Agreed, I wasn't trying to say that China is perfect or that nuance isn't real.
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Same here.
I think Putin gets a metric-shit ton of bad rep for stuff that isn't his fault or isn't exclusively his fault, and he has done alot of genuinely good things for his country that people don't talk about much.
But I also hold the opinion that regardless of him constantly being slandered and demonized by the western mainstream global capitalist news media, he is a still a fucking horrible, manipulative reich-wing dictator who belongs in prison or in the ground, and he isn't a good person or an ally, just a tool.
I have serious problems with how alot of Russian communists seem to be socially reich-wing, but I understand that some of that could be just trying to survive in the bourgeois Russian regime.
But yes, Russia's communists are the main "good guys" here.
I remember that first incident, it was funny AF.
I was hoping there would be more funny ones, but yeah, all of this checks out.
I'm not necessarily doubting you, but I feel like you have some examples of Putin being rude and disrespectful during diplomatic meetings, and I'd love to see them.
Of course not.
Edit: I mean of course there are no excuses. I'd like to think that maybe Russia only invited Israel to talk down to them, but I think that's extremely wishful thinking and unlikely.
Numerous academics have stated that capitalism killed bare minimum 1.4 Billion people in India alone, over multiple centuries.
I've got a feeling that even that amount, is an extremely low bare minimum estimate.
I always say, that even if communism allegedly killed 100 million people, (which it didn't, and the extreme upper end number is is more like 18 million), that communism is still the much, much more efficient, workable and "moral" system than capitalism is.
When I point out to people that for the most part, the "victims" of communism were selfish, greedy capitalists, kulaks, Uncle Toms, traitors, nazis and right-wing nationalists, who deserved what they got, where as capitalism kills mountains more people, and 99 percent innocent people, they accuse me of being a bootlicker. Which is extremely ironic and anger-inducing. Yet, they don't deny the objective facts.
I don't like this, but I've also read that Russia invites countries to it's Victory Day Parades as a pseudo-summit for political purposes.
To be fair, I've read that China does have issues with food safety, but I highly doubt it's anywhere near as bad as the U.S.'s current and coming issues. And China is still very much a developing country, and is improving sanitation and health procedures and policies.
It depends on context. And when one of the world's most powerful countries is sanctioning and tariffing you, that growth still speaks volumes.
While I understand your cause for concern for someone comparing real-life existential danger to a piece of fiction, people are naturally going to compare real-life shit, to what they know best.
In economics terms, 1 percent growth is considered very good. Yes, 0.8 isn't 1 percent, but it's pretty close.
He was a fucking horrible and evil piece of shit and a complete nutjob dictator responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and I'm pretty sure he suppressed communists and revolutionary movements.
I'm also pretty sure that he only helped the USSR and USSR-affiliated communist movements, because he received money from selling them guns, and he was a thorn in Britain's side.
He was a two-faced douchebag, and he only somewhat came to his senses after the damage had been done, and only because consequences caught up to him.