The stupid tankies have failed to consider that I’ve created a nonfalsifiable scenario in my mind just now so actually it’s a bad thing when your industry is good smh. I know for years I’ve said it was a good thing to have strong industry and also have repeatedly explained how deindustrialization was bad and now I want to reindustrialize my own nation, so here’s a 15 minute video (NOT COPE!) on why good industry is bad but only for China.
It's the dunk tank.
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I have consistently run into people that are generally cool but will bring up some WILD anti China propaganda like “ghost cities” and say with absolute certainty that their economy is actively collapsing. I try to temper myself and not get too angry at them personally when this kind of blatant propaganda and is pushed to the top of their feeds constantly. It’s pathetic to see how easy it is to manipulate public opinion and how seemingly nobody learns from the countless historical examples of manufacturing consent to support imperialist interests
The China “ghost cities” thing is so funny. Aside from all of the stories published about them only to see a few years later that all of the buildings are fully occupied, what really makes me laugh is that none of the westerners bringing up ghost cities ever talk about housing in their own country as a comparison.
So tell me then western millennial, do you own a home? No? That’s fine, not everybody wants to own a home. So if renting is your preferable alternative, it must be cheap then? No, and you don’t prefer to rent? Huh, well that must mean a lot of other people would prefer to own a home, so the housing situation is almost certainly adapting to current conditions to make affordable homes readily available? Also no? In that case, surely the housing crisis is being addressed by your government with the sole purpose of providing homes, not just building to benefit speculators and landlords, right? Still no? Hmmmm well now a ghost city is suddenly starting to sound like a highly preferable situation.
It’s an argument that completely falls apart under the slightest scrutiny, oh no the horror of providing housing prospectively!