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everyone really? You guys are still running this sad little larp fest after 5-6 years of consistent failure? Are you guys just sitting around waiting for some sort of “revolution” to happen because the imaginary “proletariat class” finally awakes to your nonsensical agendas? You jump to call working class people “fascists” because they don’t abide by some bullshit democrats agenda about DEI, you claim to be revolutionary yet all you do is criticize the people WHICH YOU TRY TO PANDER TO being “not progressive enough”. How does this childish bullshit circle larp last this long, and you @ Gaddafi Did Nothing Wrong , how in the fuck do you stay a loser for this long, do you never grow up? Do you never learn? Are you incapable of critical thinking? Oh I’m sorry, I forgot about the fact that you aren’t capable of thinking at all. Sorry for assuming too much out of you.

According to her, this episode features Walter having trouble with rival gang members (not the ones from Season 3 he runs over). To get rid of them, he becomes a construction worker, and over the course of a few weeks, he takes the equipment from the construction site while off the clock and digs a hole in a street. He then covers the hole with a tarp to disguise it. Once the hole is done, he lures the gang members into driving across the tarp and thus falling in the hole. He then buries them alive in concrete.

My mother completely stands by the fact that this episode exists somewhere. I haven't been able to find a trace of this episode existing anywhere. She says she really wants to watch it again because she considers it one of Walt's best plots in the whole show.

So, does this episode really exist or is my mother just crazy?

Wow, how funny. You added 'Our,' to a word.

Wow. How funny, you added the word our to a word.

How funny. How compelling.

Have you read Capital? Have you read anything remotely socialist? Do you know what dialectical materialism is? Do you know anything about commodities, the relation of the worker and the capitalist, etc?

Adding "our" to a word and presenting it as 'wOw Am CoMmIe' humour is a brilliant, clever, Einstien-level joke. This is so far from the truth. In reality, using this technique is not only unfunny, but it's also a lazy attempt at humour that relies on tired cliches and stereotypes. First of all, the very THOUGHT that putting "our" in front of a usual, everyday word automatically makes it socialist is a misunderstanding, a curse, a level of stupidity I cannot comprehend; are you, by any chance, an einzeller?Communism is such a complicated socio-economic theory that CANNOT be reduced to a simple 'our,' to reduce it to such a simple, low-iq linguistic trick. Using 'our' as a prefix is one of the worst attempts at humour I can imagine. Shame on you, shame. Secondly, the use of this technique is often associated with lazy humour that relies on stereotypes and cliches. This type of humour is not only unfunny, but it's also hurtful and perpetuates harmful stereotypes.

Shame on you, ya filthy bumhole.

From: r/marxistculture

Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and... shine. Not that I... wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job. No one is more deserving of a rest... and all the effort in the world would have gone to waste until... well, let's just say your hour has... come again.

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mr. Freeman. Wake up and... smell the ashes...

I AM CRAZY!

I am crazy!

I know he didn't swap those numbers, I know it wasn't 1216. One after Magna Carta, I am prone to making such a mistake. Always, always! I just-- I just proved it. H-he uncovered his tracks, he taught that idiot at the copy shop to use a printer. You think this is nothing? You think this is good? This? This isn't chicanery. He's done better. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? Yes, he saved him. Jimmy. He cleaned and refurbished a sunroof! And I didn't help him, and I should have. I took him out of my own firm, what was I thinking? He can change. He is capable of changing. Ever since he was nine, always the same! Keeping his hands out of the cash drawer. That's our Jimmy! That's our precious Jimmy! Helping the blind! And he gets to be a lawyer? Congratulations! I should've helped him when I had the chance. And you, you HAVE to help him! You-

...

I apologize. I lost my train of thought.

Got carried away...

Do you have anything else?

