• Cuervo@lemmygrad.ml
    24·
    8 days ago

    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

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      29·
      8 days ago

      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”.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
        7·
        7 days ago

        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…

        • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          5·
          7 days ago

          Same thing happens anywhere else?

          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?

      • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        21·
        7 days ago

        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

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    22·
    7 days ago

    The fact that they say they “traveled China for business” and their takeaway is they want to “escalate tensions with them” makes me think they’re an investing class parasite. Like there’s normie being anti-China where somebody has read some anti-China headlines and then there’s being anti-China in a preoccupied hateful way that specifically centers around being mad that you couldn’t do business there in the way that you wanted to.

    • Large Bullfrog@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      13·
      7 days ago

      These sort of investing parasites are the ones that create the Anti-China headlines that normies consume. It’s no coincidence there was a big uptick in Anti-China propaganda after Xi took office, they were pissed they didn’t get a Chinese Gorbachev that would allow them to use China as their personal honey pot to exploit. Same reason Britain waged the Opium wars on China back in the day.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
        9·
        7 days ago

        ironically, though, he’s more class conscious as a investor parasite than some shitlibs on lemmy/reddit. This is two in the bucket (ufo cranks and some investor parasites) that are more class conscious than liberals. Still a bit privileged/out of touch though, but actually willing to work on that? God damn.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
        7·
        7 days ago

        I think I found it. “I can’t travel there and do business…because…they’ll totally nab me for what I said online!!”

        sure, sure. What’s that video again where that influencer in China had a clipped video next to him talking about all the “things you can’t do in china” and the influencer doing them? I think this guy got booted out of China for…other reasons. Perhaps going and doing “business” in the country and then proceeding to be like “yeah we should escalate tensions and go to war with your country…wanna do business?”

      • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        5 days ago

        I’m not sure if you’re disagreeing with me on something or not. Not quite sure what you mean. Like there’s doing business in the sense of old as hell historically trade and then there’s being a capitalist who wants to subjugate China to imperialist interests.

      • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Of course they do! Why else would they do business?

        What if I proposed to you that we could go to war and “escalate tensions”?

        Peace sells…but who the fuck is buying?

    • -6-6-6-@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      6·
      7 days ago

      eh, it’s decent enough slop. The “traveled to china for business” and being surprised that they can’t be a total parasite like another commenter said is mostly why I posted it.