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[–] caboose2006@lemm.ee 148 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Eh, there's truth and lies on both sides. Coming from someone that lived in china for 4 years and was able to engage with Chinese primary news sources. But basic healthcare in china is faster and cheaper, but then again I went to get a wart removed and they prescribed me acorn paste that accelerated the growth of the wart. So win some lose some.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 72 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Everyone pretending Europe doesn't exist? Most states have most healthcare for "free" (mandatory healthcare taxes).

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The kinda people joining Rednote right now are not the same kinda people who know alot about geopolitics, or honestly anything beyond their personal bubble. Yeah, they're just gonna keep pretending Europe doesn't exist.

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[–] Pili@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Eh... as someone living in western Europe, I can't say it's free. I would say that it's subsidized at most. We still have to pay a part of our healthcare, we can get a private health insurance to complete the government coverage, but it's still not enough to cover all of it.

Mental health isn't covered at all, ophtalmology barely (still gotta pay 200€ for a pair of glasses, after public + private coverage), dental only the very basic is covered...

[–] Dreadful6644@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Just out of curiosity, which country?

[–] LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago

Yup, Europe is pretty heterogeneous

[–] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 16 hours ago

That description matches where I live, Belgium

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[–] Saleh@feddit.org 3 points 18 hours ago

As the screenshot shows, in China some things also seem to require a copay.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 18 hours ago

So total brain rot absolutely everywhere?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 180 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Sagittarii@lemm.ee 264 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's a bunch of Chinese posts asking if the stuff about school shootings, fires, homelessness are exaggerated propaganda only to be told otherwise. It's both hilarious and sad.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 139 points 1 day ago (27 children)

People of the US and China are both unsure of what to believe about the other, because both are so propagandized lol

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[–] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Few things blew my mind even though I've been a big fan of Chinese economic and political policy for a while

They actually really like Soviet Culture, the marching soldiers and flags etc. Soviet rock like Kino and the like is very popular!

They're casually Marxist, its not something they have to fight to learn about so socialism is a casual existence for them. I figured the youth would be "too cool or hip" but doesn't seem to be the case

They're very similar as gamers, they really like shooters like battlefield and cs go. I assume their MMOs are different but I'm asking about that

It truly is a massive cultural exchange the likes of which have never been seen before. I'm trying to find out if they grew up on the same games, Morrowind Deus Ex Thief Ultima Online D&D etc

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yeah they really like Soviet culture. My first post on there is of some Soviet artwork and it got 1.3k likes, on a brand new account. Wouldn't see that happening on Insta or Xitter.

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[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I still don't believe the TEMU bit though

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I like how one person said they don't use child labour because they are inefficient. If they were efficient though ...

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[–] baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why? You just assume TEMU uses child labour because... vibes?

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[–] fatur0000new@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

picture 2: not real and technically imposible to do that cause we have 1.4 billion people

This makes me imagine how social credit score department people hands look like if social credit score is real

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[–] REgon@hexbear.net 72 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

No. So many goods cannot be produced by children, it is inefficient.

New tagline dropped

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 179 points 1 day ago (5 children)

If banning tik tok ends up galvanizing demand for healthcare reform I'm going to laugh my ass off

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 136 points 1 day ago (68 children)

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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