• Glide@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    I’d think, for someone who loves China so much, you’d understand the value of a social score telling you that you’re doing a bad thing. Guess you only like to listen when that score is managed by a fascist regime.

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      I have never seen a “social credit score” system. People are more concerned about the household registration (hukou) system. What you refer to as the “social credit card” is actually the social security card. In China, there is a credit rating system called Zhima Credit (Sesame Credit). If you owe a lot of money to the bank, your credit rating will be blacklisted, restricting your ability to make high-end purchases. It seems like you are very good at propaganda. Are there bad things in China? Yes, but Western media often focus their reports on what they consider taboo topics, creating a stereotypical image of China that makes Chinese people look strange. I believe Western media can’t come up with other accusations, so they project their own wrongdoings onto China. Take the example of Xinjiang cotton: Chinese people can’t even conceive of forced labor because we believe that human labor is more expensive than machines, which are faster and more efficient. However, the US had cotton slave plantations in the past, so you hype up this issue.

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      6 months ago

      Guess you only like to listen when that score is managed by a fascist regime.

      Nah that would be the FICO score at the USA. The only fascist regime is the USA

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          But he called it fascism first and loudest!!! Checkmate, A Cool Dude ™️ wins this round, fellas…

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        I feel “the only fascist regime is X” does a huge disservice to a lot of fascists around the world that are hard at work making everyone’s life crappier every single day.

        And that’s without going into particulars about the identity of X.

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    6 months ago

    If you think China is any better than the US, then you’ve just switched flavors.

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      I would say that the country that has built 45,000km+ of high speed rail network, has a home ownership rate of 90%+, and has virtually eradicated extreme poverty within it’s borders is objectively better than the country with one of the highest per-capita prison populations in the world, and ~600k homeless people it can’t take care of.

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        6 months ago

        Let me guess, Tiananmen square was a totally justified response to CIA instigated unrest too? How about you link to a single source from any reputable news agency anywhere around the world instead of random shady sites that totally aren’t propaganda? And to be clear, fuck the US government too, but China isn’t exactly a bastion of free expression and journalism either

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            Oh hey look, guessed it in one. And note that I said anywhere in the world, but sure they’re all cia psyops, that’s a very reasonable take. Have fun licking that boot, just because America is authoritarian doesn’t mean you should trust what their opponents say about their own bad behavior, that’s as ignorant as ignoring the crimes of the west