mauveOkra

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

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.

 

Extremely based agitprop cantata/opera. In the anglo establishment it is caricatured as evil and aggressively misinterpreted, possibly because HUAC translated it to smear Brecht and Eisler. (This production does not use the HUAC translation.)

While the Birmingham opera pushes the misinterpretation that it is about sacrificing yoursef for your values, in actuality it is a parable about a young passionate revalutionary whose idealism fatally clouds their judgement. I suspect that the translation makes this less clear, but I do not know the untranslated text.

Bonus points, I can't tell if the production is ironic or not. The cringe framing device feels ironic but the interviewer mentions solidarity with rail strikers at the end, so I can't tell. Either way, some of the audience and choristers interviewed seemed receptive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Selling nukes on the blackmarket, notoriously uncontroversial and unambiguously GOOD and COOL

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

@[email protected] because they were the first to reply to this post, then replied to themselves AND @[email protected] replied despite their rule of not engaging in discussion here that could affect the game.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

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

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...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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!!!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not enough racism

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

TFW you meet a Latin American student at a US university who only knows 1 word in Spanish "from his nanny".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My god, do you have the clip of that 😂

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Wow, that's truly incredible. I'd like to add Kim Il Sung, Ho, Deng, and Xi but I think it's already at it's peak beauty.

Also I think it somehow independently developed Kim Jong Un's hair style 😳

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Your repression in Xinjiang rivals the Soviet gulags.

lmao

Even better:

Your zero-Covid policy has, at times, transformed China’s great metropolises into vast and unlivable prison colonies.

and, pray tell, where exactly is China's "truculence" you speak of?

I hate that all the NYT is considered the cream of the crop and all the uni educated libs around me imbibe this crap uncritically.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know, I'm worried about this narrative. Youtube suggested some video claiming to expose secret Chinese police stations in countries around the world, and if this gets pushed in the mainstream then we could get the Chinese Exclusion act 2.0 or something. A few years ago the US already gutted university chinese programs by kicking out all the confucius institutes for baseless accusations of espionage.

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