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U.S. TikTokers flock to Xiaohongshu, baffling and bonding with Chinese users. (restofworld.org)

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Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.

Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.

The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

you don’t lift 800+ million people out of poverty by concentrating all of the profits among a small few.

This is false attribution.
There's no way to verify how other political system would have worked for China. Maybe it would have worked even better? Taiwan for one is richer, stronger and happier than China per capita so does that mean dictatoriship -> democracy is a better system? Do you see the flaw in this attribution logic now? So, unless you have a time machine...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Taiwan for one is richer, stronger and happier than China per capita so does that mean dictatoriship -> democracy is a better system

Everything in that sentence is factually untrue, I need to get some of the stuff you're smoking because it must be crazy strong.

There’s no way to verify how other political system would have worked for China

It's very easy to know. India and China have similar landmass, population, and got their independence at around the same time.

The difference between the two is that China's people democracy is an objectively superior system to bourgeois dictatorships they have in India and Taiwan.

It's ridiculous to compare mainland China with Taiwan, as that island is incredibly small and therefore much, much faster to develop, and it received a lot in investments from the USA as they need a strong ally at the PRC's borders to support their hegemony. Look at south Korea for another example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Taiwan GDP per capita: 36,000 USD > 12,500 USD of China
World Happiness Report Taiwan places 27th > 64th of China

Do you want me to keep going?

The difference between the two is that China's people democracy is an objectively superior system to bourgeois dictatorships they have in India and Taiwan.

And how do you determine that? By feeling the vibes? There are way to many variables to attribute all success to a single one. It's just not scientifically testable. I'd like to point you to this brilliant economic nobel prize award of this year that did use science to prove the effectiveness of political systems in a way. This is sort of scientific proof we need to really understand the value of these political systems but until we have evidence like that or a time machine we might as well be yelling at clouds here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

Actually it’s very easy to know. By design, capitalism concentrates most of the reward among a small number of privileged few.

And people with good sense judge a country by how well it’s working people are doing- not by how much more wealth a few people have been able to hoard.