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[–] [email protected] 292 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There's a bunch of Chinese posts asking if the stuff about school shootings, fires, homelessness are exaggerated propaganda only to be told otherwise. It's both hilarious and sad.

[–] [email protected] 155 points 1 week ago (33 children)

People of the US and China are both unsure of what to believe about the other, because both are so propagandized lol

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

School shootings is something uniquely american. Even México doesn't have them and we have a decent amount of narcojuniors (rich sons of drug dealers) that would have plenty access to guns, the only time i remember a school shooting happening it was in a private school in Monterrey like 7 years ago, which is pretty much the most americanized part of México.

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[–] [email protected] 197 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 193 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If banning tik tok ends up galvanizing demand for healthcare reform I'm going to laugh my ass off

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good comrades like Lady Izdihar are taking off in a big way, might help radicalize a lot of people towards Marxism even.

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[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 week ago (44 children)

Circle jerking about China is as ridiculous as circle jerking about the US. We've been here before with US vs USSR, but this time everyone has a megaphone and an IQ that can be measured with a ruler.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean isn't this more "circle jerking " about dismantling state propaganda? Interacting with those you were told are your enemy?

Besides, people should always celebrate the positives, and look towards them as something that is possible in their country too.

And as an fyi: when we were here before, the workers revolution in Russia was new. The achievements were so profound that workers in North America began demanding similar concessions from our governments. There was a real threat of overthrowing the existing power structures. And what happened? Weekends, literacy, healthcare, just generally improved living conditions. To dismiss cultural exchange as circle jerking is to ignore history and the power that comes with knowing things are better elsewhere, and that you can have that too.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (25 children)

You keep on coping there little buddy. What's happening is that regular people from both countries are now talking directly to each other, and finding out what life is actually like.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It's honestly very wholesome to see this kind of interaction. On top of cute moments like Chinese users telling the new US users that they are their "spies," seeing a lot of blatant myth dispelling surrounding the PRC is great to help tear down the Red Scare.

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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (16 children)

imagine making social media so bad your own citizens actively procure your biggest rival's networks.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

No. So many goods cannot be produced by children, it is inefficient.

New tagline dropped

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Norway actually does.
Source: Am norwegiam. Am parent.

In the US? Lol, no.
Source: I work with a bunch of Texans.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago
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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (28 children)

Lol people actually believed that social credit score bullshit?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (7 children)

American here, yes. To be fair I don't think about China a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Misinformation

Truths you find inconvenient are not misinformation, reporter.

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