yunqihao [comrade/them]

I had no intention of harassing you. I simply took an interest in your extremely unique means of communication. I will disengage here as I seem to be causing you distress.

Ahh, so you jump in with blindness to context.

No I was aware of it, it simply wasn’t relevant to my interest which is your unique manner of communication not your thoughts on economics.

Have you read FInnegans Wake published May 4, 1939?

No

How many languages can you read?

Difficult to say depends on what counts as a dialect and a language and also how fluently I should be able to read for it to count but at its strictest 4 and at its loosest 9.

did mention Finnegans Wake to you in the message you are replying to, right?

Not to me no. It was mentioned in the original comment I replied to however I was far more interested in your style of writing than the specific argument you were engaging in with said comment.

You are not talking about the subjects, you are talking about me

That is fair but it is possible to talk about things without a fixation. You simply type in an extremely unique and interesting manner. I am no more fixated on you than I am on an interesting shaped cloud.

Hyperlexia

Very interesting I had not heard of this before. So you have hyperlexia, and this leads you to typing in many tangents?

Which is why you are fixated on me, target fixation

2 comments is hardly a fixation.

That’s the point. And you are drawn to intimidate me off the platform.

I’d prefer you don’t leave your erratic typing is very interesting. I am very curious what lead to such a style.

I don’t see how Lemmy lead to this when you type like no one I’ve ever seen on Lemmy.

What lead you to typing/formatting your comments in this way?

It seemed wildly poor form to gift tobacco obviously.

Culture clash will do that tobacco is still a huge part of Chinese tradition and life but it is changing with each year the rate of smoking decreasing as younger people are less and less interested. Basically none of the younger guys at my work smoke and smoking was never really big amongst women.

The gift thing is that apparently tobacco is considered a respectful and universal gift

High quality (premium) cigarettes are THE gift especially for major events (usually weddings). 中华, 南京, 黄鹤楼, 芙蓉王 being some of the most popular brands. I would genuinely not believe someone if they said they went to a wedding or similar event in China and weren’t offered/gifted at least one pack.

Edit: Other gifts are common too red packets, premium alcohol, fruit, premium tea and others but cigarettes are definitely one of the most common.

The 2024 Chinese CDC Tobacco survey findings:

Current Smoking Rate: The current smoking rate among people aged 15 and above in China is 23.2%, with men (43.9%) higher than women (1.8%), and rural areas (24.9%) higher than urban areas (20.9%). Compared to 2022, the current smoking rate has decreased by 0.9 percentage points, with a decrease of 1.4 percentage points for men and 2.1 percentage points for urban areas. (Figures 1-3)

Tobacco Control Information Promotion: 63.9% of respondents had seen tobacco control information in the past 30 days, with males (65.9%) higher than females (61.6%), urban areas (68.0%) higher than rural areas (60.6%), and the 15-24 age group (78.2%) higher than other age groups. The proportion of respondents who had seen tobacco control information online in the past 30 days was 40.1%, an increase of 5.1 percentage points compared to 2022. Urban areas (43.4%) were higher than rural areas (37.6%), and the 15-24 age group (64.6%) was higher than other age groups. (Figures 4-5)

And more interesting info in the full pdf:

The Findings PDF

finally managed to push through some reform doesn’t change the fact he was not able to for years, despite a concerted effort

The reforms were instituted in 2015? In 2015, China amended the Advertising Law to prohibit the distribution of tobacco advertising, while also initiating waves of tobacco control media campaigns. President Xi became president in 2013. 2 years. It took 2 years from him becoming president to this reform becoming law. Why are you doubling down so hard when you clearly are wrong? Did you not bother to read the link?

Also not to mind in 2013 there were already crackdowns on the tobacco industry. 评领导干部公共场所带头禁烟：为中国控烟行动破冰

Edit:

Another one from 2014 this time.

2014 total ban on smoking anywhere on school grounds and an increase on education put towards the harms of smoking

It’s fake 牡丹 don’t make packs with Marx on them. Also China tobacco is state owned.

