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inb4 tankies say that China is super based for doing this somehow
The China love on the Lemmys is a bit odd.
You gotta block hexbear and .ml
I haven't yet I like to argue with them I know I can't win cos winning an argument requires the opposition is intelligent enough to apply logic but its still entertaining.
you should have seen lemmy ml when Russia invaded Ukraine. It was almost the death of the entire platform.
Do tell!
A lot of the communities I frequent have "no tankies allowed" listed clearly in the rules. It's not that all of lemmy likes them it's just that we haven't decided to purge them, yet, given the ideology of a decentralized network of federated content feeds.
On the flipside, the American exceptionalism on the Lemmys is par for the course...
The site is founded by Communists, it's not odd at all.
If you're a communist you can't like China
China is a Communist state...
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic.
The United States of America are states.
Wait...
China isn't Communist enough for you?
By definition a communist society is stateless, moneyless, and classless. Non of which China has achieved.
None of which any Communist state in history has achieved.
Wth are you talking about?
None of which any state which has nominally aspired toward Communism has achieved. There have been no Communist states. There have been states which have claimed, perhaps earnestly, that they are trying to transition to Communism. There can be no Communist state, it's a contradiction of terms.
Some incredible fucking insight, especially as it goes against probably all historical literature we have on the subject.
And what's is your source for all of this?
Please be so kind as to produce some of this historical literature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union?wprov=sfla1
That took me about 10 seconds
With about as much value as 10 seconds of research would imply. I clicked on one link there to find:
In the summary of the article. 5 seconds this time. Still as waste of time if you can believe it.
Can you read?
Clearly not, I'll repeat the excerpt from your source
Wikipedia called the USSR a "flagship communist state", Wikipedia also explicitly said that even though some in the west use the term "communist state", that those states are not in fact communist. So obviously you cannot hold two related facts in your head simultaneously.
China isn't communist. China is a capitalist dictatorship with one man at the top, a few people taking decisions and raking in all the profits and everyone else wage slaving away. Tell me what it reminds you
I think you mean more like China actually went and did the hard work to make a pipe version of nature because China actually gives a damn about elevated water unlike the USA where it’s all fascist gravity flow and evaporation.
But by all means, go on about how China’s “suspiciously like a waterpark” or “harvesting organs from family pets and covering it up with United Airlines pet death stories”. Go on. I’ll wait.
Poe's law tells me this is a real comment from a real tankie
............... what the hell is a tankie?
(no, I haven't been here long, how could you tell?)
Furthermore, why have I not heard this term anywhere outside lemmy?
Welcome to Lemmy.
Tap for some copy-pasta from wikipedia
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies.More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.[5][6]
You'll also see them around here commonly blaming anything negative on "capitalism" as well (while ignoring the fact that pure capitalism doesn't exist since the economy of almost every country is really a mix of capitalism and socialism).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
Hyper-authoritarian leftist, usually hard-line CCP supporter.
Maybe in China they understand sarcasm.
Dude based on the comments I translate from Chinese on youtube shorts, they’re definitely smarter over there. It’s kind of alarming.
That's an interesting metric.
Examples of things they say? Not the worst window into who someone is.
Ive seen the same thing at waterfalls in state parks. Its probably super common around the world by now.
Edit: Logging back in to Lemmy like Dang thats a lot of mad neoliberals confusing an inconvenient fact for defense of the CCP.
Yeah. I'm trying to think of a tourist attraction with a small waterfall, that doesn't do this.
The park staff is typically pretty open about it.
Small waterfalls are seasonal, and tourists are, well differently seasonal.
But that's nothing that a little cheap plumbing can't fix.
Its not like there's a garden hose at the other end lol. That would be more of a scandal but for real I was just at one last weekend and when I hiked to the top there was a road and a gutter system.