• Tiresia@slrpnk.net
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            ML is short for Marxism-Leninism, the ideology developed by Stalin (without the involvement of Marx or Lenin) which recommends purges and genocide to ensure sufficient loyalty to the state while the state guides society towards communism out of the goodness of its heart.

            And which says the goodness of the state is ensured because communist dictators and high officials don’t legally own the nation so they have no incentive to exploit anyone for their own benefit or accumulation of power.

            According to MLs, North Korea is doing great, withstanding a fierce capitalist onslaught that is corrupting its citizens with promises of food security. I don’t know how they explain the difference with China.

            afaik, lemmy.ml was registered to the Mali internet domain because its founders are MLs and wanted the “.ml”.

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                I’ve asked lots of communists. Just the sort of communists that ML states invariably want to exterminate. You know, the weirdos that want to abolish private and state property and stop people from being alienated from their labor.

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            Yes but not exclusively. People who are willing to doubt a victim of domestic violence when it paints China as a baddie. Yet if she was “western,” they would be condemning the country without question.

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          Yeah no you’re right, shutting up and leaving oxygen for the people with more knowledge on the subject is the right call.

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            You do realise that this is a text based conversation right? Contributing or not has no impact on oxygen use. I understand using hyperbole to be witty, but that only works if you, y’know, have wit.

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                  15 hours ago

                  Its such a common metaphor either english isn’t your first language or you aren’t reading at a high-school level.

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                    15 hours ago

                    Common doesn’t mean good dawg. Herpes is common, doesn’t mean I want it.

                    I understood what you meant. I understood you were trying to be witty. I just don’t think you were successful.

                    But hey, that’s just my subjective opinion. If you don’t agree, then by all means continue this pointless argument. I love a good low stakes pissing match.

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              16 hours ago

              I haven’t made any strong statements on whether the guy she stabbed abused her.

              I pointed out that the court didn’t mention abuse, but did only give her 15 years, which could be me reading into it too much, but could imply the court believed there was some mitigating circumstances and she didn’t just murder him in cold blood.

              But that’s more nuance than immediately dropping my pants and jerking off while grunting “China Bad” so I see why you wouldn’t pick up on it.

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                15 years seems pretty long for a sentence outside of the US, but I don’t know what the average would be in China. I’m just aware that our sentencing structure is ridiculously long for no good reason.