I mean… surely they have to make more than 250,000,000 in sales to justify the original bonus being 250,000,000 in the first place.

No?

I’ve heard that the longer you spent smoking before, the longer it takes for your body to readjust to the new happy chemical levels.

Maybe it’ll get better for you soon?

Yeah, I think the protests are stupid now that I look at why it happened.

That being said, I still can’t trust you, it’s so hard to get around to the good info when I know you’re actively attempting to use language to manipulate my thinking. Framing them as “riots” when they are acknowledged internationally as mostly peaceful protests.

Dunno where you got that from. Fuck the Ukraine government and Hong Kong government.

Why does me taking issue with a government’s actions against civilians make me pro-some government? Oh right, it doesn’t, you’re just too brainwashed to understand that not everyone falls in line into “camps” like you choose to do. Sheep.

Yes, correct, anyone can perform authoritarian actions. Someone who insists upon it is an authoritarian. That simple enough for your pea brain?

I don’t think it’s fair to classify the protests as riots when the violence seems to have mostly been escalated from the police side and the violence against counter protesters seems to be fairly isolated incidents taking place between small groups? Give some more insight, you might be turning me a little bit here

Idk I mean obviously you gave me the NYT so it’s probably pretty anti-China and depicts all this stuff as fighting back. But do you have evidence it’s not?

What’s a screed?

Violent protests according to whom btw?

low effort rage bait, try harder

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Yes, my point is that any state with laws is authoritarian. I think I also said in another post that I think an authoritarian government does not have to be bad. The problem is that the government is doing bad things, though, so like…

How do we not all understand the moral inconsistency of insisting people “not vote for genocide” and then be complicit in things like Russian imperialism and Chinese suppression of freedoms lol

lol so no, then, just gonna try to troll? Ragebait? Because you got nothing of substance? Thanks.

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Authoritarianism is using power, whether military, economic, influence, etc. to dictate the status quo.

This can be done beneficially, as is often done in China.

The problem I take is, it is impossible for any reasonable person to look at the brutality and violence perpetuated by that same government and not just go “oh ew”, and so when the response is “yeah but america worse” instead of something like “yeah, that is bad” (like a normal person and not a propagandized robot who has been brainwashed not to articulate wrongthink opinions when it might be inconvenient for the regime), it makes me go “oh, you’re a propagandized robot who has been brainwashed not to articulate wrongthink opinions when it might be inconvenient for the regime”

Lmao. You know very well that the idea of stateless communism exists, so no. The overwhelming majority of self-described communists support socialist states? According to who? Polling from CPUSA? Your interpersonal relationships? There are plenty of leftists on lemmy who would call themselves anarchosocialist or anarchocommunist. But okay, sure, I kinda get the idea behind “well if the majority agrees that a socialist state is required for communism, doesn’t that just make it communism?”. But these people are ALSO sometimes communist. Tankie is a pejorative mostly used by leftists to punch right, not by liberals to punch left. That’s been what I’ve seen. Liberals don’t even know what the fuck a tankie is outside of lemmy. Liberals here just use it because actual leftists use it to punch right at auth commies.

Don’t joke with me. You know the material difference between a state imposing law on sometimes unwilling citizens and people that live harmoniously in good will with one another.

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For the third time in this thread I will go ahead and correct your intentional misinformation campaign.

Tankie is a pejorative for auth communists.

You’re insidiously trying to act as if this is the red scare 2.0. There’s a reason we call you tankies. It’s because you’re tankies.

Oh please, stop being intellectually dishonest. Authoritarian communism is what we call tankism, tankie, and I think campism is in that same boat? Idk I don’t say campism.

We all know the truth. Stop lying about it. You’re an authoritarian communist. Stop trying to brand yourself as “just a communist”. Your “critical support” justifies wanton atrocity and leaves no room for genuine criticism.

Yeah, I coined tankism, for sure. What’s so ridiculous about it? Go ahead.

Edit: “when asked to commit to just a smidgen of intellectual honesty, i would rather downvote”