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As a desktop owner, you’re going to have to service your machine at some point. Choosing your own parts will make that part easier.

This feels far too expensive for a beginner setup. You should comparison shop because I think you can get much better specs for that price point.

I still would advocate for building your own desktop. It’s good also for future desktop maintenance and will knock off 100-200 dollars from the price (windows tax and assembling costs).

Modern China is not a communist state and suffers the exact same problems the US suffers from.

Good thing you mentioned modern China since obviously the warlord era of China was obviously better. It all went downhill since the Xia dynasty.

China, Russia and the US are all authoritarian states and none of them are your friends

I guess it would be hard to be friends with a country, it’s quite big… with lots of people.

Jokes aside, this is the equivalent of sticking your head in the sand. You’re more concerned with sounding like a good person rather than investigating the truth. Using the word authoritarian, just like how many liberals use the word fascist or tankie, is just a way to generate self-flattering, psuedo-intellectual discussions based on pure idealism.

China, Russia, North Korea

Conveniently all enemies of the US State Department. Don’t those tankies know that these countries are bad because checks notes they do the authoritarianisms.

Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable.

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

You don’t care, you have never cared. You can change but I doubt you will.

Actually there’s a video like that right here

sorry, they’re too busy governing China to care.

Like you do know the ruling party of China is communist right?

any hint about it gets automatically removed.

Yes, if I post something false and harmful, like Haitian immigrants eat dogs, then my post should be removed. That’s what you sound like to normal Chinese people and Chinese people who use social media don’t want to babysit you. You refuse to learn when given the chance because you love the sense of power you get, like a flat earther or anti-vaccine nut who thinks they’re hot shit because they think they know something that nobody else knows. It’s sad and pathetic.

Haitian immigrants eat dogs

You see if I did that in the US, I would be called president, so I guess we know who’s truly free.

Why are the linked video’s sources not applicable? Are they too scary for you?

(and I’m not going to rely on Western Hexbear users to get the other version).

I’m glad history to you is finding the right person to confirm your already held beliefs. I think the word for that starts with an “r” and ends with “-acism.”

most Americans think of when they hear the word “China.”

Do not question this at all of course. There is no propaganda in America. We all are free-thinkers.

same order of magnitude as the Tulsa Race Massacre?

I’m guessing you missed the fact that events like Tulsa happen every year? The US is already sending immigration agents to stalk and harass migrants, intimidate and harass activists protesting against the Israeli genocide of Gaza, and defund and continually threaten gender, racial and sexual minorities (abortion, trans healthcare, hours worth of cases of well documented police brutality and unhoused people). Or maybe that the US is the 8th wonder of the world where school shootings are normalized, or having the largest prison population where the bulk of it is non-violent drug offenders.

Tulsa is just one event, the US has committed so many atrocities over several lifetimes. This single day during a time of great national political strife is somehow comparable? You think you’re being so helpful but all you’re doing is just spreading more misery for the sake of making yourself feel better.

Thank you for linking me to generative AI slop to justify your sinophobia. Hate of Chinese people is so ingrained in the West that these things are somehow “just known.”

No, using a VPN in China is not illegal. I defy you to provide me the exact law/statute. Shouldn’t be hard if it’s such a proven fact.

If that’s the case I still said what I wanted to say since this Chinese censorship angle is so widespread and people aren’t calling it out for the racism it is. It’s just so normalized to repeat the same tropes over and over again.

edit: misread the meme, but I still fucking hate this pseudo-intellectual discourse around generative AI.

sigh

0 days since response to Chinese success was met with sinophobic lies

Is it hard for people to stop being racist?

Edit: I know they’re a racist piece of shit because “I am learning about the history of Tienanmen” has the same message as “I am learning about the history of Pennsylvania Avenue”

Not even a single day practically.

“Please man I just can’t stop committing war crimes, I just can’t help myself”

Ask them if they voted to drop a bomb on a country.

No, not really. You’re just memory holing (or are ignorant of) the numerous clandestine operations done by the FBI and the CIA to destroy leftist movements of all stripes in the 20th century alone both abroad and at home. It’s an open secret that I suspect most americans are aware of but don’t want to actually deal with outside of TV.

MLK had government agents attempt to blackmail him with letters that even told him to commit suicide and ruin his marriage with his wife, he was also beaten and jailed by state governments for his demonstrations. That’s just one example, but a very good one considering MLK’s character and what he means nowadays to many liberals.

Currently, students across many universities are being targeted for Pro-Palestinian activism and there are laws in many states prohibiting the boycott of Israel for any reason. IDF soldiers are able to speak freely about their crimes but students in makeshift camps have their bodies beaten with batons, all for protesting against a genocide. Interestingly, China doesn’t have that problem, which is because contrary to your settler-colonial education, democracy can be practiced without constant violence and danger when the people’s demands and desires are actually being met.

China’s human rights record is a world above any European/American “Free nation”. This cannot be denied or disproved.

This isn’t even mentioning the amount of misinformation and hate speech that is regularly distributed in American news media and online platforms which silences voices of vulnerable groups. Trump didn’t come from thin air, he comes from the same arrogance you espouse here.

Speech is silenced and censored in America, you’re just fine with it.

Americans be like “Twitter is my human rights if you take my twitter you take away my humanity”