They’re not capable of long term planning like that. We can barely lay fiber in dense neighborhoods, and some places only get LTE. Imagine how much infrastructure would have to be built, billions of dollars of fiber means billions of dollars that aren’t going directly into the pockets of billionaires.

Maybe the planes just did that?

You can do democracy, its just not compatible with capitalism. When’s the last time Cuba gave arms to a dictator so their populace doesn’t rise up and stop giving them cheap labor and resources?

Free healthcare and childcare polls well even among republicans. The “99% hitler” triangulation strategy that has been conventional wisdom among the dem political class for decades attracts nobody.

China’s big gun manufacturer was banned because supposedly they were trying to sell machine guns and tanks to gangs. But I genuinely think this was just a pretense to justify protectionism and China wouldn’t do something so cool.

Trump ran on “It sucks now, and I have a concept of a plan for the best healthcare ever”.

Trump spoke towards a truth we all feel about how bad it is, then lied about the cause and what he was going to do, democrats told us better things aren’t possible, america is already great, but if you vote for us, we miiight consider doing .01% less genocide.

People fell for it because the alternative “Shut the fuck up and vote for tax cuts for small business owners and The Most Lethal Military Evar!” is too depressing.

Are they also developing a future crime prediction chip?

Yes, here’s the training data they’re using. Its 99% as accurate as current police.

Soap is fine as long as you have a complete seasoning.

Well maybe ending neocolonial exploitation for starters?

America and Israel voted against, our other satellites abstained, our victims voted in favor.

The guy owning the local car dealership

The small capitalists have a unique set if interests. They’re not the biggest beneficiary of the system, but they tend to be fascism’s most rabid soldiers. These are the people who did J6.

Rotating villain. He allows them to tell their constituents “we want what you want, we just don’t have the power because of thay one guy, but if you vote just a little harder, we won’t pull the football away this time”, while telling their donors “we ain’t giving them shit lmao”.

China, Iran, Cuba

I could believe Russia, but the people who’ve been to Cuba I’ve met show its absolutely false. The Iranians and people who’ve traveled to Iran I’ve met suggest there are religious police that do suck, but it technically being punishable doesn’t stop them from criticizing those cops to foreigners.

Have you and others tried to criticise the CCP, though

Yes, like all the time, you just have to ask about a specific policy someone has feelings on.

red herring

I’m trying to give a more general description of criticism and dissent within China.

Getting sent to a secret camp because your neighbor is an undercover cop secretly monitoring you for wrongthink is wildly outside of anybody on earth’s experience, except North Korea, allegedly.

Sending a message on wechat and having it not arrive or having your internet cut off for 10 seconds during a live chat because your toddler walked into frame is.

There was one chinese traveler on vacation I met in Hanoi who said some out-of-pocket shit about Hitler saving Germany. I mentioned it to some other chinese folks and they were as baffled as I was, but didn’t think it was productive to confront him. I got the sense that randos with insane views are common enough they don’t have the energy to try to correct them.

people who are not in camps would not dare speak about their true feelings.

Bro it’s not 1984, people might not talk about politics online, but they absolutely will describe whatever bullshit they’re dealing with in person.

There’s millions of complains about the covid vaccine causing seizures to autism to magnetism, it doesn’t mean covid vaccines are dangerous, it means you have to examine the selection method.

I’ve been to Urumqi, my takeaway was that I didnt have enough knowledge to understand their situation, and random people who haven’t been within 1000 miles of this place understand even less.