There was this tweet that was sarcastically asking why Mississippi has a higher GDP per capita than Chongqing and the Americope was insane, saying that shuffling money around was more productive than actually making things, no hint of irony or self awareness whatsoever.
It was especially funny seeing all the “lots of colorful lights doesn’t mean prosperity” responses. Which is kinda true… until power becomes so expensive and unreliable in Mississippi that the concept of wasting it on lighting up buildings at night becomes unimaginably ostentatious.
Yeah the coloured lights are because Chinese urban planners really like gaudy flashy stuff, and Chinese PR is run by people who have no idea how to do effective propaganda so they just keep posting the colourful buildings. Beneath all that flashiness is a shitload of real infrastructure that they really should be advertising instead. You’d reach much more people talking about how you can just call 12345 and get a pothole filled in a day than going wow look at our LEDs that westerners will dismiss as a potemkin village anyways.
Honestly i think it’s a good sign that the Chinese are so bad at doing propaganda directed at the West. In order to effectively convince Westerners you have to understand how we think, and that in itself requires that you become at least partly infected by our cultural mind virus. So it’s good that the Chinese are so far removed from our toxic ways of thinking that they can’t even put themselves in the shoes of Western audiences. The more alien our cynical, misanthropic, sociopathic, hyper-individualist culture is to the Chinese people, the better for China.
True, but they’re also really bad at doing propaganda for internal consumption too so I don’t know if that’s the cause specifically. It is a good point you bring up though because despite the
It seems like whenever people trainpost about Chinese high speed rail it gets really good reception on Western social media aside from the obligatory copypastas. Maybe I’m just more hopeful for Westerners than they are for themselves but it does look like there are pockets of good people out there, just very disenfranchised and alienated.
Fuck it lol I’ll take it, if public transit gets widespread support because people can frame it as treats, it is better than not having public transit and the current paradigm of “I’d rather sit in traffic for 4 hours a day than sit next to the poors”.
There was this tweet that was sarcastically asking why Mississippi has a higher GDP per capita than Chongqing and the Americope was insane, saying that shuffling money around was more productive than actually making things, no hint of irony or self awareness whatsoever.
Love how financial capital was able to cover up that we’ve been in a perpetual recession since covid and it’s only getting worse.
It was especially funny seeing all the “lots of colorful lights doesn’t mean prosperity” responses. Which is kinda true… until power becomes so expensive and unreliable in Mississippi that the concept of wasting it on lighting up buildings at night becomes unimaginably ostentatious.
Yeah the coloured lights are because Chinese urban planners really like gaudy flashy stuff, and Chinese PR is run by people who have no idea how to do effective propaganda so they just keep posting the colourful buildings. Beneath all that flashiness is a shitload of real infrastructure that they really should be advertising instead. You’d reach much more people talking about how you can just call 12345 and get a pothole filled in a day than going wow look at our LEDs that westerners will dismiss as a potemkin village anyways.
Honestly i think it’s a good sign that the Chinese are so bad at doing propaganda directed at the West. In order to effectively convince Westerners you have to understand how we think, and that in itself requires that you become at least partly infected by our cultural mind virus. So it’s good that the Chinese are so far removed from our toxic ways of thinking that they can’t even put themselves in the shoes of Western audiences. The more alien our cynical, misanthropic, sociopathic, hyper-individualist culture is to the Chinese people, the better for China.
True, but they’re also really bad at doing propaganda for internal consumption too so I don’t know if that’s the cause specifically. It is a good point you bring up though because despite the
It seems like whenever people trainpost about Chinese high speed rail it gets really good reception on Western social media aside from the obligatory
copypastas. Maybe I’m just more hopeful for Westerners than they are for themselves but it does look like there are pockets of good people out there, just very disenfranchised and alienated.
But how much of that is because high speed rail is seen as just another “treat”?
Fuck it lol I’ll take it, if public transit gets widespread support because people can frame it as treats, it is better than not having public transit and the current paradigm of “I’d rather sit in traffic for 4 hours a day than sit next to the poors”.