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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

China isn’t more complicated

Fascism used State Capitalism. Political parties are corporations anyway

If someone questions their religion (like that mma guy who fought the larpers) then they lose their social credit…which leads to loss of income and property

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I do think china is a capitalist hell hole that doesn't even have universal healthcare.

But social credit thing is not real afaik. I personally asked several chinese people and they all laugh at it.

They of course can and will prosecute "enemies of the state". But social credit is not the way they tend to do it.

Meanwhile the US literally have credit score or something like that, don't they?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yea the social score thing seems like a misunderstanding of Chinese culture.

Chinese culture (and other Asian cultures) have a history of shunning people who have committed 'shameful' acts out of their communities.

The MMA guy that the previous comment was talking about was shunned out of living a normal life in China for exposing the phony Kung Fu masters in China.

The Chinese government has experimented with different kinds of social score systems, though most didn't stick. They do have a credit/banking score system just like we have in the US, too. Still, I think most of this blacklisting just comes from their culture, and not from the Chinese government enforcing social scores.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

do think china is a capitalist hell hole that doesn’t even have universal healthcare.

Nazi Germany had healthcare…as far as fascist states go it has to be up there

Edit: Well mods deleted my response to the post below so I will just leave it with this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Wut?

Where are you getting your information from?because it's all fake.

During the third Reich you needed to buy insurance or to pay a private doctor. Many industries had to provide health insurance to their workers like in the US, but many people were left uncovered and healthcare professionals did not work for the state, they were mostly self employed or employed by private hospitals.

There was not socialized healthcare like in most modern civilized countries.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago

they didnt say it was publicized or socialized. They just said it was healthcare.