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Go live there for a few years and tell us more on your way back.
I'm going there in February for a few months, that's a start. Looking forward to it.
Report back. Am genuinely curious!
Will do.
I'll be there, and I travel often across main cities for work, so let me know then if you want to hang out.
Sure, I will be all over the place. Once I know my plans a bit solidly I will let you know.
I’m in Shanghai a few times a year on business and really have to double check that I have multiple VPN options available before leaving. Had a coworker have his phone checked at customs but we always bring dedicated “China-only” cell phones and laptops. They seem to be getting more on top of crushing outside communications but I always get at least one connection working when there. Last time it was an ssh tunnel to an AWS instance that I used to route traffic. Before that it was ExpressVPN which gave me trouble on the last visit. China is playing whack a mile with the VPNs.
Oh my god, just think, you won’t be able to check reddit or read the new york times without your precious VPN! The horror!
It's not like the new york times outputs anything of value anyway
I've got some bad news for you if you think Jews are the problem. The white capitalists wouldn't even spit on you if you were on fire, so doing their work for them by rooting out their competition is just being a useful idiot
Omg I missed his comment before it was removed, what did he say?
It included the phrase "jew york times"
Literally
Yeah, it honestly really surprised me to see
Wow it's almost like the great firewall is trivial to circumvent and countless millions of people do it every day.
A great way to tell us you're a chauvinist who doesn't know anybody who lives in China and never been there.
It could be that. Or it could be the exact opposite (which it is, would you want to see my hukou?), and the fact that you can't tell the difference while thinking that you could and that it matters makes you an angry little person.
The fact that all you ever do here is shit on China shows what your agenda is buddy. The only angry little person here is the one who can't say a single nice thing about a country that's lifting millions of people out of poverty each and every year.
"agenda", I like how you make it sound like my posts are some kind of greater, organized operation or conspiracy. Projection maybe? Because between the two of us, you are the only one whose post history is consistently made of political activism disguised as news. Not that it automatically makes you a bad person, but you can't reasonably expect people to take you and your opinion seriously when you have the pretence to simultaneously speak from position of authority on geopolitical topics as broad as China, Russia, West Africa, North America, Central America, Eastern Europe, all at the same time. You should realize that you can't possibly have such a broad life exposure, or your time would be better invested outside of Lemmy, don't you think? The only reasonable alternative, and sad reality, is that you are just repeating talking points conveniently arranged for you and repeated inside your echo chamber.
As of me, I am equally entitled to my own opinions, equally partaking to information bubbles, with the difference that my life is actually forever bound to China and that I can legitimately pretend that I have something to contribute to that discussion. Unlike you, I am not brigading from a far-away continent. I don't "shit on China". Had you any idea of my situation, you wouldn't even think of saying something like that. You do may find that some of what I have to say on certain topics is contrary to your ideals, but so is China: it isn't the monolithic strong fortress people make it to be in the media (in either side of the discourse).
I'm actually pretty open about my political activism. I'm not disguising anything. Having grown up in USSR, and moved around the world a lot, I do think I have a much broader exposure than majority of people. The fact that you presume to know so much about me exposes the sad reality about you projecting what you know of yourself to be true onto others I'm afraid. I also love how you accuse me of doing what you yourself regularly do here, unless you'll have us believe that you have some deep expertise on the political situation in Africa. Seems to me that you're trying to speak from position of authority in comments such as this one, while clearly demonstrating utter lack of knowledge on the subject. I don't know why you felt the need to be "brigading" that far away continent.
Meanwhile, nowhere have I claimed that China is some monolithic strong fortress or that there aren't legitimate problems in China. My only claims has been that despite the problems China has, it shows a better alternative to what the west is doing. While you seem to be fixating on problems such as unlimited freedom of expression, that affects a tiny majority of the people, I'm looking at the problem of meeting the material needs of the people. China has done a far better job in ensuring that people have things like food, housing, education, and healthcare than the supposedly enlightened western liberal societies.
To sum up, you pretend to have some sort of high ground and sling feces at me, but the only difference is that you support western empire and all its horrors whether you realize it or not.
I got to live there for a few months and it was fantastic
Owned. I love when people pull that like it's a gotcha.