No, they call it a Democracy. So, from your perspective it must be a democracy

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So you would say the United States is a Democracy?

So you fail to make any other argument than calling me a racist? Well, I’ll accept the win and remember this for the future.

Not everything inevitably becomes corrupt. I agree that it is very idealistic for humanity. Greed is far too Irresistible.

Just because there have been no successful forms of pure communism, Doesn’t mean we can start calling China actual communism. That’s changing where the bar is.

China is SINO or, CINO I suppose in this context.

Unless she’s “slamming” I’m not jamming.

Well, considering the news that a large portion of the maga online influencers are actually from foreign countries, I think maybe it’s not just their own doing…

OK, provide some citations that argue against those, or… Don’t respond

China has pushed huge numbers of people into poverty in different ways over the decades — the Great Leap Forward basically wrecked agriculture and caused a massive famine, the Cultural Revolution tore apart schools and workplaces and left tons of families with nothing, and long-term policies like the hukou system kept rural migrants stuck in low-income situations even as cities got richer. On top of that, big relocation projects for dams or new city districts have displaced whole communities with compensation that often didn’t match what they lost, and pollution from rapid industrialization has hit farmers and fishers hard. Outside China, some Belt and Road projects have piled unsustainable debt onto poorer countries, aggressive fishing in disputed waters has squeezed local fishers in Southeast Asia, sudden trade restrictions have hurt industries in neighboring economies, and resource extraction deals abroad have pushed aside local communities.

References (searchable titles):

• The Great Famine: China’s Great Leap Forward, 1958–1962 – Frank Dikötter
• The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History – Frank Dikötter
• China’s Hukou System and Migrant Workers – China Labor Bulletin
• Dam Displacement in China – Human Rights Watch
• Pollution and Poverty in Rural China – World Bank reports
• Belt and Road Initiative Debt Sustainability Analysis – Center for Global Development
• South China Sea Fisheries and Regional Livelihoods – Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative
• China’s Trade Retaliation Effects – Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Chinese Overseas Resource Projects and Local Impacts – Global Witness

You can say we are out of touch with reality but that does not make your reality actual reality. To be a communist country you cannot have billionaires. If you have billionaires then not everyone is equal. That is the end of the conversation

Oh, so that’s what they mean by free Tibet!

Don’t forget about the Native Americans. It’s not like China has ever done that. The people of Tibet asked for it.

Unless you’re in the Uyghur concentration camp… But they’re not allowed to talk about that

It’s strange that a comment I made over 24 hours ago gets two responses close together.

I don’t know who you are

Come on, everyone knows that women are way too airheaded to remember their wedding rings. How they are allowed to drive and vote is beyond me!

/s

I don’t have to fool someone because I know who you are. I’m not speaking to anyone but you.

No, I’m not complaining about that, I’m complaining that you focus the vast majority of your time on one side of the world… For pretty obvious reasons.

I think tools are tools. But I think “AI” has way too much hype around it. The best way I have ever used AI for creative purposes is to say “do this and let me see it” and then “ok, make it blue” and then… up until the point where I like the concept of a thing, and then I go make it myself. But that process is foreign to most people and that process triggers them and gives them this kind of overwhelming anxiety that makes them have to lash out in anger. I just don’t understand that mentality. I think it is a mental illness from too much screen time

I won’t ignore anything from anyone. I have zero allegiances.