk stances against Cuba, the DPRK, the PRC. Now imagine that but applied to a newly founded socialist republic.

What kind of political and educational content are you watching on bilibili? Any recommendations?

Wait what does 737max have to do with the Titanic

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Ok, even without the femur switcheroo, how would one NOT realize it was a massive self own??? Eating a human femur to own the libs Russians, tell me who is the one that has to eat a human femur...

Thanks! Interesting to see people's perspectives.

I'm curious about the class/settler analysis, since it seemed like people didn't quite agree on that and I'm not really sure what to think myself.

Also I don't think I would aim to be totally self-sufficient or such a large scale, don't know if that makes a difference. But sounds like that may not be economically feasible from one person's experience.

Interesting points, I could see the claustrophobia really becoming a problem.

What I had in mind was much smaller scale and not totally self sufficient, probably just aiming to grow a significant percentage of what we eat and share housing/land responsibilities and costs. But I'm also not the one with the know-how and there's just been mumblings about it, not solid serious discussion.

All the American liberals around me in my experience get uncomfortable if I so much as praise China's rail infrastructure and seem to think that Uyghurs have been poured into the concrete or something.

Is there more context to this? Like this sounds ridiculous even for the USA. I assume then that he was seeding the articles or otherwise widely distributing them? Not that I think that's worth a death penalty...

You're taking away my freedom to experience urban blight, this is basically genocide

I was looking for Chinese/Mandarin dubs of spongebob on youtube and half the videos were wildly racist sponge-caricatures....

On a side note I was looking for this because I ran across a hilarious german spongebob communist meme, which made me curious to see the dubs in different languages. The Japanese dub of the Spongebob intro is hilarious—the numbers of syllables don't fit so it's completely out of rhythm, and it has so many loanwords it feels like fever dream English.

German Communist Spongebob https://youtu.be/OY-x_Wajxxw

Japanese vs. Mandarin vs. English Spongebob Intro https://youtu.be/R1BAHnPW45o If you don't use hanzi search terms be ready for A LOT of racism!!!

Just saw someone with a Polish and a Ukrainian flag, I wonder if that'll change lol

I think regarding privacy it can feel insurmountable and so people give up. At least that's pretty much how I feel. I do a few things but it seems like it takes a lot of time and sometimes money to keep up with it and use the proper applications. And as someone who is not super into tech it is very difficult to filter through the noise and figure out what concrete steps to take.

Not enough racism