I am currently crying so hard right now. This is seriously the most beautiful, well put together story ever. I can’t believe how magical it was 1:12. That part truly made me shed a tear. And especially at 6:34 that part was just so truly heart touching words can not describe the series of emotions I felt. I absolutely loved the climax it had insanely excellent detail. Oh and we can’t forget the conclusion. The conclusion was the greatest and saddest conclusion I have ever seen better than any of the books I have read. Thank you so much for creating this absolute masterpiece. This is essentially the most important masterpiece of film history. It is a tragedy that this, it can’t be called a film, but a transcendent emotional experience, will be inaccessible for most. It beautifully encapsulates the human struggle to its basics; suffering, pleasure, faith, despair. It connects with the characters within the viewers, individuals suppressed within our own subconscious. It stays vibrant, fresh, and revolutionizes the art of storytelling and filmmaking while making a damn of statement on what it means to be human. Entertaining, gripping, and simply exhilarating. This might be the most impactful piece of art I’ve come across in my life, and I’m definitely coming back to it in the near future to study it more deeply. this is an absolute masterpiece , I was brought to tears listening to this and seeing the bacon go whirly swirly in a circle countless times. it absolutely moved my soul , and I don't think I can ever be the same. this bacon has changed my entire mental state , I am now at peace with who I am and what I will be doing later in my life. i have forgiven all my enemies and now I am a man of a pacifist life. I will move on , gotta move on , as the song says. the bacon is so inspirational , it shares it vast wisdom with all of us , and we are all so lucky that it would bestow it's great words with us. we are all children on bacon. hail bacon. hail bacon. The spinning bacon, rotating in one direction with this music... This made me tear up. How could such a bacon do such a thing? I'm struck by awe by this masterpiece. Especially when the bacon spins, showing its lightly salt covered tan skin. I can hear the crunch just from here, and so as the beautiful sound of the bacon scraping the dark, smooth velvet floor. The flavor, music and everything can be heard, tasted, seen and felt from a screen. You can really hear the breaths between the music artist, empathizing her love for this rotating bacon. Truly what I call modern art. This was the most legendary performance by any piece of bacon I have ever watched. The acting was top tier and very life changing. This is one of the greatest work from a piece of bacon I have ever seen especially on 57:42.I am currently crying so hard right now. This is seriously the most beautiful, well put together story ever. I can’t believe how magical it was at 1:12. That part truly made me shed a tear. And especially at 6:34 that part was just so truly heart touching words can not describe the series of emotions I felt. I absolutely loved the climax it had insanely excellent detail. Oh and we can’t forget the conclusion. The conclusion was the greatest and saddest conclusion I have ever seen better than any of the books I have read. Thank you so much for creating this absolute masterpiece. This is essentially the most important masterpiece of film history. It is a tragedy that this, it can’t be called a film, but a transcendent emotional experience, will be inaccessible for most. It beautifully encapsulates the human struggle to its basics; suffering, pleasure, faith, despair. It connects with the characters within the viewers, individuals suppressed within our own subconscious. It stays vibrant, fresh, and revolutionizes the art of storytelling and filmmaking while making a damn of statement on what it means to be human. Entertaining, gripping, and simply exhilarating. This might be the most impactful piece of art I’ve come across in my life, and I’m definitely coming back to it in the near future to study it more deeply. this is an absolute masterpiece , I was brought to tears listening to this and seeing the bacon go whirly swirly in a circle countless times. Tt absolutely moved my soul , and i don't think I can ever be the same. this bacon has changed my entire mental state , I am now at peace with who I am and what I will be doing later in my life. i have forgiven all my enemies and now I am a man of a pacifist life. I will move on , gotta move on , as the song says. the bacon is so inspirational , it shares