How are things in China?
Can't complain!
this post was submitted on 23 Mar 2024
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I know that's a pun, but I live in China and people complain here as much as anywhere in the world.
I think they find a lot of stuff here surprising. My chinese friend was really shocked when they found out that you could just buy and own land, and it's yours.
On the upside, it's been a long while since I've seen anything more than stray tankies in World or Kbin!
This community is kinda dead, which is both good and bad.
I think they just went back to Reddit or defederated. I generally like speaking with people with opposing views (which is how my Discord server ended up being half filled with conservatives lol), but tankies and idpol warriors just will not even engage with you; they just talk past you at some invisible man they think pulls your strings, "you're all Russian bots" and the like.
Yeah, tankies, well known for accusing people of being Russian bots.
every time I go home to Wuhan and lose access to the basically the entire internet, I don't see any oppression at all!
It's not perfect, but overthrow would be far, far worse
These are the same people who look at flaws within the "imperial core" of western countries and conclude that the only thing that would stop their entire population from suffering under capitalism is complete overthrow of the government. Then they don't see the irony of making statements like "don't overthrow our government, chaos is so much worse"
Yeah, why would people in a censorship-happy autocracy think the government does everything right, if it wasn't the absolute truth?
I forgot to take the tankies seriously and now they're threatening to nuke 'the west'.
What's that you say? They've always wanted to kill every Westerner and it has nothing to do with politics or my stance/support?
Huh, weird!