The CCP is competent.

I don't think anyone expects that. They just think the US will get better if we stop wasting money on overseas military engagements

Fat chance of that happening.

Funny how authoritarianism is perfectly fine when it's your side that's doing it.

China is not exactly 'my side' but I appreciate how they recognize that gamers and kpop fans are a cancer on productive society.

If you don't see authoritarianism on this scale as an issue, then I don't know what to tell you.

It's the same argument from the right. "I don't really care if they do really extreme things as long as they do the small things that cater to my elitist and pretentious views" on the left is simply "I don't really care if they do really extreme things as long as we can have mandated prayer in schools and everyone is forced to stand for the pledge of allegiance and abortion is completely outlawed."

I'm very pretentious and elitist, and while a modicum of cultural forcing might appeal to me, I know that it's not the right way to go about things, and that if a government has too much unquestioned power they can do some very evil things, and nobody will be able to stop them.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Is it really all that authoritarian to recognize cultural rot and try to address it? China isn't making it illegal to be a gamer or a male kpop fan, they are just (correctly imho) acknowledging that a proliferation of men with these traits diminishes the society they are trying to build, and they are taking proactive educational steps to correct it. They aren't putting these people into camps.

Cracker's final evolution into a dumpy wannabe brownshirt licking his lips at the thought of state power being used to oppress liberals is perhaps even less interesting than Kpop and eSports.

"First they came for the gamers, and I did not speak out—because I was not a gamer.

Then they came for the femboys, and I did not speak out— because I was not a femboy.

Then they came for the capeshit movies, and I did not speak out—because I hated the capeshit movies.

Then they came for liberals—and there was no one left to speak for me."

Thank you for posting such a tired joke to support my point.

Portal of evil?

Maybe they just have a definition of "toxic masculinity" that is informed by a different culture and different values.

And the use of the Hell March from Red alert 2