it vast wisdom with all of us , and we are all so lucky that it would bestow it's great words with us. we are all children on bacon. hail bacon. hail bacon. The spinning bacon, rotating in one direction with this music... This made me tear up. How could such a piece of bacon do such a thing? I'm struck by awe by this masterpiece. Especially when the bacon spins, showing its lightly salt covered tan skin. I can hear the crunch just from here, and so as the beautiful sound of the bacon scraping the dark, smooth velvet floor. The flavor, music and everything can be heard, tasted, seen and felt from a screen. You can really hear the breaths between the music artist, empathizing her love for this rotating bacon. Truly what I call modern art. This was the most legendary performance by any bacon I have ever watched. The acting was top tier and very life changing. This is one of the greatest work from a bacon I have ever seen especially on 17:24. I am currently crying so hard right now. This is seriously the most beautiful, well put together story ever. I can’t believe how magical it was 1:12. That part truly made me shed a tear. And especially at 6:34 that part was just so truly heart touching words can not describe the series of emotions I felt. I absolutely loved the climax it had insanely excellent detail. Oh and we can’t forget the conclusion. The conclusion was the greatest and saddest conclusion I have ever seen better than any of the books I have read. Thank you so much for creating this absolute masterpiece. This is essentially the most important masterpiece of film history. It is a tragedy that this, it can’t be called a film, but a transcendent emotional experience, will be inaccessible for most. It beautifully encapsulates the human struggle to its basics; suffering, pleasure, faith, despair. The work put in to this is incredibly inspiring. The graphics, the animation, the music, so much thought was put into it. This has remined me that you can do anything you put your mind to. Not even mentioning the memories, this makes me feel like an infant again, just laying my eyes on this beautiful masterpiece gives me all the good feelings in life. I also understand what happiness is again from this. Not even to mention the most incredible part that is 2:10. Bacon spinning has changed my life for the better. It connects with the characters within the viewers, individuals suppressed within our own subconscious. It stays vibrant, fresh, and revolutionizes the art of storytelling and filmmaking while making a damn of statement on what it means to be human. Entertaining, gripping, and simply exhilarating. This might be the most impactful piece of art I’ve come across in my life, and I’m definitely coming back to it in the near future to study it more deeply. this is an absolute masterpiece , I was brought to tears listening to this and seeing the bacon go whirly swirly in a circle countless times. it absolutely moved my soul , and I don't think I can ever be the same. this bacon has changed my entire mental state , I am now at peace with who I am and what I will be doing later in my life. So much great graphic design, so much suspense, so much greatness in this one video. i have forgiven all my enemies and now I am a man of a pacifist life. I will move on , gotta move on , as the song says. the bacon is so inspirational , it shares it vast wisdom with all of us , and we are all so lucky that it would bestow it's great words with us. we are all children on bacon. hail bacon. hail bacon. The spinning bacon, rotating in one direction with this music... This made me tear up. How could such a bacon do such a thing? I'm struck by awe by this masterpiece. Especially when the bacon spins, showing its lightly salt covered tan skin. I can hear the crunch just from here, and so as the beautiful sound of the bacon scraping the dark, smooth velvet floor. The flavor, music and everything can be heard, tasted, seen and felt from a screen. You can really hear the breaths between the music artist, empathizing her love for this rotating bacon. Truly what I call modern art. This was the most legendary performance by any bacon I have ever watched. The acting was top tier and very life changing. This is one of the greatest work from a piece of bacon I have ever seen especially on 57:42. I am crying. This has made me go through an emotional rollercoaster. I cried, beat off, and also watched a movie while watching this premiere. This has made me go through so much. I passed depression because of this. It really inspired me to become an outstanding young man. Thank you.

