This article looks like a goldmine, but I don't have time to read it all and won't be interested in doing that once I have the time. Here's my favorite paragraph of the part I read:

Today the party’s propaganda machine is spinning stories about young people making a decent living by delivering meals, recycling garbage, setting up food stalls, and fishing and farming. It’s a form of official gaslighting, trying to deflect accountability from the government for its economy-crushing policies like cracking down on the private sector, imposing unnecessarily harsh Covid restrictions and isolating China’s trading partners.

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  • WalterBongjammin [they/them,comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    The gall of talking about gaslighting regarding the economy when the western media continually runs stories about how the economy is doing great, despite most people getting continually poorer. I know that what we call the economy is just a machine to make rich people richer and poor people poorer, so it doing great does mean that, but goddam