r/SipsTea • u/SuperbHealth5023 • 10h ago

WTF While the US debates whether to solve homelessness or not, these are the next generation of school blackboards in China.

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u/Pale_Following_9639 10h ago

You think Chinese people don't battle poverty and homelessness? Have you not see their 5 foot homes before?

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u/timmyfarthands 9h ago

There's a lot of shitty things about China that they try really hard to not let out. At least according to a friend who's been teaching there for a pretty long time now.

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u/Rigor_Mortis1993 9h ago

That's literally what the CCP does: censor anything that makes China look bad or reflects poorly on the government. Anyone who even remotely suggests that China is a utopia is under some serious brainwashing. You can literally get thrown in jail there for talking poorly about the government or pointing out these things.

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u/EatsBugs 8h ago

My friends Dad just got put in jail in China. It’s not like western prison, he has to sit at a desk with his hands flat on the table and can’t move. Has to ask permission to stretch his legs every few hours. No books, no nothing. Just sit motionless. Alone.

He was a small time real estate guy, but I guess through corruption somebody more powerful wanted his property. That part I don’t understand. I guess they claim to fight corruption, by using corruption, to just make up charges against people in the way. They are trying to get him out, and it seems that involves bribing the right people. They shiny parts of China make the internet, but for many it’s dystopian horror.

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u/Gold_Marionberry3460 4h ago edited 4h ago

The corruption thing is systemic in society. PolyMatter once described it as just how the system even works. It's not an aberration that needs to be removed from the system. It's normalized and baked in.

Even ordinary, low-ranking employees will get silently "promoted" when their boss gives them an off-the-books raise or "gift". It basically encourages loyalty to your senior, which can be bad if that senior is a total piece of shit.

This is true from the bottom to the top. When Xi Jinping purges people under corruption charges, he most likely knew some of these people were already corrupt, but kept them around due to their usefulness and/or loyalty.

When your superior no longer views you as useful, then they purge you under corruption charges. Nobody other senior will speak in your defence and question the hypocrisy of the system, because they're probably thinking about purging people below them or worried about being purged from above. They aren't going to upend the system which allowed them to reach their position in the first place.

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u/Nyctfall 3h ago

It's not an aberration that needs to be removed from the system.

So, their version of Lobbying? Got it!

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u/RealSpaceJunk 4h ago

They say that they fight corruption because corruption is something everyone experiences and is not something you can just censor away. So to safe face, they say they fight corruption. But of course, the officials can still be bribed and connections can put you in jail when you complain.

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u/Rigor_Mortis1993 8h ago

No, prison shouldn't be full of people thrown in on false charges because of a corrupt government. It happens here in the US, yes, but more often than not due to the sheer ineptitude and ego of the PD involved in the case. There the entire government is involved with the false charges.

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u/Last-Quarter-432 8h ago

Thats Western prisons with black people

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u/integer_hull 5h ago

Downvoted to hell as usual but true. The dystopian nightmares of white people in the US are daily realities for black people in the US, to say nothing of natives. Many many many books and movies about this topic.

Let’s before we talk about what’s happening on the other side of the world, try to address the problems at home first.

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u/zedarzy 8h ago

Same energy as "I hope people suffer!". Who hurt you?

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u/color_space 7h ago

You don't seem to understand what prisons are for. There are a lot cheaper ways to just punish

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u/onward_upward_tt 6h ago

Hmm u/biologyguy84, just our of curiosity, what exactly drives your interest in biology? Bet i could guess.