WizardOfLoneliness

Wish those UK numbers were lower

That's not accurate

I thought the ghost cities thing was about building places that no one lived, not about the quality being low. It has been awhile.

No you're right, the poor construction thing is a different anti china meme, the ghost city thing was propaganda like, they're wasting concrete and labor to do useless work just to juice their gdp. Like this is a game of vic3 and gdp means something real

But then it turns out years later people moved into them and the infrastructure is being used, like, westerners just took the ground work for a plan having no results and ran propaganda on that.

But then it turns out, ironically also like a game of vic3, building infrastructure for future growth is a good thing to do, who knew

There's separate anti China memes about construction quality, bad concrete or whatever, idk

Most capitalist economies turn this into a benefit, but communist administrators would understand that it's merely a drain on resources and labour, and be less likely to accept this preventable waste

the fuck are you on

Idk i don't care who is saying it im saying it has the same vibes as the ghost city propaganda where oh it can't be possible that china is actually creating that much value, they must be lying about it for nefarious reasons!

I mean it's the same "perfidious asiatics just making shit up" rhetoric though

a lemm.ee user with a name like "bot" is just so on the nose, you couldn't be more creative

Same rhetoric as the "china is building ghost cities to inflate their gdp" then it turns out 10 years later millions live in them

Those people can literally go back to reddit and have their use experience be 100% identical

Also, .ml's modlog shows a clear pro-russia bias. People should oppose the U.S's imperialism, but supporting russia (even critically) isn't the answer

Have you considered that reality supports Russia's justifications for intervening in Ukraine

I will never understand why people want to go from reddit to a place that's just as shitty as reddit in all the same ways

21 percent were against critical infrastructure targets (such as pipelines,

Reminder the u.s. blew up the nordstream pipeline

It's cool remembering stuff like that, that the u.s. military is the world's largest carbon emitter, and then reading some hate mongering rage bait about how china is driving recent global warming (burying the lede that its due to restricting smog causing a reduction in apparent cooling due to aerosols, not china doing more pollution)