It really is like this
It really is like this
I mean... I kinda get it, but nowadays it's starting to get absurd.
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Inside me are two wolves
One thinks Chinese tech is cool and innovative
The other hates fascist dictatorships
*both of the wolves are gay
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Those are really Based wolves. Can I borrow them?
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You may or may not think China is "authoritarian" but how on earth are they fascist?
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Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement,[1][2][3] characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.
Far right? Hm, maybe not. Otherwise: Check, check, quasi-check, check, check, check, ...
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I think many might reference the Uyghur genocide + extreme authoritarianism to explain why they call China fascist. I personally, am not educated on the persecution of the Uyghur genocide part, so I'm not so sure.
But China definitely has hints of nationalism and "former glory" or whatever when they start talking about Taiwan and the South China Sea. Sooo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Uwu
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Accurate
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China isn’t fascist though? They are just a shitty authoritarian state.
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There really is no justification to simp for any country/government. They are all pretty terrible and genocidal.
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Nationalism, and especially jingoism, are very dangerous indeed.
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Ehh i dont like the obsession with one of the most racist and xenophobic countries today, even tho i know its not why they like japan.
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It's just another cold war, history books will discuss it as such.
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Exactly 👏👏
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I used to wonder how Japanese media was so bad compared to their neighbours (storytelling wise) then I started watching Thai programmes and Japanese could definitely be worse
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Ever seen the Chinese localization of Tom and Jerry? They voice over everything and add a ton of sound effects so there's no confusion. Politics aside, who is exactly are they protecting by banning zombies and ghosts. Well, they can have zombies, but not too gory and they can't call them zombies.
I like Thunderbolt Fantasy, so I should like Pili Fantasy(Taiwan), but it's way too much soap opera. Thunderbolt is a nice balance between something new and the pacing of a 12 episode anime.
South Korean stuff bothers me. They haven't become disillusioned capitalism yet, so the subtext misses for me. I can't tell what the point of Tower of God is. The harem stuff they put out puts Japan to shame.
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It do be like that with manga/manhua tbh. I still prefer Korean webcomics because I like my trash but... It's been ages since I read a decent Chinese webcomic or manhua. They are so fucking trash. I'm sure there are some good ones but... Yeah.
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Chinese studios on their way to create yet another Wuxia donghua
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That's the problem, I love wuxia, I love stupid power levels and all that, I love my trash comics. It's the story they tell alongside that that irks me to no end.
Close to zero decent dialogue between people besides shitty villains talking big until the hero flips his eyelash and suddenly everyone is bowing to them. There's no interesting characters, no banter.
To give some examples of wuxia done right (I like the top batch more but the other ones are alright):
Return of the mount hua sect Infinite levelling: murim Return of the crazy demon Nano machine Absolute sword sense Star instructor or something
I reincarnated as the crazed heir Path of the shaman
Half wuxia: Murim login
All of these have a mc with personality, there's decent banter between characters, there's an interesting plot, plot changes make sense...
There's also the "dungeon" theme with portals that grew in popularity since solo levelling (around then) that is basically the same trash plot with another power level vector.
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What? Don't you see people flocking to TikTok? RedNote? And now deepseek?
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these are the reasons I think this happens:
- their numerous accusations of spyware
- their government being fucked up (especially their censorship)
- being known for making a lot of mass-produced garbage for cheap
- the working conditions in those factories being horrible
- regular racism (which may be caused by the above)
edit: reworked comment into bulleted list instead of run-on sentence
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Except on Antiques Roadshow follow-up episodes!
(Anything Chinese has gone up in price, Japanese not so.)
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Probably because China has a reputation for lying about their products, using cheap components, ridiculous levels of censorship, and a poor record on silly things like human rights
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china is an entire economy based on intellectual property thievery and human slavery. the ccp are evil, and dangerous to all of humanity. go try your bullshit someplace else.
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I'm sorry, "entire economy" based on "human slavery"? That's absurd. Yes the CCP abuses the fuck out of the Uighurs and it's awful, but this is insane hyperbole.
The US also uses slavery, very literally, very out in the open and doesn't hide it to the point that the details are fuzzy and unclear.
It does it both very directly via prison inmates being used for labour for peanuts against their will by corporations in agreement with corpos that run their prisons and in the less direct way where the fed and state governments don't do shit about/give subsidies to farmers that hoover up disenfranchised illegals to stack em and pack em in sheds so they can work their fields for fuck all.
Both of those are such mainstream facts there's even a John Oliver episode about both topics from years ago.
Would you say the "entire economy" of the US is based on "human slavery"?
I doubt it.
Not to mention you bring that up alongside "intellectual property thievery", are those two really of even similar magnitude? Surely "human slavery" is a bit more serious than downloading a picture of mickey mouse off Google images, nah?
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You're literally describing how US companies turn a profit.
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