WARNING: I have definitive proof that China is maybe gonna do something at some point (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by happybadger@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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I can feel storms before they arrive. Like I sense the air change so I'm in tune with things like this. I couldn't sleep for a few days so I spent the time watching videos about China imminently doing things. The same sensation occurred and I could see Chairman Xi out of the corner of my eye, but he was a shadow version of himself.

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[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 30 points 10 months ago

Had to listen to several of my coworkers discuss China's "empty cities with houses for millions" and tried my hardest not to have a stroke. I desperately wanted them to understand how anything relating to city planning works, but only 1 of them actually pays any attention to the things I say and the other 2 think I'm too young and naive to really understand the world, which is annoying to hear from some of the most privelledged people at my place of employment.

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was reading the same dumb ghost city bullshit when I was in high-school, in the 90s. How does shit like this stay alive?

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 10 months ago

Because westerner's view of China was frozen in time in the 90s. They imagine the country being filled with cramped, dirty, overpopulated cities that look like they came out of a dystopian novel. They can't imagine that China was building "ghost cities" to house people, because everything China does is just to trick the west.

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

Honestly, a lot of people in the West seem to be stuck in the 90s. Thats why they keep voting for SucDems who hate them, think Russia is falling apart, think China's armed forces are completely degraded due to corruption and graft (lmao, this was said by a coworker the same day it came out that Danish Naval Ships had no functioning cannons).

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

It's the Francis Fukuyama "History has ended" idea. The US defeated their enemy the USSR and as well all know, when a big empire defeats their biggest enemy they just stay in power for all eternity and nothing changes because they won the game of Civilisation.

[-] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 6 points 10 months ago

I suppose you're right. It's just incredible to watch people encounter reality and choosing of their own free will to believe what they've been told over their litteral eyes and ears.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago

I don't think people are naturally materialistic thinkers. I think the "default" for people is magical thinking, and we need to train ourselves to examine material reality properly. Our perceptions are always subjective, so it can feel like reality is subjective. And for 99% of people, this kind of idea that "reality is what you make of it" works fine in their day to day life, so it is never challenged, so they assume it is true.