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Your definition of idealism is so wrong its incredible, it really shows how little knowledge of political economy you truly have (if you quantified it it would likely be negative). Idealism posits that consciousness determines existence. You do exactly this by imagining a perfect system in your head and demanding reality conform to it. Historical materialism understands that systems emerge from material conditions and class struggle. You cannot design morality into a system built on exploitation. Your claim that both China and the US suck is not insight. It is third way centrism that protects the status quo by refusing to analyze class character. Equating a state focused on poverty alleviation with one focused on profit maximization is a political choice to ignore reality.

COVID was not the flu. Millions died and hundreds of thousands suffer permanent disability. You trivialize this mass death to protect your worldview. You dodge the core argument that Western capitalist countries left millions to die. Zero COVID was the correct material response to preserve life. It lasted longer because Western nations refused to cooperate and instead hoarded vaccines while preaching liberty. You call it tyranny I call it protecting the vulnerable. The western strategy was to let the virus burn through the workforce to keep markets open. That is the logic of capital. Your defense of that outcome shows where your priorities lie.

The Mao era famine propaganda you recycle is again showing the kind of person you truly are. The Great Leap Forward had policy errors but the famine was largely exacerbated by natural disasters and external pressure. It was the last famine China ever had. Since then China lifted over 900 million people from poverty, all but eradicated illiteracy, built infrastructure from the coast to rural villages including roads, electricity, and clinics. You ignore this massive material gain to fixate on decontextualized body counts. You are a fascist drunk on propaganda.

Your abortion argument is blatant orientalism. Raw numbers mean nothing without population context. Ten million abortions in a population of 1.4 billion is a rate of roughly 28 per 1000. That ranks China 66th in the world. There are no skyscrapers of fetuses. That imagery is dehumanizing trash designed to paint Asian society as barbaric. You claim you lived in China but your "insights" are just Western media talking points. You sound like a disgruntled sexpat sexpest who never understood the society he lived in (if you're not just outright lying). Maybe you just resent it now that you're no longer glorified here.

Ideal capitalism does not exist. The Western safety net you crave is built on pillaging the periphery through violence and imperialism. You cannot have regulated profits and universal care under a system driven by accumulation. Capital will always find a way to bypass rules to survive competition. Your solution to let AI enforce morality is techno fascist logic. It assumes humans are the problem and algorithms are the savior. Also I did not use AI to write this. Your arguments are the ones that sound like generated propaganda. But I still decided to engage in the hopes maybe you were simply misguided, I see now that misguided is the wrong phrase you clearly purposefully seek out reactionary talking points.

The US is dominant only because it emerged from World War II intact and assumed leadership of Western imperialism. It spent decades extracting wealth from the Global South. Even with that head start they are losing ground to China in multiple sectors. You talk about military threats but ignore the budget. The US spends more than the next ten nations combined. Comparing the US and China is not irrelevant (even though I didn't do that in my original comment) they both embody the current most advanced forms of their respective systems.

Your rhetoric exposes a deep seated chauvinism and you are spouting fascist logic. You speak of distributed power while proposing an infallible AI enforcer to override human agency. Your imagery of fetus skyscrapers relies on old tropes of Asian barbarism to dehumanize a population. This is orientalism pure and simple. You claim to hate power concentration while defending a system that concentrates wealth in historically unprecedented levels. Your third way Nazi dog whistles serve only to protect Western hegemony. You have a surface level understanding of political economy. You fetishize technology and ignore relations of production. You are just an a fucking idiot who barely grasps the material world. Stop parroting orientalist lies and learn what materialism actually means. Maybe then you can start to actually understand the world.

Racist fashie pig.