• Tiral@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    Honey, I used to live there, and I hate to burst your bubble, but there’s a huge HUGE difference between what China says and does.

    • VeryFrugal@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Tankies call you out for patronizing when literally every single comment ever by tankies on Lemmy are patronizing and calling out people for “being brainwashed capitalistic libs”. Yikes.

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      3 hours ago

      I’ve heard from many other Chinese people who say the opposite, so I’m gonna go ahead and press X to doubt.

      Edit: I also don’t really care what someone with enough resources to emigrate has to say. I’m more concerned with ordinary workers, who have a 90%+ approval rating of the CCP.

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        2 hours ago

        I agree with everything you posted except I have to also press X to doubt on your claim of 90%+ approval ratings amongst ordinary workers. You can’t get 90 percent of people to agree on anything else in the world, except the CCP? It just doesn’t compute as a real number for me I guess. But I’d love to be proven wrong.

      • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        What do the rural poor in China think of their new billionaire class and their ever increasing wealth gap?

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          1 hour ago

          They probably hate it, but are glad that they have the CCP to prevent them from gaining political power as well as economic power.

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            1 hour ago

            The CCP are the wealthy people in control. Those are some good mental gymnastics.