China’s Youth Are Quitting the Rat Race to ‘Let It Rot’
Demoralized young Chinese are looking for pathways out of the carefully scripted lives their elders want for them
Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family
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Amazing arc, like watching the last 120 years in the US compressed down to a couple decades. From rural to industrial powerhouse to the kids going “fuck this shit”.
What’s next?
It's like watching a speedrun: Capitalism any%.
Next? Some of them have to be thinking "wait, this is a communist country, isn't it?"
I don't think anyone think of China as a communist/socialist country for a very long time. Maybe except older generations and tankies.
Ironically, I have met more tankies in six month on lemmy than my 18 years growing up in China. It is truly a wild culture shock that I didn't expect. LOL.
A "tankie" isn't a communist anymore than an American Republican wants individual freedom.
Anyone that supports China is going to say it's communist, and anyone from the right shitting on China is going to say they're communist.
But both groups are pretty much the same and no one should listen to either
My pet conspiracy theory is that a bunch of tankies are actually CIA trolls, in an effort to tie criticism of the US together with completely bonkers causes. The end goal being that if you think the US is not the best thing ever, you must be a tankie, and you support authoritarian regimes like Iran and China.
Some of the tankie(bots) I have argued with on here are so contrarian that it seems that way to me, as well. They don't try to argue in good faith, and they never concede no matter how much they are proven wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of them are bots or bad actors either from the CIA, China, or Russia.
The CCP doesn’t even claim that China is communist though. Idk where you’re getting that from.
The CCP doesn’t even claim that China is communist though
Can I get a source for the communist party of China saying they're not communists?
The CCP are communists though. There is no denying that. That doesn’t mean they think China is a communist country. Communism to them doesn’t just mean the communists are in power. Communism to them is more of an ideal they aim to work towards.
That's not a source...
And it's like saying American Republican voters want personal freedom.
It doesn't matter what someone says if their actions are the opposite
A source for what? You asked the question,
Can I get a source for the communist party of China saying they’re not communists?
I’m trying to clarify what I said because it sounds like you misinterpreted me. If you want a source of the CCP saying that they think China is not yet communist that’s an entirely different question altogether.
it's not that ironic if you look at lemmy's origin.
What’s next?
A gigantic Lemmy instance?
They already have two.
Without draconian censorship you can't really replicate the experience of Chinese social media. I mean, I'm sure I'd be able to say things like sprinkling pepper 撒胡椒面 or facilitating commerce while loosening my clothing 通商宽衣.
Just doesn't feel the same.
Civil war, if our current trajectory is any indication.
I mean, that was almost a national sport over there, before the CPC.
Yes blame the "youth" when the average age of our politicians is 65. Makes perfect sense.
Gullible people are partially to be blamed.
What you mean like the fucking Boomers who keep voting for these pieces of shit? Yeah I agree.
China is already essentially an authoritarian dictatorship. There’s no big leap to fascism for them, they just need to fetishize the military and act more nationalistic than they already do. They’re already prejudicial, blaming minorities within for all sorts of problems, attempting to control speech and thought, etc.