Wages are small in China because cost of life is small. You can find a bowl of noodles for $2 or less in most of China, 90+% of people own their housing so don’t have to pay rent, and utilities are heavily subsidized. I spent 2 weeks visiting China a bit over a year ago and I saw fewer homeless people in the whole trip than I saw between the airport and the hotel in my only US visit (work related)
Israel are the ones bombing mosques in Iran, not backwards. Iran is not engaging in genocide and calling everything a genocide is a form of genocide denialism.
Respond! Why are you defending genocidal maniacs and their genocidal methods?
“Propaganda doesn’t exist in my country”
-Dumbest person on Earth
Keep believing that everything is Russian propaganda while your own country guts your welfare, your rights, destroys its economy and supports genocide in Palestine lmfao. Por quinta y última vez, soy español cojones. This is my alt from hexbear @vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net feel free to check out my latest post discussing the Spanish civil war with Spanish sources, freaking paranoid Finn
Where were you born and raised?
Told you, Spaniard. Believe it or not, not everyone who disagrees with European supremacy is a Russian actor.
You said I’m making up Russians pretending to be Americans
I said you’re making up the scale of it, which you are.
If you’re pretending like “European propaganda” exists
Lmao, that’s unbelievable, you’re literally the joke of the CIA agent telling the KGB agent that there’s no propaganda in the US
Are you capable of conceiving that a collaborative project edited foremost by tech-literate Anglos using Anglo sources will portray the bias of Anglo propaganda? Would you trust a Russian or Chinese collaborative encyclopedia on articles about western disinformation using Russian and Chinese sources?
You’re literally entirely oblivious of the extent of western propaganda. Clue: you’re witnessing the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza LIVE and the invasion of Iran, and you’re still portraying immensely more anti-Russian bias than anti-American.
Small test on European propaganda: ask yourself how much you know about Stalin and the gulags, and how much you know about France’s colonial violence in Algeria in 1960s.
Look at profiles like Davel@lemmy.ml
Cool, you have one example. I’ve had Polish and American users engage in multi-account downvote against me during discussions, and I don’t go around making claims of “this website is full of American and Polish bots”. You’re literally high into the EU propaganda of Russian propaganda prevalence, when in reality EU+US have a lot more power and are extremely more prevalent. We’ve literally seen the entire media apparatus in Europe align with Isntreal’s genocide and you still believe that the propaganda problem in Europe is coming from Russia?
Ask yourself why European countries are so quick to ban Russian media and even enjail pro-Russian politicians (looking at your southern neighbors on the other side of the Gulf) but are seemingly incapable to do anything remotely similar against autoctonous European far-right leaders. Your own freaking country is destroying itself with turbo neoliberalism and recently overtook my homeland in unemployment rates!! The problem is INSIDE!
If you were a Russian online in today’s atmosphere, would you admit to it
Yes, I don’t see why I would need to hide my identity. I’m a Spaniard and I don’t hide it. If Americans are comfortable online during times of US-sponsored genocide in Gaza and full-scale illegal bombing of Iran, I don’t see why Russians wouldn’t be comfortable beyond Russophobic users such as yourself.
Unlike Russians, we Finns don’t feel the need to lie for our despotic leader. Mainly because we don’t have one. Haven’t had one since 1809 pretty much. Well, arguably a bit from 1809 to 1917
Please remind me, what historical event happened in 1917 that led to Finland’s independence? Surely you must admire Lenin for promoting the FIRST CONSTITUTION IN THE WORLD that allowed the unilateral right of secession and self-determination that your homeland used? Also, what was Finland doing between 1941 and 1945?
You’re making that up
“It’s not democracy without the constant threat of the far right stripping my rights and destroying my economy”
I mean, a large portion of Lemmy is Russians
A larger portion are Americans, unfortunately.
You didn’t respond: would you enact starvation on Yanks to push for regime change?
The people enacting these sanctions, i.e. US government, are as of today explicitly talking about eliminating a civilization, the literal definition of genocide.
Why are you defending genocide?
saddly nobody has found a better option
I guess all Yanks should be starved for choosing the wrong president? Or is that something you reserve to nonwhites?
I wish you and your family never have to go through the “deserved sanctions” of the USA and EU, which together murder half a million people yearly since 1975 per latest medical research. I’m sure you don’t believe US citizens should starve to death for the actions of their government.
It began before the attacks on Iran
Not true. Iranian people have been attacked by murderous US+EU sanctions killing tens of thousands of them every year for decades now. The protests were literally engineered by the US as a form of justification for the war, look at Iranian Rial exchange prices on the months before the protests. Hell, Trump literally admit a few days ago to sending weapons to the “protestors”.
Personally I still prefer the U.S. over China
“Personally I still prefer the warring state funding genocide in Palestine and threatening me with tariffs and destroying the world economy with an oil war every 10 years and maintaining the fossile fuel lobby, over the country manufacturing 95% of the world’s photovoltaic modules, supplying me with affordable consumer goods, with the latest nuclear reactor technology, and which hasn’t engaged in one war in over half a century”
Please, reconsider whether your views of China are rational or stem from Hollywood propaganda.
I mean, partially yes
May I ask if you’re fond of any country? If so, how do they compare to China?
Why do you have no reason to believe Iran? The country that started a war during negotiations is the US
A scathing criticism! Hopefully next month we can get a stern letter!!
Wouldn’t be where we are right now
We’d be happily contributing to genocide in Gaza not suffering any oil price hikes smh
You’re literally making this up, though. As an example, China recently passed a fiscal reform to develop Hainan province making it easier for foreign companies to establish themselves there and, if they give a given percentage of added value, be able to export their product to the rest of provinces without import taxes.