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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Taking 800 million people out of poverty and becoming the manufacturing hub of the world is not good enough of a government for you? It is for the majority of Chinese people though, highest government satisfaction rate in the world!
Edit: so many comments responding with striking cognitive dissonance against factual, empirical data carried out in study after study by Pew Research, the University of California and the Ash Institute. Westerners are so propagandized about China that they can't even listen to western factual information about China and government satisfaction. Again: if you think you are less biased against communism than the western institutions listed above, think again.
9-9-6, suicide nets on some factories... Sounds like a happy place to be.
It's interesting how much pro-China stuff seems to have flooded the Internet lately. They've even been inviting (maybe paying?) YouTubers to visit their country, despite not allowing YouTube to be accessed (legally) on their Internet. This campaign seems to be effective though.
I'm not even really anti-China. I used to conduct a lot of business with Chinese factories, and might do it again someday. But let's not ignore reality and pretend it's all sunshine and rainbows over there.
You're talking like terrible work culture and exploitative working conditions don't exist in America.
There are laws that limit it, and 72-hour work weeks are pretty extreme, even in the US. Do they happen? Sure. I've known people who have had to do hours like that for a week, maybe even two. But it's not their normal schedule like 9-9-6 workers.
Whataboutism much? "Yeah, Chinese people may be overwhelmingly satisfied with their government, BUT WHAT ABOUT..."
But sure, let's do whataboutism. I've visited China and the US (I'm Spanish). In China I've seen a total of 0 suicide nets. In the US I've seen plenty of public spaces forbidding people from having backpacks due to fear of mass murder with rifles. One of them was a university. Tell me again how much healthier the country that doesn't allow BACKPACKS IN UNIVERSITIES is.
So you didn't visit any factories with suicide nets. Great! I've also never witnessed a mass murder. Lucky us!
You chose the easier, less common example, but ignored the more common one that I mentioned. So whatabout 9-9-6? I've spoken to people in that 9-9-6 life, and exactly zero of them were happy about it.
And almost half of America approves of trump, what's your point?
Surely you are capable of understanding that 93% is a much greater number than 50%?
Are you going to address my actual point or just accuse me of not understanding kindergarten level math?
What a country thinks of its own government is not a good metric for how that government is actually doing. Quite a bit of disapproval shows significant cracks in unity, but significant approval just shows that people believe in their government. National pride was also pretty high when the United States was (it still is but I'm referring to when national pride was high) going around committing war crimes against any small nation that leaned communist and domestic terrorism against its own people in the 20th century.
Ask them what happens if you don't approve of the government in China.
This is a laughable comment... Who are you trying to fool?
Sure, buddy, you know more about the methodology of these studies than literal Pew Research and the University of California. Keep going, show us more of your cognitive bias rejecting factual information about the country that your government has deemed evil and bad.
Source (surely Harvard is not an "evil dictator CCP mouthpiece"? Or are you MAGA saying everything is a psyop?)
Welp. If no one's gonna ban this one, I'm gonna block him lol
"If nobody is going to ban the person giving me factual data contradicting my indoctrination, might as well block them". Solid stance, not MAGA at all.
I'm so glad the wage slave who made this graphic for Poo Bear survived the nets.
This graph was made using data from Pew Research, the University of California and the Ash Institute. Tell me again how much of a Communist, Pro-China these institutions have.
A source so that you get some more whiplash from your cognitive bias
Says the wage slave that fights to defend people like Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. Good job, kid. Of course communing with people, being social is impossible for you, because you are a capitalist. Capitalists love money more than human life.
During Covid:
Which seems more responsible there? And by A LOT.
Every year, to general conflict:
Which are safer? China and Saudi Arabia.
Now, according to World Population Review, Our World Data, the UN and more regarding wealth inequality, the higher the number, the worse (Gini coefficient, 0 would mean everyone has the exact same amount of cash, so, expect it to be a minimum of 20~):
Couldn't find the Gini for Saudi Arabia, but I am sure it's similar to its neighbors, which dingle around the mid 20s or low 30s.
Now look at these 12 war crimes the USA has done:
Am I still supposed to believe America is better? I am a Mexican who is still suffering the consequences of Reagan and Nixon... SO, I'm doing all this for free, not for Xi, but for the truth. The truth is America sucks so, so much more. I used to think otherwise for over 20 years, I fell for the Marvel movies and military movies that painted American soldiers as badass good-will saints. But that's over, and it is exactly people like you that put me in this exact position. So, thank you for that. Keep it up, you are perfect, because you give people like me the opportunity to share all this, and it won't matter how many downvotes it gets, those are just Americans trying to cope, it will convince people like it convinced me. I trust reality and numbers more than your vibe and simplistic NPC one-liner insults like this comment of yours right here. Seriously, keep it up. Don't change.
What. Who has time to read your manifesto breh
we all know why people don't choose how they feel in a dictatorship
Surely you know better than the University of California, Pew Research and the Ash Institute, buddy
Source so that you can get educated if you want
To be fair, they just copied the Japanese, south Koreans and Taiwanese
I hope you're joking. "Sinosphere" is the term applied to the area of the world you mention, the whole "copying" thing is backwards from what you said.
China famously has a communist party ruling the country, the rest of countries mentioned + the region of Taiwan don't
Just because the Chinese call the Koreans 韩国 doesn't mean you should lol. I think it's rather insulting to group the whole of East Asia as incorporated into the Chinese Sports. Sounds a bit like whole Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere of the '30s and '40s.
And by copy i meant the liberalisation of the farmers to profit from their land, then moving into factories in industries that were competitive for export and finally playing venture capitalist.
If Voltaire were alive today he'd laugh at the term CCP