Thu May 14 21:05:09 2020
<7d56dcb3> how many communist party members do you personally know? cuz i know quite a few…
<7d56dcb3> DIY is fun and i like to do it as much as anyone, but to think that we can just make our own computer cuz “all you need is sand” is a little ridiculous…
<8f79fcda> i’m not trying to compare rolodex’s of commies.
<8f79fcda> i’m trying to better understand – based on your experience – “what they think”
<7d56dcb3> i mean look i have my own home gym cuz i realize how ridiculous going to the gym was… and i was doing this before covid…
<8f79fcda> literally trying to learn from your experience and insight
<7d56dcb3> and imagine driving to the gym to run on threadmills when you can literally just run the streets in your own neighborhood…
<8f79fcda> and i’ve been met with “you don’t know what you’re talking about” and “you don’t know what you’re talking about
<8f79fcda> and being told that basic stuff i’m saying is “sounds like communist propaganda”
<7d56dcb3> there really are a lot of things we don’t need and can do without… but we’re not going back to pre-industrial america where people made their own clothes and shoes… and i’m sure as hell not making my own damn computer from sand lmfao
<7d56dcb3> i’m saying that a lot of the stuff you believe is disinformation and propaganda. like believing all the crazy shit north korea says about us. or believing that hollywood movies are an accurate portrayal of america. i’m saying that your vision of “communist” china is highly skewed.
<8f79fcda> I’ll admit i’m a part of the anti-communist zeitgeist (we all are)
<8f79fcda> but we can only get better by playing a better opponent
<8f79fcda> and looking at the principals of communism
<7d56dcb3> in many ways, america is actually more communist than china.
<8f79fcda> the people in here have discussed how we have socialism-lite in america already
<7d56dcb3> why do you think our economy is so bullshit? why do you think our manufacturing is no longer competitive?
<8f79fcda> now you’re asking the right questions
<7d56dcb3> if china was so communist, they wouldn’t be kicking our asses in manufacturing and production.
<8f79fcda> what makes them communists is the concetration camps, one-child policies, and a myriad of other abuses
<8f79fcda> ralph northram would be right at home
<8f79fcda> (post-term abortions joke)
<8f79fcda> how they offset slave wages with their trade policies
<7d56dcb3> oh god there we go this is what i mean about your misunderstanding of china… you really don’t talk to mainlanders on a daily basis… if you told them what you told me now, they would laugh at your face.
<8f79fcda> now we’re getting somewhere
<7d56dcb3> you’re like those ignorant people from overseas who believes everything they see in hollywood movies lol
<7d56dcb3> they think hollywood is literally how most americans live lol
<8f79fcda> for our purposes, assume i am hollywood, and i need to be bluepilled on how ccp china “isn’t as bad as you think”
<7d56dcb3> you should try living and working in china some day… just to see what it’s really like. that way, you can “commie watch” with your own two eyes.
<7d56dcb3> to be fair… china would never tolerate american communists… AOC and the gang? lmfao forget it!
<8f79fcda> cure me of my disbelief
<9e126bf3> If we wait long enough, we wont have to move anywhere to live and work in China, it will come to us instead :crying-eagle:
<7d56dcb3> bruh check half your shit, it’s all made in china. you’re already living in china lmfao
<8f79fcda> yea, and i threw out some plates yesterday because they were made in china and replaced them with american made plates
<7d56dcb3> bet 100% all the computers we’re having this conversation on have parts made in china
<8f79fcda> (true story)
<8f79fcda> sure – doesn’t mean i like it
<8f79fcda> happy to say my HPE NAS has import restictions to china
<8f79fcda> small victoly
<7d56dcb3> would be ironic if most of the parts were made in china lol
<8f79fcda> alas the world is an imperfect place