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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

if they just gave Russia a bit of respect

Too racist for that, fortunately

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Lol isn't there a faction in the Republicans that basically wants the opposite (getting Russia to help them against China)?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yo I had the same dream last week

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I found this to be really useful as well, it's systematic and fairly thorough: https://www.marxists.org/archive/cornforth/1953/materialism-and-dialectical-method.pdf

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

"The only constant is change"

It's cliché, but I think it captures the essence of it pretty well, especially for how concise it is.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Diarrheatical materialism

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I'm digging this new roman lore drop

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Indeed, although it's their numbers, especially irl, that I find disheartening sometimes. Like, I interact with plenty of decent people too, but reactionaries are always the most outspoken and seen as the most authoritative in the circles I'm in (mostly work related). At the end of the day, their opinions fit in the discourse space allowed by the MSM, so they don't come across as crazy, and they tend to be more career focused and therefore 1) the impression of work competency carries over in other areas, and 2) they spend less time exploring other areas of life like politics, and they are, like you pointed out, immature adults.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The more comments I read on Youtube, Facebook, Reddit and Twitter, the less I sleep and the more I risk a stroke. Idk how you manage going through all that crap

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately Lenin came before Xi. Marxism-Xism would've sounded much funnier than Marxism-Leninism

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

For those who may stumble upon this and think OP was exaggerating about this sort of drivel being directly from Mein Kampf...

Dang, wish I'd known that sooner so I could've called out people I've heard paraphrase this. Thanks for adding the quote!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why is that abstract, but redrawing borders on a map isn't?

 

This is something I occasionally come across in Western media and also heard IRL from a Chinese émigré (very lib and hates China, so I take whatever they say about the country with a grain of salt) - that the Chinese internet (and by extension, society, though probably less visibly) has a problem with widespread chauvinism and racism, against black people and ethnic minorities in China in particular, and other things such as wishing genocide on the people of Taiwan (???) or Japanese people.

Now, I'm sure China has its fair share of fascists and generic reactionary nutjobs, but I'm wondering just how bad it is. Most studies/articles come from Western institutions, so I don't know how to feel about those.

I'm curious what studies there are in China about this, how widely discussed this is (i.e. have these sorts of internet trends ever gotten the same level of awareness that 4chan and the alt-right got in the West? What was the reaction? Is the CPC doing anything about it?), and what direction is this going in, e.g. looking back 10-20 years, has this improved or gotten worse?

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