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principled stances on the Russian and Chinese ruling classes

anakin-padme-2 by “Chinese ruling class” you mean capital owners and not the CPC right?

anakin-padme-4 youre talking abt the billionaires right?

link bc im not a LIB

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago

I had multiple arguments with this person on their multiple accounts. And the only takeaway I had was that they have never done any actual organising and that they really aren't left at all. I questioned whether they were actually in Socialist Alternative tbh because their responses were so fundamentally bad faith all the time and often came across as lying.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SAlt was against the lockdowns in China. shrug-outta-hecks

[–] ZoomeristLeninist@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

so they’re the neocon type of trot? or are they just really dumb

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://www.socialistalternative.org/2022/05/01/shanghai-covid-19-lockdown-reaches-crisis-point/

https://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/04/16/wuhan-lockdown-lifted-after-76-days/

Wonderful talking points such as

  • It's actually nationalistic (and thus bad) for the government to praise the people's fight against the pandemic

  • Pandemic propaganda only exists to serve the Xi Jinping Dictatorship™️

  • Xi Jinping is a dictator - the kind liberals think of. And BTW, they only call non-American administrations "dictatorship" us-foreign-policy

  • Coming up with their own vibes-based death toll

  • An obsession over the semi-bungled initial months

  • "Human wave" of healthcare volunteers

  • Being strict about movement within the epicenter is discrimination, actually

  • Repeating the right-wing "extreme brutality" meme reporting of Chinese lockdowns

  • Repeating the imperialist meme that Chinese citizens were abandoned en masse without supplies

  • Being quarantined is literally prison - actually, it's worse

  • Caring about The Economy for some reason

  • Not wanting to provide links to any of their sources

  • The SeeSeePee must be overthrown

95% of the content in these articles could have just been outsourced to RFA. Then they slap on a sentence about worker ownership of the means of production and call it socialist reporting.