The comment itself is unfortunately lost but the important bits can be picked up from context surrounding it.

https://hexbear.net/comment/7342449

Alapakala was trolling on !memes@lemmy.ml saying things like kittenzrulz was doing apolgia for “Salvador Allende’s genocide(whatever the fuck that means)” and is now parading around crashing out about being banned for a week.

What the fuck are you talking about?

You were banned for spouting incoherent nonsense about Salvador Allende committing genocide and other such clear trolling bullshit.

There was no spin they just stated it as a genocide being denied and moved on. A very strange pathetic person it seems.

The level of pathetic most liberals and “anarchists” strive to be is quite impressive.

But genocide apologetics nonetheless.

You haven’t managed to name a single genocide they did anything even approaching apologetics towards not to mind denial. Genuinely what the fuck are you talking about in this thread?

Salvador Allende’s genocide

They didn’t say they were a reactionary just that they have aligned with their side in this matter. Subtle but important difference.

Just to clarify a few thing I don’t support Russia beyond them a pole against us imperialism at this current time. I also never claimed they were progressive please stop strawmanning me you shitlib loser and try engage with what I’m actually saying.

All that being said, you are reciting liberal mythology and pretending it has any weight as serious analysis. “Russian propaganda” is doing all the intellectual labor for you. You invoke it whenever reality contradicts the story you were taught. It just goes to show how deeply invested in western chauvanism you are. You keep pretending the West is some fellow victim of neoliberalism alongside Russia. That is absurd. Western Europe and the US were not passive sufferers. They were the architects and beneficiaries of neoliberalism. IMF structural adjustment, World Bank debt traps, privatization schemes, EU accession shocks, and global financial domination were imposed by Western capital on the rest of the world. Russia and Eastern Europe were looted. The Global South was super exploited. Western corporations made record profits. Your welfare states did not fall from the sky because “democracy was chosen.” They were built on imperial extraction. Western Europe funded its middle class through the super exploitation of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the periphery. Cheap resources, stolen labor, unequal exchange, and military domination paid for your social benefits. When that imperial margin began shrinking, austerity became the name of the game. That alone proves it was never moral capitalism. It was imperial rent-sharing. Social democracy that you seem to hold in such high regard is not socialism. It is capitalism bribing one section of workers with wealth extracted from the rest of the world. That is why your welfare collapsed the moment the USSR fell and anti-imperialist movements were crushed. The money stopped flowing. So the mask came off. You keep saying oligarchs controlling society leads to collapse. Correct. That is capitalism. Not “Russian authoritarian culture.” Capital accumulation produces oligarchy everywhere. The US has oligarchs. Germany has oligarchs. Poland has oligarchs. Elections do not remove them because capital owns the economy before voting even begins. Calling Western capitalism “democracy” and Eastern capitalism “authoritarianism” is childish. You talk about minorities as if hatred originates from Russian propaganda. No. Reaction grows when material security collapses. People turn toward nationalism when housing, wages, healthcare, and stability disappear. Liberal identity rhetoric cannot substitute for bread. When capitalism fails to reproduce life, fascism appears. This is basic historical materialism. You also keep pretending Russia is some unique imperial monster trying to resurrect the tsar. Meanwhile the US maintains 800 military bases, sanctions half the planet, invades countries openly, and dictates economic policy across continents. But somehow Russia is the singular threat to world stability. That belief did not come from analysis. It came from Western media saturation. You are angry at oligarchs yet defend the system that produces them. You want revolution in Russia while defending the same capitalist structure in Europe that would crush such a revolution instantly if it ever threatened property relations. That contradiction is not accidental. It is social democracy. Social democracy is not the alternative to fascism. It is its moderate wing. It preserves capitalism during stability and collapses into repression when crisis returns. Historically, social democrats disarmed the working class, defended private property, and handed power to fascists rather than allow socialist transformation. Germany already taught this lesson once. You are not describing material reality. You are repeating the moral language of the empire. You replaced dialectical materialism with NATO talking points and think that makes you progressive. The far right is not rising because Russians whispered in Europe’s ear. It is rising because capitalism is decaying, imperial privilege is shrinking, and liberalism has nothing left to offer but blame. Until you confront that, you will keep chasing villains abroad while fascism grows at home.