If you say cringe shit like "West Taiwan" you are forbidden to balk at shit like "United $nakes of AmeriKKKa"

I'm making that rule right now

"China builds trains because The West won't sell them wheels" is probably the funniest take I have ever heard

In which China can you say you disagree with the government?

Meanwhile in the U.S.: You disagree, you protest, you vote, and nothing ever changes for the better. That's true freedom.

In which China can you disagree with the government

Not the RoC lmao

By the way, why would you care even a little about stolen technology? Are you profiting from the technology? The only stolen technology I could entertain caring about is weapons. If you bankrupted Microsoft by stealing and FOSSing Microsoft office, I'd thank you and ask how you managed that when libre office exists already.

The stolen technology argument is one of the most popular masquerades of racism. I'm sure some nerd could point to some Soviet Intel stolen from Americans or whatever, but the idea that a country only created something because the west did it first is ludicrous. The laws of physics are the same regardless of nation. If you have a proposal for a project to do something, odds are two groups working completely independently will come up with strikingly similar looking designs, even if the inner workings are totally different. That doesn't mean the design was stolen. The racism is literally "they wouldn't be smart enough to do that without theft", and this notion is accepted by even the furthest left liberals in the mainstream.

Try protesting a genocide in America

How can you be a "fuck cars" guy can complain about stolen IP?

you’re allowed to disagree with the government in china. how brainwashed are these people to think otherwise? i remember thinking that when i was like 7. did these people just never learn anything or mentally grow up?

you’re not allowed to blatantly lie about the government to their detriment in china. many would say “well who decides what’s truth and lies?” and i would say that’s a fair point but what’s truth and lies in america is dictated entirely by capitalist media so even if the evil chinese government was dictating what’s true the same can be said for the US where whats true is just whatever capitalist propaganda your tv tells you, and with how much of right wing media is reliant on just flat out lies i wouldn’t mind some laws like that here in the US

Pretty sure you can disagree with the government in China. They have a phone line for suggestions and complaints, and it can actually change things about the government

West Taiwan

Oh, that's an immediate sentence to the mines. Actually much of r*ddit would be sent to the mines

r/Ebikes has a strange relationship with China. Whenever a post mentions it, there is one of three themes:

• I bought a $300 dropshipped ebike on Amazon and it turns out those sneaky Asiatics sold me a cheap bicycle. They can't make anything right and if you buy a Chinese bike it will explode immediately.

• Holy shit China is an electrified paradise where there are so many ebikes, they're much more affordable, the infrastructure for them is so much better than the west, and the companies aren't on the edge of bankruptcy: https://www.reddit.com/r/ebikes/comments/1hd2w55/im_in_shenzhen_china_right_now_and/

• We need to ban all Chinese things while supporting the western companies that assemble bikes from Chinese components, even though they're risking imminent collapse because they can't domestically manufacture a battery or the frame to put it in while the import tariffs strangle them

One thing I've noticed is that a noticeable chunk of the "urbanism subculture" is very hostile to anything that deviates from "traditional-style development", which gets extended to architectural styles. It's definitely a result of the space being dominated by Americans that lionise Europe and Europeans themselves.

It's like a mix of traditionalism and a "small is beautiful" mindset. Also heaps of chauvinism.

I also think OP shouldn't have drawn a comparison between Taiwan and (the rest of) China. For one, Taiwan also has high-speed rail and a good metro system in Taipei, and two the size difference is huge, Taiwan would never come close in terms of quantity lol. Plus they opened themselved up to dismissals because "muh freedoms"

Edit: apparently the original post is about cars in Taiwan with darkened windshields.

They've built all the thousands of km of track... but can't make wheels that go fast for some reason? Chauvinism is a hell of a drug

West Taiwan

One of the worst redditisms.

yeah i hate how urban design discourse in the west is just praising dutch local governments for installing bike lanes and telling everyone else in the world to move there.

I don't exactly want to go to bat for /r/fuckcars here but the reply comments have 5 and 1 upvotes and the original comment could be downvoted for any number of reasons.

A problem /r/fuckcars constantly has is that it attracts entirely too many people who think it's called /r/fuckbaddrivers, /r/fuckeverybodyelsesescar, /r/fuck the people going for unnecessary starbucks run, blocking my way to my necessary burger king run and so on and so on.

That isn't to say OPs take is wrong. But for that you also have to consider that basically everyone who isn't some type of urbanist in the west only has worse oppinions than that about the topic.

It's a mess. The whole thing is a mess.

Well, West Taiwan

/r/fuckcars showing their heil hitler teeth when it's not about bike roads in some town/city in Netherlands.

California Turns To China For New Bay Bridge

This is from 2011. America can’t even build a bridge today that it could have easily done 50 years ago.