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[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 4 points 1 hour ago

Remember that "Grapes of Wrath" completely backfired as a propaganda piece because Russians were amazed that poor Americans could still afford cars

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 1 hour ago

Wait, China's not a dystopian nightmare?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 48 minutes ago

Thanks for the flags, I needed them /s

[–] Arelin@lemmy.zip 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Well tbf, even though it's strictly banned in China there are still some cases of it happening in rural areas.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

But in the US it's legal. In a bunch of states all you need is parental consent for a teen barely out of puberty to marry an adult, and some will lower the age if the child is already pregnant.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 7 hours ago

People are people no matter where they live, which also means you can't trust any government anywhere. Propaganda is powerful.

The idea of a social credit score has always been hilarious to me, like yo bros we have credit scores over here and they legitimately fuck us over since you need good credit to do alot of things like renting a place to live.

[–] fatur0000new@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

picture 2: not real and technically imposible to do that cause we have 1.4 billion people

This makes me imagine how social credit score department people hands look like if social credit score is real

[–] ganymede@lemmy.ml 34 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

wow the level of cope in this thread (thankfully not that many tho) arguing over stats - which are probably made up anyway.

some people can't handle that most humans just wanna be friends regardless of gov politics bs

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 2 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago)

some people can’t handle that most humans just wanna be friends regardless of gov politics bs

Yes exactly. There are lots of internet weirdos trying to spread culture war nonsense, but if you actually go outside every once in a while, you realize that most people just aren't like that. I work in a restaurant that has a lot of ukrainian and russian visitors (migrants). At one point, a large group of russians came in for a birthday party, and they asked the owner to put on a playlist of russian music. Like, really cheesy russian pop. After some time, a girl from a smaller table of ukrainians calls me over and complains about the music. I relay it to the owner, and he asks them what they would rather listen to instead. They tell him, and he adds their songs on the queue. The rest of the evening was spent playing and dancing to russian and ukrainian and armenian songs (the owner is armenian, and there were some armenian guests too) and the atmosphere was just generally very chill. Not a single fuck was given about politics that evening.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 6 points 6 hours ago

yep most genuinely don't care, people just hate to be a part of something lol

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 8 points 6 hours ago

我爱小红书!I love rednote! So many cool people and I'm brushing up on my mandarin 😎

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 29 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I still don't believe the TEMU bit though

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 25 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I like how one person said they don't use child labour because they are inefficient. If they were efficient though ...

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[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 4 points 5 hours ago

Why? You just assume TEMU uses child labour because... vibes?

[–] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 33 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Few things blew my mind even though I've been a big fan of Chinese economic and political policy for a while

They actually really like Soviet Culture, the marching soldiers and flags etc. Soviet rock like Kino and the like is very popular!

They're casually Marxist, its not something they have to fight to learn about so socialism is a casual existence for them. I figured the youth would be "too cool or hip" but doesn't seem to be the case

They're very similar as gamers, they really like shooters like battlefield and cs go. I assume their MMOs are different but I'm asking about that

It truly is a massive cultural exchange the likes of which have never been seen before. I'm trying to find out if they grew up on the same games, Morrowind Deus Ex Thief Ultima Online D&D etc

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

Oh yeah they really like Soviet culture. My first post on there is of some Soviet artwork and it got 1.3k likes, on a brand new account. Wouldn't see that happening on Insta or Xitter.

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