Am I projecting? What do you think, fellow lemmings?

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Chinese people seem pretty happy on Rednote.

    They mostly empathize with us Americans for our life of economic struggle for our wealth class in exchange for nothing but Subsistence.

    They’re confused as to how it’s allowed to happen. They thought a lot of true horror stories about our health insurance murder industry and living paycheck go paycheck statistically unlikely to be able to cover a 400 expense was their government’s propaganda, and are horrified it’s not.

    It’s amazing how many protections non-wealthy people have there.

    I now completely understand why our government doesn’t want us having casual conversations with actual societies of people, as opposed to capitalist slaughterhouses like we are here in the US. Mooooo…

    Also their cars are so high tech ours are in the stone age by comparison. No wonder they can’t sell them here, they’d eat our lunch. App controlled call the car to pull up to you, captains chairs that power rotate into new configurations, on and on.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      There was a soviet joke:

      A refugee from the sovjet union was not surprised to learn that most of what his government had told him about his country way lies - it wasn’t that great.

      However, he was shocked to learn that they were telling the truth about other countries.

      • Jentu@lemmy.ml
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        46 minutes ago

        The weird incongruous part is that the people on Rednote (up until recently) thought the average American has over a million dollars (due to a weird mistranslation of something our embassy said about the average income from all Americans being over a million dollars), have a house (due to television shows), have free healthcare, and generally live a carefree life. Many people are questioning why there’s been such a push to work over here by their friends and family who visit.