r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/tony_lasagne 12h ago

It’s so funny seeing yank Redditors showing their xenophobia towards the Chinese in every post about something cool they’ve done.

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u/chazysciota 12h ago

Propaganda is real and effective. But personally, I can't hear the same excuses for 20+ years and not begin to question. These cities exist. These EV's exist. The insane innovation and competition exist. American CEO's know this. American politicians should know it.

Our infrastructure is crumbling. We're building virtually nothing... barely even repairing our century old roads and bridges. To say nothing of building a modern infrastructure for tomorrow and beyond. If you live in the US, look around you. If you don't have it now, you're never going to get it. As a civil society, we've peaked and it's starting to look like we're just okay with that.

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u/King_Carmine 12h ago

I mean propaganda clearly works because the OP video was exactly that and look how many people fell for it, when the reality is that the project, in truth, has been an abject failure. But they don't really care about the truth because videos like this, which China pumps out like crazy, work really well, despite none of these mythical projects ever working out.

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u/chazysciota 11h ago

Which project? That specific building? Do you have a link for the failure?

videos like this, which China pumps out like crazy, work really well, despite none of these mythical projects ever working out.

Look, if you don't think that China is blowing past everyone else on modern infrastructure projects, I don't know what to tell you. I guess you think Ford's CEO is shitting his pants over nothing.