LittleLordLimerick

Modern day China is both capitalist and emperialist and has a disregard for basic human rights. It is not in any way shape or form a communist state. Oh, and it actively tries to censor and erase the fact that it ran down its own citizens with tanks.

Can’t eat the rich without some utensils

Why does AES always seems to end up with forced labor camps? I don’t remember forced labor camps being a central part of socialist ideology…

A country can call itself socialist, that doesn’t make it so.

Yes, I can have an opinion on socialism without having been a socialist-revolutionary. That is correct. Spot on.

A tankie is someone who blindly supports authoritarian regimes simply because they’re anti-west

By “being slightly critical” they mean even slightly implying that China is not in every way a completely perfect utopian paradise incapable of doing wrong.

Listen I was just being snarky and reactive. I jumped in here and started moshing around with no context.

Being anti-tankie does not make you anti-communist.

I’m a socialist but not a tankie. Criticizing tankies!= criticizing socialists

The problem with Rogan is that he doesn’t have the knowledge or qualifications to push back against people spewing bullshit on his show, and so he ends up essentially making fringe, pseudo-scientific ideas seem equal to the mainstream expert consensus view.