Old Americans aren't buying these old narratives either. Turns out that the US government being so openly corrupt has real consequences.
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This reads like a paid ad (the irony!). I'm sure spending 70% of their free time on TikTok algos has some niche corner of the internet "Chinamaxxing", and turning off the constant dopamine stream made people upset, but the reasoning in the article seems dodgey at best.
I personally don't see issues of authoritarianism and censorship and go "woawww, a society that has that baked in is so much better"
Funny fucking hat though, I just might have to pick one up
They’ll be disappointed to learn that China’s just as bad as the US, in some similar and some different ways.
But also markedly better in many. I've worked in Changsha on and off for the last decade, and I'd move there to live in a heartbeat. The modern US I wouldn't touch with a hundred foot pole.
That's subjective of course - but, while I don't know what you're taught in the US (it's actually exciting to learn that you still have schools, I thought they'd all been converted into gun ranges) about China, that some people are clueing up to the reality being different is an objectively good thing - even if it's not all sunshine and roses in Xi's world either.
Every country with economic power is a propaganda machine powered by institutional financial corruption.
All the rest are poor pawns that are shuffled around by the economic powers and sometimes turned to rubble.
Take care of and support the best outcomes in your closest community wherever you are, everything else starts there. We'll never solve this issue but we can make better lives for ourselves and those around us. No, do not run out to the wilderness and live alone, community is strength against all of these forces.
Considering how many voted for Trump, I don't exactly trust the thinking of the younger generations at this point.
Youth voters favored Harris 52% to 46%. Its the older voters who voted more for trump.
They were raised by Pewdiepie, MrBeast and TikTok. There was an issue with their thinking ever since.
Propaganda. They’ve never been there, so hearing about it is just illusion.
And before your ML panties get in a twist, fuck the USA, China, Russia, UK, (most of) Europe, and basically every other capitalist country (yes, China is capitalist).