Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane?
Dkarma@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoNot defending ml but I can see how if you were born and raised in say Vietnam or China or had family members killed by NATO how you could see the USA as an imperialist hypocrite of a country.
What I don’t get at all is how those people hold up fucking China as a bastion of human rights and ignore uighur (sp) genocide etc. But I guess it’s the same as ppl in the US excusing Israel’s genocide of Palestine.
Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The US is an imperialist hypocrite of a country. Like that is just a damn fact. As you point out though, the issues leftists, not in these spaces, have with places like hexbear, and ml, is the fact that they back authoritarian regimes like China. China who is in the process of the US playbook of economic imperialism with their BRI. They are committing a genocide, they are exploiting much poorer countries, to hold them in economic dependency, and they are discussing annexing land they do not own any longer, and haven’t for a long time now. No I am not talking about Taiwan.
They are making so many similar moves to the US post WWII, and have an economy that is dependent on allowing capitalism, to the point that they have a billionaire class second only to the US. While the US is growing its police/surveillance state, China is leagues ahead on that one. The big thing China doesn’t have, is something similar to the massive global infrastructure the US developed to be able to deploy, and supply, its military in a time frame measured in hours. China is trying to develop something along these lines, but it has the US/NATO super structure all ready in place, it will have to, at least partially, displace. This will not be easy.