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    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

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    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.

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    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

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    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

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      It’s funny because this is what liberals believe in. Several times when you bring up how capitalists will fuck up “improvements” over their profit motive, they’ll reduce your concerns to “wow so some people make money, and that’s bad to commies.” I’m assuming this guy is a liberal because that sub is just conservatives and liberals circle jerking about how much they hate Chinese people

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    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.

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        Usually a sub like, uh, r/BatonRouge or whatever is going to be people who like Baton Rouge but absolutely hate minority segments within it. r/China is full of people who would struggle to come up with a defense that they don’t hate all of China except either “hate the government, not the people” or “some of the much younger women I use my power differential to fuck are Chinese!”

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    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.

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      In general Western infrastructure lags demand because the economic case doesn’t pass until demand ratchets up.

      What’s missed is that lots of infrastructure induce demand.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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      yes some train lines are unprofitable but they are also vital transport infrastructure

      I’m currently working in the Middle East and the growth of this place is fast; I saw black and white photos of buildings built relatively far out of the city where there was nothing around for (miles? I’m not good at gauging distances), but you know what? Decades later the city’s expanded until those same places have now been enveloped by the rest of the city. I can’t speak to the train situation in some areas of China, but it may very well be a similar situation where in several decades time it’ll be extremely important that they’re there.

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      Trains are vital, high speed trains aren’t. They’ve pumped out a lot of high speed train lines that simply are too expensive to maintain, and of course not to mention the potential faults in build quality.

      To reduce the amount of planes high speed trains can be a good replacement. But building too many of them isn’t going to do the train network any good on the long run if it’s not being fully utilised.

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    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

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      Everyday on my way to another gruelling 24 hour shift I pass by this firestation and see these supposed firefighters sitting out and playing cards, its infuriating!!