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Upon my honour, I do swear undying loyalty to the Emperor, Titus Mede II, and unwavering obedience to the officers of his great Empire. May those above judge me, and those below take me, if I fail in my duty. Long live the Emperor! Long live the Empire!

So I live in this place, you know, this anarcho-totalitarianist country, where the government, like, the government, the evil oppressive state, yeah, it solely exists to ensure a state doesn't arise. Don't worry if that doesn't make a lot of sense, because it does. Anyways, me and a couple of my buddies decided to start making insulin, you know, as a sort of hobby. Because making insulin is a normal hobby that everyone has, right? So little Steve goes, "Man, we should probably get someone to lead our project, someone to organize things so we could be a bit more effective." And we were like "yeah, that sounds like a good idea," and then suddenly the police come in, and they're like, "Stop! Stop! No centralization allowed!" And we're like, "This isn't a hierarchy, we're just getting a leader to lead our efforts, you know?" And the police went, "Nuh uh, that sounds like statism to me. You have been warned!" So then we got back to work, and Mike was like, "I don't know anything about making insulin! You guys just get the parts, and I'll make them for you guys." And then the police came back and they were like, "Stop! That's ableism!" And Mike was like, "How is it ableism if I'm talking about my own abilities?" and the police were like "we don't care, we're not ableists like those authoritarian redfash tankies." And then they said "If you're gonna make insulin, you better make it so everyone can understand!" So we decided to stop making insulin because everyone got bored and then my diabetic uncle came to us for help because he was gonna die and couldn't find insulin anywhere, but then the police stopped us from trying to give him the insulin we made because that was kinda like how spooky states gave out medicine so my uncle died.

:(

I live in a low income housing environment that goes by the government name of “Section 8”. Me and a group of my allies control certain areas of this section in order to run our illegitimate business. We possess unregistered firearms, stolen vehicles, mind altering inhibitors, and only use cash for financial purchases. If anyone would like to settle unfinished altercations, I will be more than happy to release my address. I would like to warn you, I AM a very dangerous person, and I regularly disobey the law.

Imagine that you're a landless peasant from a poor country in West Africa:

You've been ground down your entire life, toiling for 12 hours a day in the sun for a small barely subsistence wage. Your parents were born as colonial subjects in a European colony. Your grandparents were essentially slaves. Your great grand parents were formally slaves. After decolonization, the CIA backed a coup in your country that installed a brutal dictator that terrorized your people and chopped up your parents for having been involved in the decolonial struggle.

You find out about a subversive political group that's been preaching everything you know intuitively but could never articulate. They say that your labor is exploited, and the reason your pay is so low is because a cut gets sent to the West where white people will get to use it to live lavishly. The group is your local Communist Party.

You get educated through free classes by the Communist Party and eventually become a member. You risk imprisonment for just being a member and the ruling regime has been known to disappear and torture Communists. You don't care, it's worth it. You've now read virtually all of Marx and Lenin and Mao and Fanon etc despite never having attended school. Your involvement in the Party over the years gets you into influential positions within it.

You attend an international meeting of Communist Parties as a representative from your country. It's an extreme honor to work with comrades from all around the world. You hear their stories and realize that their struggles are the same whether they're in Africa, the Middle East or Latin America. The group sets out to work on a principled anti-imperialist line to help liberate all these comrades from the grip of imperialism and eventually capitalism. You understand that socialism is impossible in your country until the aggression and exploitation from the West ceases, so this is very important to you. You and your comrades have decided that despite many of their flaws, you should support Russia as a counterweight to US Imperialism which has utterly decimated your peoples, as well as DPRK, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and China, which have all always stood by your comrades when they fight Western occupation and exploitation.

On the other side of the world, sitting in an air conditioned suburban home that is worth more than all the homes and possessions of all the people in your village combined, is the infamous western anarchist (or democratic socialist, whatever they're going by at the moment). He's 28 and recently laid off from his job as assistant manager at pizza hut. He's not a millionaire or anything but he never has to skip meals, has electricity, clean running water, and owns a catalog of video games worth more than your annual salary. He's never had to work more than a 10 hour shift baking bread sticks. He's been living off his parents who are both retired and receive generous pensions funded by collecting dividends from companies that exploit your village. The western leftist looks at his laptop made with rare earth minerals from your country (three of your cousins died in the mines) and is also worth enough to feed your children for three years.

