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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I’m a big defender of China when the “China Bad” crowd comes out, but this graph is meaningless beyond what people’s perceptions are.

    Real trade unions are banned. All must be part of the party, workers rights are routinely not enforced, and given the lattitude the government has to act, there isn’t really much of an excuse.

    The CCP enjoy massive support, though, this is undeniable. The reasons for this support is debatable and vary from person to person.

    I for one, very much enjoy when the Chinese government does things in line with my socialist ideals. But let’s not pretend like they’re actually keeping the capitalists in check. There are many, many billionaires in China, something that ought not be possible under an actual socialist country.

    It doesn’t take a genius to look at their system of voting to quickly conclude that you don’t really have a say, the People’s Congress functions as a rubber stamp for what the inner party has already decided.

    Again, my opinions aside, people in China generally are supportive of the government at this present time.


  • I feel like this is shifting the focus to imperialism, where the US is overwhelmingly and undeniably worse.

    However, domestically, if you wanna pretend that someone as a random citizen, has any chance of receiving political representation in China, well you enjoy your fantasy.

    The US and China are both deeply undemocratic places. I’m saying this as someone from neither country.

    Anyone who’s actually been to China would know this. It is authoritarian. It’s not even something viewed as bad by most people in China. It’s just the way things are there.

    There is pretty strong support for the government there, albeit that could be argued as product of censorship, repression and also genuine support. Many see the CCP as having done a lot of good things which they are grateful for, which in addition to the bad things, in fairness, they have done.

    I’m getting kinda tired of some leftists knee jerking “China Good”, just as much as I’m getting kinda tired of the “China Bad” crowd, when the truth is neither wholly good nor wholly bad.

    We can be leftists and not have a hard-on for any country claiming to be socialist, you know



  • Old Testament God is a petty asshole

    At least old Testament God was straight up about being an arsehole. People are pretending like sending people to hell for eternity because you had the audacity to grow up not in a Christian household, isn’t straight up narcissistic behaviour.

    Believe in me with no evidence, otherwise I’m damning you for all time. Even if I’m the one who let you be born into a particular region or family.

    If God were a person, he’d have no friends.

    (Just me being salty)


  • Me when some projects I’ve been on decide to use bar as the preferred unit with two decimal places typically shown: My sibling in engineering, at that point why not just use whole number kPa 😢

    SI master race.

    Of course I’ll take bar any day over anything non-metric.

    * Cries in practically all valve manufacturers using imperial valve coefficients. 😭😭😭 *