The military ineptitude of the slave kingdoms truly is legendary

That y-axis isn’t helping anyone

Republicans: “it’s very bad and we will make it worse”

Democrats: “it’s really not that bad and there’s nothing to worry about”

Ratchet strategy is eternal

This smile is his most dead-eyed yet

How will they Free the Navigation without sweet sweet money?

Mysterious explosions everywhere you look these days

1. I wasn’t banned for serious discussion according to the modlog. I think it’s pretty obvious to everyone that the mod got emotional and banned on that basis. Now you and the mod are trying to move the goal posts and back-justify. I don’t find it persuasive
2. It’s clear there will be nothing but deflection and denial here

It is hard to get a good understanding using only resources in English, unfortunately (my Mandarin is toddler-level at best)

I have been looking around for some sources and I think these 2 are the best place to start based on your question:

• This video by Ben Norton is a little long but very good
• This is a search I did at “ProleWiki” which is one of the best places to get info “outside of the media bubble” I plan on reading about 5 links from that list, we will see if ADHD allows it

I engaged with flamebait and got banned. Caught red-handed doing literal PTB the mod is now retreating to diversionary absurdism and you are running the same playbook as well

“It’s your fault for thinking there should be rules governing moderation decisions” is honestly such an embarrassing take from both of you. It certainly illustrates where everyone stands

I’m not even sure what kind of dance we’re doing here.

J’accuse the mod of banning for questioning CIA propaganda.

No one has substantively addressed that claim, and I’m not interested in participating in communities moderated by useful idiots for the intel state

I thought the Lemmy anarchists were better than that (hence the post here) but it’s looking like not

Decolonization starts at the mind. You know they control all the media outlets and NGOs and think tanks and influencers that you listen to, yet you think you are somehow above their influence

You can have it all to yourselves

I think it’s best described as a philosophy that permeates their whole system of government.

I think these examples are illustrative of the principle in action:

• The Five-Year Plans aren’t just dreamed up by Xi Jinping, there’s a nationwide consultation process that starts from the bottom and builds up to a presentation for approval at the “Two Sessions”. That’s part of why they have so much internal legitimacy and why they tend to get accomplished
• they have a number code (like 911 in the USA) except it’s for reporting minor city life issues like potholes and downed branches. Residents use it because they see the reported problems get fixed quickly
• the cornerstone of the rural poverty alleviation program was making ground-level Party members individually responsible for specific families, meaning their career advancement opportunities were directly dependent on how well their families were doing getting out of poverty

There’s so much more but those are the quick examples that came to mind

“Demand” lol.

By all means be as unserious as you like but I personally am disinterested

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Meme 1

How would you define imperialism exactly? I’m not aware of any definition that applies to CPC-era China. Did you know that the last new land claim made by the Chinese was under the KMT?

Meme 2

A strong state is entirely consistent with Lennin’s dictatorship of the proletariat. The question is, is it delivering materially for the working class? What do you think the Chinese working class thinks about that?

Meme 3

This strawman is a bit too absurd to engage with, I’ve never heard anybody say that

Well this comment thread is happening in YPTB, in either case why are you both dancing around the question of moderation instead of just saying what kind of speech you think should be allowed in your spaces?

I will not argue with your implicit decision not to have a real discussion

There are plenty of memes on ML’s meme comm that are flamebait, as we all know it generates lots of engagement

I’m not arguing with your decision to post, I’m disagreeing with the content of the meme

Why does that merit moderation action?

We don’t ban the libs just for being libs on ML, they have to pull out the racism card first.

Like I said in another comment, if they don’t want any engagement from anyone who disagrees with them at a worldview level that’s disappointing but fine

I happen to believe that they don’t want to be another DNC-pilled echo chamber but I’m certainly not going to post where I’m not wanted

My brain is permanently stuck in a superposition unable to determine if this comment is very earnest or very sarcastic

The mod message was something like “posting capitalist apologia” if that helps