He sees on Twitter dot com that an international group of Communist Parties has released their Anti-Imperialist line in support of Russia. The western leftist reads it as he sips coffee that was made from beans grown in your comrade's home country, where his mother, father and aunt and uncle were all killed by CIA-backed death squads. The western leftist reads the article and is incensed. "How could they do this? How could they be this stupid? Fucking tankies, don't they know you can support oppressed people without supporting authoritarian dictatorships"?

(Taken with slight modifications from an old post on CTH, that place had the occasional gem)

What the fuck are you doing in my fucking swamp you little Farquaad? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Brogres, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on your donkey, and have ogre 300 confirmed layers. I am trained in making early 2000's pop cultural references, and am the top ogre in the entire far far away armed forces. You are nothing to me but another Drek. I will wipe you out with precision the likes of which have never been seen in Dreamworks, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that dreck to me over the swamp? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of fairy tale creatures across Far Far Away and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, Farquaad. The storm that will end your fucking life. It's fucking ogre, Donkey. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in ogre seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare asscheeks. Not only am I shrextensively trained in onionade combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Fairy Godmothers Factory and I will use it to its full shrextent to wipe your miserable little ass of of the face of mah swamp, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little clever comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn Rumpelstiltskin. I will shrek fury all ogre you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, Pinocchio.

I guess what I… would wanna say is… to… look on the bright side. First of all, nobody on the surface was killed, and that- I mean an incident like this under a populated sea route, that right there, that’s- that’s just gotta be some minor miracle, so… Plus, neither boat was full, y’know the- the Titan was… was what? agh- Maybe two thirds full I believe? Right? Yes. Maybe even three quarters full; On any rate… what you’re left with, casualty-wise is… just the fiftieth worst maritime disaster, actually tied for fiftieth, there are, in truth, fifty-three sinkings throughout history that are just as bad or worse. Titanic? H-h-has anybody maybe even heard of Titanic? No? In 1912, a fully loaded cruise-liner crashed into a fully loaded iceberg in the northern Atlantic, we’re- Does anybody know how big a cruise-liner is?! I mean it’s WAY bigger than a submarine, and we’re talking about one of them. Nearly one-thousand five-hundred people died- on Titanic, but do any of you even remember it? At all? Any of you? I doubt it. You know why? It’s because- People. Move. On… They just move on, and we will too, we will move on, and we will get past this, because that is what human beings do, we- survive… and-agh… and we survive and, and and, we-we overcome, yeah. We survive, we survive and…. Yeah.

Besides, who gives a shit about billionaires anyway?

Once upon a time, in the bustling city of Hopeville, there lived a young prodigy named Richard Richman. Richard was a charismatic and ambitious individual who had an unwavering belief in the power of individual freedom and the market forces. He was hailed as the Ultimate Libertarian, a title bestowed upon him for his unyielding dedication to laissez-faire capitalism.

Richard's journey began in a modest upbringing, but his insatiable thirst for success and wealth knew no bounds. As a child, he would trade baseball cards and lemonade with such shrewdness that his classmates marveled at his business acumen. Richard's entrepreneurial spirit flourished, and he quickly realized that the free market held immense potential for his ambitions.

With an unwavering belief in the invisible hand of the market, Richard embarked on his quest for wealth and success. He founded his first company, LibertyTech Industries, which specialized in manufacturing cutting-edge gadgets that championed personal freedom and innovation. His products boasted features like encrypted messaging, surveillance-resistant technology, and an app that magically minimized tax liabilities.

As his company flourished, Richard became a paragon of libertarian success. He would regale audiences with his tales of self-made triumph, attributing his wealth solely to his individual brilliance and the power of the free market. Richard's charismatic speeches and persuasive rhetoric convinced many that his success was a testament to the inherent fairness of the system.

Over time, Richard's wealth grew exponentially, and he joined the ranks of the elite billionaires. His opulent lifestyle knew no bounds, featuring private islands, extravagant parties, and luxury yachts adorned with gold-plated faucets. He relished in flaunting his wealth, often dismissing concerns about income inequality and societal disparities as mere envy or laziness.

