The "brutal communism of China" is just hilarious on its face. It's like a Freedom House type position [1]. Funded by the State Department btw. I'm sure it's unbiased.

Surveys of Chinese citizens show very high levels of satisfaction with their government [2] while Chinese people view the West through the "kill line" [3]. The funny part about that is the NYT blaming the kill line on "state media" [4] when it originated on Chinese social media. But that's how deep the anti-China propaganda goes in the US. The transformation Chinese people have seen in their daily lives in their lifetimes is something undeniable [5], liting ~800M people out of extreme poverty. What has the West done in that time? Does it seem like things are going well?

So all I did was point out how people like municipal broadband and you went straight to the slippery slope fallacy "but that's communism!" without actually knowing what communism actually is it seems.

The idea is pretty simple. The people should have a stake in the value they create. You know who else believes that? The US Department of Defense [6]. Is the Defense Department "Communist" too?

[1]: https://freedomhouse.org/country/china

[2]: https://ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/final_pol...

[3]: https://fpif.org/how-the-kill-line-redefined-the-american-dr...

[4]: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/business/china-american-p...

[5]: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstrea...

[6]: https://investorplace.com/dailylive/2026/06/the-pentagon-is-...