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china is imperialist as fuck and perhaps the most popular commieposter here is like "all of it's relations with the global south are mutually beneficial" holy shit, yes exploiting the resources of undeveloped countries in exchange for promises of shitty manufactured goods isn't EXACTLY what western imperialists did
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"chinese people report more satisfaction with their government than americans do" almost like living under authoritarian rule makes you complacent thinkhappy
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america sucks but at least we don't have a Great Firewall or fuckin social credit
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@orekix not everything is a "dialectic", you intellectuals overuse that word
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@xj9 we have a choice to not be on facebook though. and credit reports suck but you don't get a deduction for political activity.
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@ignaloidas horrible take, what constitutes good behavior? what authority is given prerogative to dole it out?
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@denza252 @xj9 i've heard lefties say it a lot. credit reporting agencies are a creepy cartel but it's not LITERALLY SOCIAL CREDIT
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@orekix perhaps the moral here is if you kill them all there's no one left to complain
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@ignaloidas i just fear what happens when you give people power to act as morality police
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@denza252 @xj9 credit is it at least partly linked to factors beyond a persons control. i get wanting to know if someone will pay you back but the current situation of shady opaque algorithms is not good.
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@ignaloidas >until they are educated
so you're introducing another sketchy body to determine how to properly accreditate morality arbiters
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@ignaloidas >a test to vote

yikes fam

who decides what goes on the test?
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