I’m right where I need to be.
That is some obscure Tankic dialect. Let me attempt a translation to common English.
I get to rage against the slowly changing society in my echo chamber without facing any repercussions, and without having to live in the authoritarian hellscape I so desperately advocate for but never experienced.
Some of these guys actually dream about moving to china. Like wtf are they trolling or just uneducated?
As long as “socialism-light” is bundled with State- Authoritarianism, still catering to capitalism and frequently using fascist rhetoric taking those countries seriously feels like a joke. Just because they have communist symbols on their flag doesn’t mean there actually trying to create a fairer world.
I’m sure most of them have never been to China.
I spent two weeks there and that was enough; I would never choose to live there. It’s a fairly safe place as a tourist or on a business trip, but there were dozens of red flags in that time as well.
Ironically, though, none of the red flags there had to do with Communism. More about censorship and unnecessary overt shows of military force around every corner. I saw more large arms there than driving through rural America, that’s for sure.
Imma be indulge my pendantic side and ask what you mean by large arms.
I saw a half-dozen soldiers with automatic rifles stationed around Tienanmen Square. And (since some “grad” folks prodded me about this in the past) they were nowhere near government buildings. This is the same at several other locations I saw in Beijing. It was less common on Shamien Island, but Shamien is largely businessmen and tourists.
Whenever I saw a money/bank vehicle, there would be soldiers with what appeared to be shotguns. Hard to be sure, but they had the excessive-sized barrels I am only used to seeing in shotguns. I understand “protecting the money” (sounds much more capitalist than commy, just saying), but that was already more excessive than most countries.
To be fair, despite being pro-gun-ownership, I consider the US attitude of police officers carrying firearms at all times to be slightly excessive, so officers carrying the more intimidating weapons usually reserved for assault teams in the US is even more excessive to me. They seem to want very visible weapons for the same reason many of our left hate very visible weapons - the intimidation factor.