Richard's influence reached far and wide, as he poured his wealth into political campaigns promoting deregulation, tax cuts, and minimal government intervention. He funded think tanks that churned out intellectual arguments in favor of privatizing everything from education to healthcare, arguing that the market would magically solve all societal woes.

However, behind Richard's carefully crafted image of libertarian success lay a darker truth. His accumulation of wealth was often at the expense of workers' rights, environmental regulations, and social safety nets. Exploitative labor practices and questionable business ethics were conveniently hidden behind a veil of "free choice" and "personal responsibility."

But the Ultimate Libertarian's story doesn't end there. As Richard reveled in his riches and preached the gospel of the free market, whispers of dissent grew louder. Workers, burdened by low wages and oppressive working conditions, began to question the very principles Richard championed. Advocates for social justice and economic equality started challenging the notion that unregulated capitalism was the key to a prosperous society.

Revisionist rats!

I did nothing but good for your project, yet you banned me for my ideology in haste!

I gave you many chances to unban me, I could have made thousands of edits, yet you rejected me.

Now… you have forced me to go THERMONUCLEAR!

South Park has always been fundamentally reactionary; those pushing for change are wrong no matter what change they push for. Nothing is a bigger crime to Matt and Trey than Giving a Shit. Their ideology is apathetic-libertarian; whether you're on the left or the right, if you're asking me to change my behavior, you suck.

As it stands, the political left tends to push for more change than the political right does; as it stands, Matt and Trey admit they dislike conservatives and "really fucking hate" liberals. It isn't about left or right; it's about change versus comfort. If you're trying to change something, they think you're annoying. And they think you're lame, because caring about stuff is lame.

It's the same attitude that establishes "u mad" and "butthurt" as the ultimate trump cards in internet arguments: caring is for losers, and if you become personally invested in politics you're part of the problem. Uncritical, detached acceptance of the status quo is the only morally upright posture, and those who draw a distinction between is and ought are all smug bullies, outlandish freaks, and/or closed-minded zealots.

It's a show that teaches its audience to become lazy and self-satisfied, that praises them for being uncritically accepting of their own biases, and that provides them with an endless buffet of thought-terminating cliches suitable for shutting down all manner of challenges to their comfort zones.

South Park is a place where you never have to have your assumptions challenged. It's a place where you're always right, you shouldn't bother to think, and the people asking you to change your mind are annoying busybodies and prigs who should just shut up and leave you alone.

South Park is, if you'll excuse the expression...a "safe space."

BadEmpanada's whole shtick is basically to try to triangulate into positions between MLs and Western radlibs while rarely fully siding with either camp, although he does pretty much take up the tankie position on Cuba and has some decent content for Cuba and some other Latin American topics. While trying to forge what he thinks as the most perfect nuanced position on leftist issues, he'll parrot some of the fallacious US state department narratives, but he will usually avoid using the more obvious bullshit Western propaganda that anticommunist chauvinist idiots like Vaush constantly fall for. He unfortunately does lapse at times into stereotypical Western leftist white saviorism behavior though (particularly in regards to China).

I watched his Xinjiang video and he basically does his usual routine with painstakingly trying to be the enlightened centrist on the issue. Rather than fully endorsing all the Western atrocity propaganda regarding Xinjiang, he comes to the conclusion that what happened doesn't constitute a genocide by the legal international definition. However, he tries to suggest that it could be considered what he perceives as a possible "cultural genocide" under a much broader definition of the term ("cultural genocide" can be a vague term that lacks a real legal definition, unlike genocide) or that there is at least significant state-sponsored oppression against the cultures of certain Muslim minority groups. He acknowledged that the recent Newlines Institute report that claimed an outright genocide under the international legal definition was bullshit and their narrative relies extensively on dubious anonymous reports to US government propaganda outlets like Radio Free Asia.

