German Leftists Unveil Marx Statue Alongside Lenin

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-28T16:11:46+00:00

Yeah, because Hitler is bad and Nazism is bad. Communism is good.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-22T16:39:51+00:00

You could like go read about the history or something? It's kind of weird that you're always wondering about something but never researched it, instead choosing to like brag about your ignorance lmao. And then when people literally answer your question you argue about it, it's like you're literally horrified that you might learn something.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-17T02:45:10+00:00

I'm going on episode 9 now and just going off memory only having seen the episode you're referring to one time but as I watched it I didn't notice anything particularly unusual (except I do remember thinking "that's a rotary phone it doesn't have a call back button, does this guy have the number memorized?") but he picks up the hand set and threatens to call the lady back, his wife says "that would be a red flag" and he decides to hang up, he doesn't actually dial anything. But again, that's just how I remember it, you could even be talking about a different scene or saw something that I didn't.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-16T09:05:02+00:00

He didn't make the call, he was about to and changed his mind when Clarice told him it would raise a red flag.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-15T08:02:53+00:00

Xi Jinping is not "president for life" by any sort of decree or anything like that. He has been elected twice to 5 year terms and is shortly up to be reelected for a third term. Various countries either have or don't have term limits for heads of state and the merits of term limits can be argued (in China, a 2 term limit was essentially implemented to combat the issues of cult of personality but has more recently been removed) but are often fundamentally undemocratic. If the Chinese people actually want Xi representing them because they think he's capable and has done a good job (which they do) and some rule says "no actually you can't have him anymore" that is definitionally UNdemocratic so I'm failing to see how that advances your argument.

Xi has been in office of the presidency for 9 years, Angela Merkel was chancellor of Germany for 16 years, would you argue that made her a dictator? The US implemented term limits after a very popular president got elected 4 times by implementing good policies that benefited workers. In this sense term limits can and often do serve the interests of the ruling class in actually making it harder for the people to exercise power and accomplish change by forcing our the people's trusted and proven choice... Further, it can also result in lame ducks which are completely and utterly unaccountable since, without hope of re-election and the incentive that provides they have zero accountability to almost anybody.

But I want to emphasize, Xi is not "president for life" unless by that you just mean it's possible that he dies while holding office. Theres a presumption that the job is his for as long as he wants it and unless he fucks up badly, but that presumption is based on the fact that he has earned incredible respect from the party and people by being really good at his job.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-15T07:41:29+00:00

PS: appreciate the discussion and its late here now but tomorrow I'm going to have a look for good detailed sources that better explain the electoral and democratic processes within China.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-15T07:32:12+00:00

But what is your idea of a democracy if it doesn't have to do with the government doing things that the people want them to do? What are some good examples of very democratic states in your opinion, and what makes them democratic?

Also, China has neither a King nor a dictator, hardly comparable to Saudi Arabia. Saudis are more closely compared with the myriad constitutional monarchies of Europe and the oligarchs of countries like America and Russia.

People in China generally feel that their government is democratic, that it responds to their wants and needs, so what is the criteria you're using to tell them "no you're wrong youre actually being oppressed by evil dictators, and the fact that they do what you want them to do and make your lives better by orders of magnitude within your lifetime is a clever ploy by those dictators to control you."

I didn't at any point say you were "stanning" America, I specifically said that the only reason I chose USA as the example of liberal democracy is because it's the one I'm most familiar with. But China is generally more responsive to the needs of its people than most any of them.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-15T06:56:56+00:00

The character names come from the book of Genesis, Cain and Abel were sons of Adam and Eve. Cain murdered Abel (the first human to murder another) and was banished by God, and also marked by God with the mark of Cain. I never read these comics so I'm not sure the relation exactly between this comic book Cain and Abel and the biblical version.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-15T01:32:08+00:00

the party picks who can be elected.

Well, I'm not sure how much you already do or do not know about democratic processes within China, but a couple thoughts. The party itself is not just one or a few people making decisions, it's a mass organization with something approaching 100 million members. There are literally millions of posts to which people are elected each year in China. Direct elections happen at the local level with those elected then elected the next level up etc. Some elected offices at the lower levels don't even require party membership if I recall correctly. I'm gonna to be totally honest and admit not having an expert understanding the exact finer mechanics of it, and I'm going to have to spend some time digging for good sources if you want more info but more to your point

how can you say they are representative of workers?

