You’re unaware of the Rape of Africa, which has casualties in the tens of millions if not hundreds of millions depending on how far back you want to count?
That sounds about right for EU education.
France nearly invaded Burkino Faso when they took power back btw. So this isn’t history. At least a dozen African countries are still puppet colonies for European powers and are the sole reason for the EU’s wealth and status.
The country that pioneered online censorship? The one that was trying to de-anonymize the internet while China just didn’t have internet access for 99.9999999% of its population? The country, first among developed country, that made political speech against the regime a criminal offense that starts at jail time? The literal blueprint for how not to make laws in regards to privacy or any possible definition of the word ‘freedom?’
Yeah it’s weird seeing cameras on every block in China… or Berlin. But unlike the latter it doesn’t actually do anything in China. Like you have to commit an actual crime, and usually you’d be stopped by locals long before the police do anything based on the footage.
Projection is the favourite tactic of fascists; and literally any horror story you’ve heard about China (all of which have been through organizations exclusively funded by the National Endowment for Democracy, a CIA run organization) is just something actively happening in the US or EU.
Put in power literally by US and EU confrontational policies and wouldn’t exist without the westernization of Russia demanded European nations in the 1990s.
Kinda too late to kill your own monster child.
If the EU didn’t fall for US brainwashing about China, they’d already be allies. If literally any EU citizen cared to learn how China’s government actually worked, instead of ‘bing bong winnie the pooh bad’ which is the entirety of the education the average western citizen receives regarding China, there’d be literally no push back to being allies with China; except of course for the fact they’d have to compete fairly with a country that has actually suffered once in its history.
You would have to be literally insane to think the US, literally the personification of the western world representing all of the values, and frankly all of the power, of all European-founded nations that have existed for the last four millennia, is on the same side as Russia – who to be clear wants to be on the same side as Europe and the US but was roundly rejected after the fall of the USSR because of literal racism despite doing every single tiny thing every single western nation asked, much to their own damage; much less China who has been ostracized and victimized by the US and EU for longer than practically any other group.
The US and EU have been the axis of evil in the world. The EU has killed more civilians than Nazi Germany with its wars and previous and continued occupation of ‘free’ nations (that cannot go against their owners’ orders without a military coup); and of course the US was the blue print for the nazis, quite famously even, and has killed so many more people around the world no intelligent person could possibly ever confuse them with ‘good,’ even in opposition to some mythologized evil.
It is the US and EU vs the entire world, as it has been since 1945 when battle lines were drawn that if you were not in central Europe or North America, you were either an enemy or a victim.
The EU can try to weasel their way out of the sinking ship now that the US is just open about everything they’re doing – and that is the only difference MAGA made, by the way, just that the US is too incompetent or uncaring to hide their atrocities – but ultimately there is too much blood staining the hands of every EU citizen to ever be allies with anyone but the US.
At best they weaken themselves and make themself an enemy or a victim to the US, only one or the other exists to the US without the Eurosphere, and at worst they’ll be speaking Russian and dealing with unregulated capitalism by the end of the decade unless they start letting fly the nukes.
China wants a ‘1st world nation’ QOL without exploitation for every citizen, and prioritizes that. Russia wants to enrich its upper class as much as possible, and doesn’t care if they step on EU toes to do so anymore since they WERE NOT REWARDED FOR DOING EVERYTHING THE WEST ASKED in the 1990s, and the US is the exact same as it has always been, except they ran out of victims in the Americas and aren’t being polite about their genocides anymore.
Pick your poison EU.
Because when you make the drunks angry they start shooting at cops. Smokers do not do that as much.
…You’re posting from a German instance.
Pretty much all anti-China articles are AI written these days. It’s cheaper than funding the NED.
Well China has good taste at least.
Except that’s not freedom.
It is not freedom to have a, and this really isn’t an exaggeration, more than 10,000x personal cost for transportation. It’s freedom for the rich, but the rich aren’t a part of society and cannot be generalized into society.
It is not freedom to have to personally rely on the US to do the right thing.
It is not freedom to take on the massive legal and financial risk that is driving a death machine.
It is only freedom in the most infantile, ‘Anarkiddie’ sense of the word freedom. The ‘Hurr durr we’d all be more free if we had less laws’ kind of idiocracy most humans abandon by the age of 15 when they learn about the concept of government.
