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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, no human society is perfect. However, it's clear to anybody who has even a shred of intellectual honesty that on the whole Chinese society works in the interest of the people of China. Let mew know if you're still struggling with this concept.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh, congratulations on achieving the impossible. I wasn't aware I was speaking to an omniscient deity floating in a vacuum.

Saying "I have no bias" doesn't make you neutral, it just means you're dangerously unaware of how human cognition works. Bias isn't a character flaw you can opt out of, it is the inevitable result of having a subjective point of view. Unless you possess total, universal information (which you don't), your entire worldview is built on the limited data you've consumed, the specific environment you inhabit, and the people you interact with.

You are filtering reality through a unique lens just like the rest of us. Pretending you aren't doesn't make you "objective", it just makes you the most unreliable narrator in the room because you're too blind to see your own blind spots.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Exactly, just imagine standing up for the atrocities that CPC subjects the people of China to. I mean just look at these horrors!

90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf

From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/China%E2%80%99s-Economic-Growth-and-Poverty-Reduction-Angang-Linlin/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b880f54b9c77a4

People in China enjoy high levels of social mobility https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html

Student debt in China is virtually non-existent because education is not run for profit. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jlim/2016/08/29/why-china-doesnt-have-a-student-debt-problem/

China massively invests in public infrastructure. They used more concrete in 3 years than US in all of 20th century https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2014/12/05/china-used-more-concrete-in-3-years-than-the-u-s-used-in-the-entire-20th-century-infographic/

China also built 27,000km of high speed rail in a decade https://www.railjournal.com/passenger/high-speed/ten-years-27000km-china-celebrates-a-decade-of-high-speed/

What sane person would want to live in that sort of a hellscape.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago

a temporarily inconvenienced billionaire appears

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

I want to believe!

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America is a Banana Republic (chrishedges.substack.com)
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

It's about as productive as trying to turn a lion vegetarian.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, Russia should've just let the ethnic cleansing in Donbas continue. At lest you fascists have consistent values from Gaza to Donbas.

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

it's just such a great meme, you don't even have to edit it, it's perfect the way it is

 
 
 
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

somebody already did in this very thread

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

a beautiful illustrations of how AI is rotting people's brains

 
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