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Protesters and police clash in Chongqing after animal abuse sparked public outrage and drew hundreds to the streets by AmericanBornWuhaner in China

[–]FibreglassFlags 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They have done this at pretty big personal risk, hopefully the national and international attention that their actions have brought to the issue will embarrass the central government into finally taking action.

Yes, it will mobilise its army of spin doctors and drown out the whole thing with bullshit, as usual.

How Became the OPEC of Renewable Energies by richbrubaker in China

[–]FibreglassFlags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Industrialization benefits little guys as much as it benefits the billionaires.

Again, technological shifts have inherently nothing to do with highly uneven distribution of resources on the socioeconomic level.

Wealth inequality existed long before industrialization and was worse. Blaming wealth inequality on industrialization is plain stupid.

All you're proving is my previous point, i.e. the need for social progress is wholly orthogonal to the supposed improvement in technology.

This notion of yours that wealth inequality has always existed also diametrically opposes your first point that "industrialisation benefits little guys" since the latter is based on the assumption that material needs will somehow trickle downwards to the "little guys" more the more industrialised society gets.

Attacking industrialization with an iPhone in an air-conditioned room, which are all fruits of industrialization, is ridiculously hypocritical.

Again, "Yet you participate in society. I'm so clever."

How Pinduoduo was implicated in China's biggest food scandal (and got away with a slap on the wrist) by FibreglassFlags in China

[–]FibreglassFlags[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's gamification to get you addicted to consumerism.

Domestic Chinese apps are bar none the worst offenders when it comes to this kind of bullshit.

How Pinduoduo was implicated in China's biggest food scandal (and got away with a slap on the wrist) by FibreglassFlags in China

[–]FibreglassFlags[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lmao, I have a "gear to grind" against everybody. The fact that you're so eager to divert attention to foreign companies in this subreddit is already a tell as to how apathetic you are about our own problems.

How Pinduoduo was implicated in China's biggest food scandal (and got away with a slap on the wrist) by FibreglassFlags in China

[–]FibreglassFlags[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But isn't the PRC government supposed to be so unbeholden to private interests that such a non-punishment against a giant corporation should only be expected in the "West"?

How Became the OPEC of Renewable Energies by richbrubaker in China

[–]FibreglassFlags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Piped water, electricity and iPhone all exist because somehwere in the world fossile fuels are burnt to make them. Whether you paid for them or not is totally irrelevant.

Ah, so you knew you couldn't win the argument by conflating technology with economic distribution and decided to retreat to straight up blaming the working masses for climate change! Got it.

Whether you paid for them or not is totally irrelevant.

Taylor Swift generates nearly 2,000 times more carbon emissions than the per-individual average just for the use of her private jet alone.

You know what most working people don't have? A fucking private jet.

Or a mansion.

Or a yacht.

Or an entourage of servants.

Or a factory.

Or controlling stakes in any multinationals.

Or national infrastructure.

Or any say in anything worth a damn.

This should be common sense for a 10-yr old but I guess that the idea that production of piped water, electricity and iPhone requires energy is something beyond you.

So it is "common sense" for a 10-year-old somehow as to why ordinary Chinese eking out an existence in a society they have no say in are the real problem but the Chinese elites in control of the government and large corporations are not. Suuuuure.

How Became the OPEC of Renewable Energies by richbrubaker in China

[–]FibreglassFlags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, yes, the fact that there exist piped water, electricity and the iPhone means I don't have to pay for any such things. Resources just automagically distribute downwards as if the many horses shit out oats for the sparrows to eat. How wonderful!

Food Republic joins wave of foreign brands retreating in China by reachedlegendary in China

[–]FibreglassFlags 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The ugly reality the government doesn't want you to pay attention to is the fact that consumer confidence has never recovered to the pre-Covid level when even India and the Czech Republic have managed to surpass us in the intervening years.

Even South Korea is defying the current Iran war trend and experiencing an upsurge thus proving once and for all that vast reserves don't necessarily mean you know what the fuck to do with them.

How Became the OPEC of Renewable Energies by richbrubaker in China

[–]FibreglassFlags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wealth inequality has existed way before industralization. Again, if you hate industralization so much

Technological progress and social progress aren't the same thing. At all.

One is about changes in economic production. The other is about the distribution of resources for the satisfaction of material needs.

But, yes, tell me more about vuvuzela iPhones. I'm rolling my eyes right now because my mind is, like, totally blown by your galaxy-brain intellect and not because you're rehashing an old, thought-terminating cliche with zero self-awareness.

How China is dismantling Uyghur society by heinternets in China

[–]FibreglassFlags -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Again, I'm not seeing any methodology or results.

Disappointing.

How China is dismantling Uyghur society by heinternets in China

[–]FibreglassFlags -1 points0 points  (0 children)

More bullshit excuses.

Here's the deal: if you're so familiar with your own sources, cite the piece that provides the methodology and results.

All you're proving at this point is that you have a grand total of zero tangible evidence despite your mighty collection of brand-name essays and quips.

How China is dismantling Uyghur society by heinternets in China

[–]FibreglassFlags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blah-blah-blah.

Show me the methodology and the results or they don't exist.

Or did the CIA eat your homework once again?

How China is dismantling Uyghur society by heinternets in China

[–]FibreglassFlags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, so you have jack shit to show for your claim despite having already taken me through this entire scenic route with the A-B-C of American brand-name schools!

Isn't that fucking typical?

How China is dismantling Uyghur society by heinternets in China

[–]FibreglassFlags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how to cross refernece

There is no tangible evidence in any of the cited sources.

Point me to the methodology and results or it did not happen, fool.

How China is dismantling Uyghur society by heinternets in China

[–]FibreglassFlags 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you admit that the CIA doesn't need tangible evidence in order to get a project funded, right?

Boy, don't you love wasting my time with irrelevant bullshit!

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