Comrades, pretty please give me your yummy yummy facts and anecdotes about the silent atrocities in your favorite countries.

I'm making this in light of CPC's elimination of destitution in 2021 (by the standards of the 2 No Worries and 3 Guarantees) and thereby their largest source of social murder.

So far it looks like they're the only ones to have accomplished this?

In Germany, the social safety net is designed to keep you alive but in poverty, which still results in visible destitute populations that experience social murder.

I have a huge blind spot in Central Asia, Russia and Africa. Please help.

Spitballing and guesswork is highly appreciated.

CW: suicide, drug mention, ableism, islamophobia

I've loved politics ever since I was spergy little 10-year-old watching the fucking Glenn Beck Program (don't ask). I grew to love sociology in my teen years, and I always knew a bunch of rare facts like how the Soviet Union ended the gender pay gap in Eastern Europe over 50 years ago, or how queer acceptance scales almost exclusively with HDI, but I was severely limited by the aforementioned Standard American Upbringing.

It was so goddamn easy and enjoyable to talk to people about politics back then, especially since I hated both US parties and was essentially a Bernie Bro. I was able to fluently relate to and discuss common grievances of people within the US and without while being proud of my (in comparison) vast knowledge.

However, in 2025 I got caught up in the Chinamaxxing craze and after a couple months of study (Governance of China my beloved) I sort of crossed a threshold and all of the liberal sophistry I had once loved became nails on a chalkboard.

I genuinely can't talk to people about politics anymore without wanting to blow my brains out or feeling like I'm smuggling fentanyl precursor in my asshole OR being treated like a schizophrenic islamist talking about the CIA and US war crimes.

TAKE ME BAAAAAAACK I WANNA BE A WESTERN CHAUVANIST AGAIN I WANNA FEEL SMART AND ENLIGHTENED. FUCK YOU LENIN I DONT WANNA READ ANY MORE THEORY, PLEASE

edit: guys, I promise I'm not actually a chud anymore, and I have the Kim Il-Sung x Osama Bin Laden self-insert yaoi fanfiction to prove it.

Even after the recent Hukou reforms, permanent residency for immigrants is nonexistant (less than 20k in the past 2 decades). It feels like such a huge own-goal in the current historical moment to miss out on attracting migrants, especially the now unemployed technical experts and scientists in deindustrializing nations. Have they perhaps been infuenced by the current wave of fascist hysteria in the G7? (By which I mean: the CPC proactively stopping such a movement from forming in China?) Are they high on their own supply about being a "civilizational state"? Are they scared? Are they CHUDS?

Edit: It genuinely doesn't make economic sense at this point. For example, West Europe would honestly be a sterile crater at this point without immigrants from the past 20 years due to population decline.

The best reason I could come up with is that they fear backlash from the precariously employed youths and xenophobic elders.

Edit: Historical inertia is probably a large factor here. It would be somewhat strange to switch from population control to population bolstering policies in under 2 decades.

Edit 2: Vietnam is somewhat similar to China in governance, but is more leinient with immigration than even Europe.

This is obviously reductive because there are government stakes in most private companies, but I'm mostly looking for a general opinion. So, if you HAD to put a percentage to it, what would your estimate be?

Follow up: What percent would North Korea be? Vietnam? USA? Russia? India? Iran?

Follow up 2: Is that percentage increasing or decreasing? I would assume it's increasing, but it's difficult to tell because the change seems to be taking place over the span of decades.

I've always considered Europe to be a junior partner in imperialism, but, especially since the 2025 trade war capitulation, it seems there has been a qualitative shift in their world status.

Comprador leadership, military occupation, and tech subordination are all hallmarks of a neocolony, and Europe has all 3.