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Dear liberals, how does it feel to be outdone by the Workers’ Party of Korea for the umpteenth time?
There’s a massive wildfire happening in the North West Territories right now to the point where Yellowknife is completely surrounded and all I’ve heard are crickets.
Lack of reporting on Canadian wildfires has been stunning. For a while, you had the smoke all over US and Canada so they kinda had to talk about it, but now that it’s gone there’s basically no coverage. I bet most people don’t realize the fires are still going.
You know during the flood happen last week, a few Chinese local officials lost their lives during the rescue mission. There’s a reason why the CPC got such a high rating while the current american admin at rock bottom
Yeah CPC isn’t the same kind of animal as western parties. They’re actually on the ground doing community work.
Yep, even Xi Jinping during his early have to serve in the village, town, city and prefecture. It’s not easy and it’s high stress job, you have to get the result, making policy that’s good for the place that you’re serving and you have to show result to convince your peer to vote for you to get promoted. Especially now when China economy is shifting from low quality growth like real estate to high quality like EV, quantum computing AI and green energy.
Exactly, and the fact that people have to rise through the ranks and engage directly with the people they’re serving means that they have a far better understanding of the actual problems people have than western politicians who are barely aware of their constituents.
Idk if someone already mentioned it, but Biden was on a beach and when asked about the tragic fires in Maui, he said “no comment”. Later he released a statement about Maui and his team mentioned that he only said “no comment” because he wanted to release a full statement later. Imagine if Xi said “no comment” about the floods, what the liberal press would say about him, how callous and insensitive he is to the victims. Instead his administration acted on it fast and effectively. I’d say Biden is a joke, but jokes are funny. This is just sad
Puerto Rico hurricane disaster relief vs Cuba, anyone?
Nafo, the government attack dogs, are going after anyone talking about the sheer disparity in aid to Maui vs Ukraine.
I think Ukraine has exposed to a lot of people that the whole narrative they’ve been fed that there’s just no money to solve social problems is complete bullshit. Turns out there’s plenty of money but the government would rather spend it trying to weaken Russia than actually help its own people. We’re already seeing a growing backlash happening in Europe, and recent polling in US is showing that people are starting to turn against the war as well.
Fingers crossed they don’t just find an easy scapegoat to blame for it all and the people do actually start to develop class consciousness.
indeed
the flood casualties are likely still too high. i hope the cpc invests in more flood-resistsnt infrastructure after this because it’s only going to get worse.
China saved people from flooding, but at what cost.
So I’ve noticed the propaganda about China has shifted over the past ten years. It used to be “China is a hyper-capitalist hellhole where everyone works for 2 cents an hour and you need a gas mask to breathe.” Now it’s “Yeah, China is fixing their problems, they’re building ultramodern infrastructure and unrolling impressive social programs, BUT IT ALL COMES AT A COST.”
I recently tried looking up what the MSM says about the homeless population in China and how they try to help their situations, basically every site I checked was like “yea sorry to say but they’re doing well. We disagree with what they’re doing, but yea😔their centers for feeding and clothing the homeless and trying to work with them to get them housing and occupation/education opportunities are successful, sigh😞” it’s crazy to read. Like the Economist was the only one being like “uh China bad, they HAVE homeless people in their country.”
maoists are still stuck on the first one
Maoists websites in 2076: “It’s now impossible to deny China is socialist, BUT I’M STILL MAD ABOUT THE GANG OF FOUR”
Once a capitalist hellhole, always a capitalist hellhole dontcha know. There’s no recovery from revisionism. Ever.
At the cost of a disproportionate amount of casualties among Party members. It is the duty of every CPC member to render aid in times of emergency, even at risk to their own lives.
Recently, a deputy mayor in Shulan City, a Political Commissar of the PLA, and a senior Party Member engineer were swept away by flood waters while directing evacuations and flood fighting from the front.
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I wish our government even pretended to give half as much of a shit as china’s
Indeed, my favorite part is when people argue how Chinese government does all these things to ensure that public is happy so that it can maintain political stability for itself, and I’m like yeah that’s how things should work. The government should be primarily interested in ensuring that the public supports it, this isn’t some gotcha.
It shows how neoliberalism has rotted people’s brains. The government making things better is bad actually as it is an attempt to gain favour. Anything other than managed decline is unthinkable.
Unless it is bending over backwards to subsidise privately owned business, then it is fine and good to pander actually. Gotta make sure that the same handful of people keep getting obscenely richer.
It’s because the sinister oriental etc etc
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With an extra dash of colonial seasoning.
And a smidgin of criminal incompetence (the United States’ secret ingredient for, well, everything)
“I feel like the citizens of this island have been called upon, maybe by a higher power, to actually help because no one else is helping,” said Kai Lenny, a professional surfer.
Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez said her department would launch “a comprehensive review of critical decision-making and standing policies leading up to, during and after the wildfires.
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US Coast Guard cutters and rescue helicopters saved 17 lives and assisted 40 other survivors in reaching shore. FEMA said it has 150 personnel on the ground, including search-and-rescue teams, with more on the way.
Not saying USA didn’t shit the bed on this one, but I feel like that one line in the meme needed some context.
