• BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Look, it's the usual wojak-nooo ”You can't trust anything China says, it's all lies!” liberal cope farquaad-point

      • @parpol@programming.dev
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        5 months ago

        You can google the two things I pointed out in my comment and see if they're true yourself. Or maybe you can't google it if you're in China, oof.

        • @oktherebuddy
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          5 months ago

          Do you... think that search engines other than google don't exist or something? And Chinese people have been operating without internet search engines this entire time? Do you think it's weird that you use an American technology company's name as a verb to describe a common action?

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      41
      5 months ago

      When it comes to trains, we've all seen the horribly photoshopped gifs of the trains running on their empty rails.

      Are you suggesting that China built a massive railroad network, but is lying about having trains?

      Real "Lets fake the moon landing on the moon" hours.

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      So you're just a full-blown hyper paranoid conspiracy theorist who thinks that everyone in China is just trying to dupe you into thinking they've built trains?

      • @parpol@programming.dev
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        5 months ago

        I'm sure they tried making a maglev. But I'm also sure they used a larger budget than reported, reached lower speeds than reported, and quietly swept under the rug any complaints from locals whoms living spaces were torn down to make room to build this. This is how it always goes.

        • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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          29
          5 months ago

          You can literally watch videos of the Shanghai Maglev, on YouTube, right now. It connects the city to the airport, and Shanghai is a major business hub, westerners go there all the time.

        • @ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml
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          5 months ago

          [citation needed]

          Always funny to me how you guys burned in your mind that China is ontologically bad so hard that you just throw accusation of lying without any evidence. You just suppose shit and don't see any problem because to you China is a bad evil country is self evident and so anything that potentialy corroborate this "truth" has to be true.

          hontologically

        • chungusamonugs [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          complaints from locals whoms living spaces were torn down to make room to build this.

          Do NOT Google Robert Moses. Biggest mistake of my life family-guy-death-pose

        • BeamBrain [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          "This is how it always goes (when we in the west do it, and there's no way those orientals could be better at anything than we superior Aryans)."

        • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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          16
          5 months ago

          https://invidious.slipfox.xyz/watch?v=4-S7wqwgF1Q

          You can just google shanghai maglev, it makes the journey in about 8 minutes, sometimes less.

          I've done this before with other "china experts" who believed such silly things as that Winny The Pooh was banned in China, but they never let reality get in the way of their pre-conceived notions, or examined how they got those erroneous views.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          5 months ago

          lol this dumbass doesn't even know ROC from PRC

          just pathetically desperate to maintain their chauvinism

          • @parpol@programming.dev
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            5 months ago

            I would be fine with admitting that China is part of west Taiwan, rather than the opposite.

            Here's a few more fun facts: the Pearl necklace failed, the skyline doesn't lie, the east sea belongs mainly to south east Asian countries, and painting your ground green doesn't fool anyone.

              • @parpol@programming.dev
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                5 months ago

                Cope is a synonym for true now, apparently, or do you offer any credible sources that disprove what I just said?

                Don't worry, you can be honest here. I'm sure none of the little pinks in this thread will report you.

                  • @parpol@programming.dev
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                    5 months ago

                    What statements exactly? That spraypainting mountains green and rolling out plastic leaves over barren cliffs isn't fooling anyone? Because it isn't. Or that the sea disputes China has with its neighbors are overwhelmingly judged as China trying to grab land that doesn't belong to them? Because no one is backing China on this one. Or that the Indian necklace of diamonds ended up surrounding the Chinese string of pearls? Because it did.

                • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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                  5 months ago

                  soypoint-1 Everyone who disagrees with me is a Chinese bot in China soypoint-2

                  You're going through all the most unoriginal bullshit pretty fast, next your lemmitor ass is probably going to say Winnie the Pooh or Tiananmen Square.

                  • NPa [he/him]
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                    5 months ago

                    jotaro-walk "The next thing you'll say is ' minus 1000 social credit points'

                    yiiking-out " minus 1000 ... "

            • Mindfury [he/him]
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              5 months ago

              thoughts on the ROC's claims to Outer Mongolia?

              • @parpol@programming.dev
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                5 months ago

                Literally not even true.

                This is a decades long malicious disinformation campaign from Chinese ops. It is verifiably, 100% untrue and hasn't been true for a long time.

                In 1993 the Legislative Yuan asked the Judicial Yuan to clarify what the official territory of the ROC is. Interpretation No. 328 ruled that the legislative intent of the term “inherent/existing” was specifically to avoid setting down precise boundaries, since the areas controlled by the ROC at the time were continually shifting with the tides of the Chinese Civil War. The interpretation thus held that the phrase is political question that cannot be assigned any fixed legal definition.

                They officially declared Mongolia to be an independent country in 2002.

                • Mindfury [he/him]
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                  5 months ago

                  and you expect me to believe some photoshopped document over years of historical proof that Taiwan consider Ulaanbaatar rightful Taiwanese clay?

                  okay sure thing. next you'll say something as ridiculous as Arunachal Pradesh is India.

                  also you forgot the bit about princeton press

                  • @parpol@programming.dev
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                    1
                    5 months ago

                    "Historical proof" They officially declared Mongolia independent in 2002, what else is there to say? Do you want another official statement?

                    As for India, I have no clue about their stance. India is irrelevant to this topic, and you're throwing whataboutism.

                    And yes, I copied some of the text from a Reddit post. It doesn't invalidate what I said.

        • TechnoUnionTypeBeat [he/him, they/them]
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          10
          5 months ago

          Tell that to Taiwan, who call themselves the Republic of China and consider themselves Chinese

          The only people who think Taiwan is a separate and wholly independent country are dipshit Redditors

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          5 months ago

          You can't be so stupid that you don't understand that Taiwan historically claims itself to be China

    • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      "The inscrutable and devious oriental cannot be trusted because of their duplicitous nature"

    • refolde [she/her, any]
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      5 months ago

      I was wondering why this post had so many replies, and lo and behold it's because of another one of these fucking ChatGPT instances.

      Every fucking time.

      • @DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        16
        5 months ago

        It really does read like they asked a chatbot "help! The commies are making me think, give me excuses to ignore the things they're saying!"