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Are Americans going to learn to eat vegetables?
The amerikkkan way is to use inconsistent formatting in documentation. Colons? Equal signs? Periods? Fuck you. I'll raise my M16 and use a god damn comma.
ignoring English class was (not sure if anyone cares enough anymore) basically presented in American media as a virtue. combine that with 24/7 access to computer and here we are.
Oh shit is America going to start building infrastructure
Nope! Just more fascism
well then it's not very much like China is it.
You stupid tankies have forgotten that my crystals have revealed China is fascist
Only a Russian bot would question the crystals
Both push a muscular patriotism, are obsessed with manufacturing and hostile to immigrants. Both want a country where ethnic minorities are expected to bow to the dominant group
So many liberals keep calling China racist, but they never give any real evidence. This article just links to another article about how racist the MAGA movement is, yeah, I know Trumpers are racist, but you just said China was exactly the same and didn't back it up at all? They didn't even mention Uyghurs, surprisingly.
The article does this on more than one occasion. I think it’s a GPT article. The paragraph about how China supposedly “punishes neighbors after mere slights” includes an article as evidence that states trade with Japan resumed
but also a funny bit about how when reached for comment a Chinese office refused to comment over the phone and told them to fucking fax the questions. The fax was ignored.
i think mr. farmer there has a point
Americans doing American things americanally, in America
American media: damn those orientals
amerikkka doing amerikkkan things amerikkkanly
How could China do this?
WHERE'S THE HIGH SPEED RAIL, UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, AND $5 STREET FOOD!?!?!
No universal healthcare in China I'm afraid. The street food is significantly cheaper than 5 dollars though. Try between 1 and 2 dollars
They have universal public option for insurance to cover the bases. People who can afford it also get supplementary private insurance. This is more or less same as Australia or Germany. The only difference is that being a developing country with large population the basic public option is not as good.
Ah right. Is that opt in or is it something you get with your social security/national insurance card equivalent
To my knowledge it is a bit fragmented. Like there are different tiers of public option for rural vs. urban people, and employers still obligated to provide insurance to their workers (also with different tiers), and a lot of people do out of pocket supplementary insurance. The rural vs. urban divide creates weird problem like some of my colleagues from China said if city people went hiking in rural areas, roll their ankle and had to be helicoptered out, they are out of coverage because they live in cities. But more or less the whole population have some base of insurance (e.g., universal coverage), and emergency services are covered, so people never got bankrupt from ambulance trip. It is just that for very expensive medical treatment, like cancer treatment or some specialist visits, MRI, etc. it is not completely free.
What is the healthcare in China like? It may not be true universal healthcare, but surely it's nothing like the "die of poverty from crippling medical debt before the terminal cancer kills you" style of US healthcare?
It’s (relatively) cheap as shit, very efficient, but there’s zero bedside manner.
I have heard of poor people struggling to fund more serious healthcare treatments. I remember a friend said their family had to resort to crowdfunding for a relative’s cancer treatment.
Also anecdotal but I’ve heard there’s a tendency to overmedicate or recommend unnecessary treatments because it makes the hospitals or doctors more money.
Whenever I hear about peopele crowdfunding cancer I am suspicious. Not of them, they are scared and dying. I have my doubts of the providers. Like, there was a famous case of a clinic here in America that was taking cancer patients that were deemed terminal and charging exorbitant prices for agressive treatments. Then as could be predicted that did not reverse terminal cancer. So they were effectively knowingly scamming the dying out od their money
I think the Chinese equivalent is TCM doctors promising miracle cures and scamming people out of their money.
TCM is clinically integrated into hospitals as part of (mostly) preventative medicine and treatment, though. I was prescribed a number of herbal medicines when I went in for 1) a twisted ankle 2) GI problems and 3) heatstroke. I'm a foreigner and this was in T1 cities.
It's chill when it is a weaponized placebo but people tend to go over board with it.
TCM is way more than a weaponized placebo. Obviously some of it is scientifically bunk, but a great deal of it represents the practical indigenous knowledge of Chinese people developed over millennia of living in their environment and learning how to use it to better themselves.
Yeah I’ve had the same experience. Alongside real medicine, for minor issues, I don’t really have a problem with it. If nothing else it’s an innocent placebo.
It’s just in rare cases where people over rely on it that I think it’s dangerous. You hear stories like people attempting to cure their cancer with exclusively TCM, but these cases thankfully don’t seem too common.
Yep, fair enough. I imagine if either of us had been really ill the treatment would be similar to what we'd receive in a western hospital, i.e. heavy analgesics. Fortunately haven't had to see that side of a Chinese hospital
I'm not really sure. But I know it's orders of magnitude custody than the US system. You won't go bankrupt from an ambulance ride
It's way closer than it should be, considering that it used to be universal.
Guess I need to read up on what happened.
"We cannot abide parity of any sort with the mysterious Celestial Middle Kingdom of the Far East Chinesian Orient"
America: dictatorship of the bourgeoisie does dictatorship of the bourgeoisie things
Outraged liberals so close to getting it: "What are we, a bunch of COMMIES!?"
I wish y'all were, buddy. If only.
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