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    ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago

    hey, what was China before communism like?

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    hey, what was China before communism like?

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    ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month ago
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    • vfreire85@lemmy.ml
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      is this some falun gong sh*t?

      • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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        Got it in one.

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        Yeah, liberals are so antisocialist that they’ll support a cult just because they’re fighting the Chinese. Of course those same liberals will conveniently forget what the US did in Waco.

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      Breaking: Shen Yun dancers allege British people kept giving them opium

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      If not for Communism the Shen Yun wouldn’t have had to perform child labor under brutal conditions to show what China was like before communism smh.

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      To the unaware Shen Yun is part of a hardcore cult. They are Falun Gong religion.

      “They are known for their opposition to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), espousing anti-evolutionary views, opposition to homosexuality and feminism, and rejection of modern medicine, among other views described as “ultra-conservative””

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        They are also very racist.

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      What was China before communism like?

      The Falun Gong cult was founded in the 90s so it’s not like they knew that to begin with.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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        it’s an authentic reenactment it turns out

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      Every accusation. Every single accusation.

    • engelsaxons [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      That tracks

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      I used to use former child labor.
      I still do, but I used to as well.

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      Ah, so it’s the same.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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        Welcome to the real world ignoramus.

        90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes

        Chinese household savings hit another record high in 2024 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-bank-earnings-01-12-2024/card/chinese-household-savings-hit-another-record-high-xqyky00IsIe357rtJb4j

        Social mobility in China being far better than in the US https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html

        The typical Chinese adult is now richer than the typical European adult https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-chinese-adult-now-richer-than-europeans-wealth-report-finds-2022-9

        The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf

        From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/China’s-Economic-Growth-and-Poverty-Reduction-Angang-Linlin/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b880f54b9c77a4

        From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2019&amp%3Blocations=CN&amp%3Bstart=2008

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        “The same”

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        …as the US.

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