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  • bobo@lemmy.mltoCommunism@lemmy.mlProtestation
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    6 days ago

    That’s a really cool quote, but which countries remained revolutionary for more than one leader? Maybe Vietnam, Iran, North Korea, and Cuba?

    Yugoslavia died with Tito, Libya was murdered alongside Gadafi, the Soviet Union survived the death of Lenin but I’d hardly call it revolutionary, China turned into a veiled capitalist as soon as Mao died, and so on.

    So statistically you can kill the revolution by killing the right revolutionary like Robespierre


  • Why doubt the results when you can doubt the methodology?

    I’m guessing they’re referencing this poll

    The POLITICO Poll was conducted by Public First from Dec. 5 to Dec. 9, surveying 10,510 adults online, with at least 2,000 respondents each from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France and Germany. Results were weighted to be representative of each country in terms of age, gender and geography. The overall margin of sampling error is ±2 percentage points for each country. Smaller subgroups have higher margins of error.











  • And you have the audacity to blame them for polluting the environment.

    So I should be fine with Chinese companies doing whatever they want in my country?Tire factory releasing toxic waste directly into a river? Not a problem… The absolute ecological destruction from a copper strip mine? It’s an improvement over farmland and forests…

    The infrastructure cracking might just be your prejudice, meaning you already believed they would be low quality.

    Sure buddy, 16 people dead from a restored roof is my prejudice. A railroad bridge with breaking supports must be my racism. Tofu dreg practices like filling cracked foundations with foam must be the standard in developed countries? Multiple sections of the highway being closed down for renovations less than a month after the opening ceremony? Standard practice. Experts saying a newly opened tunnel will collapse is just panic I guess…

    About slave labour, Chinese labour is paid more than Indian labour but I’ve never heard anyone call Indian labour slaves. It implies, it’s just CIA propaganda to bad mouth China. To be fair, their low wage is enough to live a better life than most Americans since everything is so cheap in China.

    Read again, PRISON labour. And I don’t need the CIA to see the prison camps with my own eyes, and I most definitely don’t need it to smell the camps in the winter since they have no hot water. Again, standard practice in the developing world, we’re certainly not the first to have imported Chinese prisoners…

    But while we’re on the topic of slave labour, we’ve got that too…

    https://balkaninsight.com/2021/01/26/like-prisoners-chinese-workers-in-serbia-complain-of-exploitation/

    https://balkaninsight.com/2024/03/13/modus-operandi-chinese-firms-trail-of-debt-labour-exploitation-in-serbia/

    https://www.euractiv.com/news/european-parliament-denounces-chinese-influence-modern-slavery-in-serbia/

    Can you guess which Chinese company was developing the highway I mentioned is using prison labour? You won’t believe it, but it’s the one using slave labour…


  • Sure, they built a shit load of infrastructure here as well. For example we had the most expensive highway built by Chinese prisoners, and paid for by Chinese loans. It not only started to show wear less then a year in, but there are sections that are literally expected to collapse.

    We had the most expensive reconstruction done by Chinese workers, the ceiling collapsed and killed a bunch of people.

    And so on, etc…

    Now they’re in talks to turn over every remaining national resource to them, to cover a part of the great work they’ve done so far, while Chinese companies are literally releasing unprocessed toxic waste into rivers.

    I think I prefer one over the other.

    It’s nice to have a preference in the taste of the boot standing on your face…


  • Yeah it’s great we built the most expensive highway in the world using Chinese prison labour, on Chinese loans, and it’s falling apart less then a year in. It’s perfectly fine that there are a 1000 different schemes draining the budget and literally killing people with tofu dreg construction. I guess we should feel lucky Chinese companies will take over national parks, waterways, and exploit every single resource until there’s only a toxic wasteland left…