Cult.
Imagine opposing fascism while supporting the one guy that was worse than hitler.
Hitler executed about 8 million people, about 6 million of whom were jews.
Stalin starved about 20 million people.
Mao oversaw the Great Famine, following his order to kill all the sparrows in China, which lead to the starvation of 60 - 80 million people, depending on who’s counting.
Oh, genocide denier I see… Hitlerites murderd 13 milion people in camps and other genocidal pursuits. Why are you minimizing the deaths of industrial genocide and emphasizing deaths of poorly timed policies?
Also fun fact, treating beneficial animals, insects and plants as pests was nothing new at the time and continues into the present. But why bother to investigate things you’re talking about am right?
Hitler intentionally killed about 5% of noncombatants in Nazi-controlled areas of Europe. We aren’t including soldiers at all. Under Mao, around 2.5% of China died in famines that could be partially attributed to aggressive industrialization. Arguing that Mao was worse for mismanaging industrialization than someone that industrialized mass murder to deliberately kill “undesirables” is horrendous historiography. It isn’t a coincidence that Mao is near universally loved in China while Hitler is near universally hated in Europe.
.ml lmao
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Is it me or you just placed a whole paragraph of arguments in somebody’s 10 words post just to try to win an internet fight nobody else knew was happening?
Because that’s just sad.
One paragraph takes very little time to write.
The highest voted comment in this thread makes claims about Mao that link back to a site run by a man who makes MAGA propaganda “documentaries”, the kinda of stuff that is fabricated nearly whole cloth, and sometimes just whole cloth. You might as well be punching yourself in mouth.
These are the ipad children we’ve left behind 😔
So wait can we just summon you like this?
I respond to what I feel like. Sometimes people @ mention me, but I’m not a whimsical gnome or anything, I just browse by subscribed.
Its not “some” of the broadcasters, it ALL the broadcasters. china is in full censorship mode on this guy.
Their censorship isn’t working anymore. The walls are breaking down, people are using VPNs, and Chinese people are talking to us on western social media sites. They can still believe it’s all western propaganda lies, but they can’t hide from the truth anymore.
I think the response has actually been more often something like “wow, Americans and Europeans really have it that bad?”
How are they so thin-skinned? You’d think tankies would have thick, armoured skin, like a… Well, like a … rhinoceros 🦏
How are they so thin-skinned?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation#Under_Xi_Jinping
Once they obtained enough clout, there is now this widespread belief among Mainlanders they have emerged from what they saw as a century of humiliation, now they see themselves above reproach, even exceptionalistic, and so will object to any sort of what they perceive as debasement.
The encapsulation of Mao:
“If the worst came to the worst and half of mankind died [in nuclear war], the other half would remain while imperialism would be razed to the ground and the whole world would become socialist.”
Zapp Brannigan revolutionary with no plans beyond bravado. There was/is no universe where a nuclear holocaust ends in sunshine and roses instead of the (functionally) permanent crippling of the human race. That lack of critical thought is still infecting leftist conversation today: vastly underestimating the cost and implications of actions and relying on blind appeals to moral determinism.
50%? The number is probably way lower. Like 1%
Why do they even like Mao so much? Dude was only good for helping them get the country. Literally nothing else.
Life expectancy doubled under Mao. Foot binding was ended. He was instrumental in the victory of China against Japanese imperialism. China rapidly industrialized under Mao. Without Mao, there certainly would have been someone else playing his historic role, but the important factor is that it was indeed Mao that led China to liberation and helped set in stone the modern prosperous China.
Life expectancy doubled
After a few hiccups.
The process began immediately:
Those “worldwide improvements in medical science” would never have reached the rural Chinese peasants who had never had access to Western medicine at all, without the Barefoot Doctors Program, which you’ve never heard of.
In case anyone thought China was a serious country, this is a good reminder.
what metric for seriousness would you choose instead?
because providing healthcare, clean electric power and high speed rail would be pretty fucking nice if we could get some here.
meanwhile we have trump, using ice at the polls… seriously democratic shit there.
not a fan of china, but I do wish we had their solar and rail outputs…
Free press. In the US, the press is bought, in China it is controlled.
there are only two political views. American and Chinese
haha, valid. I get so focused on trump I forget the world is still rolling along, leaving the US behind
Challenge accepted.
Mao was a rapist as bad as Trump.
Yep, kids too. And on top of that, he was just fucking gross
Oh, almost forgot… Taiwan is not China, Hong Kong deserves independence, and FREE FUCKING TIBET ALREADY.
Challenge accepted.
Goes on English posting site
Shakes fist at Foreign county
Posts low-key racist memes
Nobody in China knows or cares
We did it
RedditLemmy!Please explain the racism part.
No really, if it’s racist, I don’t want to further racism, and would like to know how it’s racist.
It’s not. The commentator above is just using Israeli style conflation to attempt to dismiss any critique of the Chinese government as racist against Chinese.
Side note: For the record, I’m not racist. I hate everyone equally.
Biased sources gtfo
China, dude, relax. With Trump in the white house you’re so perfectly poised to take the throne… why you gotta ruin it by being a petty betty?
We can talk a trade deal, but first you have to unwind.
it wouldn’t be wise for any country let alone china to be trying to strike deals with the US, even moreso now that they are even more openly meaningless.
