cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60270646

For a generation disillusioned by endless war overseas and financial hardship at home, China is starting to look like a promising alternative.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
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    Old Americans aren’t buying these old narratives either. Turns out that the US government being so openly corrupt has real consequences.

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    Propaganda. They’ve never been there, so hearing about it is just illusion.

    And before your ML panties get in a twist, fuck the USA, China, Russia, UK, (most of) Europe, and basically every other capitalist country (yes, China is capitalist).

  • SuiXi3D@fedia.io
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    They’ll be disappointed to learn that China’s just as bad as the US, in some similar and some different ways.

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      But also markedly better in many. I’ve worked in Changsha on and off for the last decade, and I’d move there to live in a heartbeat. The modern US I wouldn’t touch with a hundred foot pole.

      That’s subjective of course - but, while I don’t know what you’re taught in the US (it’s actually exciting to learn that you still have schools, I thought they’d all been converted into gun ranges) about China, that some people are clueing up to the reality being different is an objectively good thing - even if it’s not all sunshine and roses in Xi’s world either.

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    Considering how many voted for Trump, I don’t exactly trust the thinking of the younger generations at this point.

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      They were raised by Pewdiepie, MrBeast and TikTok. There was an issue with their thinking ever since.

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        Man i thought i only saw these dogshit opinions on boomer socials.

        The younger generation isn’t voting at all, because they refuse to accept “the lesser of 2 evils” as a viable path to future progress.

        The only people with critical thinking issues here is you 2.