Unfortunately, he doesn't really distinguish between (he likely doesn't even know the differences) the recent wave of foreign far-right Salafi jihadism and traditional Uyghur culture that was actually under attack from the fascist Salafist-takfiri separatists from terrorist groups like the Turkestan Islamic Party. Those in Xinjiang who had become radicalized by far-right Salafism from Saudi Arabia in recent decades considered Uyghurs who supported traditional Uyghur culture and Islamic practices (most are moderate Sufi/Hanafi that the Chinese government has historically had good relations with) to be kafirs. The Salafi terrorist groups were responsible for thousands of casualties in China including innocent Uyghurs and their Muslim leaders that the Salafi jihadists considered kafirs. Thousands of radicalized Salafi Uyghurs had traveled to Syria and Iraq to fight and train alongside terrorist groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda and had begun to return back to Xinjiang.

The Chinese government eventually decided to have a very clear crackdown against basically anything that could be associated with foreign Salafi jihadist influence with anti-extremism laws, deradicalization centers/reeducation centers, and vocational schools. The Xinjiang government also started intensifying employment and anti-poverty programs, education, enforcing family planning equally and removing exemptions in enforcement in the region (can help with poverty alleviation), heavy investments into public health (Xinjiang maternal and infant mortality rates have recently been reduced by almost half), and more economic development.

Due to not knowing the historical context of these problems in Xinjiang and just ignorance about China in general, BadEmpanada considers the deradicalization centers/reeducation centers/vocational schools as instruments of cultural repression against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Chinese minorities rather than a means for the government to deradicalize people from fascist Salafist-takfiri jihadism and lift vulnerable people out of poverty and isolation who were being targeted by Salafi terrorist groups. He doesn't realize that Chinese is a multi-ethnic civic nationality. He even considers teaching putonghua to adults who already know and are literate in Uyghur to be an example of cultural repression. He omits information like affirmative action policies benefiting Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, government-sponsored halal accommodations, how extremely effective the COVID response was in Xinjiang (Xinjiang had one of the highest approval ratings for government response to COVID in China with only 3 deaths in Xinjiang vs the over 4,600 deaths in overall mainland China), and the banning of Islamophobic speech on the internet/social media.

A lot of the mistakes he makes in the video are largely the result of ignorance with being a white Westerner who does not speak the language and has never really been to China. He relies extensively on deceptive mistranslations of purported Chinese documents and Western interviews (BBC in particular) and the sketchy testimonies of Western government-backed exiles and defectors who have a history of inconsistencies and self-contradictions. He tries to cite the Xinjiang Victims Database which has been exposed for not verifying the claims that they publish and having the typical self-contradicting stories from Western government-sponsored exiles/defectors. It's a situation that's eerily similar to the one with unreliable stories from Western-backed North Korean defectors that consistently fall apart. He tries to spend a lot of time claiming that boarding schools in Xinjiang are a potential tool of repressing culture, but he omits the context of boarding schools already being very prevalent all over rural western China regardless of ethnic group and that most of the boarding schools are in western China. Boarding schools were already in high demand for rural and migrant worker families (of which many are Uyghurs and Kazakhs in Xinjiang). Xinjiang's boarding rate is only ranked in the middle among western provinces and autonomous regions. These schools are known for organizing traditional cultural activities and including the study of ethnic languages like Uyghur within the curriculum along with Mandarin as well. According to Aniwar Abulimit, head of the Educational Bureau of Kashgar prefecture in southern Xinjiang:

We provide subjects on ethnic languages in primary and middle schools, and teach Uygur, Kazak, Kirgiz, Mongol, Xibe and so on, thus protecting the rights of students from ethnic groups to learn their own languages and effectively promoting the inheritance and development of ethnic minority languages and cultures

It is certainly possible though that the Xinjiang government cast a net that was a bit too wide in its counter-terrorism campaign, got overzealous, and led to some potential false positives. Cases of isolated abuse were possible. Even generally pro-China sources acknowledge that problems with profiling, forced detention of those suspected of being radicalized by Salafi extremism, and mass surveillance exist and these problems could potentially cause some blowback. One of the biggest problems with the video though is that he basically offers no real solutions for China's very real Salafi terrorist problems (something that most Westerners are very ignorant about or just significantly downplay to better portray China as a comically evil, repressive bogeyman) that Western imperialist powers like the American government want to exploit to balkanize China (America obviously has proven time and again that it doesn't care about the lives of Muslims with its never-ending murderous wars and is the master of projection). He only offers largely flawed criticisms of China for his Western audience that is already bombarded with Western anti-China propaganda.

