EDIT: no, I don't sympathize with nazis (neither I sympathize with those who call everyone nazi when they're losing an argument ;)

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Here is my source do you have a source that disputes that? Or is your belief based entirely on unfalsifiable faith?

    Also curious if you think Chinese life expectancy is still like 35 or what lmao

    You may also be interested in what the World Bank, that infamous communist propaganda rag, has to say:

    Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty.

        • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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          1 year ago

          Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand. In Fountainhead, she goes in depth about how Chinese life expectancy statistics are generally made up.

          • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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            1 year ago

            Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand

            michael-laugh

            That's incredible, I honestly did not see that one coming.

            So tell me, what's your best guess at what Chinese life expectancy was before the CPC came to power, and what do you think it is now? Do you dispute the numbers from before the communists were even in power? Or do you think they're still living in mud huts?

            • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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              1 year ago

              The Fountainhead is a novel about an American architect that has nothing to do with China. They're doing a weird bit, presumably about how evil tankies asking them to read books is cheating.

              • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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                1 year ago

                Yeah I got that, at least after they posted a rickroll. Guess being an idiot is a defense mechanism when they realized they had nothing.

                • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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                  1 year ago

                  Communism increasing life expectancy!?

                  Shanghai Stock Exchange: http://english.sse.com.cn/

                  Beijing Stock Exchange: www.bse.cn

                  Shenzhen Stock Exchange: https://www.szse.cn/English/index.html

                  That's more stock exchanges than the US, comrade!

                  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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                    1 year ago

                    Oh, so you consider Deng's reforms to be right-deviationist? Are you a Maoist, then?

                    Whether you consider the CPC to be communist or not, the fact still remains that they've made a lot of improvements in the lives of the average Chinese person.