Disparity is rising in China with the development of the private sector, but it is fundamentally true that the CPC primarily focuses on developing the living conditions for the working classes:

Essentially, capitalists are winning the most, but the CPC ensures that more than anything the lives of the working classes are focused on. Additionally, as the private sector grows, it gets increasingly controlled and subsumed into the public sector. The privledge capitalists have rest on a dying basis because their purpose is to facilitate development towards higher levels of socialism, through developing the productive forces more rapidly. This is the tradeoff China made, and its working.

Depends on the actions. I’m a communist, my goals are communism and international working class liberation.

Tankie is just a pejorative for those who support socialist states, as I have said elsewhere. Do you actually disagree with anything I have said on the basis of fact, or are you just jumping to a pejorative to dodge having to respond? Honest question.

I don’t view the world in terms of “right” and “wrong,” because that’s a moralistic view that clouds our judgement. I view it in terms of class interest, and take the side of the international working class. The conflict is between western imperialists with the Ukrainian capitalist class against Russian nationalists, with the Ukrainian working class being the biggest victim. What’s best is a swift peaceful resolution.

Reactionary meaning socially and fiscally regressive. The imperialist countries encircling Russia are also reactionary, though, so the source of conflict is imperialist encirclement vs. Russian nationalism resisting that encroachment.

China is socialist because social ownership is the principal aspect of the economy, and the working classes control the state. It has nothing to do with the name of China, and everything to do with how their society is actually structured, same with the DPRK’s form of consensus-based democracy. I don’t know why you are pretending I made the claim that China is socialist because they said so, I have never made that claim in my life.

The reason for the firewall is to protect developing Chinese internet infrastructure from competition with more developed western alternatives like Facebook. It’s the same reason the US bans Chinese EVs to protect its own auto industry. Thanks to the firewall, China has a much more mature internet than they would have otherwise. This is standard protectionism.

As for the June 4th incident, it wasn’t at all peaceful. Rioters around Beijing began lynching unarmed members of the PLA, which prompted state intervention. As for Hong Kong, it was more peaceful than June 4th, but also was countered more peacefully. In both cases, capitalists opposed the socialist system and sparked unrest.

I am specifically referring to imperialist countries encircling Russia, propagandizing against it, provoking it, and portraying it as a country of mindless barbarians (as you are doing here). The Russian empire ended when the Soviets freed the Tsar’s colonies, at which point Ukraine was and has been free. The modern conflict between Ukraine and Russia is not because Russians are just a warmongering people like you claim, but instead a result of continued encirclement and hostile forces encroaching closer and closer to Moscow over the last few decades.

Tankies do not “praise Putin,” they consider Putin to be a reactionary nationalist. Tankies don’t think Putin is some Hitler-level monster trying to take over all of Europe, though, so whenever imperialist countries warmonger with respect to Russia, tankies generally push back on the propaganda.

Tankies do praise China, because China is socialist. Socialists tend to like socialism in practice.

Tankie is just a pejorative for those that support existing socialist states.

Do you have an actual point beyond accusing communists of being mentally disabled?

Lenin and Stalin were both communists. Both Lenin and Stalin were supported democratically as well. Trying to dismiss communists by claiming we are all brain damaged is deeply ableist.

Russia is only critically supported by communists for its objective material opposition to the current imperialist hegemony by the US. The idea that communists can only support communists is a bit reductive, communists support the international working classes and their liberation. This means supporting elements that weaken the primary world contradiction right now, US imperialism. Obviously communists would prefer Russia turn socialist, but that does not change that it is still playing a progressive role in undermining the US.

I tend to prefer it as an approach. Hexbear is a left unity site, it doesn’t have a predominant ideology, so down votes as a way to discipline ideology don’t work nor function properly. Downvotes are most useful on sites with ideological conformit, like Lemmygrad.ml.

I swear it isn’t…

Yes. Geneva I see as a well-meaning radlib with better political instincts than most. Can decently be on the right side, but without coherent political training of their own, they get caught in streamer worship.

Yes.

I’m devastated

The queer and leftist users? No, it doesn’t, especially not as an undisclosed hard-coded censor.

A shame, Geneva blocked me because they couldn’t handle being called out as ultraleft and essentially taking everything Bad Empanada says as holy.

Congrats! Db0 forked it in case you want to go back to a similar interface, but I think it’s still getting the censorship parts removed.