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My very Reddit-influenced impressions about China circa 2016 (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Every building is a shoddily built hazardous death trap prone to collapsing at any moment
Food and consumer products are full of toxic chemicals because no one cares
Slavelike working conditions, insane working hours, suicide nets at factories
Every citizen is spied on constantly, one wrong thought means they will be dragged off in the middle of the night by the secret police
Arbitrary and nonsensical censorship of the media, to quote Mike from RLM on why Ghostbusters 2016 wasn't available in China "Your Communist government thinks the movie is witchcraft"
LGBT people oppressed
No regard for the environment, pollution everywhere, pristine nature destroyed to build empty ghost cities for no reason
A dystopian inhumane culture where everyone hates each other and has no regard for human life. There were so many Reddit stories about how in China drivers double back to kill pedestrians they hit so they won't be held criminally liable or because people faking accidents for lawsuits is so common. Also people step over people having medical emergencies on the street for the same reasons
Racist and jingoistic

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Buildings aren't built on the cheap and collapse in capitalist Florida like the Surfside collapse, not to mention the most high profile shitty building collapse in WTC 1&2&7 which should have survived plane crashes and fires.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I mentioned some neighborhoods I'd worked on that were 5~ years old where 80% of the million dollar homes were experiencing interior water damage because the construction crews were paid by the Sq foot, they replied "That's just a few contractors". But in China it's everywhere.