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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago

I'm actually pretty open about my political activism. I'm not disguising anything. Having grown up in USSR, and moved around the world a lot, I do think I have a much broader exposure than majority of people. The fact that you presume to know so much about me exposes the sad reality about you projecting what you know of yourself to be true onto others I'm afraid. I also love how you accuse me of doing what you yourself regularly do here, unless you'll have us believe that you have some deep expertise on the political situation in Africa. Seems to me that you're trying to speak from position of authority in comments such as this one, while clearly demonstrating utter lack of knowledge on the subject. I don't know why you felt the need to be "brigading" that far away continent.

Meanwhile, nowhere have I claimed that China is some monolithic strong fortress or that there aren't legitimate problems in China. My only claims has been that despite the problems China has, it shows a better alternative to what the west is doing. While you seem to be fixating on problems such as unlimited freedom of expression, that affects a tiny majority of the people, I'm looking at the problem of meeting the material needs of the people. China has done a far better job in ensuring that people have things like food, housing, education, and healthcare than the supposedly enlightened western liberal societies.

To sum up, you pretend to have some sort of high ground and sling feces at me, but the only difference is that you support western empire and all its horrors whether you realize it or not.