@koherecoWatchdog @peter US holds 20% of world's prison population who are predominantly minorities and are used for literal slave labor.

@koherecoWatchdog @peter the fact of the matter is that standard of living in US in Europe is actually dropping. People have reduced purchasing power compared to the 70s, they own less, they work harder, they have reduced social safety nets.

It's not that the west reached a plateau, it's that the system is eating itself with wealth being consolidated by the top percent of the population.

@koherecoWatchdog @peter you're making a fallacy equating quality of life with consumerism

@koherecoWatchdog who exactly is being oppressed and how are they being oppressed?

If you actually look at any surveys from China they show that people do not in fact think they're being oppressed, they overwhelmingly support their government, and their lives have been improving on an unprecedented scale.

@peter @koherecoWatchdog the comparison isn't of the popularity of the leaders, but of the public satisfaction with how the government is performing.

People in China have seen their lives improve consistently and rapidly over the decades. The same cannot be said about the west.

@koherecoWatchdog @peter plenty of other countries like India had much more room for improvement, yet China is the one country where life is actually improving.

@clacke @koherecoWatchdog correct, democratic centralism says that the society decided on communism being the right approach, and the scope of debate is limited within that scope.

However, it's worth noting that even in China there are actually 8 parties, where the other parties advice CPC and engage in debate.

@koherecoWatchdog what actually matters is which class holds power in society, and under communism it's the proletarian class, thus there is one proletarian party.

@koherecoWatchdog ultimately, democracy is a government that acts in the interest of the majority, and that's being held accountable by the majority.

Western style parliamentary democracy is just one attempt at implementing this concept, and it clearly achieves poor results across the board.

Democratic centralism is another approach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_centralism

@koherecoWatchdog I don't know why people think that having more parties means having more meaningful freedom. It's demonstrably not the case in practice.

One party states rely on social and economic stability to stay in power. That aligns the interests of the party with the interests of the people.

It's ironic that you talk about brainwashing while simply regurgitating propaganda tropes that have been thoroughly addressed many times already.

People who say that people in China need to be liberated and that China has to become more like the west are just sophisticated racists.

Parenti eloquently explains why US is in a constant state of war in Profit Pathology.

@clacke @mjd @theDoctor oh nice, even funnier with the write up

A multi billion dollar company emails OSS devs they never paid a cent to demanding a response for free within 24 hours with lots of info 😂

When trying to explain communist ideas to centrists, say "star trek" instead of communism. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hnJZpFhsMkk

Major Canadian newspapers are now openly discussing the need to prepare for the collapse of the United States.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-american-polity-is-cracked-and-might-collapse-canada-must-prepare/

@eiZen yeah it's not just the arrows and blinking, but still amazing how you can't help but see motion even when you know what's happening

human mind is a fragile contraption