• 🇵🇸antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    That’s funny because literally China is one of the countries with the highest approval of their government by independent studies.

    So even if you’re telling the truth the vast majority of the Chinese people disagree with your sentiment.

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        5 hours ago

        Do you think a people who were living in poverty and had terrible living conditions would be overwhelmingly supportive of their government? Come on now think for a second here.

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          3 hours ago

          The following is just a really odd way to convince someone of something in my opinion.

          1. “China is one of the countries with the highest approval of their government by independent studies.”
          2. Government approval is inversely correlated with poverty and terrible living conditions.
          3. Therefore it is unlikely that “they def aren’t living like this”

          It’s also especially odd if you’re mentioning independent studies. Are there not independent studies about the living conditions?

          And to be clear, I don’t even disagree with you. I think a lot of westerners are affected by racist/orientalist views (or whatever you wanna call them) without realizing it. It just felt like a strange way to counter the thought process.

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            3 hours ago

            I mention “independent studies” because people are insane and will call anything pro-China you say as just Chinese propaganda.