They think a Google codemonkey somehow has more revolutionary potential than a mom & pop shop owner, but the mom & pop shop owner doesn't answer to some thought police in the HR department. The construction worker doesn't either.

The PMC, however, does.

In sum: it's communism when it’s doing badly and it is capitalism when it is doing well.
Schrödinger’s China.

Now the common cope is to claim that China isn’t really communist at all but really capitalist without even understanding either terms, so that USians/westerners get to maintain their world view, not totally freak out, and sleep a little at night.

You see the same hysteria among the delusional Europeans who think Putin is out to get them. American media, like MSNBC, pushed (and still pushes) russia-gate as fact.

And many USians/westerners truly believed communism in China would just die off, especially after Tiananmen Square incident. They thought they could boss China like Japan or that they'd end up like the Soviet Union and just collapse.

China didn’t. We were told communism always leads to poverty and backwardness. What do you think happens when USians/westerners have to face up to reality and recognise that their worldview about communism was completely and totally made up?

That’s why they didn’t hate Japan this much in the 1980s, even if there were trade tensions between them. Japan adopted westernized institutions into its own government.

It’s the combination of being powerful and being led by a communist party that scares the USA/the West.

The entire western colonial project is pulverized & obliterated when they’re faced with a nation that rivals (and in many cases surpasses) them without ever having to appeal to liberal values.

And many USians (and other westerners) will say "China doesn’t rival the USA/the West in anything but raw GDP, and even that is massively exaggerated!". When in fact, China rivals the USA/the West in many technological domains.

If it didn’t, no one would care to hate on China.

And China basically become powerful because it adapted and did not rely on the Soviet model. That’s what hurts. It basically proves that the West's values & morals were never a factor as far as Chinese growth.

If you're just going to repeat US/Western imperialists talking points, shut the fuck up about whatever racial grievances you think you have. Koreans don't owe you shit.

And instead of rational discussion, it's just dogpiling by a bunch of libtards, radlibs, and their flunkies saying "IT'S NOT A MILITARY OCCUPATION! WE'RE THERE TO HELP!!!"

Call it theft or whatever, but it's simply how cultures influence one another. Can we really say the Koreans are the bad actors when they did not choose to be caught up in this situation?

Any normal person would be like "hmm🤔... this shit is very profitable, there is a demand for it... we can adapt it and incorporate it into our own pop culture/music."

I point out that it's not the fault of Koreans that they see these things on TV, everywhere else and are inspired by them, coupled with the fact that a lot of production by American labels was in fact outsourced to Korea, meaning they got the know-how as well.

without which American pop culture. Which thrives because of the talent of many Black artists, would not have dominated the world, oftentimes at the expense of local artists in many countries.

I commented telling her to not ignore the elephant in the room, which is US hegemony and the US military occupation of south Korea,

The Juche ideology, for example, teaches "man is the master of his destiny," making the people the subject or main body of society.

Radlibbery teaches "my oppressed identity is the object of forces more powerful than me, and I am deserving of pity."

Radlibbery serves the elite.

And thanks to the knee-jerk "me too" movement, the presumption of innocence (that used to be a hallmark of sound modern jurisprudence) is seen as out-of-fashion, no longer needed and no longer applies.