The conversations are amazing

  • Korne127@lemmy.world
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    2 minutes ago

    China propaganda machine goes brrrr

    The way people really suddenly think oh yeah China is just a good country like a European democracy where you can live well is flabbergasting. Of course a dictatorship with massive censorship and suppression of minorities has mostly positive comments.

    And of course, many people that aren’t part of a harassed minority or politically active against the rulers aren’t saying horrible stuff against them (which wouldn’t be seen anyway).

  • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Some of this shit is just true and really show how clueless some people are. China is not all bad.

    But in some responses… The social credit had pilot cities. And people were banned for e.g. flying due to social misdeeds, while it seems to be unrelated to the social credit.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/world/china-to-bar-people-with-bad-social-credit-from-planes-trains-idUSKCN1GS10Q/#%3A~%3Atext=However%2C+there+are+signs+that%2Ctaking+flights+for+social+misdeeds.

    The reality that especially Americans will be de-brainwashed by, is that china is not a communistic state. That it isn’t all bad. China is much more like america than both pro-china and pro-america people want to accept.

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    3 hours ago

    Remember that “Grapes of Wrath” completely backfired as a propaganda piece because Russians were amazed that poor Americans could still afford cars

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    7 hours ago

    Well tbf, even though it’s strictly banned in China there are still some cases of it happening in rural areas.

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    9 hours ago

    People are people no matter where they live, which also means you can’t trust any government anywhere. Propaganda is powerful.

    The idea of a social credit score has always been hilarious to me, like yo bros we have credit scores over here and they legitimately fuck us over since you need good credit to do alot of things like renting a place to live.

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    10 hours ago

    wow the level of cope in this thread (thankfully not that many tho) arguing over stats - which are probably made up anyway.

    some people can’t handle that most humans just wanna be friends regardless of gov politics bs

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    7 hours ago

    picture 2: not real and technically imposible to do that cause we have 1.4 billion people

    This makes me imagine how social credit score department people hands look like if social credit score is real

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    12 hours ago

    Few things blew my mind even though I’ve been a big fan of Chinese economic and political policy for a while

    They actually really like Soviet Culture, the marching soldiers and flags etc. Soviet rock like Kino and the like is very popular!

    They’re casually Marxist, its not something they have to fight to learn about so socialism is a casual existence for them. I figured the youth would be “too cool or hip” but doesn’t seem to be the case

    They’re very similar as gamers, they really like shooters like battlefield and cs go. I assume their MMOs are different but I’m asking about that

    It truly is a massive cultural exchange the likes of which have never been seen before. I’m trying to find out if they grew up on the same games, Morrowind Deus Ex Thief Ultima Online D&D etc