bucho

bucho , 9 months ago to MeanwhileOnGrad in Racism from Tankie Admin and future Lemmy Developer about how the opinion of certain ethnicities in China doesn't matter

You know what's hilarious? According to the book "The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History 1962-1976", During the height of the Chinese cultural revolution, it became the fashion to wear pins that featured Mao in profile. In fact, if you didn't have one of these, you were seen as a pretender; someone who didn't take the revolution seriously. The problem is, these pins were made of aluminum. Due to the popularity of these pins, China was temporarily denuded of available aluminum. Workers were stripping aluminum shielding off of their machines to make these pins, and there was a thriving black market where people could buy them. So basically, to show off how good they were at communism, they went to the most capitalist of places (the black market) to buy these things. Mao even, at one point, decried the industry, lamenting the lack of available aluminum to make airframes for fighter jets.

But that's the thing - as important as the struggle was to the people in the revolution, it paled in comparison to the need to prove to everybody else that you supported the struggle. If you didn't have one of those pins, you might as well just sign up to be part of the next struggle session.

bucho , 9 months ago to MeanwhileOnGrad in Tankies unironically consider Fascists the same as Liberals and Progressives

LOL wut? Fuckin' Tankies and making shit up. Can anybody name a more iconic duo? The protestors were pro-democracy and were shot / squished by the CCP. It wasn't even that long ago, either. Only, what, 34 years? Amazing how much people can twist shit in such a short period of time.

bucho , 9 months ago to MeanwhileOnGrad in Tankies unironically consider Fascists the same as Liberals and Progressives

I think that it's interesting that tankies call themselves tankies in memes, and yet will get all bent out of shape if non-tankies refer to them as tankies. Like, I understand coopting hurtful terms as a sort of reclamation of the power of language... but really? Tankies is the term you want to reclaim? You want to associate yourself with authoritarian regimes using tanks to crush protestors? Alright, then.

bucho , 10 months ago to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation in Go wave a flag

It's funny to consider "love of country" to mean "the food, certain people, and beautiful landmarks", while simultaneously condemning the actions of its government, and like half of the citizens who live there.

Not that I'm criticizing, mind. I struggled with this myself for a long time before finally coming to the realization that this country is like a problematic family. You're told that you should love it even if you don't like lots of aspects of it very much. Like an abusive parent.

I'm in my 40s now, and I've finally realized that that's bullshit. I don't love this country. I used to, but I've realized that I only ever loved the idea of this country while the reality has been a profound disappointment.

The barbecue is good, though. So that's nice.