Comments by "Bo McGillacutty" (@Mrbfgray) on "Lying flat - China's Silent Revolution" video.

@captaindeliciouspants6969 The difference is the USSR was communist and the CCP really isn't anymore, it's just a authoritarian gov without any safety net. You can starve individually in China today but in the USSR you'd be in the same condition no matter if you work or not, work hard and get punished for it, a defining characteristic of communism. At least you can get relatively ahead thru your own effort in China but you are stuck in the same cesspool environment even if you are Jack Ma.
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@captaindeliciouspants6969 It's a totalitarian regeme with the TITLE of Communism. They don't even have USA level of social safety net, we are more Communist than the CCP. CCP stands for corruption, suppression of truth, limiting the power and influence of it's ppl (Jack Ma) and maintaining power, that's all. And it's become significantly worse in recent yrs.
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@captaindeliciouspants6969 For highly informed content on subject these guys lived there for a decade or so, loved the country, married Chinese women and then barely escaped with their lives and families just a yr or so ago, bc they showed the whole truth in their YT vids which of course you cannot do in China::: ADVChina (and related channels if you find it worthwhile) Apparently there is less redistribution in China today then in most of the West. Again--literally 100's of millions living on a $1.5 or less per day while many others are very prosperous. How we label it is becoming a semantic argument which I don't care much about.
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@captaindeliciouspants6969 They allow a massive disparity of wealth, that is not possible under Communism, period, with the exception of government elite. They have Jack Ma and 100's of millions living in squalor and poverty.
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@captaindeliciouspants6969 Call it what you like. Those two actually censored themselves quite a lot when in China but not enough for authorities who rallied the nationalist idiots against them. No doubt they have an axe to grind with the CCP but now in Cali they can spill it all. And they are still in danger here in America, courageous dudes I respect. Check 'em out for in-depth insights to what tourists don't see or experience, how it really is.
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