You said:

China is capitalist… It has private property on means of production, and it is defining Chinese economy just like any other capitalist one.

The response was a well-souced refutation of the idea that the Chinese economy is developing like a capitalist economy. You replied with Wikipedia. All I’m saying is that you’re not looking at this in a whole lot of detail and you might have some things to learn.

For instance, you say Nordic countries have low rates of poverty and good social supports despite private ownership of the means of production. But in reality a lot of that is due to sovereign wealth funds, like Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global, which is owned by the government and managed by a state-owned bank.

What makes you right and a bunch of people who actually live in China wrong?

Love how you respond to a bunch of information from the World Bank, NYT, and the National Bureau of Economic Research with a definition from Wikipedia.

Consider that you could learn more here.

Effective at what, effective for whom?

I don’t understand how so many Americans buy the “North Korea is a cartoonish dictatorship” line so easily. It’s obvious that you can make up any story about it, no matter how outlandish, and the media will just print it uncritically.

It’s like a kid making up crazy stories about their cousin. The kid is full of shit half the time – you don’t believe the other half, you conclude that nothing that kid has to say about his cousin is reliable.

once a streamer, podcaster, or one of these online personalities makes it big they often move to like LA or NYC. Why is that?

That’s not a streamer thing, that’s an almost everyone thing. Tons of people move to cities as soon as they can afford it, tons of those who don’t stay where they are in no small part because it’s less expensive.

People need to pay attention to what he does, not what he says.

…He’s a pundit. What he does is pick opinions and put them in front of his audience. He seems to have much better opinions than most Americans and is pretty good at spreading them. That’s useful.

Musk, the company’s driving force who is responsible for many of its advances

They just stick this in there uncritically

We’re not going to consumer choice our way out of oligarchy

Look, Biden only pardons drug offenders who are the victims of a concerted political effort to mess with their lives.

Or having a gun and using drugs… extremely common thing to go to jail for

So we don’t even try to do anything good, because someone else could undo it? Make them work, they won’t always succeed.

you’re from the LARP instance

Ah yes, no one could ever have a serious issue with U.S. foreign policy

Most people who oppose socialism haven’t lived in a socialist country. Meanwhile I’ve lived my whole life under capitalism and can see it doesn’t work for the vast majority of the population, or for the planet as a whole.

Most of the world is capitalist, and most of the world is poor.

China is not a magical place where everyone just sings kumbaya all day

When you’re seriously engaging with what another person is saying

Another factor that contributes to China’s lower incarceration rates is that they often choose not to prosecute “personal” crimes. This would be things like robbery, sexual assault, etc.

Tons of these crimes aren’t prosecuted in the U.S., either, especially claims of sexual assault. And here are some sentencing guidelines from China that address both those crimes, which they don’t have just for fun.

You probably don’t understand Chinese law as much as you think you do, and you’re definitely exaggerating the idea that it’s uniquely unfair or arbitrary. Pre-trial incarceration happens all over the world, police telling suspects to confess happens all over the world, collateral consequences of arrest and imprisonment happen all over the world.

There’s also a ton of context needed to determine whether any of these things are even bad in a given situation. Pre-trial incarceration has all sorts of issues, but if someone goes on a shooting spree and has a history of not showing up to court dates for prior arrests, it’s appropriate.

it’s against the law in China to even say you don’t agree with the law

Your link doesn’t support this, and it’s nonsense on its face, anyway.

“Do not oppose the basic principles established by the Constitution” is not “you can’t even say you disagree with the law,” as anyone familiar with the difference between a constitution and subordinate forms of laws (e.g., statutes) can tell you. And of course you obviously can say the constitution should be changed; how else do you think they amended it in 2018?

what will you do if someone doesn’t want to give their property to your collective willingly

I got bad news for you about every government ever. Are you sitting down?

Considering every socialist state invested heavily in education once they came to power, no, I would not say she “nailed it.”

If you get a DUI and the state orders you to take an alcohol class, is that re-education meant to eradicate your culture?

If you do a bunch of petty thefts and the state orders you to participate in a re-entry plan that includes job training, is that re-education meant to eradicate your culture?