Our Gonzalite friend is wrong about an number of things, but there is real criticism to be made about Deng radically increasing poverty by undercutting the systems installed under Mao that brought poverty to low levels. The “Chinese miracle” was in many respects solving problems that it itself caused and is a sort of liberal historical revisionism, though of course the more contemporary extreme poverty eradication initiative made real headway that was not made under Mao.

I think so? I’ve been blind before but I thought I remembered “agenda” being on there too.

My issue was the “gorillion”, not the 20. There are other options like, idk, “bazillion” that work just as well, or just a nice simple “trillion” for the absurdity.

Missing “totalitarian,” “red fash,” something or other about Tibet, and of course no food holodomor

Pick a fake number that isn’t used by Holocaust deniers

He shares a handful of views, but overwhelmingly is a psychotic cult leader and social chauvinist. You are unlikely to get anything but uniform hatred towards him here.

It might be interesting to start a conversation on the appropriate comm there about whichever rule is being enforced (check the modlog) and challenge the rule.

Philosophy has a tendency to need to use very specialized language to avoid problems of ambiguity and to precisely identify concepts that have no reason to come up in the vast, vast majority of conversation among laypeople.

I wouldn’t go that far. Intelligence is still a physical phenomenon produced by highly complex and somewhat varied systems. There’s going to be different levels of intelligence, like there are different levels of empathy, of strength, of immunity, and so on. Strong evidence would be needed to counter this. That doesn’t mean people don’t exaggerate these differences, look at them too uncritically, or misunderstand both what they are and their origins (which are mostly in child-rearing).

What is more likely bullshit is the concept of “general intelligence” or “G”, which is basically an illusion of statistical question-begging that has been very useful to phrenologists and basically no one else.

There were also neoliberals in there, on all the same subs as the anarcho-bidenists and arguing parallel to them as long as the anarcho-bidenists didn’t ever mention a positive alternative. Really makes you think.

That’s hard to say, since the meme began in China, but the widespread adoption in the US probably was connected to racist appeal

A lot of the xinnie the pooh edits are racial caricature, ironically enough (skin tone)

BuGiJu was doing a great job of contributing constructively from what I remember. Absolute bullshit on the mods’ part. StalinsMoustache was correct but a bit low-effort and antagonistic, so it was to be expected (though I obviously don’t support it).

At least it was only two days for the former, but still bullshit

Do as you will, I just suggest not conflating the two in the future. I think if anything communicating a passionate disdain for people like Beehaw’s lying admins (along with Democrats, Republicans, Blairites, etc) would be a positive for new user interest.

How is that hate speech? Saying you hate an admin team is not hate speech

There’s a very conscious effort from the radlib cliques to close off lemmygrad