• Etterra@discuss.online
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    7 hours ago

    Meanwhile on America: this is why I’ve been saying for years that they should all just get AC already. At this point they’re just being contrary.

  • Sleepless One@lemmy.ml
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    13 hours ago

    30 years from now, a billboard rises in Shanghai. On it, a woman in a traditional ethnic peasant dress strikes a ballet pose. The text reads:

    Christly Rhythm Artes Troupe

    Europe before air conditioning.

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    11 hours ago

    This is funny but is it responding to something specific about AC in China? I feel like I’m missing context

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      7 hours ago

      It’s responding to the persistent propaganda narrative that modernizing poverty-stricken rural areas of China like Tibet and Xinjiang is somehow a “cultural genocide.” By providing education, modern technology, and resources to these areas, it’s been argued that the people in these areas are somehow lesser for joining the 21st century.

      Also the criticism of China daring to increase its electricity consumption as it raises 800 million people out of extreme poverty, instead of cutting back on energy usage like Europe is (ignoring that China still uses less than 1/10th the energy usage per capita, 1/2 per capita in rich areas.)

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    21 hours ago

    I hear Europeans might even start showering more than once a month now. The planet won’t be able to withstand this

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      You are presenting CIA propaganda as facts and more importantly: you’re missing the joke. Try rereading the post without [taking] it serious. This is a memes community.

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        Why do you think critizing China is CIA propaganda?

        The human right abuses in Xinjiang are a fact.

        I can’t not take this post seriously.

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          unironically and unquestionably believing in an unhinged right-wing nutcase’s DIVINELY INSPIRED conspiracy theory where Jesus Christ himself came down from the heavens to tell him that China is really actually killing and interring ONE HUNDRED GAZILLION-BASZILLION muslims in Xinjiang just to own the tankies. a modern free-thinker from the west, everyone. point and laugh.

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          Yeah! Adrian Zenz told me that China killed a trillion people in Xinjiang to make way for the largest Denny’s in the world! Take that tankies!