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How many wars has China gotten into since the end of its civil war? How many places has the US invaded since then?
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A few honestly, the Korean War, Sino-Soviet border clashes, the invasion of Vietnam, troops in Cambodia to help them fight Vietnam, the first and second Taiwanese Strait Crisis, the invasion of Tibet, the Sino-Indian War, and technically as a part of the UN Security council they have troops fighting in Mali against ISIS currently.
But I understand the point you are making and I'm not trying to discredit it, just wanted to give some context.
Those conflicts are also nothing compared to the terror the US has committed.
I guess a better question would be "how many civilians has China killed in warfare compared to the US since the 1940s"
We would be talking tens of thousands versus tens of millions
Absolutely, the terror of the United States far outstrips whatever the Chinese have done.
But to simply act like China hasn't been in a war since its Civil War seems disingenuous.
But so is praising china, seemingly just to take a dig at the US. CIRITICIZE BOTH. They’re both brutal power-hungry states. They can both be wrong.
Lmao. No.
Nothing modern China has ever done in its history could ever come close to the 1 million Iraqi deaths alone.
You just wanna hate China lmao.
No, I just think ignoring what china has done wrong because of what people with your same political alliances say is fucking stupid. Communists are problematic that way. This thread is beyond enough proof. Both states are brutal and power hungry. They’re fucking world superpowers. If you can’t admit that the state you happen to like is ALSO guilty of wrongdoing…well, I’m not the one that needs to change my tune.
Citation needed again
Why do I need to? The people in China don't believe the CPC are "guilty of wrongdoing" with a 90% approval rate. They're proving to be a force of good in the world, and whatever "wrongdoing" you believe China is doing is because the US government wants you to believe it. Now why you'd want to believe what the world's biggest lying police state would say about anything, is beyond me
You need proof a modern state—and one that is competing with the likes of the brutally capitalist US in the global market—(not to mention one that has a government enabling one person to rule indefinitely, one that is violently enforcing its will on territories it wants to (re-)exert control over, one that is well-known for restricting media and speech)—has other goals than “making sure our people are happy and satisfied?” How delusional are you?
Lol wow. I guess more delusional than I was expecting. You know China has its own leftists that very much disagree with you…right? Like, you’re a western e-communist that you’re swallowing the party line so hard you’d be considered right-wing by the actual Chinese leftists. Like, they criticize the state for not being communist…while you’re over here idolizing them because you think you need to in order to “belong” as a communist. Ironic.
You can only view them as some fetishized version of what you don’t have. Like I said, you all never grew out of that stage we all went through when we first got radicalized (or at least I went through, at like 13 years old), where the complexity of the thinking is no more than, “i hate my government, they’re wrong…so anything that ALSO doesn’t like my government MUST be right!” Like, that Venn diagram has SOME overlap, but not 100%. And it’s so obvious when someone can’t differentiate. And that’s what I see in so many “communists” I talk to here.
…how can you be so naive? You really can’t see past the binary of “pro-US/pro-china” that you can’t conceive of me, an anarchist who doesn’t think that
(let me make sure you hear this, this time):
EITHER FUCKING STATE IS IN THE RIGHT.
How can you discount the accounts of those who were IN Hong Kong, reporting exactly what was happening when the brutal Chinese state was…brutalizing them? Because you love a brutal state THAT much that you’re going to claim it’s wEsTErN PrOpaGaNDa? Defending china by calling the US a police state is some rich, rich irony.
BOTH HAVE BRUTAL POLICE FORCES THAT ENFORCE THE STATE’S VERSION OF THE STATUS QUO. We both obviously agree that is true in the US…but you’re blind to that being a fact of the Chinese state as well because you CLEARLY have a massive blind spot in order to more neatly arrange/understand your own beliefs.
But I’m wasting my time explaining this to you, I’m sure. Blind spots are called blind spots for a reason.
Fair context. Invaded is a better word. But also the number of "interventions" by the US military would simply dwarf anything China has done, anyway.
You guys are all missing the point of what’s being said. No one is praising the US. The US, as stated, is a violent, colonizing superpower. But…so is china. What is it with communists that you guys can’t accept that your preferred states are still brutal governments? Western communists never move past the “well, I have to escape the WESTERN propaganda machine!” thinking. You just start swallowing the opposing brutal state’s propaganda output.
It’s never just “the US is evil.” Which would be completely acceptable. It’s always, “the US is evil, china is the model!” What. It’s indicative of the state of online political education for our generation(s). Contrarianism is the name of the game. “Well, I’m not on this side, so I HAVE to be on that side.” No, you can call out brutal states, even if they call their party communist. But you all do love the state. As long as it isn’t that state.
Source needed
What is it with liberals and not accepting that there are people who don't believe what the biggest liar in the world says about governments they don't like?
Lmfao I wish Western communists would actually do this, but even if they did like you claim...imagine thinking this is a bad thing
Everything else you said is just whiny lib bullshit.
How can you be aware of the slant that western media has against communism... but believe in everything they say about communist countries anyway? Do you even know what communism is?