• corvidenjoyer [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    13 hours ago

    amerikkka

    *Corrupt Government

    *Has the ability to print money out of thin air with no downside.

    *Forces you pay taxes anyway making you technically complicit in its crimes.

    *Uses Its infinite wealth and power to openly protect child predators instead of something good because it is a corrupt government. (The most recent thing in the news cycle)

    Interesting how all these things line up together when you don’t abstract these things into nothingness. It makes me very sus of the person who decide to reword these so they don’t fit on the same list. suswcc

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      12 hours ago

      I mean, generally yes, but Pooh Bear makes you pay taxes too.

      … And printing money out of thin air does in fact have downsides, no matter whose face is on the bills.

      … And corruption obviously also exists in China, the CCP is basically constantly crusading against it.

      But!

      They do not seem to have an elite ruling class comprised largely of pedophiles.

      So that’s good!

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        10 hours ago

        You really saw a random image of Xi making a sus face and got upset enough from the sight of him to start comparing a chinese man to a yellow bear. frothingfash Just skip to using slurs next time loser your not slick.

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          9 hours ago

          No I think slurs are awful, but its just laughably easy to annoy a lot of tankies by pointing out fairly well-evidenced, uncontroversial facts, so its a bit of a hobby of mine.

          Speaking of which, here’s another well-evidenced, uncontroversial fact:

          The Pooh Bear meme originated in China, amongst Chinese netizens, criticizing Xi.

          Oh, shit, fuck, I guess that makes me uh, a cultural appropriator, yeah, fuck, damn, I’m such a bad loser person, that attack angle will work!

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            The Pooh Bear meme originated in China, amongst Chinese netizens, criticizing Xi.

            I think you should get a better argument becase racists take things that minorities were doing and ruin them all the time. E.g. how “woke” lost its meaning when white people started using it. Even if the first time Xi and Obama were compared to Winnie the Pooh and Tiger it was done by Chinese internet users (which, by the way, doesn’t even mean it wasn’t racist, there’s a lot of racist crap on the Chinese internet too) doesn’t mean that when Western internet users do the same thing they mean it the same way.

            Another example is how the Dave Chappelle Show used to have an audience who appreciated the way Dave Chappelle made fun of racists by embodying caricatures, then it slowly started to build up an audience of racists that didn’t know the joke was on them. It got to the point that Chappelle stopped doing the show because the audience had gotten so white and so racist that when he talked about anything going on in the Black community, he felt the show’s fans were just weaponizing it against Black people (see his famous “there’s n words, and there’s n words” joke). Just because something starts out within a minority community and isn’t necessarily racist in origin, doesn’t mean that when white people pick it up and decontextualize it it’ll remain benign.

          • Dirt_Possum [she/her, undecided]@hexbear.net
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            No I think slurs are awful

            But racist caricatures are just fine and dandy for you. So you’re not just a racist, you’re a hypocrite who likes to pretend you’re not racist. Good to know.

            but its just laughably easy to annoy a lot of tankies by pointing out fairly well-evidenced, uncontroversial facts,

            What annoys “tankies” is typical white western chauvinist losers who mistake the western “culture” they’ve been brought up in and force-fed propaganda as “uncontroversial facts” that just happen to parrot US state department talking points. Yes, it gets very annoying to have to counter the same cringe bullshit that liberals who fancy themselves as radical say over and over, after being absolutely refuted over and over. You can only explain the basics to a smug 5-year-old so many times before it starts to wear on a person no matter how patient they are. Also, you should know that the people you’re calling “tankies” aren’t just ML’s but also anarchists who have taken the time to educate themselves (rather than “anarchists” who just adopt the term while still adhering to liberalism and carrying water for the systems of oppression they say they’re opposed to).

            so its a bit of a hobby of mine.

            Jesus, it never ceases to amaze me when some fool literally announces how cringe they are yet think they’re being clever or cool for making the announcement.

            The Pooh Bear meme originated in China, amongst Chinese netizens, criticizing Xi.

            A racist meme appeared in an evil and authoritarian country that doesn’t tolerate the spread of open racism (so evil and authoritarian!) so they removed and blocked that meme on their web. This meme and the rumors about it being blocked were then picked up by racists in the freedomland country where racism reigns supreme (because people are so free there) and twisted into an absurd lie about a cartoon character being banned in the evil country (which never happened), and used as propaganda (based on a lie) to reinforce the common knowledge that everybody knows: the mean authoritarian country that addresses racism is so evil and authoritarian it bans cartoon characters! So now all the good freedom-enjoyers in freedomland like yourself get to use that racist meme and the lie it’s tied to to make oh so very cogent points about freedom and how bad it is to be authoritarian. You really owned the tankies here, wowzers!

            And corruption obviously also exists in China, the CCP is basically constantly crusading against it.

            Wow, it must suck to live in an evil authoritarian country that actively works to stamp out corruption instead of endlessly rewarding it like in freedomland USA.

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            “It’s a bit of a hobby of mine” smuglord

            God I hope you huff so many of your own farts you literally choke to death. And I don’t even gaf about China tbh, you just seem like an insufferable waste of oxygen

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        Please fuck off with this racist “pooh bear” shit. People like you are why people call most white western anarchists social fascists/chauvinists.

        You really need to do better.

        Why are you fucking people so obsessed with a country you have no way of influencing, you do not live there, and all you are doing is adding to the chorus of racist and fascist propaganda espoused by western intelligence and corporate news?

        Work on fighting your government and let the people of China decide what to do about theirs (spoiler alert the vast majority quite like it there).

        Also taxes in China are fundamentally different than taxes in the US in both use and because again printing infinite money. China does not do that.

        Edit: I didn’t see the emoji load when I wrote this but my point stands. I would not be chuffed about my taxes going to build massive amounts of public housing and high speed rail in a country that has not fought an offensive war since Mao’s revolution. I’d rather be an anarchist in China running a rural collective farming outfit or some shit than trying to do the same thing in China than I would in the US who will murder me just for being a communist if it looked like we are getting too popular.