BeanisBrain

Hot take:

Socialist realism was a straitjacket and imposing it while suppressing modernism was an L for Stalin. Fundamentally reactionary, as evidenced by the fact that the Nazis were doing the same thing at the same time (pushing purely representational art as the only legitimate form of creative expression while waging war against modern art as "d-generate")

Name: Beanis B. Rain
Occupation: Hexbear's assigned FBI agent
Place of residence: Liberal Mountain, Idaho

And washing it down with liberal tears

EDIT: lol the replies are pure liberal idealism

China faces the same issue as any other authoritarian nation. It's only as good as it's leadership. A benign dictator may well be the most effective form of governance, yet so few dictators are in fact benign. On a long enough timeline, all dictatorships degrade into graft and systemic human rights abuse.

It's taken precisely one nationalistic 'president for life' to strip China of it's emerging civil liberties, turn the nation inward, enormously increase xenophobia and create a prison camp from an entire region (Xinjiang). Where is the freedom of movement, let alone economic success for rural Chinese who cannot freely travel within the country, and need state approval to apply for a passport?

Perhaps China seems so appealing because the United States is so evidently failing as a state. But if there is hope for the future, it should be in systems which decrease power distance, not those that deify glorious leaders.

I am learning way more than I expected to going into this thread.

"The commies want to monitor you through your TV screen" was, it turns out, capitalist projection as usual.

Nah, you're fine. These are nuances worth considering.

Poles were literally subject to systemic extermination in living memory.

Poland never had a colonial empire.

Madly F5ing Vietnam's immigration department site until my tourist visa gets approved

Sisu

Wasn't that the dragon from Raya and the Last Dragon

I used to have some shitty views on fat people, but even then, The Biggest Loser was really uncomfortable for me to watch (thanks, Mom). It was obvious to me that treating something that's meant to be a positive goal (getting healthier) as a ruthless, win-at-all-costs, zero sum competition with binary success and failure modes could not possibly to anyone's benefit (except the show's producers, of course).