Wages are small in China because cost of life is small. You can find a bowl of noodles for $2 or less in most of China, 90+% of people own their housing so don’t have to pay rent, and utilities are heavily subsidized. I spent 2 weeks visiting China a bit over a year ago and I saw fewer homeless people in the whole trip than I saw between the airport and the hotel in my only US visit (work related)
Israel are the ones bombing mosques in Iran, not backwards. Iran is not engaging in genocide and calling everything a genocide is a form of genocide denialism.
Respond! Why are you defending genocidal maniacs and their genocidal methods?
You didn’t respond: would you enact starvation on Yanks to push for regime change?
The people enacting these sanctions, i.e. US government, are as of today explicitly talking about eliminating a civilization, the literal definition of genocide.
Why are you defending genocide?
saddly nobody has found a better option
I guess all Yanks should be starved for choosing the wrong president? Or is that something you reserve to nonwhites?
I wish you and your family never have to go through the “deserved sanctions” of the USA and EU, which together murder half a million people yearly since 1975 per latest medical research. I’m sure you don’t believe US citizens should starve to death for the actions of their government.
It began before the attacks on Iran
Not true. Iranian people have been attacked by murderous US+EU sanctions killing tens of thousands of them every year for decades now. The protests were literally engineered by the US as a form of justification for the war, look at Iranian Rial exchange prices on the months before the protests. Hell, Trump literally admit a few days ago to sending weapons to the “protestors”.
Uygur genocide denial
Get off the CIA propaganda buddy, not helping your “leftism”. We’ve seen a televised genocide in Gaza and what it looks like, calling the Uyghur situation in China a genocide is insulting to Palestinians suffering actual genocide
It’s a useful shorthand, not a slur
I would argue that demeaning shorthand expressions used in a negative connotation against people who have been systematically discriminated, imprisoned or even assassinated, is an appropriate descriptor of a slur. Communism has been seriously repressed, from “milder” forms like McCarthyism in the US purging communists from all public life and condemning them to unemployment, to more direct methods such as literal extermination through forced labor and murder as in my homeland of Spain. All Marxists from Spain were either murdered or had to emigrate to Mexico or the USSR during the 1930s.
Again, you can admire their public transport without supporting the government
Exactly my point, and the reason for my original comment.
According to it, they’ve transitioned from putting uyghur in camps to putting them in prisons
Not really. They’re documenting the existence of prisons in Xinjiang, but there’s absolutely no evidence of mass imprisonment of Uyghurs based on their ethnicity or religion or any other grounds. Prisons exist in all countries, not exclusively in China, and China doesn’t have particularly high rates of imprisonment compared to countries like the US.
Then ignore the etymology and focus on the historical facts, what do you have to say about them?
Which is why I proceeded to explain you the history of repression and discrimination of communists in western societies.
So, LFI had political hindsight? After seeing what’s happening with NATO in Palestine and in Iran, how on Earth do you think joining NATO was a good idea? Good job Finland and Sweden becoming Trump’s lapdogs and destroying your welfare state to buy more F-16s.
So you DO understand why I explained you my reasoning for criticising the word “tankie” used as a left-punching slur, and you’re just playing dumb instead of engaging with anything I said.
Why did you respond that to my comment then
Well, you’re making bad faith replies to words used to describe people who are consistently repressed under capitalism, so yes I’m responding to you
Now, if there were precedents of mass imprisonment, law abuse, discrimination, and outright murder of communists, my argument would hold. Oh, wait, the red scare happened, and McCarthyism, and mass executions of communists all over fascist Europe, and…
Or are you seriously pretending that this didn’t happen? You’re talking to a Spaniard, communists were systematically executed under the American-backed Franco regime. As for France, Operation Gladio was literally a plot of assassinations of communists
How on earth is a French politician from LFI a tankie, you’re absolutely ridiculous
The post brings it up in the context of a particular candidate’s opinions on China’s mode of government and civil liberties
A western lib (or bombie)'s propagandized opinion on China’s civil liberties, degree of democracy or mode of government are worthless if this person is not informed. I only focused the conversation on the public transit part because that’s what’s relevant to this community, but if you want to discuss how democratic China is in comparison to Europe, we can discuss the Podemos party in my homeland being destroyed by a state apparatus + private media manufactured plot of lawfare, we could discuss Alexis Tsipras not being allowed to enact the Democratic will of Greek people under threat of the Troika, we could discuss Berlin’s popular referenda of rent control being struck down by the highest court in Germany, or we could discuss Macron using emergency constitutional powers to raise the retirement age in France against the Democratic will of the people.
Are you claiming tankie is a slur?? Seems real insensitive towards actually marginalized people
Yes, I claim it’s a left-punching slur (no other political position is referred to by weaponry). We don’t call anarchists “bombies” despite the history of terrorism, we don’t call libs “dronies” for drone striking the middle east… Even Nazis have the luxury of being referred to by a shortening of their profesded ideology (national socialism). And sure, communists are famously never marginalized, Thomas Sankara wasn’t murdered, neither was Huey P. Newton, nor Patrice Lumumba, nor Che Guevara, nor Rosa Luxembourg, nor Karl Liebknecht, nor many other communists. Communists are never slandered, never kicked off their jobs for being communist, and are always given air time to express their opinion and never murdered /s.
When you talk about urban mobility in Paris, do you make it a point to mention the pinned Paris-controlled currency in 10+ African countries thst legitimizes and continues neocolonialism by France? Do you discuss the extreme exclusion and segregation of blacks and Arabs in Paris, leading to much higher poverty and criminality rates? No, because this is a community about urban transit and modes of transportation, in which you can definitely support the Dutch and the Chinese model.
Also, if you still believe in the “Uyghur genocide” CIA propaganda a full 7 years after the reeducation camps have been closed (per Washington Post), you run into the risk of looking like someone who doesn’t actually give one single fuck about Uyghurs, their culture or their well being and only uses them as a political weapon to hate on a country that their government tells them to hate. I beg you, bring me one independent journalistic report with photographic or video evidence of widespread repression of Uyghurs post-2021, ONE. I’ve asked for this a million times to libs like you who concern-troll using the lives of the Uyghurs without actually knowing one single thing about them, nobody has provided anything so far.
the reeducation camp program appears to have ended in 2019
You’re literally making this up, though. As an example, China recently passed a fiscal reform to develop Hainan province making it easier for foreign companies to establish themselves there and, if they give a given percentage of added value, be able to export their product to the rest of provinces without import taxes.