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• Carl@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The entire country tried to revolt in 1984 and millions of citizens were killed by their own military

  Literally nobody claims that millions died, that’s flat earth levels of alternate reality.

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• hark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The entire country tried to revolt in 1984 and millions of citizens were killed by their own military.

  What?

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• IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  revolt in 1984

  Its 1989 June 4 btw, not 1984. While the 1989 massacre did happen, we don’t know if there’s millions. (due to censorship, we will never really know the true numbers) And its not a revolt, it was a peaceful protest by college students, and mostly in Beijing. They were attempting to talk to the leaders and talk reform, not revolt. They were even waving Chinese flags.

  But the leadership got paranoid AF so they sent the tanks.

  Right now China is experiencing a massive homelessness crisis because their assigned homes aren’t in the places they live and work.

  Yea that’s the Hukou (户口) problem. Rural people want to work in cities, but they are essentially treated as illegal immigrants, even if this is literally their country. 🤦‍♂️

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• trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  B-but rent prices in LA!

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• liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What in the massive misinformation clusterfuck is happening in your brain?

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• Saurok@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What happened in 1984?

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• Sl00k@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Do people still use Jim Crowe laws to talk about the daily life of US citizens? These are 40-60 year old discussion that do not adequately describe what life is like to the average citizen today.

  Yeah they have their own homeless issues, but imo having a homeless population who has a job and chooses not to return home vs one that has nothing is two very different situations and almost incomparable problems.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    People do still talk about Jim Crowe laws, yes, and also the same singular party rules China today and they still regularly suppress protests with military especially in regions they more recently expressed complete authority over such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet.

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    • Sl00k@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why does every discussion around China devolve into this as if the US doesn’t also do this?

      Instead let’s discuss how average Chinese citizen in Shanghai is doing compared to the average citizen in San Francisco and have a real discussion between the two countries.

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Why does every discussion about China also have to be about their many many enemies all over the world as a direct result of their opaque cruelty?

        Why can’t we just discuss what is wrong with China?

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      • threshold_dweller@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Whatabout what about whatabout

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    • Carl@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      more recently expressed complete authority over such as Taiwan

      What complete authority does the PRC have over Taiwan? Their position now is the same as its been for seventy years - they consider it part of their country but exercise no actual control over it.

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        they consider it part of their country

        They also aggressively censor and harass any claims that Taiwan is its own country.

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• OmegaLemmy@discuss.online ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What the fuck are you talking about

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    China

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