the maoist uprising against the landlords was the largest and most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, and led to almost totally-equal redistribution of land among the peasantry
Lol their dad and my dad should hang out. My dad loves both Mao and Bill Clinton, in equal measure. He is literally a CPC party member (I assume expired but he still has his membership card) and is China's biggest defender in the US, but he is also really proud of being an American. Like his dream is to have the two countries mutually agree to combine into one country.
As you can imagine the recent ratcheting up of tensions has really dampened his mood.
Also, one of his funnier crank opinions is that Portugal should have kept Macao becuase they bought it fair and square in the 16th century, but China should have invaded Hong Kong to show the British who's boss.
A lot of posts on there are from English teachers in china giving advice to each other on how to take advantage of their students to sleep with them
I'm not going to praise Chinese bullet trains, for example. They're nice but l've been to some really empty train stations in Xinjiang and Gansu that
probably shouldn't have been built.
The government hates its minorities so much they built high quality transportation for them to use whenever they feel like it, but they should be more efficient and abolish all of it because I don’t see any pictures of Uyghurs riding it
Holy shit are people so fucking dumb now that they can't understand planning ahead?
Building things before they're needed is good actually. I am so tired of waiting for infrastructure to be built years after it's needed.
I will never understand people who don't get efficientcy. We can plan ahead, we have the data to know what an area is going to be like, not planning ahead for that is just stupid and negligent.
I always found it funny that they crap on China for empty developments not yet populated because westoids are only familiar with the same crumbling congested infrastructure with absolutely nothing new ever built because that means the property prices can't be inflated exponentially.
Things tend to be empty when they're first developed or in the process of being completed. Not that a westoid would know because they haven't seen anything new in their lifetimes.
The sheer amount of white dudes who live in/have visited China on "business trips" outweighs the actual native Chinese people by like, 2:1 at least. And those people are like the guy above, westerners who have Chinese ancestry, and who visited China maybe twice to see their extended family.
Naturally this means they are all 110% perfect China experts and we should trust everything they say about the country.
Is there anything at all that China in general can be credited with?
Well, before they became all woke the first emperor literally invented an immortality potion. The woke, soy CCP will not let me drink it with their snowflake "health and safety guidelines", but I give credit where it is due. Plus, I can find more than enough of it in old thermometers to achieve immortality anyway. After Qin Shi Huang they became woke and never did anything worth taking notice of ever again.
the train argument really gets on my nerves yes some train lines are unprofitable but they are also vital transport infrastructure. Roads aren't expected to turn a profit
if people can get to job sites because of a trainline then that is economic utility produced by the train not recorded in the price of the ticket.
Who is they, and what do they want the money for? I wonder if in addition to making progress on an environmental issue they're gaining revenue they can use towards their other goal of addressing uneven development in places like Xinjiang?