The conversations are amazing

  • uis@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    82$?! That’s ~8200 roubles! Holy golden expensive fuck!

  • Korne127@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    China propaganda machine goes brrrr

    The way people really suddenly think oh yeah China is just a good country like a European democracy where you can live well is flabbergasting. Of course a dictatorship with massive censorship and suppression of minorities has mostly positive comments.

    And of course, many people that aren’t part of a harassed minority or politically active against the rulers aren’t saying horrible stuff against them (which wouldn’t be seen anyway).

  • Matt@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    If you called Chinese president Winnie the Pooh, then you probably wouldn’t receive medical care at all or wouldn’t receive a loan.

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    4 months ago

    I just want to point out that the attempt to compare medical costs in a direct comparison in US dollars isn’t exactly easy as it does ignore purchasing power and base wages.

    The point would probably be better made with hours of labor at a base pay to pay off treatment which I do think American healthcare would probably still lose quite handedly.

  • CorpuscularCrumpet@lemm.eeBanned
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    4 months ago

    The pro-China propaganda is nuts.

    “Hey look at this one thing we have better than the IS: it proves that everything the US says about China is false”.

    Smooth-brained logic right there.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    Is this the tankie nonsense that ml spews that I’ve been warned about?

    Cause I’m sure this is partly true, as a Canadian I know that China is pragmatically not hell (defiantly has lots of problems though) and that the US is only good if your rich.

    I personally don’t see this as pro China but more as a criticism how living in the US has been romanticized.

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    4 months ago

    Remember that “Grapes of Wrath” completely backfired as a propaganda piece because Russians were amazed that poor Americans could still afford cars

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    4 months ago

    Reporter: [REDACTED]
    Reason: Misinformation

    Truths you find inconvenient are not misinformation, reporter.