Fascism? In my anti-communism?!

What part of “heavy investments in AI and military” seems like a winner to you? Why would you want a far-right government with a strong military in Japan? Did you see what happened last time?

“Why would the country spawned from the Japanese Empire without significant reeducation against fascism descend towards fascism…”

Wow, what a load of made-up shit!

996 (the 12 h workday 6 days a week), while a stark reality, is only commonplace in the tech sector among young professionals, and it’s actually illegal, just rarely reported and prosecuted.

People being “forced off family farms” is directly bullshit, there were never “family farms” in China, it was an empire with brutal landlords starving the peasants with a life expectancy of less than 30 years of age before Maoism, and by the time Mao died life expectancy had doubled to almost 60 years of age. Land was collectivized and belonged to the state and local communities afterwards. People moving to cities is mostly a consequence of better (while still not good) living conditions in China in early cities. That strategy turned out wonderfully too: 800 million Chinese people have been uplifted from poverty over the past 40 years in what’s become the greatest poverty alleviation exercise in human history, saving hundreds of millions of lives in the process.

Companies in China don’t “dump their waste in the ditch behind the factory” anymore than in any developed country. Environmental regulations in the 80s were bad because the country was underdeveloped, but in mid 2020s they’re comparable to most western countries, while China is the world pioneer in nuclear and solar energy, producing 95% of all solar photovoltaic modules that are produced on Earth every year, and pioneering also electric car development and high speed rail.

Your concern for western capitalist intellectual property reveals your true ideology: you want western capital to dominate, not progress for humanity. If western companies didn’t want to accept Chinese copyright laws, they could have simply chosen not to move their production to China. Otherwise, get fucked. Great job blaming the evil Chinese communists for the lack of union movement in the west, surely nothing to do with a century of anticommunist propaganda and unionbusting.

So you support the Soviet Union, back when the USSR didn’t steal the surplus value within its borders?

Liberation, Libya or Syria style?

Henry Morgenthau be like

I’m aware, I personally use no shoes at home ever

Spaniard here. “Shoes-on” is mostly for when you have guests over. You’ll wake up in the morning and use slippers, only put on shoes to go to outside, and when you come back home you’ll remove the shoes typically in your bedroom (unless wet or dirty). But when you have guests over, everyone wears shoes typically, even hosts.

lying about the situation in Iran and Eastern Ukraine only helps the violent fascists in power in those places

Looking at history, it’s western intervention leading to fascism in both though. Ukraine saved itself from Nazism and only after western-style capitalism took control have far-right movements taken place. As for Iran, I wish Mosaddeq hadn’t been ousted by the west too, but alas it’s again not “tankie lies” leading to violent regimes, it’s western meddling.

Believe me, I’m a communist, there’s nothing I wish more for Iran than a secular socialist government, land reform, LGBTQ and women’s rights, economic equality… Unfortunately, the west destroyed their most recent chance at this with the total sanctioning and military intervention against Mosaddeq, because British Petroleum’s interests in the region were more important than the lives of Iranians. CIA paying mafias to perform protests against the government, MI6 paying actors to destroy private property and pretend they were communists, military blockade of petroleum exports… The whole suite.

This is why I reject so much further western meddling. If Iran is to have a socialist government, it will be by itself without meddling, and the point of focus from the west should be, IMO, preventing sanctions and military action against the Iranian people. However bad the Iranian government is currently, the only alternative for now from what I see is ISIS or Israel, and neither is better, it’s the sad truth of geopolitics.

It’s not whataboutism, the protests are literally created by western-manufactured poverty, the US has admitted as much. Remember that the sanctions on Cuba are justified with the following:

“to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government”. I’m quoting official US memos here.

You don’t need to know much about Iran at all to know for a fact that US intervention will make it worse, you just need to look at Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Palestine, and every other “repressive dictatorship liberated by US efforts” to see the consequences of invasion.

The protests in Iran are happening because people are literally dying due to impoverishment caused by western sanctions causing the local currency to implode. Focusing only on the government reaction during a period of military buildup Against Iran amounts to atrocity propaganda, however well-meaning your intentions are. It’s meant to create mixed feelings about the invasion amongst progressives “look at how dictatorial they are”

How many people have died in Iran as a consequence of western sanctions since their currency exchange value plummeted? Remember, EU+US sanctions murder HALF A MILLION PEOPLE YEARLY over the world.

But why leave the building initiative in the hands of the market+tax instead of just collectively making political decisions about what gets built where?

I agree, that’s why we all should condemn the western sanctions that made the local currency collapse and led people to starvation and violence

Why not remove the concept of landlords altogether then? Collectivizing the lands would be an even more complete version of land tax

If it wasn’t for that we would either be homeless or be all living in my grandparents’ house

Or you could become tenants from a wholesome small landlord! I wonder why that wasn’t in your possibilities?

Are we the assholes if we rent our house in order not to force my parents to work 200 hours a week since salaries here barely reach 800€ a month?

So the people renting your apartment will be the ones working 200 hours a week instead? The lifestyle of your parents depends on other people paying them rent and you still can’t understand why private rent is theft?

what we need is strong national regulation, not banning renting houses altogether

The “stronger national regulation” needed is the expropriation of rented housing to a collectively owned rent organization, and the masse-construction of affordable housing for social rent, and the rent of all of this housing stock at production+maintenance costs.

To be clear: most people would do what you’re doing in your situation. But the fact that your family is escaping overwork and poverty through renting one of their flats simply means that another poor person who can’t afford to buy a flat is subsidizing their lifestyle. It’s not that your family are intrinsically evil people, it’s that private rent is exploitative by its very nature.

And how exactly will they purchase a home in Ukraine if they’re spending their income to pay your mortgage?

You can blabber all you want about the great leap forward, the fact still stands that Mao liberated China and Korea from Japanese occupation, removed the fascists of the Kuomintang, and doubled life expectancy. Mistakes happened, but his mandate was still overwhelmingly positive and material life prospects bloomed as a result. How many people died of starvation in China during Maoism, and how many in India in the corresponding period?