"China bad. They built a train station."

lol

the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry

Lol their dad and my dad should hang out. My dad loves both Mao and Bill Clinton, in equal measure. He is literally a CPC party member (I assume expired but he still has his membership card) and is China's biggest defender in the US, but he is also really proud of being an American. Like his dream is to have the two countries mutually agree to combine into one country.

As you can imagine the recent ratcheting up of tensions has really dampened his mood.

Also, one of his funnier crank opinions is that Portugal should have kept Macao becuase they bought it fair and square in the 16th century, but China should have invaded Hong Kong to show the British who's boss.

Theres people in there saying that China botched "its transition to capitalism" worse than Russia lol

Yea China's economy is fked which is why they're the biggest economy rn

They literally cannot say a single good thing about china to the extent they would rather deny reality lmao

A lot of posts on there are from English teachers in china giving advice to each other on how to take advantage of their students to sleep with them

I'm not going to praise Chinese bullet trains, for example. They're nice but l've been to some really empty train stations in Xinjiang and Gansu that probably shouldn't have been built.

The government hates its minorities so much they built high quality transportation for them to use whenever they feel like it, but they should be more efficient and abolish all of it because I don’t see any pictures of Uyghurs riding it

the CCP has been good at pushing renewables, even though maybe they're motivated by money instead of environmental reasons.

Where's the evil?

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That is the weirdest handwave of chinas train system lol

How does one even explain that to themselves

empty train stations

Holy shit are people so fucking dumb now that they can't understand planning ahead?

Building things before they're needed is good actually. I am so tired of waiting for infrastructure to be built years after it's needed.

I will never understand people who don't get efficientcy. We can plan ahead, we have the data to know what an area is going to be like, not planning ahead for that is just stupid and negligent.

I always found it funny that they crap on China for empty developments not yet populated because westoids are only familiar with the same crumbling congested infrastructure with absolutely nothing new ever built because that means the property prices can't be inflated exponentially.

Things tend to be empty when they're first developed or in the process of being completed. Not that a westoid would know because they haven't seen anything new in their lifetimes.

The sheer amount of white dudes who live in/have visited China on "business trips" outweighs the actual native Chinese people by like, 2:1 at least. And those people are like the guy above, westerners who have Chinese ancestry, and who visited China maybe twice to see their extended family.

Naturally this means they are all 110% perfect China experts and we should trust everything they say about the country.

is there ANYTHING that the CCP or China in general can be credited with?

Look at the tag on your shirt or any of your appliances, they sign that shit

Is there anything at all that China in general can be credited with?

Well, before they became all woke the first emperor literally invented an immortality potion. The woke, soy CCP will not let me drink it with their snowflake "health and safety guidelines", but I give credit where it is due. Plus, I can find more than enough of it in old thermometers to achieve immortality anyway. After Qin Shi Huang they became woke and never did anything worth taking notice of ever again.

the train argument really gets on my nerves yes some train lines are unprofitable but they are also vital transport infrastructure. Roads aren't expected to turn a profit

if people can get to job sites because of a trainline then that is economic utility produced by the train not recorded in the price of the ticket.

So is there ANYTHING that the CCP or China in general can be credited with?

To quote some guy on lemm.ee:

I don't even see any politics on my instance! listen dude, i actually support china because i play genshin impact

Ah yes, the train station arguement - if I don't actively see someone using it, it must not have a use.

Ok but seriously, is there anything that the CPC is bad at?

Edit: Thanks for the responses guys, you've all made really good points!