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Wonderful houses they got over there. Tofu dreg houses are the best!
Shitty contractors happen. I've done remediation in affluent neighborhoods where the median home price was around 900k, almost every home was experiencing interior water damage in less than 5 years because the developer was looking at who had the cheapest bid and the stucco crews were paid by the square foot.
My dude, they showed city blocks of tofu dreg houses. That goes beyond "bad contractors"
My dude, the neighborhoods Im talking about encompassed a few hundred houses. I regularly tell customers to be really careful about buying homes built within the last couple decades because the chances of getting a McMansion that's glued and duct tapped together are high.
If you pay attention, you'll notice how many of these discussions will go like
"If you think China is a perfect utopia, then how do you explain that something bad happened there?"
"I don't think it's a utopia. Yeah that bad thing seems bad."
"So you accept that China is literally Mordor then?"
"What"
Are NEW Chinese buildings falling down? Idk here's a video from 5 years ago
love being a sponge brain-ed liberal who 1) just believes whatever YouTuber they like best and 2) doesn't even have the cognitive power to realize a shitty home is better than no home. Even in their worst fantasies, the Chinese government still provides for its people to a better degree than any government in the west, where people literally die on the fucking streets
Anyway i look forward to the mental rollercoaster you go on in the next few years as China continues to establish its dominance over the west as you try to pretend that 1) those evil orientals couldn't possibly build complex things like high speed rail or buildings that don't fall apart and 2) you're not an implicitly racist fuck for being prone to believing shit like that in the first place :^]
Did... Did you really just try to argue in favor of cardboard houses in danger of collapsing THREE years after they were built?
every home in china has collapsed twice since this video was posted. china will collapse any day now, I swear
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I am generously assuming your propaganda for the purpose of this argument and just go with your orientalist view that the chinese can't figure out building shit based on some cracker's youtube spewing
I'd rather have a home that might collapse than no home at all like so many in other countries, yours included, with police who will literally beat me half to death for sleeping in the wrong place, who are in most places the primary instigators of homelessness as they throw people onto the streets at the behest of some petty landlord, while gleefully destroying their personal property in the process.
There was literally a video like yesterday of some american cops destroying people's shit only to stop to salute for the national anthem
But yeah it's the EVIL SEE SEE PEE PEE putting people in TOFU HOUSES against their will. The horror! What evil authoritarianism, so unlike MY country, one of the GOOD ONES. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Go back to reddit, lib
the way you mfs type is so dramatic lmao. D-d-did... did you seriously... Gasp! It cant be.. you didnt really just defend.. 😇 Shut the fuck up 😇this is not an AO3 goth furry rp youre a boring ass liberal commentator on a forum
Well maybe... maybe it SHOULD be!
Real
N... Nani!
Your understanding of Chinese infrastructure isn't rigorous if it's entirely based on some sensationalist viral videos of some places which look bad. Yeah, it's a massive country with a billion people, some of those places look bad in a video. I'm not happy about the bad construction you see there, nor the real estate speculation causing some of it (which isn't a communist feature).
You can find lots of videos of places in the US and Canada looking bad too, only it's like cops destroying the tents and property of unhoused people in the streets. But in response to those we might say "oh that's terrible, they should fix that" and not the "we gotta overthrow the authoritarian government" when it's about China.
My BOY how is that not better than sleeping on a piece of cardboard on the sidewalk??
Anyhow, what, is every single home in China a flimsy shack? Can you dredge up one single solitary study on what percentage of homes in China are of substandard construction? Can you do any goddamned thing but regurgitate half-remembered unsubstantiated talking points from youtube from lord knows how long ago?
If you can, have it. Give us a source and we'll have a talk about it. Otherwise, shut the FUCK up
You have never worked in construction here in the US have you? I am renting a modern house and the granite countertops are great but when it rains my electricity shorts out and frankly it is kinda terrifying.
It takes me twice as long as it should to do any work on the toilet in my place because the slumlord-ass bathroom i pay a billion dollars a month for is so narrow that I don't have room to properly turn a wrench.
Anyway, the Maoist uprising against th