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China easily has shit loads more cameras, but to give you an idea how they are used, my mate left his bag in a taxi, so he went to the police station and whilst they were with him and in the space of about 10 mins, they loaded up the nearest camera to where he had been dropped off, got the taxi registration, called the driver, and got the bag delivered to his hostel.

This isn't even a rare occurrence. At first I was a bit weirded out by the sheer number of cameras, especially around roads, but having interacted with Chinese law enforcement on a few occasions, I am no longer concerned. They genuinely seem to be there to serve the populace and not enforce some draconian policy of protecting capital.

Oopsiedoodle. Let’s hope more liberals start to get the picture.

don't worry, they never will.

or atleast not enough of them to make an impact on things today.

And those groups are filled with fantasies of confronting the thief and exercising their CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS on them.

Tbf, there are a lot of areas in the U.S. where public package deliveries are the norm. I myself have only ever had a lockbox for packages in my apartment complex once, and I have never had a package stolen from me in my entire life.

In my experience it is really only the wealthy suburbs that are usually robbed, and ordinarily it is the children of the neighborhood that are doing it, not random homeless people. That said, there have absolutely been huge rackets around stealing packages in the cities, but that whole thing seems to have died down a bunch.

Idk. It always seemed like a hugely exaggerated problem to me.

I mean, they've already been doing this

PATRIOT Act really set the tone for the last 20-odd years

It’s already happening in the comments. Granted those are usually ratio’d to hell, but unfortunately it won’t be hard to pump up the likes with some bot farms.

Manufactured consent is just changing forms :/

more people die during America's Halloween celebrations per year than have been killed by Chinese police, in the entire country, in the same time period

please elaborate. Let's have a conversation about this and better understand each other

The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable. Cognitive dissonance, the kind that eventually spurs one into becoming intolerant of the status quo and into action, is initially unpleasant and scary for everybody. In this way, we can begin to understand the benefit that “victims” of propaganda derive from carelessly “spreading awareness.” Their efforts feed an ambient propaganda haze of controversy and scandal and wariness that suffocates any painful optimism (or jealousy) and ensuing sense of duty one might otherwise feel from a casual glance at the amazing things happening elsewhere. People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.

from https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/