@ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage
>The superior Chinese respect its people
lol no. There's no respect for the Chinese for one another. They're just not savvy enough to do big financial scams like the westerners do, because they don't have the same deep understanding of capitalism. It's literally the Badman meme "you were merely raised in darkness, I was born in it, molded by it". It's the same shit. Western sociopaths were born in capitalism and learn the system more deeply, and are able to pull of far greater shit.

@alyx @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage

Covid was a Chinese scam. The largest financial scam ever created. Shut up, dummy.

@ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage
Covid was Chinese, yes. Not a scam, as in the virus is real. Not entirely sure how deliberate it was.
It was potentially an attempt at a bio-weapon that they accidentally released on themselves, which they then allowed to spread to the world, because it was the only remaining way they could make use of what they created. There is circumstantial evidence that it started up months before we became aware of it. So they used censorship to keep it hidden from the world as long as possible, to ensure the virus spread outside of China.

@alyx @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage

Given I personally helped plann the attack, I assure you, the 3.1 trillion dollar wealth transfer from plebs was deliberate.
@alyx @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage

Consider yourself registered on the harassment ledger for Chinese troll farms. (Don't really, this is a shitpost.)

@ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage
Tiananmen Square, June 4th, 1989.

I do love it that you don't even need to try to describe to a Chinese person what happened in that day. You just say the date, location, and maybe post a picture of a random tank, and they'll disappear.

@alyx @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage

That's like saying because IBM helped create the catalog system the Nazis used, they're still under the same regime. China is not the same China that existed then.

@ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage
Oh no, it is. They censor more than they ever did. They use more propaganda on its own population that they spread externally. They still take political prisoners. They still torture. Use dissidents for organ harvesting. They don't roll out the tanks because they haven't had a need to. But they still beat up any small protest that might appear. And they do happen from time to time.
And Xi is slowly reintroducing Mao's ideology and way of doing things. So it's only gonna get worse. He's been getting rid of anyone opposing him from the party. Replacing military generals with loyal ones.

@ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage
If you mean China, on the contrary. China is comprised entirely of the weak. The population is weak to rise up, and Xi is weak because he needs to rule as a dictator for anyone to follow him.

@alyx @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage

Yes, long term country goals require long term leadership. Dictatorships are excellent at that.
@alyx @ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage China is shit, yes, but it has nothing to do with the form of government and everything to do with genetics. They are a mongrelized race that might as well be insectoids with how they behave.
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@WhitestTemplar @p @lanodan @hj @gentoobro @Hoss @ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @mangeurdenuage
Lol, no. It's government fucking them for almost a century, first and foremost. Taiwan has the exact same genetics, and they're doing damn well for themselves.
Could Taiwan be even richer? Sure. But with a small island, and limited resources at their disposal, they've done very well.

@alyx @p @lanodan @hj @gentoobro @Hoss @ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @mangeurdenuage Bro, China is wealthy too and is doing well for themselves. You have proven nothing. In both cases it won't last and the next regime will rewrite their history as they have done for centuries.

@WhitestTemplar @p @lanodan @hj @gentoobro @Hoss @ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @mangeurdenuage
No, the country isn't wealthy either. It maintains an outside image of wealth due to propaganda. So congrats! You're in a very exclusive club of select few people who believe Chinese state propaganda! How do you feel to be given this honor?

@alyx @p @lanodan @hj @gentoobro @Hoss @ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @mangeurdenuage Bro, calling something propaganda isn't an argument in itself. China has been trading for decades now with the US and the west, there is no way they haven't been storing up value, certainly more value than Taiwan has by a factor of several thousand if not more.

@WhitestTemplar @p @lanodan @hj @gentoobro @Hoss @ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @mangeurdenuage
They "stored" value in ghost cities that are uninhabited and are gonna collapse on their own because they're badly built. Look up tofu dreg to see how good Chinese buildings are.
They didn't store jack shit, because the government is 100% corrupt and incapable of actually doing anything. If you think your government is bad, multiply that by at least 10 times.
And the population doesn't store anything in China either. Any Chinese businessman worthy of the title isn't keeping his money in China, because he knows Xi will confiscate it if he wakes up on the wrong side of the bed one day.
Even if they wanted to, the common people can't store wealth in China, because you can't own shit. You don't own land or buildings in China. You only lease from the state. So the common person is not encouraged to invest in anything.

Going back to the government, at best you can expect it to store up some gold. Ok, so what? What are they gonna do with gold when shit hits the fan? Can they eat gold? You'll say "sell it". Sure, but there's only so much the market needs at any time. Try to sell too much, and the price drops, ruining your efforts to get some money to fix China. Oops. And that's not even mentioning the problem that there's always suspicion that Chinese gold is faked. So people are gonna be weary of buying it anyway.

And only a moron "stores up value" like that anyway. You "store" value by investing in enterprises and the people. But the government has done a piss poor job of that. It invested nothing in the actual population. It raised nobody out of poverty. China's way of getting rid of poverty was to redefine poverty as earning more than $100 in a YEAR.
As for industry... that's been private investors that build up China's manufacturing, not the state. And ever since Covid, manufacturing has taken a heavy hit, even worse than western economies.

China does nothing but waste money at every turn. It spends more on propaganda to tell westerners that they fixed their toilet problem, than actually spending on replacing their hole in the ground squatting toilets. They waste money on physical censorship barriers, so they can apply IRL censorship of protests or failed infrastructure, instead of spending money on solving people's problems or repairing bridges. They waste money on painting rocks green, to appear from the helicopter that they've rehabilitated a barren area, instead of actually planting vegetation.

China is the country of lies and facades. Nothing more.

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