principled stances on the Russian and Chinese ruling classes

anakin-padme-2 by “Chinese ruling class” you mean capital owners and not the CPC right?

anakin-padme-4 youre talking abt the billionaires right?

link bc im not a LIB

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    https://www.socialistalternative.org/2022/05/01/shanghai-covid-19-lockdown-reaches-crisis-point/

    https://www.socialistalternative.org/2020/04/16/wuhan-lockdown-lifted-after-76-days/

    Wonderful talking points such as

    • It’s actually nationalistic (and thus bad) for the government to praise the people’s fight against the pandemic

    • Pandemic propaganda only exists to serve the Xi Jinping Dictatorship™️

    • Xi Jinping is a dictator - the kind liberals think of. And BTW, they only call non-American administrations “dictatorship” us-foreign-policy

    • Coming up with their own vibes-based death toll

    • An obsession over the semi-bungled initial months

    • “Human wave” of healthcare volunteers

    • Being strict about movement within the epicenter is discrimination, actually

    • Repeating the right-wing “extreme brutality” meme reporting of Chinese lockdowns

    • Repeating the imperialist meme that Chinese citizens were abandoned en masse without supplies

    • Being quarantined is literally prison - actually, it’s worse

    • Caring about The Economy for some reason

    • Not wanting to provide links to any of their sources

    • The SeeSeePee must be overthrown

    95% of the content in these articles could have just been outsourced to RFA. Then they slap on a sentence about worker ownership of the means of production and call it socialist reporting.