Except there is absolutely no reason it has to be like that in rural areas. Period. At all. Even a little. Look at China (or if you still believe the NED puts out legitimate stories, Denmark or Sweden or Norway) which has public transit to nearly all rural areas at least a couple times a week, and inter-village public transit in pretty much all villages that have more than a dozen people.
Busses are more efficient than independent vehicle ownership in all settings. All of them.
It was probably a Sliders episode since 90s off-brad scifi did pretty much everything the twilight zone failed to, but it definitely was an entire movie
That touches on the heart of it; search engines have been so enshittified that AI is by default better, because it occasionally gets information from its training data that isn’t easily found through normal searching.
(Some) AI has it’s place, as in GAN AI is amazing at finding subtle indicators of patterns that can be extrapolated to new data, but got it’s just so bad at 99% of applications it has ever been used for, including the entire concept of LLMs which are such an inherently flawed technology that they’ll never be passable as useful for anyone that isn’t a greedy shortsighted CEO wanting to replace workers as soon as possible.
Zionists always cry bully like this. pretend they are victims or righteous actors while escalating.
Palestine: Average of 10k/year for a hundred years, with at least 500k over the last 2.5 years…
Lebanon: average 5k/year for 60 years
Egypt: average 1k/year for 20 years
Iran: average 1k/year for 50 years
Syria: average 5k/year for 20 years. (incl. kurdish arming (as proven by Trump’s accidental exposure of zionists arming kurds in Iran so it’s not a conspiracy anymore)
Iraq: 500k-1million over 30 years
Afghanistan: 1.5mil-2mil over 40 years.
Rhodesia: 250k-1 million depending on the reporting body
South Africa: at least 1 million.
Again I said zionism. Israel is one of the bases of zionism. It’s not even the main base of zionism. There are more zionists in New York than there are in Israel. And this is just the uncontroversial publicly admitted numbers.
Realistically we can double all of these numbers if we believe their victims, triple if we go with the most extreme estimates and include every single action from every single zionist (british empire kills since wwi as an example)
…You believe zionists, the current worst genocidal force on the planet, who have killed over their 80 years far more people than the nazi regime ever did… are not authoritarian?
The individual in question doesn’t support Palestine, OP added that ‘I have a black friend’-level of nonsense to draw on sympathy.
Half the point of Hollywood is abuse. Literally that’s the reason investment ever went into the idea. No one just provides bread and circuses, and just one justification is no where near good enough to excuse the massive costs.
No. There is no evidence of a ‘Uyghur Genocide.’
Yes, I know what characterizes, fascism.
Cult of leadership, objectively, does not apply to China. Evidence, peer-reviewed and heavily scrutinized evidence, is required for someone to advance politically in China. You do not get ahead due to myths or who you blow; unlike the US for instance, where wealth objectively buys power.. This does lead to more competent leaders, of course, but that’s not a ‘cult of leadership’ as we see with US presidents or of course the Big H. We don’t say there’s a cult of leadership around Einstein, for a few obvious reasons.
Hyper-nationalism is also hilarious as a term written in English. Did you know, in communist China, your kids can be arrested if they do not pray to the flag and repeat the communist party’s attestation of loyalty to Xi Jinping‽ Oh. Oh wait. China does have national pride. They are responsible for the single greatest and fastest elimination of extreme poverty in world history. They are responsible for engineering feats that absolutely shadow the entirety of the West’s industrial golden age. There is more rail in China than the entirety of Both Americas, and all of Europe, and all of Russia, combined. And nearly all of it was built in the last 30 years. And all of it is affordable enough that the median worker can transit from Beijing to Xinjiang every work day, if they really wanted. That’d be New York to LA. That costs $3k in the US. Pride is not hypernationalism; but it can be confused for that if you happen to be an enemy of the western fascist hegemony.
The myth of national rebirth… as in they literally took power back from western colonial forces and an imperial dictatorship and created a people’s republic…? That would literally be a rebirth. I know you’re trying to echo Eco, but really this is just a poor point since it wasn’t a myth. It was the single largest popular revolution in world history.
State-directed capitalism, is weird name for socialism. I can link you a dozen books on how exactly the Chinese economy works if you get tired of random journalists with no economic background telling you randomly-strung together words.
So in short, no. It doesn’t ring a bell. I might update with more sources but honestly I’m bored at this point.
I hope you educate yourself further. It’s genuinely tough to be well informed in the west, what with the massive online censorship and complete misinformation from multi-trillion dollar propaganda campaigns, but it’s worth it, I promise.