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  • cayde6ml@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.mlAmericans be like
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    3 months ago

    This is a misconception bordering on a fucking lie. For all intents and purposes, in China you do own the land you purchase. The 70 year lease is mostly a formality. The government owns all the land legally speaking, much the same as literally any other country on Earth. Regardless of what a piece of paper says, the land is yours. The 70 year lease is just so the government can keep tabs on all the land in the country for different purposes, such as organization, urban planning, taxation, regulating land use and waste, and the state will compensate you for more than your home is worth, if the land is required for development, ala imminent domain.

    Ironic that despite officially being a lease, in China you own your land more than you do in the U.S., which is a blanket nightmarish patchwork of banks and home owners associations.


  • Even if settler-colonialism was common throughout the ancient world, that doesn’t excuse it happening today. Remind them that rape and slavery were common throughout the ancient world as well.

    The point is that collectively speaking, the vast majority of humanity rightfully agrees that rape, genocide, slavery, colonialism, and unprovoked murder should belong in the dustbins of the past, to not be repeated going forward.

    Israel, the U.S., Britain and India (the Kashmir region is arguably Indian colonialism) are the only or primary countries still engaged in settler-colonialism, and actively holding humanity back, and these countries must be completely destroyed or rebuilt into socialist states.


  • I agree with lil_tank and cfgaussian. Individualism is almost entirely a meme. Individuality isn’t.

    No one is truly an island, and almost all humans rely on others to varying extents, and there is nothing fundamentally wrong with that.

    Individuality has value in moderation, but just like anything taken to the extreme, it can make people become isolated, selfish, or actively harmful. Though I loathe the term “natural”, humans are naturally a social species. Humans are naturally communists, going back hundreds of thousands of years, if not millions from our direct ancestors.

    I think it’s good that you recognize complete individuality as a problem, and that you recognize that bending over backwards to help others can cause you to devalue yourself or harm others. I’m 26, and I’ve found that no one has the right answer to questions like this, or a happy medium, because perfection of anything is hardly possible. Don’t overthink it, but deep reflective thought is helpful.

    Capitalist bootlickers view communism as being a hivemind with no individuality, but that is almost always an exaggeration or complete projection from capitalism. Capitalism is summed up as “fuck you I got mine”.

    Even the most “author-onion-tar-elon-izuhm” socialist projects aren’t even a speckle in the dirt compared to the Mt. Everest-sized tower of oppressive authority as capitalism is.