Ah yeah that makes a lot of sense 🗜️

But power being spread among the people doesn’t mean there’s no rules or organisation, just because you work in a communist run flour mill doesn’t mean you can piss in the flour.

So we get into structure issues, we can all vote on if pissing in the flour should be allowed and what the punishment should be for doing it - this is the difference between communism and anarchy, literally living without a ruler Vs living in commune under shared values.

We dont all want to spend all day voting on what we can piss on so we could theoretically vote for a representative we like to do that for us - if all the local villages did that the representatives could all get together and debate and vote somewhere but to stop everyone talking over each other you’d want a secretary so they could vote for one and if the secretaries all got together for a regional or national meeting they would want a secretary too…

It would be natural to expect these people to act in the best interest of the people without ruining and asking everyone to vote on every little thing but of course they’re not going to be acting in the best interests of the flour pissers - from the flour pissers perspective if the top secretary passes a bill to say no flour pissing then they’re a big bad authoritarian.

(And don’t confuse dictator with authoritarian, they’re not synonyms)

I mean literally literally means literally not ‘kinda a bit if you look with a squint and ignore the rest’

I get the urge to make your point but imagine you see someone talking about baking and they say ‘sugar is just dry salt’ you’re not going to listen to anything they say

I really have no idea what people are trying to say or getting at in a lot of these comments, it feels like one of those art experiments where words don’t have meaning but are used to express emotion

So you really not understand what I’m saying? I’m also from neither of those countries but the conversation is about them, acting like China is the evil influence that makes American social media bad is silly when all other American social media is the same.

The problem is you jumped from Nazis straight to people who use words in a way you don’t like

Yeah why shouldn’t we violently attack and murder anyone who does anything we don’t like? We’re good people and they’re bad people therefore anything we do is right and good!

That’s been proven not to be true, tiktok us matches all the other us social media and tiktok china matches all the other Chinese social media.

US social media is full of greed, scams, flexing, crypto pyramid schemes, and lowest common denominator trash because that’s what American culture has been overwhelmed with for decades - did tiktok shit over the history channel? Did they invent MTV? Is it there fault the only movies that are made are comic book repeats?

Just finding a foreigner to blame has been an incredibly popular strategy so through history but it never actually solves the problem at hand it just obscures it so no one ever tries anything effective