• 4am@lemmy.zip
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    17 hours ago

    I’m starting to believe a lot of the bad we hear about China is at best overblown and at worst completely fucking made up.

    Remember all the articles predicting their doom because they built “ghost cities” and “trains to nowhere” and now they’re all actual cities with employed populations and there is high speed rail everywhere?

    Yeah since 9/11 we’ve only had liars in charge seeing how much they can milk all of us, and apparently America really does have great ties because they’re still honkin and we’re still letting em.

    Anyway since we can’t tell what’s true and what’s a lie thanks to the “state dept” propaganda I’m just gonna go ahead and say that the most advanced country on earth is probably way ahead of the USA.

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      7 hours ago

      There are also ghost cities that basically got demolished, like dozens of skyscrapers one after the other.

      Two counties can be bad at the same time, not everything has to be nalck and white. China can suck also when the US sucks. China can even suck despite doing a lot of cool things.

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        7 hours ago

        At least they are trying to solve problems for their people. I’m okay with some ideas failing if they keep working at solutions.