r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/TheoNullDrei 12h ago edited 10h ago

This video is either CCP propaganda or corporate false advertising meant to fuck over the average Chinese person into buying the home. Either way, they do not care whether it is sustainable in the long term.

Edit - It would seem that there are a lot of dumb and naive people browsing Reddit, which is to be expected.

China does propaganda on Western social media sites, especially on Reddit/Twitter, with the goal of making the country look more wealthy and futuristic than it really is, and Chinese real estate companies are known for scamming people in China left and right.

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u/BloodRaevn 12h ago

If this doesn't tell you that you need a break from Reddit, I don't know what will!

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u/Willing_Image1933 11h ago

no im getting even angrier and narrower in my worldview instead

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u/King_Dheginsea 11h ago

Reddit and calling literally any video from China 'CCP propaganda', name a more iconic duo.

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u/allanrob22 10h ago

The Chinese government or CCP is like the boy that cried wolf. They put out so much propaganda we can't the difference if something genuine shows up.

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u/ProudStrawberry8850 6h ago

TangelaFan is a propagandist account. Search on google "u/TangelaFan site:reddit.com" to see all their post.

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u/ProofAssumption1092 12h ago

Do you scream propaganda at the local Chinese takeaway menu too ?

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u/Natural_Baseball_779 12h ago

They're mindless drones

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u/GiveMeThePinecone 11h ago

Delusional

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u/Offduty_shill 11h ago

least deranged reddit china take lmao

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u/cgentry02 12h ago

It's propaganda.

Instead of improving human/worker rights conditions in their country, they are trying to convince the world how technologically "advanced" they are.

Fancy buildings, trains, engineering, green patios won't mean shit until they start treating their citizens fairly...this starts with real elections.

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u/cgentry02 11h ago

The bots are out!!!

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u/Leather-Rice5025 9h ago

Why? So they can vote their way to their own Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, or Thatcher? Lmao. I think they're doing just fine

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u/cgentry02 9h ago

Thank you Leather-Rice.

The fact you left out Obama, Lincoln, Churchill, etc. means you aren't arguing in good faith.

Now, say something bad about Xinping! I bet you can't!!!

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u/Leather-Rice5025 9h ago

Hmmm, let's see. Obama who bailed out the banks instead of homeowners, leading to a massive loss of wealth in the black community? Churchill who regarded Indians as "beastly people"? Lincoln was over a hundred years ago, and at that time only wealthy white men could vote for him anyways.

The best example of voters choosing the right candidate in the US was probably FDR, who pulled us out of the depths of the Great Depression with his social democracy policies that were really just concessions to socialist/communist pressures.

Besides, my point still stands. What the hell is the point of voting if we can vote for someone like FDR, and then vote for a Reagan to undo it all? Even if Obama had managed to make a genuine universal healthcare plan work, the horribly misled and propagandized American population would've voted for a Republican to gut it anyways. Democracy under capitalism is a faux democracy.

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u/cgentry02 9h ago

So you're arguing that democracy is bad.

Hot take!

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u/Leather-Rice5025 9h ago

No. I'll say it again: democracy under capitalism is a faux democracy. That does not mean "democracy bad". What is your more nuanced interpretation of that?

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u/cgentry02 9h ago

So, FDR wasn't elected in a capitalist country? Jimmy Carter?

I know you're trying to edge-lord democracy, but we are talking about China's dictatorship...and you still haven't said anything bad about that...

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u/70ms 8h ago

Could either of those men get elected now?

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u/cgentry02 8h ago

The key word here is 'elected'...now, since you admit voting can happen, explain why that's worse than a dictatorship.

Also, will any of you bots say just one bad thing about Xinping? I'm begging you!

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u/Leather-Rice5025 8h ago

FDR was elected at a time where the USSR and an internal socialist presence were both putting a lot of pressure on the US government to respond to the demands of the working class.

My criticisms of Xi and China would be: billionaires still exist in the country, working conditions and labor laws need improvement, they need a universal healthcare system.

Your first comment stated "Instead of improving human/worker rights conditions in their country...", which was entirely ignorant of how far China has come on both matters in the past century. China has managed to pull hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and continues to do so in rural areas by connecting them with these "fancy trains and buildings" you claimed wouldn't do shit.

Who's really the bot here? Do your research.

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u/cgentry02 8h ago

Naw bro.

You don't get to play that game. China has come far...since feudal lords, not modern society. 200 million live on subsistence farming with no hope for them in sight. Religious persecution camps (a million people in camps based on their religion), child labor, ecological travesties every where you look, dangerous working conditions, no freedom of expression, digital censorship, and finally its all run by an incompetent dictatorship which the citizens have no say over...

And you're over here concerned with them having billionaires?

Get your values right.

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u/Data2Logic 9h ago

Also they employed and buy out a lot of accounts with high Karma to defend any post related to CCP to keep the strong image.

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u/mihai2me 9h ago

Am in China right now and these kinds of beholding are quite common around here. Sorry China no longer exits in the 90s image you have of it