• mlg@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    “Lol China will never catch up”

    Outsources everything to China

    China catches up

    “Yeah well China will never become eco friendly”

    China starts producing cheap eco friendly tech

    Yellen: “Hurr durr muh overproduction will hurt the oil compa- i mean global market”

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      3 months ago

      “We already benefited from slaves so now slavery is bad, We dictate what civilized world means”

      and

      “We polluted the whole world for our industrial revolution, so now pollution is bad, we protec environment”

      Outsources everything to a country without any labor rights or environmental protection

      feels good man

      also

      “We enabled our big tech to create a global surveillance system and international monopolies”

      Tiktok bad because it reports to CCP

      Pointing out any of the hypocrisy means you’re a tankie (i’m yet to know what it actually means).

      As far as I’m concerened, one does bad things without any filter, one uses the media, tech and its hegemony to project a positive image while severely downplaying and ignoring their atrocities.

      Sooner or later, China is also going to learn to do the same with their big tech and media companies.

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        3 months ago

        What you said is all true. And most of the tankies I’ve come across seem to hold their beliefs mostly due to learning about and needing to confront the hypocrisy that you’ve outlined.

        But in my opinion, they come to some strange conclusions. For example, it seems to me that many hold Russia and especially China up as some kind of shining beacon of hope, and miss that they are just as bad as the US, if not worse, just in different ways.

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    3 months ago

    And Canada, too. Thanks Mulroney.

    Privatized oil, privatized Air Canada, privatized Via Rail. They would’ve gone further if they could’ve.

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    3 months ago

    Similar thing happened to German telecommunication infrastructure (for an industry nation our internet is notoriously bad in compatison to EU neighbours), happened to our public transport infrastructure, especially to our trains, and is currently happening to our hospitals.

    Privatizing critical infrastructure has never been a good idea.

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    3 months ago

    Because Karl Marx said socialism is good, and they determined Karl Marx is bad, therefore socialism must be bad.