hey, what was China before communism like? : memes

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

is this some falun gong sh*t?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Got it in one.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah, liberals are so antisocialist that they'll support a cult just because they're fighting the Chinese. Of course those same liberals will conveniently forget what the US did in Waco.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Breaking: Shen Yun dancers allege British people kept giving them opium

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

To the unaware Shen Yun is part of a hardcore cult. They are Falun Gong religion.

"They are known for their opposition to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), espousing anti-evolutionary views, opposition to homosexuality and feminism, and rejection of modern medicine, among other views described as "ultra-conservative""

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

If not for Communism the Shen Yun wouldn't have had to perform child labor under brutal conditions to show what China was like before communism smh.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What was China before communism like?

The Falun Gong cult was founded in the 90s so it's not like they knew that to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

it's an authentic reenactment it turns out

[–] wetbeardhairs 4 points 1 month ago

I used to use former child labor.
I still do, but I used to as well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That tracks

[+] ddash -13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah, so it's the same.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago

Welcome to the real world ignoramus.

90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world. What’s more is that 80% of these homes are owned outright, without mortgages or any other leans. https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2016/03/30/how-people-in-china-afford-their-outrageously-expensive-homes

Chinese household savings hit another record high in 2024 https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-jones-bank-earnings-01-12-2024/card/chinese-household-savings-hit-another-record-high-xqyky00IsIe357rtJb4j

Social mobility in China being far better than in the US https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/china-social-mobility.html

The typical Chinese adult is now richer than the typical European adult https://www.businessinsider.com/typical-chinese-adult-now-richer-than-europeans-wealth-report-finds-2022-9

The real (inflation-adjusted) incomes of the poorest half of the Chinese population increased by more than four hundred percent from 1978 to 2015, while real incomes of the poorest half of the US population actually declined during the same time period. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23119/w23119.pdf

From 1978 to 2000, the number of people in China living on under $1/day fell by 300 million, reversing a global trend of rising poverty that had lasted half a century (i.e. if China were excluded, the world’s total poverty population would have risen) https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/China%E2%80%99s-Economic-Growth-and-Poverty-Reduction-Angang-Linlin/c883fc7496aa1b920b05dc2546b880f54b9c77a4

From 2010 to 2019 (the most recent period for which uninterrupted data is available), the income of the poorest 20% in China increased even as a share of total income. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.DST.FRST.20?end=2019&amp%3Blocations=CN&amp%3Bstart=2008

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

...as the US.

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