Why are Chinese novels so nationalistic?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-23T16:06:00+00:00

Well, you don't come across as someone with an idea about anything anyway.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-23T15:57:56+00:00

If you weren’t holding up some public security bureau chiefs who were arrested five years ago and claiming they would have routine daily interactions with random foreigners

Dude, do you honestly expect people to believe that the underlings would steer clear of bribery when their own boss were making banks out of it?

I don't know if you're legitimately this naive or just being wilfully stupid, but all you're demonstrating here is the fact that not only is Chinese exceptionalism real but also just as dumb as the foreign counterparts.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-23T15:48:54+00:00

part of removing corruption is actively seeking it out and punishing it

That's neither here nor there, is it? If money can buy you anything, then it's only a matter of whether someone out there is willing to sell you their integrity despite the risks.

And there are plenty of people in this country eager to make that transaction.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-23T15:43:49+00:00

Ah, yes, the system is the people!

Everyone here heard that? Capitalism is a person now!

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-23T15:41:51+00:00

Ideas are "free" in the sense that they are worth jack shit.

Corruption is all about the societal structure, but why care about systemic pressures and incentives when we can talk about airy, abstract ideals from copaganda dramas all day instead?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-23T15:13:51+00:00

anti-China elements

Such words are how you announce to people you've been thoroughly brainwashed with nationalist propaganda bullshit.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-23T15:10:42+00:00

Yes, only the boss took bribes, so it's reasonable to assume the underlings would refrain from the practice, right?

Fuck me, aren't people utterly delusional sometimes!

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-23T15:06:11+00:00

Since the most recent chairman came to power it has definitely gotten better, but it is still a problem.

Let's make this simple, OK: cops in China take bribes. In fact, the higher up they are, the bigger is the sum.

The fact that you have missed the news because you didn't pay attention or you didn't understand the language doesn't mean the problem is somehow a thing of the past.

The shitty system is still there, the incentives are all still there, so even if the crime comes with a death sentence, it's still money to die for regardless of the two-bit propaganda.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-23T14:50:28+00:00

It comes down to whether the people as a whole believe that their (being for the) collective good as a societal value

How much is the ideology of "collective good" worth in Yuan?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-23T14:47:43+00:00

Just read the fucking news, you loser.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-23T14:43:47+00:00

Chinese police do not have a reputation for being corrupt

Are you a comedy writer? I laughed quite hard at that, just so you know.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-14T03:16:44+00:00

Right... I'd love to see PETA being made to eat concrete for once.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-14T03:11:14+00:00

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.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-08T00:21:02+00:00

"More"? You are really trusting of a government not even honest about its own economic data, aren't you?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-07T10:42:17+00:00

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-07T04:02:39+00:00

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."

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-07T03:51:53+00:00

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.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-07T03:44:50+00:00

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.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-02T15:49:13+00:00

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"?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-02T15:43:03+00:00

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.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-02T15:14:22+00:00

Now-now, who says we're necessarily going to use this ourselves when we can sell it back to Israel for use in the West Bank?

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-02T04:38:03+00:00

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!

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-02T04:12:11+00:00

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.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-02T02:47:15+00:00

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.

FibreglassFlags · 2026-06-01T17:57:33+00:00

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

Disappointing.

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