The conversations are amazing

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    Circle jerking about China is as ridiculous as circle jerking about the US. We’ve been here before with US vs USSR, but this time everyone has a megaphone and an IQ that can be measured with a ruler.

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      15 days ago

      I mean isn’t this more "circle jerking " about dismantling state propaganda? Interacting with those you were told are your enemy?

      Besides, people should always celebrate the positives, and look towards them as something that is possible in their country too.

      And as an fyi: when we were here before, the workers revolution in Russia was new. The achievements were so profound that workers in North America began demanding similar concessions from our governments. There was a real threat of overthrowing the existing power structures. And what happened? Weekends, literacy, healthcare, just generally improved living conditions. To dismiss cultural exchange as circle jerking is to ignore history and the power that comes with knowing things are better elsewhere, and that you can have that too.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      15 days ago

      You keep on coping there little buddy. What’s happening is that regular people from both countries are now talking directly to each other, and finding out what life is actually like.

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        14 days ago

        Uhhh, not exactly regular people. From what I’ve seen from the Rednote, at least my feed is wealthy upper-middle or upper class, while the Americans are from low to middle class.

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      14 days ago

      Sorry for being pedantic, but those foldable work rulers are exactly 2 m long (at least in MetricLandia), which is, incidentally, the span of IQ values (0-200).

      So yeah, it literally can be mapped one-to-one to a (common type of) ruler.

      A photo of an IQ ruler