An approval rating is given for Russia too, with much stricter “criminal dissent” laws than China. Do you suspect that the western institution which made this graph is evil CPC propaganda? This data is literally portrayed in Statista, it doesn’t get more western capitalist than that.

Now, don’t forget I’m waiting for your condemnation of the capitalist atrocities against the Ukrainian population since 1990. Otherwise, to other commenters, you may appear as a dishonest propagandist leveraging Ukrainian suffering only to condemn things you already stood against.

It was not a dictatorship because it did not produce the material results you would expect from a dictatorship.

If it had been a system in power of a few people against the vast majority, as was for example monarchic feudalism (the state immediately before the USSR, the Russian Empire, being a good example of it), you would expect vast inequality leading to a two-class system with vastly different life metrics, wealth, and a degradation of the rights of the working people.

However, the Soviet Union had the lowest wealth inequality the region has ever seen, the highest earners were the highly trained professionals (not policitians as you may have been led to believe) and the salary difference were perhaps at most tenfold; access to healthcare was universal and free, as was education to the highest level, pensions for retirement were universal with men retiring at 60 and women at 55, homelessness was abolished and everyone had access to affordable housing (3% of monthly income on average), and everyone had the right to a job making unemployment nonexistant.

A system producing these outcomes is not the result of 4 generations of “benevolent dictators” from 1917 to 1991, it’s outrageous making such claims.

Xi Jinping is not a dictator by any stretch of the word. The Communist Party of China enjoys some of the highest government approval rates in the world, by a long shot, according to western sources:

Notice how Russia’s government approval rate is low. As a tankie myself, this is easily explained by the fact that they’re not communists, and in fact the government is shitting on everything that communism did in the region in the past century. Ukraine had no war with Russia during Socialism, and in fact was saved from Nazi Extermination and thrived under Soviet Rule.

Since you care so much about Ukrainians:

Surely, seeing the horrifying demographic crisis taking place in Ukraine for rhe past 35 years coinciding with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, you condemn its contemporary capitalist government and want socialism back? If so, welcome aboard, comrade

How much does a STEM teacher make monthly in your country (after taxes)?

And how did she get a million? What does she teach?

Care to elaborate how she earned that million exactly?

It’s a homophobic attack linking that to submission and ownership

I don’t get the reason for the homophobic attack, but sure, buddy. Putin is a fascist BTW, but arming fascists just because we hate some other fascist more isn’t a good idea.

It’s not a real country, only a colonial pseudostate. Recognizing its “name” is erasure of Palestinians

Two of your goals are mutually exclusive

they are just required to contribute to the world more than they take

They wouldn’t be millionaires or billionaires then. You don’t get millionaire without appropriating the labor of others.

why Kamala is satanspawn and would’ve been worse for everyone

Nobody said this. Kamala lost not because “Lemmy purists are dumb”, but because she ran an unelectable campaign. If the Democrats had run a progressive candidate they may have had a chance, just look at the Mamdani avalanche. Besides, wasn’t it Democrats themselves who pushed for this with the pied piper strategy of radicalizing the republicans towards fascism to “make them less electable”?

We will likely see a death-toll directly tied to Trump and his administration in the range of seven figures in the next decade

You could apply this to any US president. The US + EU murder half a million people abroad yearly just through economic sanctions and blockades, as shown in a recent study in Lancet.

Wow, you solved geopolitics! Now that you bravely exposed your point of view, both US and China will stop the AI race!

The post, and hence the comment to which I’m responding, is about China vs US. You may not like the comparisons I’m making because you love your status quo of western dominance, but they’re entirely relevant to the post.

Sure, buddy, everyone who reinforces your worldview from your limited sample is a true Chinese testimony, but the 99% of Chinese who choose to stay In China are the brainwashed hivemind.

The original comment is specifically about comparing China to the west, hence discussing “who should win the AI race”. I’m responding to that comparison

China has an industrial base that can no longer be competed with. This is the winning recipe, so they will likely control the world.

I fundamentally agree. I don’t think it will be direct control, but I think China will have a lot more political power in the coming decades.

So how well all of humanity fares, depends on how the leadership in China decides to treat u

Seeing how China has no recent history of violence and hasn’t participated in wars for the past 40ish years, I’d say it’s much better than the warmongering USA empire self-declaring itself “the world police”. We’ve seen how well that worked for Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Libya, Vietnam, Korea, Laos, Cambodia…

If we end up with say, a chinese Trump, we are done for

Thankfully China has a communist party in government, and no fascist parties like the Republicans or the slightly less fascist Democrats.

We should invest everything we can into ensuring the later

Surely the warmongering and genocidal western countries, responsible for the almost total extermination of native Americans, the enslavement of Africa and Asia, and invaders during WW2 (biggest armed conflict in history) aren’t the ones most indicated to make decisions in this regard.

You’re not quoting my leader, I’m a Spaniard.

So now “violence bad”? I thought y’all are advocating for Americans to overthow the US regime

Violence in itself isn’t great, but it can be justified depending on the degree and the goals. Seeing how China saved 800 million people from poverty over 30 years, I think some violence consequence of disturbances isn’t unjustifiable, although can be criticized. The US on the other hand murders 500.000 people abroad yearly since 1970 through economic sanctions and blockades, so I think violence to remove this regime could be justified.

The original comment I responded to was comparing the west to China and saying that the reason why China shouldn’t win is because it’s more repressive. I explained how that’s not the case, so me comparing to the west is relevant in this instance.

I dont quite understand your second paragraph, care to explain?

The original comment I responded to was saying “we don’t want China to win because it’s very repressive”. If the west turns out to be at least as repressive, this argument disappears, which was my entire point.