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Why does every discussion around China devolve into this as if the US doesn't also do this?

Instead let's discuss how average Chinese citizen in Shanghai is doing compared to the average citizen in San Francisco and have a real discussion between the two countries and how their government impacts their life.

Do people still use Jim Crowe laws to talk about the daily life of US citizens? These are 40-60 year old discussion that do not adequately describe what life is like to the average citizen today.

Yeah they have their own homeless issues, but imo having a homeless population who has a job and chooses not to return home vs one that has nothing is two very different situations and almost incomparable problems.

Right now I look at my life in the late 20s in the states and even despite having a well paying tech job, I will have to sacrifice everything in my life in order to have a family or even own a house and those two are exclusive of each other. Although not in deep debt, I've definitely had to pay my fair share towards medical and student debt.

I'm watching critical infrastructure projects that could impact so many people take 30 years to build.

The amount of homeless we see on the streets is our own governmental failure and the increased crime associated with it. Seeing what I see in US streets really can wear an empathetic person down, it's a cruel world here.

Our diet and price to eat healthy in the US is continuously worsening (yes this is a choice to an extent but also a cultural problem that grows over time)

And even though it's absolutely recency bias, the deportation of Latinos does not strike confidence in me given my heritage.

I do think China has changed a lot in the last 15-30 years, and don't get me wrong I don't think it's a perfect life, I understand there's an infinite amount of competition for well paying jobs, and housing prices are extremely high (albeit not as high relative to ours). But when you show me how China has effectively succeeded at each of these topics compared to our own governmental failures that I experience on the daily, it makes me question my own life here and why people immediately criticize China without nuance.

As an added note, they deported multiple children to Colombia the other day. Half the people they've arrested in specific areas have zero criminal records. Some are even US citizens. This is not for immigrants, this a Latino concentration camp.

I know two people first hand who have been here for over 30 years with no criminal records who are being detained. These are the people being sent to Guantanamo.

This is a concentration camp, we're past the point of calling.

• their government being fucked up (especially their censorship)

I would love to discuss this with anyone that's willing. If their government is as awful and fucked up as everyone says why does the average Chinese citizen generally have a better life than the average American in their respective societal totem pole (in cities specifically) ?

They have far more purchasing power for food, rent. Their healthcare is affordable. While censorship is a thing towards certain topics, there certainly isn't a lack of discussion. They have far better public transit systems, far more parks, and public utilities, absolute ownership (no property tax).

To me it seems we're continuously demonizing the lives of those we don't understand who are actually far better off than most of us in the states.

The CCP isn't ripe, you're just spreading western propaganda and severely misinforned.

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I agree to an extent, I'm tired of reddit spamming me with ads for Database management systems while I'm on vacation 🤣

Everything was freshly installed and updated including the OS (PopOS as I'm running it on my gaming PC)

I know ads are very hated here, but I wouldn't be against an ad at a reasonable cadence to increase sustainability. Then create a pro version that gets rid of ads that's like $2-5 a month or $30 a year. The real problem is the exploitation of this system like Reddit/Insta feeding an ad every other post. Or Twitter charging nearly $13 a month for a check mark.

The sync app got so much hate for having ads during the original migration, but a lot of us here are devs and we should definitely get paid for our effort and be able to maintain our infrastructure without our of pocket money.

Whether Gaza is entirely rubble in 2 years vs 4 years, it's still rubble.

Whether Billionaires and corporations make 50% extra profits or 100% profits via exploitation of workers, it's still exploitation.

If on day 1 of a presidency you can effectively have nationwide ICE raids and deportations, the previous administration allowed and helped in that in at least some capacity.

As another mid 20s dude this is most likely because they're at Berkeley. You'll find a much different answer in some other crowds who don't have the luxury of being able to be ignorant

The Overton window has shifted so much in 4 years that 2024 democrats were definitely running on 2016 Republican platforms.

I don't believe apathy is the solution but let's not kid ourselves, they are effectively the same in regards to the proletariat. They just operate on a 50% societal deterioration as opposed to Republicans 100%

These next few election cycles

It's very hopeful to assume there will be another set of elections in 4 years or even midterms in all 50 states. We should be operating as if there won't be.

Yes but we must move to stop blaming the individuals and instead blame the systems that allowed this to happen.

Blaming the individuals restarts the neverending cycle and fractures communities.

The sad reality is this is only valid if you live in one of the 4 battleground states due to our shitty voting system.

This event has brought a lot more class consciousness to the masses than anything else imo.

If you're willing to use a web app and pay $50 a year. Monarch has been incredible for me.

Action, but 1917 has some incredible dark 4k scenes especially if you have an OLED or Mini LED TV