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Is this satire? Ghost cities really just started to seriously get reported on in 2018 and subsequently more each following year. Also what the heck even is Justapedia? The opinion piece that the "2018 onwards" section is based on was released in 2018 itself and was proven wrong almost immediately. It's outdated. Frankly, the section doesn't even look like it belongs on the page and is phrased intentionally devious. It's completely wrong.
China's property glut is being eaten up by the rural-urban migration. It's not a static demand market.
Which piece has been proven wrong?
You didn’t just make that up to confirm your bias, did you? Can you please provide evidence that the state-level new area is unpopulated? Because my search says the population is 5.68 million.
The very source of the page you just sent refers to an article from 2018. Do you understand there are cited sources? Did you not bother checking them?
I invite anyone to verify that the “ghost cities,” are indeed, inhabited. Why do people choose to fight battles that are easily fact-checked. Confirmation bias is a helluva drug.
Justapedia is crap, but the article it references is real and from the guy that first wrote about the ghost cities.
That’s even worse. This is almost a decade old and got absolutely nothing to do with the housing market today. Are we really pretending nothing has changed since 2015? Especially in China? Seriously? The argument in the beginning was precisely about ghost cities 2018 onwards and neither of you provided a source that‘s remotely recent or accurate today.
Whatever dude. People are just mad that they’ve been misinformed. It happens to all of us.
Oh, well, if "Justapedia" says so...
(The fuck is this website?)
I was just reading about it. It’s another web encyclopedia trying to incorporate other encyclopedias to compete against Wikipedia’s biases.
This is an archived article from the guy who first wrote about the “ghost cities.”
Yes. "Biases."
https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/zbfmvr/justapedia_a_farright_fork_of_the_englishlanguage/
I was reading about it too.
But hey, Elon Musk and writers at Quillette like it, so there's that.
I’ll reserve judgment until I find more information. It could be a good thing, Wikipedia does have problems with editors changing articles, or it could be a bad thing to proliferate misinformation. That’s why I linked the Reuters article.
Edit: I read through the page on Fascism. It’s crap, runaway.
Someone already showed that the linked article was outdated nonsense almost the minute it was published.
But if you want more, take a look at the pictures at the top of their page on fascism, note the non-fascists in the picture and the conspicuous absence of Francisco Franco.
https://justapedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Edit: Furthermore- https://x.com/JustapediaF/status/1757941868778700982
Where? Everything I’m reading says that most of the new state-level areas are inhabited and not “ghost cities.” Unless Ohio State is wrong.
It's really not hard to go through a conversation chain.
https://lemmy.world/comment/10300436
But I notice you ignored all the stuff about the source being far right, so I'm guessing none of this actually matters to you anyway.
I care about the facts and the truth, not the source, as should you.
But I notice you ignored all the left-wing sources I provided that demonstrates the new areas in China are populated and not “ghost cities,” so I'm guessing none of this actually matters to you anyway.
This is what you said which started this conversation:
I showed you that the whole thing is about Wikipedia not having a right-wing bias.
I thought you cared about facts and truth?
I do. I admitted Justapedia was a biased source:
but the references linked were credible.
I’ll admit when I’m wrong, will you?
When did I say Wikipedia didn't have a bias? Please quote me.
Again, if you care about the truth, you'll show where I made that claim that you think you're refuting.
Maybe I misread it. I’m not concerned with winning an argument, only with correcting the misinformation about “ghost cities.” I did that. Now I just have to wait for Legoland Sichuan to open in 2025 in the new state-level are of Tianfu. Hopefully it won’t be too crowded, since it’s a “ghost city.”
"Maybe" you misread what?
I never claimed Wikipedia had no bias. I never even implied it.
You berated me for not caring about facts and truth, then you lied about me, now you won't even admit it was a lie.
I continually try to de-escalate, and disengage. And you continue to antagonize and misrepresent my intent.
Take a breath. I’m not worth the amount of energy you’re putting into this.
Well, it seems you don't actually care about facts and truth.
Leave me alone. This is borderline harassment.