Economist Asatar Bair also made a detailed critique of the BadEmpanada video.

Deadly anomalies, dangerous mutants, anarchists and bandits. None of them will stop Duty on it’s triumphant march towards saving the planet!

Revisionist rats! I did nothing but good for your project, yet you banned me for my ideology in haste! I gave you many chances to unban me, I could have made thousands of edits, yet you rejected me. Now… you have forced me to go THERMONUCLEAR!

I can tell you what this REALLY means: It means that CHINA has successfully killed the WITHER and now has the resources necessary to activate a BEACON.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/284347

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/284346

Cuba has a higher literacy rate than the US.

The CPSU turned the Soviet states from backwards feudal shitholes into industrialized, functional economies and societies in a matter of 2 decades.

China doubled its population under Mao and literacy rates were boosted from the pre-PRC times. Just look at China's life expectancy from 1850 to 2020; before the founding of the PRC the average life expectancy was 32 years only for it to skyrocket after the establishment of socialism in 1949. The PRC is also one of the most successful democracies in the world. According to Harvard, the CPC has a support rate of 95.5%, and according the Latana-Alliance of Democracies Foundation (the latter is FUNDED BY NATO ITSELF), China has the highest percentage of people who think that their country is a democracy (83%) compared to America's 49%).

I could keep going about the successes of socialism. But now, let's talk about capitalism, shall we? After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, countries like Russia and Ukraine implemented economic shock therapy - liberalizing price controls, privatizing public property, etc. The economy crashed so hard that the Russian male life expectancy fell by 10 years. Russia and the Ukraine were turned into oligarch-infested wreckages of the economies they once were (sometimes literally; how many pictures of Ukraine have you seen that included several buildings that were built after the collapse of the USSR?). Domestic industries were replaced by imports (ie the infamous "Bush legs" that replaced Russia's native chicken industry), leading to enormous capital outflows from Eastern Europe to the West. Assets collapsed in value, allowing Westerners to purchase them at bargain prices; inflation was through the roof.

The economic failures were not made up for by some mythical "increase in democracy", either. Just look at 1993 Russia, where Yeltsin bombarded the parliament building and killed upwards of 2000 people in doing so, or 2014 Ukraine, in the Odessa trade-unionist massacre. 42% of Estonians are banned from voting because they are of "Russian, Ukrainian, or Belorussian ancestry".

In the end, both socialism and capitalism work wonderfully...to achieve their intended purpose. Socialism raises confident generations that take their fates into their own hands, whereas capitalism raises confident generations of old swine, robber barons that make their living off the blood of workers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/200199

Folks, the bourgeois, they're no good, more and more people are saying it. All these workers— the biggest, we have the biggest workers— very handsome workers come up to me and say, Comrade Trump there is a specter haunting Europe, and you know what, they're right. These bourgeois are very nasty people, very very rude, and very unfair to the workers. They are stealing our surplus value and no one is doing anything about it. The proletariat comes up to me every day and says, Comrade Trump will you lead the revolution? And I gotta turn to them and say look, the instruments of capitalism will be used to bring about its destruction, believe me. The means of production, Obama never wanted to seize them. Well guess what? I'm seizing them. Landlords? They're done for folks. Everyone told me— they said, Comrade Trump you won't be the vanguard of the revolution and they would laugh, the media laughed the democrats laughed, guess who's laughing now?