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Western leftists be like (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 4 days ago by allende2001@lemmygrad.ml to c/memes@hexbear.net
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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 40 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I think this is a worthless argument. There are no shortage of Chinese citizens who have strong disagreements with the current CPC, and also there is some substantial difference in opinion within that 90 million besides. Furthermore, pretending they are a monolith for the sake of argument, you obviously don't believe 90 million people can't be wrong because we can point to reactionary populations that size or larger in the US, in India, and many more especially if we look at cross-national allied groups.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think a better argument would be talking about how the current Chinese government regularly has an approval rating higher than 90%. The average Chinese person seems at least satisfied with the current state of domestic political affairs. I know there's widespread youth disillusionment with employment though, but I think that was inevitable with how quickly China industrialized, now the youngest generation of workers perhaps feels too much pressure to keep up competitive production.

The 90 million members of the CPC should still be brought up, because my understanding is that it's more like a job than simply something with voluntary membership. You have to apply and most people get denied. It's my understanding that being a party member comes along with job-like duties, paying dues, keeping a clean public character and stuff like that. And yet despite that there's still a lot of members.

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 8 points 4 days ago

I agree that the approval rating is a much better indicator, even if there are still problems with it.

You are right that membership is much harder to get and maintain, though I think the dues are pretty cheap, at least for poorer members (which is a good thing!), but I don't think people going through the trouble of getting the membership on its own is a great argument either, since even the crassest China detractors can tell you (and by coincidence, be correct in this case) that it's beneficial to many types of careers to be a CPC member.

[–] Red_Shift@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago

Yeah, if we were in 1910's Russia there wouldn't be a massive population to point to as communists as reinforcement, but it wouldn't make them any less correct for being communists. All ideologies start out as a minority. Liberalism was also a minority when it was first emerging but it still became the dominant ideology.

To try to steelman the point in the meme though, there is probably some value to seeing that 90 million people support something and then looking into it to see if there's anything valid there. It should raise some concern that you could be wrong, but it doesn't mean you are.

[–] Fayne@hexbear.net 21 points 4 days ago

Decent bait against ultra-leftists, but I don't really like this argument that much

[–] Renin@hexbear.net 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

To be honest it's not just the Western left that has issues with China.

[–] space_comrade@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

FWIW this is China's ambassador to Israel, it's kinda in his job description to say shit like this. The bigger question is why does China have an ambassador in Israel but I guess that's just a byproduct of their "don't rock the boat, make trade deals with everybody, don't be belligerent" foreign policy. I don't like it either but it's where we're at right now, I hope in the future they'll have a more opinionated foreign policy regarding colonialists and imperialists.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 20 points 4 days ago

China has an ambassador to the Zionist entity because sadly above all else China prefers commerce over ethical international diplomacy. China wants to sell electronics and EVs to whoever will buy them.

China is so commercially oriented they even do things like sell weapons to both sides of conflicts, like how they sell guns to both India and Pakistan.

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 16 points 4 days ago

There are also Chinese socialists who have criticisms of the PRC/CCP.

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Terrestrial leftists be like: Space Comrades don't exist and aren't waiting in space for the nukes to go off so they can help us rebuild society!

Meanwhile literally sit in their armchairs believing China is actually socialist and not hiding Xenu in a secret underground tomb dungeon below ancient Xituanshan pyramids.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 9 points 4 days ago

black-mold-futures top tier

[–] HiImThomasPynchon@hexbear.net 7 points 4 days ago

We need a :Captain-Tenneal: emoji for people saying "Well, you're wrong!"