• AssortedBiscuits [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    If it wasn’t for Mao, the Chinese would’ve pioneered interstellar travel through the invention of the first starship capable of FTL travel where they would’ve found the fountain of youth in some distant galaxy, curing cancer in the process. Feel stupid yet tankie?

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Redditors are incredibly delusional. China has its flaws but being backwards is not one of them.

    The whole “stealing tech” used to be said about the Japanese too. I remember a Japanese woman talking about how she and her father went to some kind of tech expo in the early 70’s and some guy looked at them and said, “why should I show you anything? You people are just going to steal it anyway.”

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      Also “stealing” tech is just kind of how countries develop. It was explicit US policy to steal European patents during industrialization. There’s no reason there should be a global monopoly on some idea

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        Apparently it was one of the big Freedoms™ people would point to in the 19th century.

        “What makes America so free? Why, you can manufacture what you like, print and sell anything! Copyright? Patent? Sheer humbugery!”

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      20 hours ago

      I should pull this line anytime our bosses pull another public private partnership out from the depths of their asses.

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    I don’t know what America’s attitude toward intellectual property law was during its phase of industrial development and I see no reason to find out

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    leave it to a ledditor to write the most hideously racist thing i’ve read all month, and leave it to leddit to give him 1.7 thousand upvotes

    these scumfucks can’t be re-educated

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    1. China had a 460million population and 33 year lifespan when the revolution began. It’s current modern day living standards, population size and lifespan is a direct result of Mao.

    2. Harvard Study directly contradicts everything this user just said about Chinese not being able to think critically, in fact Harvard says the reason 95% of Chinese support the government is because they brought real material improvements consistently that they have all lived through.

    3. Claiming they can’t innovate is just racism. They are leading the world in research papers.

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      Many of us cannot attest to this because we have not lived it, but, if you go to China right now, and meet an old man in his 80’s, they can tell you where they were at, materially speaking, back before and after the revolution, and how much their lives in 1 lifetime, have improved. These people are still alive to tell the world their story, which is the second greatest story of human development since the Soviet Union.

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      Nono us university are filled with chinese scientist because they cheated to get in there or they were outliers who were so desperate to escape the US

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    MikeLaoShi

    fucking westerners that go to china and get a nice ass high paid teaching job despite having no qualifications besides being a cracker and then have the nerve to whine about how not everything in china is the same as back home and le seeseepee is le evil authoritarian, despite having just witnessed the effects of the fastest increase in living standards and economic growth on earth

    shut up and enjoy the privilege of being paid 25K/month for waving flashcards at kids and playing songs off a usb stick, or go home to kkkrakkkerstan

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        Dude for sure only interacts with other sexpats, hates “the locals”, but loves being a pest to Chinese women, and then gets mad when random women on the street don’t treat him like a god like the ones at the designated sexpat bars.

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    Dawg I do not know how you look at China in 2024 and don’t think that they’re literally kicking everyone’s ass when it comes to innovation.

    You’re going to want a different yardstick if you’re trying to shit on China.

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        I remember when we kept getting treated to articles about China raiding all those mining operations and arresting everyone involved. Truly a better society.

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        Where is the bacon flavoured Doritos ranch dressing of china? How about some ranch infused kung Pao sauce? Truly an uncultured society where you don’t have thousands of choices for which sauce goes on the chicken nuggies. If I cannot experience choice paralysis at the grocery over items that have no real discernible difference than what is the point of living?