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[-] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago

farquaad-point The settler can't conceive of land not belonging to someone!

[-] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago

Wild as fuck mask off chauvinism. This is why I am advocating defederation from that whole instance because that mfer is one of the admins.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

This guy is deeply unserious, but the general userbase seems much less bad. I wonder if it would be possible to get them to pressure the admin team to either drop this guy or at the very least keep a lid on this shit.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

that would be preferable to defederating for sure.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

these other instances sure know how to pick 'em

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

they were able to conceive of it when the land belonged to australian natives...

how curious

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

"If I don't steal it, someone else will steal it."

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

That part isn't crazy -- for example, it doesn't make sense to say Europeans stole land from indigenous peoples unless the indigenous peoples owned it in some way.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

I'd say it's more sensible than you give it credit for. To say that the land belongs to everyone and then have a group remove you from it and deprive you of access to it, you can absolutely say it was stolen from you even though you did not own it, because it went from belonging to everyone to being monopolized by a few.

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[-] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago

this guy is so ignorant and "all look same" racist that he has Mao confused with Pol Pot

[-] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

China didn't start developing until years after Mao left office

during Mao's tenure China's life expectancy DOUBLED and from 1952-1978 there was 6.2% annnual growth. just chauvinist fantasies from this asshole

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago

One of the biggest moments for me or realizing how propagandized westerners are is when I discovered how much improvement happened in the USSR and China under the "bad" leaders. These facts are not in dispute or being surpressed, but the western public is being effectively kept ignorant of them.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

These facts are not in dispute or being surpressed

Well, liberal economists are still way too negative on Mao because they have no way to account for collective ownership, or in any case choose to account for it inadequately.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

Oh hey it's the dude who said he wouldn't want to live in China because he'd be killed for being an intellectual.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Wait, no!

data-laughing

Reddit brain is tough, man.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

No, to put it mildly

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

White Australia fucking sucks

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

White Australians are literally no different than the Anglo settlers polluting Turtle Island afaic. Same measure of monstrosity, just flipped upside-down.

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[-] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

Its easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine Australia

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Still not sure of its a bit or if she's actually one of us. I want to believe

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[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago

This whole thread was a fucking trip. OP was a landlord complaining about real estate agents calling him to value a rental property.

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

Lol it's four days before Invasion Day, and my so-called compatriots are already in full swing
aus-delenda-est

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

what's invasion day?

Edit: nevermind found it

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

'australia day', Jan 26, the date the first fleet landed/union jack was flown

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[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

beyond everything I just have no idea where people get this stuff. like clearly they never got it from an actual book, there's no actual mapping to real events good or bad. this is what happens when you learn 20th century history from reddit threads

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

It's a vague mishmash of half remembered facts linked together by "logical inferences" (making shit up).

Failure of the 4 pests campaign = dabbling and experimentation. Deaths during cultural revolution = millions of deaths (it's communism so it's always millions of deaths). Pol Pot killed the intelligencia, but they're too racist to remember who all these foreigners are, so they feel safe attributing it to Mao. There was a famine, so it was probably caused by industrialisation (they don't actually know what the 4 pests campaign was, so don't know it caused the famine).

[-] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

It's always funny to me when Westerners can't even conceive of why anyone would support the Chinese government. Imagine being a middle-aged Chinese person who watched all this happen. Within living memory, you went from the tail end of the century of humiliation, emerging from under the heel of Western hegemony, and now you're a world superpower of unprecedented independence from that hegemony. For the first time in the history of the colonial world, a country of the oppressed has risen up by its own power to challenge the oppressors that have spent the past 400 years immiserating every non-white country on earth. They went from ox carts to high speed rail in one lifetime. From colonial humiliation, to unprecedented pride and dignity for the first counterhegemonic force outside the West in the history of capitalism. They can look around themselves and see several examples of countries like India and Myanmar that didn't choose communism, couldn't challenge the West, didn't have a cultural revolution (it was a mixed bag of very good and very bad) and they can see, clear as day, where their path led them vs the path the West would have preferred for them. Vassalage. Poverty. Exploitation. Rural idiocy, as Lenin put it. The path the West still wants to put them back on.

—u/Gravelord-_Nito

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

All you have to do is look at a graph of any quality of life indicator in China to disprove this. Like every single one is just stonks-up after 1949

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

a lotta youtube i figure

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For a second I was expecting an Aussiemandeus post lmfao

Anyway, White Australia and all of its crackers who parasitize the landmass and ostracize the land's indigenous deserve to be torn down and made permanent second-class citizens until they regrow a sense of humanity and cast aside their arrogantly nigh-deific entitlements. You do not own that land, you committed a genocide and occupied it. You are SETTLER SCUM, and do not deserve to have your humanity acknowledged after that fact.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

"I can't conceive the land not belonging to anyone"

Really? Why? It's not an object you can carry with you, it's not something created, to preceded us all by billions of years and will be there when we are gone, typically only with superficial differences. How can it even be property beyond being defined that way by some laws, let alone ontologically need to be property?

The rest is shit too, but come the fuck on. At least with Mao it hinges on history he is disconnected from. On the question of land, he has had his entire life interacting with it in various ways and he can't even imagine an exception to this axiom of ownership.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

so you're saying your anglo granpappy that got a shallow grave in korea was put there by a starving, uneducated, undeveloped China? sounds like a skill issue

[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

This guy sounds like my brother

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

you have my sympathies. i used to have that same brother, shit sucks

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

"Criticism without investigation is my favorite thing to do actually" -Mao "Crazylegs" Zedong

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

"Agriculture is bad, and starvation is good" -Mao "The Body" Zedong

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