Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

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          Point out precisely where in this conversation I dehumanized an outgroup like you did with “westoid cesspool”, and I’ll concede that I am as much of a fascist as you are.

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              If you’re referring to this comment:

              “Marxism” polls very popular in an authoritarian 1-party dictatorship that strictly controls the internet, media, and speech, polls unpopular where freedom of speech is allowed.

              It’s not “dehumanizing” to criticize a government. The people of China - for them I have a huge amount of empathy and sympathy. I believe they deserve freedom of speech, and LGBTQ rights, and all human rights. I go out of my way to pay more for fair-trade goods, and avoid companies that exploit Chinese laborers (hello Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon).

              There is a distinctive difference between unhelpful slurs (westoid cesspool), and legitimate criticism (1-party dictatorship).

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                You’re not criticizing the government, you’re removing agency from people living in China and claiming that they’re not capable of making their own decisions. Thinking that you know better than they do is peak chauvinism. The fact that you confuse your racism with legitimate criticism says a lot about you.

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                  Not at all what I’m saying.

                  I’m saying the government controls all the flow of information, and I don’t trust their numbers to reflect reality. I don’t trust Apple’s customer satisfaction surveys either.

                  I mean, should anybody be surprised that a communist organization newspaper would survey high support for Marxism? That’s like the NRA releasing survey results that show high support for zero gun regulation.

                  If you want to be effective at messaging for communism, besides learning to take criticism, you also have to be aware of your own confirmation bias.

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                    The fact that you don’t even see just how absurd this line of argument is really shows just how far off the reservation you’ve wandered.

                    Every single survey that comes out of China done by domestically as well as by western organizations consistently shows that people in China overwhelmingly support their government and see it as democratic. The only people who say what you say are invariably westerners who have never been to China or talked to anyone actually living there.

                    Thinking that it’s somehow controversial that people living in a communist country who overwhelmingly support their government identify as communists is laughably absurd.

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      “Marxism” polls very popular in an authoritarian 1-party dictatorship that strictly controls the internet, media, and speech, polls unpopular where freedom of speech is allowed.

      This is not the flex you want it to be, you’re really just proving my point that communists are terrible at messaging.