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.
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.
Dear liberals, how does it feel to be outdone by the Workers' Party of Korea for the umpteenth time?
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
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.
Puerto Rico hurricane disaster relief vs Cuba, anyone?
That speaks volumes about both governments attitudes towards their citizens.
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Natural disasters are great for the economy, i am not joking unfortunely.
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.
Its sad, I pray for all the victims. Its all over the news in America.
We have to be clear about the fact that this was not merely a "tragic accident" it was a crime. This was mass murder by the settler state on a colonized people. The neglectful policies of the colonial government of Hawaii compounded on the effects of climate change which the US is doing everything it can to accelerate and which they know will disproportionately affect indigenous populations and poor people.
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?
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.
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 Chinaare you ok? do you need a glass of water and to lie down maybe?
Or the world's biggest manufacturing base, world's largest economy by PPP, no recession in over 40 years, 90% homeownership rate, elimination of absolute poverty, world leader in green technology, leader in automation technology, etc., etc...
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.”
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.
The Hawaiian state government handled this situation in the worst possible way, but what is the US federal government supposed to do to response as instantly as people want?
Hawaii is thousands of kilometers from the west coast and it’ll still be several days until the federal relief and military convoys (which were immediately displaced on the first day) from California reach the island, and resources for anti firefighting operations were scarce since the magnitude of the disaster was never expected, and there were little to no personnel equipped to handle the disaster on the island itself since most US firefighters are centered in the Pacific Northwest and Canada currently.
Meanwhile Beijing is quite literally the capital of China, so of course response times will be near instant from relief efforts.
Hawaii was colonized by the US' settler colonialism, which undermined the country's ability to develop freely without being constrained by the US.
The natives have always known how to properly care for the land and live in harmony with nature. It is the US that is the ultimate reason Hawaii is so vulnerable to disasters today.Hell, the US even poisoned Hawaii's supply of groundwater with millions of gallons of fuel leaks.
It's not a question of how the US federal government is/was supposed to respond. Hawaii should've (as in the US shouldn't have captured their territory) maintained its sovereignty as an independent country, full stop.
When I think of governments helping their people, I think of Beijing 👍🏻
China's been busy working on doing things like eliminating poverty, creating public infrastructure, providing healthcare, housing, food, and education for all citizens. Chinese government practically eliminated poverty, building infrastructure having used more concrete in 3 years than US in all of 20th century, building 27,000km of high speed rail in a decade.
China has also been doing things like ensuring that everyone has housing with 90% of families in the country own their home giving China one of the highest home ownership rates in the world.China's been improving real wages (i.e. the wage adjusted for the prices you pay) that have gone up 4x in the past 25 years, more than any other country, and making sure people have high social mobility.
Congratulations on being unintentionally correct.
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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)