It depends on which government.
The US is still a federal system with states acting as sovereign entities with powers and responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is for disaster relief. FEMA is there to provide guidance and resources, but disaster relief is supposed to be deployed at the state level. This is one of reasons why the National Guard has responsibilities to individual states.
Hawaii has never seen any wildfire or wildfire conditions like this before: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/climate/hawaii-fires-climate-change.html
Of course there should be preparations to counter climate change as it continues to aggravate situations like this, but I don’t like the excuse where the feds can blame the states and the states can blame the feds when shit hits the fan. It has become an excuse for inaction. Hurricane Katrina, Texas ice storms, California wildfires, the Kentucky floods, this could have been sorted out looonng ago.
Why do we make the choice to keep things this way when they always lead to disasters?
Don’t you know? It’s far more important to toss the blame football around than to actually prevent or alleviate disasters. Helping people? Bah! Far more important that we can blame someone else for the problem.
The problem is that the alternative is having the federal government immediately intervene in any emergency, which states would likely complain about.
I guess the problem then is I care about having a government that doesn’t want to kill me or leave me to die, then. Excuse me, I should have been caring about civility within our decaying governing structure while people roast alive on the street! Oh you’ve made me see the light, you sure have.
I’m not trying to convince you this is correct, just explaining the politics behind why the situation exists. Or maybe you want a strongman who will protect you until they don’t.
Or maybe you want a strongman who will protect you until they don’t.
Are you seriously doing the Tough Independent Rugged Real American LARP here?
Did you build your own home? Do you repair your own roads? Do you check your own food for botulism?
I was noting that the failure of the disaster response seems to be due to local government officials failing in their job.
What is the responsibility of a larger government entity for the governance of cities?
Presenting a oh-so-large-its-scary government entity assisting locally during a disaster as a bad thing is certainly a take.
It’s the responsibility of the larger government entity to step in in some cases. Like in the cases of natural (or semi-natural) disasters or if the local governance shits the bed to the extent that people are dying. We’re not dealing with free imperial cities of the Holy Roman Empire here, cities aren’t sovereign entities they’re administrative regions for the government.
I’d rather be protected “until they don’t” than not protected at all.
But maybe you don’t need a “strongman” to do that, but a robust system designed to deal with disasters. Doesn’t matter how strong an individual man is, he can’t fight wildfires alone.
Maybe just coldly explaining why the system doesn’t help people isn’t actually the “gotcha” argument you think it is. Maybe you should be demanding the system should help people, instead of just shrugging and saying that it doesn’t because of reasons.
But in the end, there needs to be a specific authority to answer to disasters. Right now, and for a while, it is state governments as making the federal government responsible erodes state sovereignty.
Outside of Trump, the federal government is there to help when asked, but it is still the responsibility of the states to manage response efforts.
Just FYI, I’m not American, and our state and federal governments have no problem co-operating when it comes to disaster relief, regardless of who is in charge. Our states will send firefighters around the country to where they’re needed, no questions asked, or hand-wringing about budgets or finger pointing at shitty politicians.
This idea about “states rights” is monstrous. A state is an intangible, it is just lines drawn on a map. You know what’s more important than that? Saving people’s lives. You guys are so worried about imagined tyranny that you’ll literally subject yourselves to far worse fates just in the name of some abject “freedom.” What freedom does a dead person have?
Just because something happens in America doesn’t mean it happens in the rest of the world. We look at your state of affairs with abject horror most of the time.
Then let the states complain or, better yet, dissolve the fuckers
That speaks volumes about both governments attitudes towards their citizens.
The right panel should show that moment The Zucc did a VR avatar high five over dead bodies after a hurricane.
CHINA IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AND EVERYONE SHOULD ASPIRE TO BE LIKE THEM. ITS NOT BAD TO HAVE LABOR CAMPS OR SOCIAL CREDIT SCORES.
ITS NOT BAD TO HAVE LABOR CAMPS OR SOCIAL CREDIT SCORES
Okay, let’s go see about these so-called “labor camps” and “social credit scores”
Social credit system: China’s “Social Credit Score System” - Fact or Fiction?
Xinjiang “labor camps”: Deep Dive: Adrian Zenz & Claims of “Coerced Labor” in Xinjiang Chinawhen the least deranged liberals visits your community
I was browsing all and saw your cute post. Then I looked up what this sub is.
So you are serious then? You all go out of your way to praise China for free? Weird hobby imo.
Yeah, we support governments that actually work for their people here.
And do you have any opinion on the labor camps?
The same country that accuses China of having “labour camps” (though that’s a new one gotta admit) is the country that has the highest prison population in the world in absolute numbers as well as per capita. The only country for which the term “school to prison pipeline” applies, and for which it was created. The only country that overly jails their minorities – their Black population – so that they can benefit from their labour renting them out to companies while the prisoner gets 18 cents an hour for that labour.
That country has no right to talk about human rights until they fix their own mess, and this goes for their citizens as well.
Labor camps are cool and good. Reactionaries like you should be given a chance to serve society and reform through labor.
Yeah, I think that prison labour camps US runs are disgusting and the fact that people like you project these atrocities on China is doubly so.
