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    Xi is not a billionaire, nor works for their interests. China in general does not work for the interests of billionaires.

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      Dejavu. Not sure why I but I remember that you responded to a similar person that had this exact same view a couple of months(?) ago.

      Is this the new trend with racist anticommunists?

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        Very well could be. I assume there’s some kind of empire talking points getting pushed that people like this latch onto, but with how little I pay attention to empire media these days, I can only guess generally on it in that way. Not clear on what sources specifically might be feeding into it. Reddit brain is all I can think of as potentially familiar about it, but I haven’t paid much attention to reddit in a while.

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        No amount of holy water liberates a people. At some point you have to come down to reality and engage with it as it is, not as a pure ideal.

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            So you don’t actually want to be rid of billionaires, you want to concern troll; put on a pretense of being on roughly the same side, but then mock the same side that you’re supposedly on.

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                If you want to make the argument that China is a capitalist state then you need to produce an actual argument to make that case, not just point at the existence of billionaires and shout: “Behold, capitalism!”

                Explain your theory, present your evidence, and make your case. I can assure you that the average Marxist will at least engage with it honestly - even if they don’t necessarily agree - so long as it is made in good faith, using reliable sources, and rooted in a dialectical materialist analysis.

                Regardless pivoting to Xi is really rather irrelevant. The original point of the meme was to make fun of U.S. liberals and their perception of U.S. politics. China has nothing to do with this and so bringing it up appears defensive; hence why you were accused of being American by another user.

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                Racists like you are a lot more forgettable than you think. Yawn. Another person thinking they know better than over a billion people who have one of the most developed democratic projects in the world.

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                    Yes, you’re pretty racist. I mean, going with the Winnie the Pooh caricature is racist all on its own. But it’s also racist to act like you know better than over a billion of a people just cause you want your vibes-based political analysis to cling to. God the arrogance of it.

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                    Well, you did refer to Xi Jinping as “Pooh”, which is quite the racist trope in this political landscape (and the fact that you only used the wrong name for Xi Jinping and not Putin or Trump says that you are certainly some strange type of communist that is anti-AES: Maoist?)

                    Edit: Hmm, maybe not, because you say “more lies from an ML”… some dogmatic Marxist?