There was a comment somewhere where they sort of admitted they’re USian and don’t vote because they think they’re a sanctioned terrorist for having socialist views.
Highly likely a very young, very online person who idealizes “non-Western” world powers because living here is understandably unpleasant lol, but still not great.
Its the “Lacking the perspective to make comparison”.
For western leftists, everything is theory, but for those that have seen it, its reality, a core memory.
Its funny how western MLs keep trying to justify to their views by saying “But actchually China is democratic!” then presents paragraphs of arguements of arguments, graphs, charts, quotes
But actual average people in China is just like “yea idc about politics, I just want to make enough money to live”. They dont even bother doing much mental gymnastics to justify simping for Xi, they know all the “elections” are predetermined. Besides, I dont think I’ve ever heard of my parents talk about an election in China, not even sham ones. I heard about that in villages, they elect the village chief, but thats about it as far as “elections” go. Its just that unimportant that it doesnt ever get much of a mention, cuz people already know the “results”.
My parents went to visit recently, the neighborhood in Guangzhou we used to live in still looks dirty and dilapidated. I mean I have photos from our old apartment take in just a few months ago this year, its actually more dirtier than I remembered. That squat toilet thing actually just trigger my germaphobia, feels like my photo album is “tainted” lol. Its weird too, 10 minuts away from that dirty apartment building area is a relatively modern looking mall, walking that 10 minutes probably feels like walking though a time travel wormhole connecting the past to the future. Like a western tourist would never see this unless they go out of their way. Literally 10 minuts of walking is the difference between the common “China is so advanced” narrative and the “urban villages”, those dirty buildings I talked about.
Obviously the west isnt anywhere close to being a utopia either. There are neighborhood in Philly that looks like you could get mugged.
But I have the memories and family’s first hand accounts to make a comparison. So for those without this perspective to compare, they’d probably be like “ugh this place is bad” but those who know would be a bit more appreciative of the thing that they do have.
There was a comment somewhere where they sort of admitted they’re USian and don’t vote because they think they’re a sanctioned terrorist for having socialist views.
Highly likely a very young, very online person who idealizes “non-Western” world powers because living here is understandably unpleasant lol, but still not great.
Its the “Lacking the perspective to make comparison”.
For western leftists, everything is theory, but for those that have seen it, its reality, a core memory.
Its funny how western MLs keep trying to justify to their views by saying “But actchually China is democratic!” then presents paragraphs of arguements of arguments, graphs, charts, quotes
But actual average people in China is just like “yea idc about politics, I just want to make enough money to live”. They dont even bother doing much mental gymnastics to justify simping for Xi, they know all the “elections” are predetermined. Besides, I dont think I’ve ever heard of my parents talk about an election in China, not even sham ones. I heard about that in villages, they elect the village chief, but thats about it as far as “elections” go. Its just that unimportant that it doesnt ever get much of a mention, cuz people already know the “results”.
My parents went to visit recently, the neighborhood in Guangzhou we used to live in still looks dirty and dilapidated. I mean I have photos from our old apartment take in just a few months ago this year, its actually more dirtier than I remembered. That squat toilet thing actually just trigger my germaphobia, feels like my photo album is “tainted” lol. Its weird too, 10 minuts away from that dirty apartment building area is a relatively modern looking mall, walking that 10 minutes probably feels like walking though a time travel wormhole connecting the past to the future. Like a western tourist would never see this unless they go out of their way. Literally 10 minuts of walking is the difference between the common “China is so advanced” narrative and the “urban villages”, those dirty buildings I talked about.
Obviously the west isnt anywhere close to being a utopia either. There are neighborhood in Philly that looks like you could get mugged. But I have the memories and family’s first hand accounts to make a comparison. So for those without this perspective to compare, they’d probably be like “ugh this place is bad” but those who know would be a bit more appreciative of the thing that they do have.