Is that poem made by you? Hats off, it’s great!

Looks great! How long are the batteries powering those LEDs?

Shoplifter is the one I always find funny.

I think this title by the daily newspaper Die Zeit doesn’t need a translation:

Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß

After reading it multiple times, I understand now what was meant, they just lacked proper punctuation.

The OP is surprised, that other people don’t find it normal that people go to prison.

So a difference in life experience, because I also don’t know anybody who went to prison.

I mean, yes the commentator is part of the left political spectrum, as is obvious from their word usage, what they are saying and having an account on lemmy.ml .

They are most likely not a tankie though. “Tankie” doesn’t just mean “Leftist I don’t like”, but rather is for those people who like to be dictatorial and bootlicking while saying they are supporting the little people under those boots. Those people who like Russia, China, Stalin, Mao, etc. and argue that their dictatorial streaks were in fact good and necessary instead of just a different colored boot.

Which is pretty much the opposite of what that commentator said.

They argued that China should shut up about the GDP and instead focus on providing a better life for their citizens. So they criticised China and did not blindly defend them like the first comment in the chain did.

I will not speculate if they haven’t read a book on the topic since I don’t know them.

But I understood their words just fine and that’s what I’m trying to tell you: those are not pseudo-intellectual words but are all completely fine and make sense in the context.

If that makes me a pseudo intellectual as well is up to you now.

Then I disagree. While they wrote a lot of words, in principle they just said: “line goes up does not equal improvement of peoples life” and “so if a country says they care about their people, they should just focus on improving their lives instead of giving the impression that line goes up”.

And I agree with that in principle.

The first comment is just tankie for “China can’t be wrong because they say they are communist/socialist(, even though they aren’t)”.

Do you mean the comment made by tiredturtle or the comment that tiredturtle is answering to?

I don’t know why, but that fabulous hair fits really well to Konsi.