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Lift like China, bro 🇨🇳💪 (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

The number of downvotes on this meme is fascinating.

Perhaps this will also be popular: Reuters, 2018: China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

Edit to add: Do people think we just make this shit up?

United Nations, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding

World Bank, 2022: Lifting 800 Million People Out of Poverty – New Report Looks at Lessons from China’s Experience

Tricontinental: Serve the People: The Eradication of Extreme Poverty in China

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

number of downvotes

Another day I'm glad we don't have downvotes. Hexbear stays winning

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Noooo China bad if you didn't know!

I'm almost the opposite side of the political compass from current Chinese regime but even I must admit Sinophobia is out of control. It is totally cool to altogether dismiss and undermine any of their achievements and reduce 1/6 of humanity down to a single facet, all because popular Western propaganda says so.