I’m convinced the whole “your computer will instantly turn into a botnet that cripples children’s hospitals the moment you disable Windows Update” thing is part of Microsoft’s internet propaganda.

Like there are sysadmins for pretty big industries that schedule updates, sometimes once a month or even less frequently. Why aren’t they worried about all the 0-day remote code execution exploits that supposedly exist every single day?

Why doesn’t China, North Korea’s biggest trading partner, pressure them to be less authoritarian?

They’re definitely among the worst.

frequently stopping young people on the streets to inspect their phones and review text messages for banned language

I’m really tired of people saying “both sides are the same” when it comes to western capitalist exploitation vs eastern totalitarian authoritarianism.

It’s ironically so privileged to even make the comparison because if it were the same, you wouldn’t have been allowed to make this comment.

BBC is a pretty reputable source.

“suggesting that NATO expansion was one of the causes of the war”

“We gave Putin just cause,”

Those are definitely Russian propaganda talking points.

This is how they get us. Infiltrate the groups that we already agree with, like pro-Palestine, anti-Israel, then flood those communities with “…and also we should all hate NATO!”, and people like this guy can’t tell the difference.

Yeah but this is the same guy that likes to repeat Russian propaganda, so maybe we can find someone more reputable.

how does an 11 year old surrender? walk up to a border crossing and say “please relocate me” and hope they don’t rifle butt her head?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Lavalin_affair

In Canada we were told that putting execs in jail would “hurt jobs” and we had to pass a law that said they just get a fine instead.

The execs in question were caught selling hookers to Qaddafi’s son.

Billionaires, but not their billions?

https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/rise-wealth-private-property-and-income-inequality-china

The share of China’s national income earned by the top 10% of the population has increased from 27% in 1978 to 41% in 2015, nearing the U.S.’s 45% and surpassing France’s 32%.

Why is income inequality rising? Are you saying the Chinese working class are enjoying the trickle-down benefits of billionaires getting richer?

Further, you have no proof of the PRC lying about pubkic ownership.

Again, billionaires, and their existence, is proof that the profits are not publicly owned.

Even further, they cannot indefinitely build towards Socialism.

No they can just lie and say “we’re in a transitionary phase to socialism” indefinitely while being more repressively capitalist than America could ever dream of.

as firms grow and get folded into the public sector and socialization increases

Again from the same link posted above, the opposite is happening, China is privatizing.

“The state-owned (vs. privately-owned) share of China’s wealth fell from 70% to about 30%”

The presence of structures potentially contradictory to higher stages of Socialism, like banks, stock markets, and billionaires, does not mean they are not progressing towards those higher stages.

So what does then? If income inequality is rising, billionaires are getting richer, public ownership is disappearing, privatization is increasing, then what are you basing this idea that they are “progressing towards those higher stages” on?

Given our prior interactions, I already know you aren’t a Marxist, why should anyone trust your evaluation of Marxism?

I’m a socialist. I’m trying to get you to think about your definitions by challenging what you believe with the facts. Like this idea that China is “working towards socialism”.

Do you also believe Trump is “working towards Christian values”?

Chinese public to Chinese billionaire: “Can I have some of our public profits?”

Chinese billionaire: “No.”

Again, saying they’re “public” and actually being publicly owned are two different things. The PRC is just lying. They can be in this “building towards socialism” phase indefinitely while they profit off the labour of the working class.

And a simple observation of their economic makeup will see things that you typically see in capitalist economies, like banks, and stock markets, and billionaires, things that are pretty explicitly the antithesis of Marxism.

China has a capitalist economy, not a socialist one.

It sounds like you’ve been soaking up Chinese propaganda!

You’re like those Christian Americans who truly believe that Trump is promoting “Christian values” despite being as far as you can get from Christian values.

All it takes for socialism is to just wave the flag and talk the talk, but not walk the walk, eh?

I didn’t realize banks, financial trade, and currency were also classically Marxist.

What do the PRC do that is socialist? I’m honestly asking because I haven’t seen them do anything socialist.

China isn’t Marxist so I’m confused wtf that has to do with anything.

Specifically though, which part is relevant here?

How do you know?

What theory?

Yeah that tracks, same with Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Being aware of America’s abuses of power is good. Being contrarian and acting like everything they’ve ever said about China is a lie is bad.

The “english” setting does nothing.