Lol. Firstly, China claims they've eradicated absolute poverty. Do you really believe that?
Secondly, China has opened its markets to the world and allowed a ton of private ownership and private companies to take on the global markets.
The only thing that isn't capitalist about China is the word "Communist" in the ruling party.
The simple fact is that capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty historically than anything else.
Is capitalism a perfect system? Of course it isn't. But it's the best one we've got.
Poles seeing German soldiers enter the country: "Not this shit again!"
It's from the badminton. The Chinese player was in the semi-final against Carolina Marin of Spain. Marin had won the first game and was leading in the second before having to retire injured.
So He Bingjiao held up a pin with the Spanish flag on it as a mark of respect for Marin, who should really have been in her place on the podium.
Well, this blows the "if you've not done anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about" argument out of the water.
Well, it's computer software, so it can't be non-binary.
Space: The final free tier.
The "fighting terrorism" argument didn't work, so this is their new angle.
"Sorry your gran's dead, but you can get YouTube Premium for £12.99 a month for an ad-free experience."
It probably won't, but it keeps Musk in the news.
And yet, after joining Lemmy and Mastodon, I post a lot more.
This is a country where COVID originated and with a population of 1.4 billion, yet apparently only 5,272 people have died. They're not great at telling the truth and are masters at propaganda.
The profits from companies are retained by the companies. Isn't the idea of socialism that the workers own the means of production and no companies profit? The Chinese economy is set up the exact opposite.