I’m curious on how you’d implement solutions

Some universities are more prestigious. Okay, but how do you just stop the reputation of a school from rising above others? If a school produces more talent and research output and the scientific community and public picks up on that, how do you stop their reputation from getting better?

On LGBTQ rights: Have you read about Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs or something similar? Basic needs are met first, then safety, then societal and personal needs. Countries and societies operate on the same level. Some of the West is able to progress more on some things like LGBTQ rights because their material conditions are already extremely high. Cuba used to be extremely homophobic but they were able to focus on correcting that once the island’s living standards stabilized. I’m sure you know how many poor people there are in China. The government is focused on material conditions and economic growth/stability first. You can’t solve everything at once. Time and resources are not unlimited. You can criticize the lack of LGBTQ progress if China becomes a developed country for years and still doesn’t improve. It’s the same reason why communists don’t blame other imperialized countries for being anti LGBTQ. If your country falls to imperialism who cares if your country is a gay paradise, everybody is fucked, including the LGBTQ people. Do you not support Palestine, Afghanistan, etc. Because they are extremely anti LGBTQ?

On 996: It blows but socialist countries have always worked very hard (Soviets regularly worked ~60 hours at first) to catch up to the imperialists. Also as somebody who works in an industry in the West that also see long hours, it’s not as simple as just waving a hand to stop it. If there’s a project that needs to be delivered by a deadline because of poor planning, occasionally 40+ hours is necessary. If somebody wants to get promoted quickly and voluntarily works long hours, you can’t stop them unless your manager fires them. Oh but then since this one person works longer hours, other team members don’t want to look bad or fall behind so they also start working longer hours to keep up. How do you stop this behavior? The truth is Chinese people are culturally extremely hard working. Of course there are many managers that force long hours but I know many Chinese managers do it in a way that’s “legal”. They encourage harder workers by promoting them. They discourage healthy work hours by blocking their career growth by giving them low impact and low visibility projects

How do you just magically stop this? It’s extremely difficult to just create massive societal changes overnight. It takes decades to do

The negatives are always talked about when relevant to the topic at hand

There’s no point randomly bringing up negatives because that’s already everywhere else

Yea I’m just trying to point out the hypocrisies of MLs supporting these very reactionary states in their struggle against imperialism but Duterte for some reason gets shit on lol

Given OPs main concern of Duterte being overthrown is being colonized again I’d bet they’re just happy he’s not selling out Philippines to the West and trying to preserve sovereignty

Let’s not forgot you guys support Russia, Iran, Syria, Iraq, etc etc

Weird to be calling out Duterte like this