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"The worst part of this whole thing is that I don't get to be against those Asians anymore!!! Where's my american exceptionalism?!"

"Freaking Vance, even I could find a ton of bad things to say about China!!"

Say the word!!!

"Ackchually, China is about to collapse :smuglord: ghost metro stops! USSR shortages!!!!!"

God I fucking hate libs.

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 91 points 1 week ago (2 children)

like subway stations in the middle of nowhere

I’ll assume these are instances of building out the public transit system where future growth is expected while it’s cheap and easy, instead of waiting for the development to happen and then trying to build a subway station around it.

USSR-like shortages in some places as opposed to abundance in others

projection

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 101 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There was an amazing tweet I vaguely remember seeing posted on reddit-logo on r/shitliberalssay that had some liberal noticing that a Chinese subway stop they had previously called out for being "in the middle of nowhere" was, three years later, at the heart of a bustling new population centre. Iirc they weren't impressed and declared it to be a matter of "luck".

Planning is apparently too advanced a concept for these people.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Chinese government is so lucky that when they planned a new urban development, it completely randomly and unrelatedly just happened to be in the same place they'd previously built transportation infrastructure.

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 45 points 1 week ago

the prc is known for using the classic blindfolded dart-throwing method of city planning

[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 65 points 1 week ago

Burgerites be so car-brained they can’t even fathom that building a public transit station would make that area attractive for residents and development.

[–] Zuzak@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago

Iirc they weren't impressed and declared it to be a matter of "luck".

That reminds me of this dumbass I know who keeps leaving his carrots out in the woods, underneath a box propped up by a stick. Complete waste of food, but somehow he keeps getting lucky and small animals keep randomly going under the box, causing it to fall on top of them. He's so superstitious, he swears up and down that the reason it keeps happening is because of the carrots, even though obviously it doesn't make any sense logically.

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[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

where future growth is expected

And God forbid if they were providing public transit to everyone in the country, including people living in rural areas. Obviously China should have a culture of Ford F150s and de facto segregation like the US.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 61 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've seen articles calling the rural stations ”unprofitable”. Terminal capitalism brain is when you think public utilities exist to make a profit, many such cases.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hearing people criticize public service infrastructure as unprofitable makes me vibrate and it happens way too often

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 86 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't feel like editing it. You know what I mean.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ive been watching DPRK vids from an english woman who's visiting and documenting some cool stuff and honestly the shit you see in the comments is the most blatant liberal racism ever.

Filming the face of a local? Especially if that local is showing joy? "RIP" "I hope they survived"

Food? "How can you enjoy this food when everyone starves and eats dogs etc. etc." "Probably fake"

Viewing any built up area with infrastructure? "I hope they paid you well for this" "where are the people???"

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've noticed "where are the people?" is usually about the streets not having enough cars

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago

Which is ironically the most American car brained shit possible lol

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[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 63 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don’t think they understand how trade between the US and China works if they think China can’t deal without US imports without going into scarcity better than the reverse.

Also, China hasn’t levied tariffs on every other country. The US has.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, China will just trade with the rest of Asia, Africa, Mexico, Central America, South America, Canada, Europe and Australia. America is a big market but it's not the only game in town. China kind of is.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mexico is being bullied to reduce trade with China, and it's understandable to be working to a certain degree

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[–] Calmrade@hexbear.net 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was curious so I briefly looked it up, if I remember right, China only imports like 7 percent of its total imports from the USA. It was comparable to South Korea. They can weather this storm far better than the US.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The main thing that's gonna sting for your average Chinese citizen is increased food costs, sonce the US supplies China with a lot of soy and wheat. But they have also been taking steps for this exact situation since this all played out at a smaller scale 7 years ago.

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[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

About the last paragraph, many non-US-vassals countries fear chinese products, now not going to burgerland and in a hurry, might dump their markets.

It's a pain in the ass for everyone in the short term, with potential weird ripple effects

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

None of these people are salvageable

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Over this past year I've had the realisation that reeducation camps will have to be compulsory for at least half the fucking west... I hate Europeans I hate Europeans I hate Europeans

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

cant be re-educated if you never had an education to start with

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[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eh, once China winning is inevitible they'll have always been pro china. Liberals are narrativists and opportunists and if the narrative contradctions cannot be papered over they'll retcon.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

That's a good point tbh, I need to start showing my support now if I don't want to be lumped in with all the bandwagoners later

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You can observe that in real time by votes in .ml political and news posts. If the post just bash maga, chuds, trump, etc it's upvotes galore. But if it suggest libs are not much different than chuds in anything, it's in minus.

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[–] Balefirex@hexbear.net 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

dude with his home instance as lemmynsfw asking for Chinese incarceration rates I'm gonna stroke out

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Balefirex@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago

I specifically changed it from "gonna have a stroke" to avoid this response angery

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Answered with statistics just in case. Hope they'll drain the snake poison thinking of Chinese prison statistics NGL.

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[–] PKMKII@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

Hey maybe incarceration data is his fetish, don’t kinkshame

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

What a weird instance to use as your home. Just checked and it's not even porn anymore it's just AI bot spam of stable diffusion slop

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago

Are these China's supply-chain shortages in the room right now?

[–] miz@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

subway stations in the middle of nowhere

dennis-stare

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Transportation runs on supply and demand in the West, except for cars, and subways aren't cars. It's why this shit never goes anywhere, it follows the logic of "Why build a bridge, nobody is swimming across the river?". Except for cars, where every kilometer driven adds 3 eurodollars to the GDP and as such every new road pays for itself in at most 2 years

[–] miz@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

Why build a bridge, nobody is swimming across the river?

perfect summation of urban planning under capitalism

chefs-kiss

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[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago

i want to open up the skull of the last lemmitor and study the mighty brain capable of consuming so much propaganda uncritically

[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Westerners and being arrogant towards countries in Asia, something something naming duo and all that.

[–] sleeplessone@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago

The Americans are americaning so americanly that I can't even say "What are we, a bunch of Asians?" Someone please help!

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

wtf is going on when we can no longer even get together to hate on an external trading partner?

fascist coping "Back in my days we could simply hate foreigners without thinking, now I have to think before hating."

[–] LaughingLion@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago

if the average chinese person has to experience anything it wont be shortages in food, housing, healthcare, or education

the chinese system will secure those things first and foremost and no chinese national is worried that they will be short in those departments

can we say the same for americans?

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