I’m a big defender of China when the “China Bad” crowd comes out, but this graph is meaningless beyond what people’s perceptions are.

Real trade unions are banned. All must be part of the party, workers rights are routinely not enforced, and given the lattitude the government has to act, there isn’t really much of an excuse.

The CCP enjoy massive support, though, this is undeniable. The reasons for this support is debatable and vary from person to person.

I for one, very much enjoy when the Chinese government does things in line with my socialist ideals. But let’s not pretend like they’re actually keeping the capitalists in check. There are many, many billionaires in China, something that ought not be possible under an actual socialist country.

It doesn’t take a genius to look at their system of voting to quickly conclude that you don’t really have a say, the People’s Congress functions as a rubber stamp for what the inner party has already decided.

Again, my opinions aside, people in China generally are supportive of the government at this present time.

I feel like this is shifting the focus to imperialism, where the US is overwhelmingly and undeniably worse.

However, domestically, if you wanna pretend that someone as a random citizen, has any chance of receiving political representation in China, well you enjoy your fantasy.

The US and China are both deeply undemocratic places. I’m saying this as someone from neither country.

Anyone who’s actually been to China would know this. It is authoritarian. It’s not even something viewed as bad by most people in China. It’s just the way things are there.

There is pretty strong support for the government there, albeit that could be argued as product of censorship, repression and also genuine support. Many see the CCP as having done a lot of good things which they are grateful for, which in addition to the bad things, in fairness, they have done.

I’m getting kinda tired of some leftists knee jerking “China Good”, just as much as I’m getting kinda tired of the “China Bad” crowd, when the truth is neither wholly good nor wholly bad.

We can be leftists and not have a hard-on for any country claiming to be socialist, you know

If they’re making profit, how in the world can they possibly think it’s charity?

Top comment is about how Chinese censorship is not overt, but behind the scenes to stop your speech from spreading. It’s definitely censorship, but no one is going to arrest you for criticising the government online (to a point), they’ll just stop you from reaching others with your message.

I’m just saying that there definitely is censorship, just not what some “China Bad” people imagine.

My comment was in opposition to the “China Good” crowd who also pretend like everything bad said about China is not true.

Reality is inbetween, in my opinion. It’s a country with good and bad points.

@FleetwoodLinux@lemmy.zip thanks for the assist. This is indeed what I meant.

I think the top comment is the real answer on this.

There is censorship in China, as well as in the west. They just operate very differently.

In the west, outside the US, I think it’d be fairly easy to argue there’s more censorship in China. (Even with the pretty depressing clamp down on right to protest, and suppressing of anti-israel speech in many forms happening at the moment)

Equally though, people massively overblow what censorship is actually like in China. I’m not gonna get disappeared next time I go to China just for this comment. Or even if I overtly criticised the government on real-name social media.

tl;dr “China bad!” and “China so good!” are both equally annoying positions to find on the internet.

Reality is nuanced, but that doesn’t seem to make people happy.

Thanks for sending this through, I don’t think this guy is Australian though. Definitely not grown up here anyway.

What a fucking shit guy though.

We’re they being serious? If so, please do share their name.

Also, do you mean 2GB?

Whole different line up on KGB radio I’d imagine haha

I’m thinking of keeping timer next to me for all the time I waste literally waiting for Windows 11 to load the bloody right click menu (and other things) at work.

My 5D chess move would be:

• Go: ok bet, you wanna shut it down? Your stores are now in immediate administration under some eminent domain law
• In order to mitigate political backlash, make it known that they’re able to sell their business to someone else, or the city, provided that the subsequent owner is bound to either run it, or sell it to the city

Watch them get mad because you haven’t technically seized it, they can still sell the business (maintaining the sacrosanct rights to private property capitalists love so much), you’ve just prevented them from closing it down, and everyone gets to keep their jobs :)

🇦🇺 heh, amateurs… But seriously this is ridiculous, and straight up anti-democtatic. Single member first past the post is the worst voting system out there.

Inb4 they make mulit-member electorates winner-take-all (all seats to the party who got the plurality of votes).

This is THE fight USA. In my opinion, your ridiculous voting systems is probably why it’s so easy to suppress you.

Why does this exist lol

This is me. I’ve always been too lazy to switch (I have some of the worst hardware for it. I’m running my old surface pro into the ground and have hardly any internal storage so hard to dual boot for testing).

But now, well hey, Windows 11 is stupid, windows 10 has been spying since forever.

Linux it is, thanks Microsoft for giving me the push I needed.

You know, later in the year. When I have to.

I’m only human

The difference is locks on doors truly are just security theatre in most cases.

Unless you’re the BiLock and it takes the LockPickingLawyer 3 minutes to pick it open.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uk6C1iDkQ

Yaaaaaaaaas queeeeen

😬

The state. It’s literally how this works in other countries. (Victoria, Australia, anyway)

Wait, this ISN’T how it works where you live?

Where I live (in Victoria, Australia), the bond is held in trust by the residential tenancies bond authority. At the end of the lease the landlord can try make a claim, but you can take them to VCAT (a small claims tribunal) to argue against it, and until either all parties agree, or the court orders it, the bond doesn’t get paid out to anyone.

Our laws are far from good, and still favour owners too much, but damn. Just trusting them to pay you out of their own pocket?

How did the sub total become $53.96?

Breadsticks and cinnamon sticks we $27.96??

Otherwise, did they do hidden fees in the subtotal, on top of the already hidden fees?

Y’all need some better laws in the states.

There is (off the top of my head) only three types of extra charges in Australia for consumers:

1. transaction fees (provided the lowest you can possibly pay, even with transaction fees, is advertised. i.e. if you accept card only the minimum fee is included in your advertised price)
2. delivery fees (but strictly speaking you ought to advertise “+delivery fees” in your listed price, and only if it’s variable. And finally,
3. surcharges based on time. But again, you need to advertise this prominently ahead of payment.

If I were really splitting hairs some restaurants and cafes that do weekend surcharges reeeeally ought to put it on the front cover of their menus, not just at the till.

Anyway, what you have in comparison is maddening.

Taxes? Yeah, that should be in the prices. “Fees”?? Yeah, that’s part of the price, bud.

Absolute yikes.

This what we would call false advertising in my country.

You can’t write: “NO ADS!*”

“*actually, maybe some ads, as a treat”

That’s just completely negating the headline claim