RuthlessCriticism [comrade/them]

Actually, Chinese people who spend a few years in the US become more anti-US and more pro-China. In any case, my bet is your whole story is made up.

Literally all of Big Tech did this a few years ago with SOPA/PIPA and that stuff. People are acting like this is some crazy unheard of thing like they just figured out what the internet is a few months ago.

Except it isn’t actually the same. Bytedance can give the US government all the control literally everything they asked for and it hasn’t been enough, because ultimately that is not what it’s about.

There is great disorder under heaven; the situation is excellent.

do you want all your youtube habits to be in the hands of the government?

They already are

Just for the sake of clarity, what exactly do you think will happen?

This, except its the other way around. The amount of American crying about cyberattacks is crazy given the amount of evidence they have provided.

There can be a revolution in Taiwan.

Don’t bother replying. I don’t want waste my time talking to people who can’t answer a simple question

Different opinions are scary aren’t they? Don’t worry you can hide under the bed. Fortunately, the world will change around you anyways.

Yeah, cognitive dissonance hurts, so you respond aggressively, perfectly understandable, if disappointing.

This is so adorable.

You’re being vague because you are wrong.

Tough to have decades of indoctrination questioned, isn’t it?

Least fascist liberal.

“I regret the demise of Communism—not for me, but when I see how much my children and grandchildren struggle. We had safe jobs and decent salaries under Communism. We had enough to eat and we had yearly vacations with our children”.

• 68-year-old retired Romanian mechanic, quoted in George Jahn, “In Romania, Turmoil Fuels Nostalgia for Communism,” Washington Post, January 11, 2011.

I guarantee that you would be cooking up these conspiracy theories regardless of any investigations that China had allowed. They could have shipped every citizen of Wuhan straight to your house so you could personally interview them and it still wouldn’t be enough.

Obviously it is a counterfactual but no serious leftist would say that China without market reforms wouldn’t have eradicated poverty, and moreover done it faster and more completely. The seeds of poverty alleviation were planted during the Maoist era; improvement in health, education improvement, and industrialization.

This but unironically. In general though, there is nothing more galling than liberals complaining about Russia. You made it this way. This is on you. First you destroy the soviet union, then you reconfigure the politics and economy of Russia, and then you have the audacity to complain about the very thing you caused.

This is so fucking stupid, there is a mountain of evidence for the Holocaust and all the deniers have their arguments thoroughly refuted. Why not use the same tactic as the historians who document the Holocaust and refute the deniers, or is that impossible because the evidence does not exist in this case.