https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1hh83dq/china_has_expanded_its_nuclear_force_and/
Anti-China ghouls once again pondering why a country spends so much money on public spending without making a profit.
Surely there must be some drawback…like half the homes being unfinished and the other half no one is living in! Of course! [citation needed]
so ungrateful to just not live in an unfinished building. the builders probably wouldn’t even mind stepping over your sleeping bag while they’re plastering the ceiling. they might actually appreciate being able to wedge your foot under a corner ofthe old step ladder and stop it from wobbling
You joke but there are people living under these conditions making posts like the one in the OP. Something, something, Americans “see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires”.
Just by averages and such, at least half of the people commenting saying “yeah, fuck China!” are also working some meaningless “job” where they are gracefully granted just enough scraps by Lord 1 to afford to pay Lord 2 for the continued privilege of living in his home. Of course the Council of Greater Lords also demands their monthly tribute for the possibility of them granting this person the privilege of seeing a medical professional and not being bankrupt for doing so. Oh, but Lord 1, in his eternal benevolence, helps you pay the Council. And you better remember this in case your fealty to Lord 1 comes into question… you wouldn’t want him to stop paying the Council, would you?
Peasant brain. At least peasants had the excuse of ignorance. Modern peasants are willfully ignorant and fully incurious. There are dozens (dozens!) of us who grew up in the exact same material circumstances as these commenters, but through some amount of curiosity found a whole different perspective on things. My main problem with these dinguses isn’t their rejection or acceptance of different methods of achieving results, it’s their outright refusal to even attempt to understand what the fuck they’re railing against.
If you irrationally hate something, just be outright with it. Stop spinning fed-posting style “When I traveled China for business…” (sure, sure) paragraphs of cope
At one point in my childhood, unironically, my parents had to squat inside of a unfinished duplex as a in-between for apartments. Mention that and I’ve literally been told the "well, your parents didn’t do X or X (apply for financial assistance like sec8 or snap like we didn’t already, etc) " as a justification for why we went through that. Then I see shit like this about China which is literally false and just scoff.
They have the will to criticize housing programs in China while at the same time ignoring entirely their own home because all the poverty has already been justified here. Same thing happens anywhere else? Well, you see, that’s just because the regime isn’t as amazing and freedom-loving as the U.S and if you deregulate…
I wish it was even limited to just when a bad thing happens in a foreign country; I remember googling to see what the narrative was about why we don’t nationalize our resources and found articles explaining that it’s a tool used by authoritarian dictators to stop people complaining; so doing something to benefit your people is a tool used by people who hate freedom?