godisidog [none/use name]

Allowing Xi to have a firm grip on cars everywhere. Authoritarianism has no end.

Didn’t the Romans use Barbarians to fight other Barbarians too?

What were Durruti or Makhno if not leaders? Or Montseny or Garcia Oliver?

Anarchism isn’t anti-leader, as evidenced if by nothing else but the host of well-known and well-respected anarchist leaders throughout history.

Anarchism is against unjust hierarchy, but consensual leadership is absolutely not contradictory to the ideology. You’re always going to need good people to lead movements, to organise and to manage, society would be chaos otherwise. Under anarchism, those people would just be legitimately democratically chosen, and legitimately held accountable by the people.

Why would you not want good leaders?

We literally came to lemmy years ago to have an insular safe space. Why would we care about other websites being popular?

Most commies are “tankies”.

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why?

they believe that black people deserve to be in prison and that’s why they don’t have a problem with it

Xiaomi tech is pretty solid for the price imo, dunno if I’d trust their car but I’ve had a lot of their kitchen appliances and smart home stuff last me years.

Any time I meet a transphobe irl I’ll ask them how many trans people they actually know or interact with and the answer is always zero.

Doesn’t ever make them reconsider anything but it does make them look dumb to anyone listening. I can’t imagine getting so upset about something that has zero bearing on my life.

Wait why are you against trade with China?

“quote”

loving the idea that the WPK maintains control through the power of paid tiktok influencers

Shanghai so liberalism is to be expected

I will never forgive them for turning the site of the founding of the CPC into a luxury mall

But Shanghai’s a great city in so many ways regardless, enjoy!

China has soft lines on what you can get away with. Criticism in private is basically always ok, because who cares even if the state could find out. Criticism of the state to foreign kids is similar because why would China really care what they think, and who’d report it anyway?

On the other hand, Chinese people saying certain things in public to other Chinese people could get them a visit from the cops, it happens. Saying dissent is “crushed” is probably a bit dramatic outside of extreme cases, more it’s sternly discouraged but only when it’s deemed to matter.

To be fair, they’re not sending their best to teach the laowai courses.

Money always comes first.

Lenin’s outdoor cats vs. Mao in a bird killing contest.

Mao is responsible for every death that ever happened in China while he was in charge, and let’s add a few dozen million for fun!

Hitler though isn’t even responsible for every death in a war that he started, nor every death that the military under his orders caused; hell, let’s give a bunch of those to Stalin.

Tojo also sneaking away there ignoring the vast majority of deaths he caused for some reason. Sure says a lot about who the chart maker considers people.