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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ lemmy.ml yogthos@lemmy.ml
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davel lemmy.ml davel@lemmy.ml
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This is what corporate media really mean when they say China is authoritarian: that it oppresses the Epstein class.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ Moderator yogthos@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2020-01-18
#3 · Quote Reply

This is what corporate media really mean when they say China is authoritarian: that it oppresses the Epstein class.

that's right, authoritarianism is when the workers instead of pedo oligarchs are in charge

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medi0crity lemmy.dbzer0.com medi0crity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-22
#4 · (edited) Quote Reply

that's right, authoritarianism is when the workers instead of pedo oligarchs are in charge

chinese workers? in charge?? while earning like a dollar an hour and having their children forced into it too? are youa bot honestly??

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挂路灯人 lemmy.ml gualudengren@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-08
#5 · Quote Reply

chinese workers? in charge?? while earning like a dollar an hour and having their children forced into it too? are youa bot honestly??

Hyper orientalist from the 80s/90s transported forward in time to modern times and yet to adjust type comment.

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medi0crity lemmy.dbzer0.com medi0crity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#6 · Quote Reply

Hyper orientalist from the 80s/90s transported forward in time to modern times and yet to adjust type comment.
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挂路灯人 lemmy.ml gualudengren@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-08
#7 · Quote Reply

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Nah you're a dehumanising asshole. I hope you stub your toe every day shithead.

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medi0crity lemmy.dbzer0.com medi0crity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-22
#8 · Quote Reply

Nah you're a dehumanising asshole. I hope you stub your toe every day shithead.

go back to your cave i was tryna talk about human rights in china, or the bitter lack thereof. youre just fucking distracting and contribute jackshit, but i guess thats just normal in online discourse.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ Moderator yogthos@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2020-01-18
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chinese workers? in charge?? while earning like a dollar an hour and having their children forced into it too? are youa bot honestly??

Western ignoramuses having opinions on subjects they have no clue about? You this cringe honestly??

Quality of life in China continues to steadily improve and the government is actively working on doing things like eliminating poverty, creating public infrastructure, providing healthcare, housing, food, and education for all citizens. Chinese government practically eliminated poverty, and in fact China is the only place in a world where any meaningful poverty reduction is happening. If we take China out of the equation poverty actually increased in real terms:

If we take just one country, China, out of the global poverty equation, then even under the $1.90 poverty standard we find that the extreme poverty headcount is the exact same as it was in 1981.

The $1.90/day (2011 PPP) line is not an adequate or in any way satisfactory level of consumption; it is explicitly an extreme measure. Some analysts suggest that around $7.40/day is the minimum necessary to achieve good nutrition and normal life expectancy, while others propose we use the US poverty line, which is $15.

90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes

Chinese household savings hit another record high in 2024 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-bank-earnings-01-12-2024/card/chinese-household-savings-hit-another-record-high-xqyky00IsIe357rtJb4j

Social mobility in China being far better than in the US https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html

The typical Chinese adult is now richer than the typical European adult https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-chinese-adult-now-richer-than-europeans-wealth-report-finds-2022-9

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf

From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/China’s-Economic-Growth-and-Poverty-Reduction-Angang-Linlin/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b880f54b9c77a4

From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2019&amp%3Blocations=CN&amp%3Bstart=2008

Now go back to sniffing glue.

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挂路灯人 lemmy.ml gualudengren@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-08
#10 · Quote Reply

go back to your cave i was tryna talk about human rights in china, or the bitter lack thereof. youre just fucking distracting and contribute jackshit, but i guess thats just normal in online discourse.

You are only interested in spreading orientalist nonsense you don't give a shit about us stop using us as a shield for your chauvinism.

Please stub your toe hard.

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medi0crity lemmy.dbzer0.com medi0crity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-22
#11 · (edited) Quote Reply

You are only interested in spreading orientalist nonsense you don't give a shit about us stop using us as a shield for your chauvinism. Please stub your toe hard.

at least im not telling you what youre interested in. you have no idea about my motivation or what im capable of.

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挂路灯人 lemmy.ml gualudengren@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-08-08
#12 · Quote Reply

at least im not telling you what youre interested in. you have no idea about my motivation or what im capable of.

You are no better than the average American conservative.

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medi0crity lemmy.dbzer0.com medi0crity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-06-22
#13 · Quote Reply

You are no better than the average American conservative.

if that is what your chinese propaganda dictates it only strengthens my argument

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queermunist she/her lemmy.ml queermunist@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-07-10
#14 · (edited) Quote Reply

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Everyone who disagrees with you is a robot.

You are very smart.

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m532 lemmy.ml m532@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2021-06-05
#15 · Quote Reply

at least im not telling you what youre interested in. you have no idea about my motivation or what im capable of.

Your motivation: belief in white supremacy.
What you are capable of: lying.

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elixir_fan lemmy.ml elixir_fan@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-09-05
#16 · Quote Reply

if that is what your chinese propaganda dictates it only strengthens my argument

Yikes you're racist

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EmmiLime lemmy.ml EmmiLime@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-03-12
#17 · Quote Reply

if that is what your chinese propaganda dictates it only strengthens my argument

their chinese propaganda

our unbiased truth

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