For months, factories in the city of Yiwu, China's "Christmas town," have been cranking out most of the tinsel, decorations and other festive ornaments now hanging on trees worldwide. But production almost stopped in mid-December, as local authorities switched off the lights.

cnn interviewed chinese business owners who are upset china is enforcing their 'authoritarian' climate change goals

the title is liberal war on christmas bullshit

  • vertexarray [any]
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    4 years ago

    horror of horrors! excess subordinate to a broader social conscience!?

    in all seriousness, the situations where people are left without heating in hospitals or streetlights at night are pretty clear cases of a failure of governance, but the way cnn writes it is slathered with the usual layer of ideology, turning it from reporting to propaganda

      • vertexarray [any]
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        4 years ago

        I wish I had a word for the gap between what's actually happening and the narratives I feel compelled to advance to fend off reactionary nonsense

  • Randomdog [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    ‘authoritarian’ climate change goals

    TFW you don't have the liberty to destroy your own planet

  • Sushi_Desires
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    4 years ago

    oh go no I wanted to continue to light my 2,000 incandescent light bulbs in solidarity with consoomerism

  • ComradeMikey [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    reading the article it said they shut off heating and stop lights. I sympathize with their climate goals but thay sounds pretty brutal. I know the media lies but there’s likely some grain if truth right?

  • p_sharikov [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I can't wait for liberals to start siding with Republicans on climate change to distance themselves from "authoritarian" climate measures.