Carl

Look at pictures of people in their 30s back in the 70s, and compare them to people in their 30s today. It's a massive difference, I hypothesize that it's the leaded gasoline and secondhand smoke that makes it although I'm not aware of any science to back that up.

China continuing to claim the same seas that it has been claiming since the 19th century is imperialism, not the country from the other side of the world using legal warfare and gunboat diplomacy to deny them that claim

whatever you say bud

Brother 90% of the world's labor is done by 50% of the countries, and it aint fukken Europe that's doing the hard work to keep the global economy running.

And please point to any example of Chinese imperialism that has occurred in the last forty years. No, offering loans with better terms than what the IMF offers to African countries does not count.

You could say the same about every developed nation

"Developed nation" is a propaganda term designed to make you think that the overexploited nations of the world are on some mythical path that will lead them to a first world quality of life.

every western European country has already eliminated the worst kind of poverty and on average European citizens are better off than Chinese citizens

This is an apples-to-oranges comparison. Europe is the beneficiary of hundreds of years of imperialism and accumulation and the ongoing system of global unequal exchange, whereas China is a former victim of said imperialism that has pulled themselves out of the muck with their own workers' labor. China is better off compared to India, which achieved independence not long afterward but has fallen far behind in every single development index because of their failure to overthrow capital.

Hell, even in The Matrix they were going to have Switch be an explicitly trans character but got blocked by a producer.

I really want to try a bunch of slurs out

This is surely the most rational reaction to being slightly inconvenienced by a word filter.

I think this post is more about the "key aviation safety advisory committee" being gutted right before the worst air disaster in over a decade.

Hey, I've seen this one

It also wasn't a peaceful democratic movement. My point is merely that a lot of people who don't know anything write extremely confidently on this and every other topic related to communist history.

your misuse of the word literally in this post figuratively gave me an aneurysm.

What makes you think Xi is a dictator? If your answer is "because that's the vibe I get from American Government propaganda", then you should reassess the things you think you know about the world. The truth is that China has a very vibrant and active democracy that is much more responsive to the demands of its people than that of most other nations, and Xi is merely the one currently at the top of that democratic system.

Do you take the Chinese citizens at theirs?

We find that first, since the start of the survey in 2003, Chinese citizen satisfaction with government has increased virtually across the board. From the impact of broad national policies to the conduct of local town officials, Chinese citizens rate the government as more capable and effective than ever before. Interestingly, more marginalized groups in poorer, inland regions are actually comparatively more likely to report increases in satisfaction. Second, the attitudes of Chinese citizens appear to respond (both positively and negatively) to real changes in their material well-being, which suggests that support could be undermined by the twin challenges of declining economic growth and a deteriorating natural environment.

Very few governments on this planet have approval numbers this good, and even fewer have numbers this good when it's a neutral third party conducting the surveys.