Haha yeah public trust
checks approval rating of congress
Loool
Lmaooo they even talk about the objectivity of the CDC (the one that’s been lying about what steps to take for this virus) and for portraying democracies as more cooperative they cite the fucking board game Pandemic hahahahahah
Loving all these articles that aged like milk
don’t buy into the individualism/collectivism crap. it’s all power, all propaganda. if the state wanted to, any of these western states really wanted to, they have/had the ability to mobilize resources appropriately.
the fact that capitalist nations serve capital and not their citizens is the sole reason the responses have been to murder citizens to keep capital happy.
I mean the big indicator of this is that the country I’ve most heard called “collectivist” is Japan.
Yeah, the country where the working conditions for the average person are so stressful that a huge amount of them consider or commit suicide is truly thinking about the collective.
Oh wait.
now with links:
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China’s coronavirus lockdown — brought to you by authoritarianism - Washington Post, Jan. 27
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China’s Super-Strict City Lockdowns May Be Illegal - Caixin, Feb. 18
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China scrambles to keep cities in virus lockdown fed - AP, Feb. 8
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China Is Under Lockdown - Foreign Policy, Feb. 5 (this one is more ghoulish than the title portrays)
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To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China - The New York Times, Feb. 15
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Sealed in: Chinese trapped at home by coronavirus feel the strain - Reuters, Feb. 22
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How the Coronavirus Revealed Authoritarianism’s Fatal Flaw - The Atlantic, Feb. 22
Honest question - how do we know we can trust these polls? Do they come from the CCP or external source?
Funny enough, it comes from Harvard itself:
And well, as someone that studies in a Chinese university: yes, Chinese like their government and their nation.
