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Your example is the PLA putting down a violent revolt, with the specific picture being of a guy who wasn’t harmed during said revolt?
Violent revolt? Lmao they were college kids with alcohol bottles and stones. And they were peaceful until the CCP got antsy because they were losing control so they escalated it with literal tanks.
They lynched the soldiers they sent in on June 2nd, who were unarmed. They only escalated to armed force after they murdered those they sent before. I don’t think they should have sent in soldiers to begin with, given that’s very inflammatory even if they’re unarmed, but it doesn’t justify torching unarmed people with molotovs. Need I mention liberal democracies are guilty of the same sorts of crimes(Kent State Massacre, 1985 MOVE Bombings, Ruby Ridge, WACO Siege, ICE murder just a few days ago, all of these just in the US) and regularly arm their police with military armored vehicles and fire on protesters. The US also cracks down on protests much earlier, go to any protest in the US and there’s a good chance the police will deploy tier gas even if the event is non-violent. The Tiananmen Square protests got as big as they did because of how long it took the government to give any response.
Western Liberal democracies also go abroad and wholesale slaughter populations in foreign nations; Vietnam; Afghanistan; Iraq and the death toll in these places far exceeds any metric who try and stamp on Tiananmen Square protests. China, by comparison, does not conduct these foreign massacres. The PRC is guilty of many crimes, I’m very critical of it myself, but it’s crimes fall far short of the United States. This has nothing to do with one or two parties, it has to do with ruling class capitalism vs working class socialism.
China is the fourth largest arms supplier in the world. Stop pretending they don’t have plenty of blood on their hands. The US is way worse by a long shot but that doesn’t suddenly make China an angel.
The whole point of the CCP was to be “Anti-fascists”. Considering they are pumping out more billionaires than the US this year it looks like that was always a convenient lie. They were just another power grabbing faction that cost their citizens millions of lives for their lust of power.
To think that the great famine could have been a avoided if the supposed fascists had won and modernized China much quicker is a devastating reality especially when they ended up as fascists anyways.
Fuck the US, but also fuck China. They are both locked together fascists brothers playing enemies while they sleep in each other’s bed.
I at no point claimed the PRC were angels. The entire point was that One-Party States do not inherently kill more people or are more repressive. I don’t necessarily like Deng Xiaoping theory and the current socialist system in China, but to claim that it’s on the same level of or worse than the United States is absurd. I also have no idea why you think the KMT would lead China better than the CPC.
Btw the KMT also ran a one-party state at the time before, during, and for decades after the Chinese Civil War.
I made no such claim. I was very clear about the US, it is an absolute death machine.
I don’t need to defend any nation and the awful shit they have done. I just point out that the majority of it is a web of lies. This is because of the ridiculous amounts of propaganda.
Fascists all around with China the brand new version. Money talks and that is all governments will listen to. I would hardly celebrate this outcome.
The soliders that ran over civilians in a jeep and killing them? Gee. Wonder why they were lynched. 🤔
Did i not say a one party system can be more efficent?