China, with 5x the population of the US, had 121k covid deaths, while the US had 1.2mil. Because the latter prioritizes capital/profit over human lives, while China does the opposite.
These are clearly in the interest of the Proletariat/working class, not the ruling class; China has actively punished the latter.
And all that without overthrowing foreign governments and causing genocides. So how is China even comparable to the US, aside from their economic growth? Has it ever occurred to you that maybe western media tries to show their geopolitical rivals in a bad light, even when they’re objectively better?
wait, you are using the propaganda figures of an authoritarian shithole that openly genocides one ethnicity after the other as your source?
ya, if you go by that logic, I’d just use PraugerU and claim that America is a morally pure nation who’s only problem is the existence of civil rights…
If you don’t understand how a country self-reporting a statistic like that is unreliable then you’re right, there is no discussion to be had. It would be a waste of anyone’s time (including the time it just took me to write this comment).
All that ghost housing the population have sunk their savings into is appreciating nicely, yes?
Funny how everyone complains about US investors sitting on property makes housing unaffordable and also complains that surplus housing in China makes housing a bad investment.
The point is that China is not some perfect übermensch,
I didn’t claim they were.
Whatever the cause, the surplus of housing in China can’t be seen as a negative for the same reason a lack of housing is a negative in the US.
You can’t have it both ways.
The trains ran on time under Mussolini. Just because a dictatorship does bad things doesn’t mean absolutely everything must be bad. Just because a democracy does good things doesn’t mean everything is perfect.
I was highlighting that you see the problem without acknowledging the hypocrisy.
They. Are. Different. Problems
One is oversupply causing lower prices. This helps new families at the expense of investors. The other is under supply. This hurts new families and helps investors. When housing crashed in 2008, new home buyers were happy while the media lamented the home owner investors who lost value. You can’t have lower prices without oversupply.
It doesn’t matter if we don’t like China’s government. The math of supply and demand is the same.
If this was 1935, you’d be posting that trains on time in Italy is bad but late trains in the US is different because “reasons”.
Last I heard, Evergrade’s chairman was selling their luxury property to pay for the debt. And you guys are still calling planned cities ‘ghost housing’? Lmao. Cool name though. I’d say the US could learn from it, but they’re unlikely to do something that’s not profitable.
You do realize you can google things yourself, right? China’s demographics are similar to the US, though, afaik.
the Uighurs are going to be glad the CCP aren’t into genocide.
Since Xiaoping’s market reforms, China has nationalized numerous exploitative private companies, decreased working hours to 8 per day, improved working conditions, gotten rid of hundreds of thousands of corrupt officials, purged greedy billionaires like Jack Ma, and built the most extensive high-speed rail and public transport system in the world.
China, with 5x the population of the US, had 121k covid deaths, while the US had 1.2mil. Because the latter prioritizes capital/profit over human lives, while China does the opposite.
These are clearly in the interest of the Proletariat/working class, not the ruling class; China has actively punished the latter.
And all that without overthrowing foreign governments and causing genocides. So how is China even comparable to the US, aside from their economic growth? Has it ever occurred to you that maybe western media tries to show their geopolitical rivals in a bad light, even when they’re objectively better?
wait, you are using the propaganda figures of an authoritarian shithole that openly genocides one ethnicity after the other as your source?
ya, if you go by that logic, I’d just use PraugerU and claim that America is a morally pure nation who’s only problem is the existence of civil rights…
The Covid deaths are from WHO, what the fuck are you talking about?
The irony of saying that in context of the US where 0.7% of the population is in jail, lmao.
There is an actual genocide happening in Palestine. Even the US State department says there are no mass killings in Xinjiang, likely because the US can’t infiltrate and cause one like they did in Indonesia.
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Lmao, if you refuse to accept even sources like WHO, there’s no discussion to be had here.
If you don’t understand how a country self-reporting a statistic like that is unreliable then you’re right, there is no discussion to be had. It would be a waste of anyone’s time (including the time it just took me to write this comment).
But the source isn’t WHO, it’s the Chinese government…
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Funny how everyone complains about US investors sitting on property makes housing unaffordable and also complains that surplus housing in China makes housing a bad investment.
Everyone hates everything.
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I didn’t claim they were.
Whatever the cause, the surplus of housing in China can’t be seen as a negative for the same reason a lack of housing is a negative in the US.
You can’t have it both ways.
The trains ran on time under Mussolini. Just because a dictatorship does bad things doesn’t mean absolutely everything must be bad. Just because a democracy does good things doesn’t mean everything is perfect.
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No I didn’t. I specifically ended with, “Everyone hates everything.”
Just like too little of anything is also bad.
If the value tanks, homes are affordable.
You can’t have it both ways.
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I was highlighting that you see the problem without acknowledging the hypocrisy.
One is oversupply causing lower prices. This helps new families at the expense of investors. The other is under supply. This hurts new families and helps investors. When housing crashed in 2008, new home buyers were happy while the media lamented the home owner investors who lost value. You can’t have lower prices without oversupply.
It doesn’t matter if we don’t like China’s government. The math of supply and demand is the same.
If this was 1935, you’d be posting that trains on time in Italy is bad but late trains in the US is different because “reasons”.
Last I heard, Evergrade’s chairman was selling their luxury property to pay for the debt. And you guys are still calling planned cities ‘ghost housing’? Lmao. Cool name though. I’d say the US could learn from it, but they’re unlikely to do something that’s not profitable.
You do realize you can google things yourself, right? China’s demographics are similar to the US, though, afaik.
Like I said in another comment, even the US State department says there are no mass killings in Xinjiang, and those guys would love to report otherwise. It’s probably not good there, though. Bad Empanada looked into it, and there seems to be cultural repression going on. He has sources in the video’s description.
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