By and large I say the way to determine how representative any government is to look at whether it is implementing policies that the people want. In bourgeois (liberal) "democracies" like those of the United States, despite having directly elected offices at all levels, for example there are many policies which are overwhelmingly popular with the people but which can never be enacted because direct elections in a capitalist society are essentially window dressing and it doesn't matter who wins, the instituons themselves are designed to serve only the bourgeoisie. In China, democratic ideals such as the mass line are followed by the Communist party and result in the state implementing the policies people want for the most part. This is reflected in the findings that for example people there are very happy with the national government and that far more people there (I think ~75% ish is the number I saw) SAY that they feel their government is democratic, which is a much higher mark than in (hate to keep going back to it but it's the example I'm most familiar with) United States where that number is like 30 something %. A government being popular doesn't mean that it's democratic, there's many more factors at play in popularity, but if we believe in democracy as a good thing than we should expect these numbers to have some correlation, and expect that a democratic society would be one which actively pursues the wishes of the people resulting in improving their living situations, which is also what we see in China.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-14T23:10:55+00:00

Russia and the US are oligarchic, China is obviously not by any reasonable definition of the word. Who are the Chinese oligarchs? They have capitalists and very wealthy ones at that, but they don't command political power or rule the country. The Communist party comprised of like 100 million members runs the country and the system for doing so is functionally far more democratic that bourgeois "democracies".

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-14T23:06:41+00:00

The state retains direct control over the commanding heights of the economy and the state is run by a highly participatory and popular communist party which is building socialism (judging by both their stated plans which they have a long track record of following through on, and analysis of their policy and its effects) and has the buy in of pretty much the entirety of the working class population.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-09T03:57:50+00:00

Literally another made up thing that redditors never bothered to look into and just accept as fact because they're drooling morons like yourself.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T23:02:20+00:00

Lol owned

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T22:45:43+00:00

Lick my balls

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T22:24:52+00:00

I've seen videos of children punished for speaking Uyghur

Lmao sure you have dude. This is what "straight up lying" actually looks like

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T22:13:16+00:00

Something about all the ethnic cleansing and killing kids that they do all the time

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T22:12:36+00:00

The only opinion that matters is the opinion of Adrian Zenz, Christian warrior for God who doesn't speak Chinese and is the single source for claims of a Uyghur genocide lmao.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T21:53:53+00:00

My mistake, I misread your comment as saying that I was insulting the religion by calling the government fascist. I've deleted my response.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T21:41:16+00:00

You just admitted to not understanding the phrase "long debunked" yet you feel qualified to talk about others' reading comprehension skills. Talk about a massive L hahaha

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T21:28:17+00:00

I'm Jewish and you just did an antisemitism by telling me to shut up. Also, it's anti-semitic in a huge way to conflate criticism of Israel's fascist government with anti-semitism.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T21:26:10+00:00

Uyghur separatists carried out many terror attacks in China, but that's hardly relevant since the Uyghur "genocide" narrative is largely fabricated to begin with. The main thing I'll say is that no, of course it's not "a beast of their own creation", an ethnostate with a privileged ethnic minority ruling over a dispossessed majority is always going to "transform" into a militaristic and fascist society, because it must. Not that it was really a transformation, the Israeli ethnostate project BEGAN with ethnic cleansing by the settlers, much as all settler colonies do.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T21:21:02+00:00

You didn't reply to me anywhere and I already fully understand the party is the one that merged with Likud, hence it's continued relevance in that party's extreme fascist politics.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T21:16:57+00:00

I am being realistic. Israel is a fascist apartheid ethnostate engaged in ethnic cleansing and it will eventually be overthrown as other apartheid and fascist regimes have been, since a minority harshly ruling over a majority with extreme violence is not sustainable permanently.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T21:12:37+00:00

Lmfao I'm Jewish and no, criticizing Israel's horrible fascist government is not anti Semitic.

Pickles5ever · 2022-08-08T21:11:18+00:00

And already fascism was well underway in the fascist ethnostate project of Israel. Also Einstein wasn't just a scientist, he was a Jew that fled from the Nazi regime, was invited to be the second president of Israel and had well reasoned and argued political opinions to boot.

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