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[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I would kill to live in a country like China that optimizes its economy for use value over exchange value.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Anything's possible when you make shit up

[–] Saffire@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Here’s an article from the Harvard Gazette talking about the surveys. The approval rating was 95.5% and notably, Harvard did not dispute the accuracy of the findings or have issue with the methodology of the survey.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/

[–] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

As someone currently living there, I don't believe you.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Also, don’t patronize me. It’s rude.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Patronizing and completely unsubstantiated!

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

“Everyone I disagree with is a tankie.”