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

    American people, who are on the Blackist of the finacial credit system, are barred from owning cars and homes.

    Now facial recognition and ID are aquired without consent by private companies to sell to the highest bidder. If your identity is being stolen to sell products, no rights for you!

  • Circle_circle [any]
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    1 year ago

    How can an account that was the origin for the cum milking factory nonsense still have people going to it for news?

    • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      40% of Americans don’t know Xi is. Not kidding.

      A poll by Politico and Morning Consult in 2021 found that 5% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Xi, 38% unfavorable, 17% no opinion and 40%, a plurality, never hearing of him.

      It’s just orientalism. They don’t know anything about anything, especially Asian countries, and rely on sensationalist nonsense to tell them boogeyman stories to make them behave.

      • VILenin [he/him]M
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        1 year ago

        How many of that 38% just heard an Asian-sounding name and automatically went Hitler mode?

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    The whole "social credit score" thing isn't even an outlandish concept. It's just laws. We have those. Breaking rules makes your life harder, that's the whole idea. Libs just always make shit up like "uhhh you will lose human rights if you speak ill about the government."

    I mean come on, next you're gonna tell me they make school children chant some kind of "loyalty pledge" to their country every morning or some other cultish behavior.

    • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I mean come on, next you're gonna tell me they make school children chant some kind of "loyalty pledge" to their country every morning or some other cultish behavior.

      I mean, they do. It’s just like any other pledge though

      Every time Reddit posts a video of Chinese children playing some team-based game, all the comments are like

      The orientals are training their children to become bloodthirsty soldiers. The repetitiveness of the children’s game is meant to dull their minds and make them compliant to any and all orders from the authorities. Every thing a Chinese person does, whether it’s saying the pledge of taking a shit at 2:30am, is meant to harden their brains into destroying the west and embracing totalitarianism

    • VILenin [he/him]M
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      1 year ago

      In totalitarian China your actions have consequences

  • Dryad [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Wait till they hear about what the American government does to people who break the rules

    • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      “Okay sir, I’ll make the final payment to your debt, aaaannnd….. your FICO score went down.”

  • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I'm going to assume that's not true in the absense of any evidence.

    The most I could find on googling this source wise was some indication that the social credit system might incorporate laws against drunk driving as in drunk driving will lower social credit scores

    an explanation of social credit I found

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      OMG, I can't believe they're targeting drunk drivers. Won't anyone think of these people who put others in danger driving in their hunks of metalrage-cry

    • flowernet [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      Westerners like to imagine they control people by not letting them travel after they misunderstood the unbelievably mundane "social credit" system that railroads weren't letting fare evaders buy new tickets until they had paid the fine the previous infractions.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I think they also use it to incentivise giving blood, taking care of elderly relatives as well as a form of punishment for fraud, crypto bullshit and things like that

        • flowernet [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          another aspect of western misunderstanding was imagining multiple distinct systems as comprising a single totalitarian "social credit score". China has systems that work like normal credit scores and track fraud in business. The stuff about losing your travel privileges was all just about offenses directly against the railroads like smoking in non-smoking sections and fare evasion.

    • Flinch [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      "The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence!", I say, smugly, as I check my FICO score to see if I am allowed to purchase shelter yet

  • Gorillatactics [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Chinese guy who wants to cut contact with their annoying western acquaintance: My social credit score is low if it gets any lower I wont be allowed to drive a car or talk to you.

  • PZK [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    "Look at China's horrific Social Credit Score system!"

    -said by western man that can't enjoy a standard of living unless his Credit Score is high enough.

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Questions these weirdos never answer-

    1. How do you get on this list?

    2. How do you get off?

  • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Social credit memes have gone so out of hand that neoliberal news media and NGOs had to do damage control and correct these claims. Social credit is only applied to businesses and individual business owners so people can verify they have a clean history

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Social credit memes have gone so out of hand that neoliberal news media and NGOs had to do damage control and correct these claims

      at which point frothingfash become convinced that China controls and censors western neoliberal media.

  • VILenin [he/him]M
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    1 year ago

    This is a non-existent regulation of a non-existent system

  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Projecting a system in which the punishment for not living in a society correctly is being deprived of the ability to live in that society correctly

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/16/chinas-orwellian-social-credit-score-isnt-real/