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Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles (ground.news)
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[–] 84 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

Man leading country with the largest homeless population in the world says country which eliminated extreme poverty within its borders is about to collapse, of course this is true and should be taken seriously very-intelligent

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Uhhhh China has almost 5x the homelessness as America

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_homeless_population

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Buddy, you realize you're quoting a source from 2011? Over the past decade GDP/capita in China has more than doubled and the number of people living below the poverty line has dropped from 100 million to less than 1 million.

    Do people not check facts anymore? Jesus fucking Christ man. It's like y'all never learned the basic scientific process.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Do people not check facts anymore?

    Likewise, do people not cite sources for their own claims?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Heard of Google?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Heard of the burden of proof? Lead by example and Google it first

    Besides, providing sources isn't just to support your ideas, but for people to evaluate the quality of your info and gauge your integrity. 101 stuff, but go on lecturing about the scientific process while practicing none of it yourself.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    So... You have no counterargument, no source for your 2015 claim, and nothing of value to contribute? Carry on.

    You're one of the biggest failures of democracy: democracy assumes people discuss in good faith. Meanwhile, you use decades-old data to provide misinformation while pretending to be informed and follow it up with uncited claims... Because, reasons?

    Here, I'll help you Google:

    [GDP per capita] https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/china/gdp-per-capita

    [Poverty rates] https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/37727/9781464818776.pdf?sequence=4&isAllowed=y

    [Link between poverty and homelessness] https://pure.hw.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/7467281/Homelessness_Poverty_FullReport.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiE9fGM8NeAAxXcgv0HHdvWArIQFnoECBgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1BQARSj9oJ_XIjT4rz1cu_

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    You’re one of the biggest failures of democracy

    Where do you think I live?? xDDD

    Here, I’ll help you Google:

    Help me?? lmao Dude, that's your fucking homework. It's late and half-assed so I'll give you a C. Nice try throwing around a 100+ page PDFs around like that means anything. You give a quote with a page number, Mr Scientific Method dude.

    Now go forth practicing what you learned today instead of being a giant hypocrite, little grasshopper.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Have you never learned about primary sources? No competent scientific reference format asks for pages except for books (of which these aren't) and papers within conference proceedings (of which these also aren't).

    Still waiting for my 2015 source...

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    Wow. Just wow. You cite a 2011 article, ignoring everything about China's massive growth that has been the topic of international discussion for years and you think it's someone else's job to disabuse you of your own generated self-ignorance brought about by your willful ignorance and your confirmation-bias-driven cherry picking? Did you even bother to check the date on that bottle of copium before swallowing the whole thing?

    Fuck off with your undergrad intro to logic bullshit and own up to your mistakes and then go read a fucking book about history that isn't written by European propagandists. No I will not provide you with links.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago

    Buddy, I'm talking homelessness specifically, not just poverty. Show me proof China's reduced homelessness significatly. Because the most recent figure I could find was 2015... where there was an additional 500,000 homeless people from 2011, largely due to exploited migrant labor.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    I love not accounting for population size! However, let's see how the countries can be compared when we do:

    Uhhhh China has 4x the population of the US

    Uhhhh the US has more people in prison than China despite having 4x less people in the country

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  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    But 5 is bigger than 4

    Why bring up prison, is this a general "which country is worse" discussion?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    A lot of homeless people do end up in prison both for all of the anti-homeless laws in various cities. For some folks it may end up being a better option than just outright dying in the streets from lack of food, medicine (love how the richest nation can't put our tax money into anything that actually helps all of us), and/or from the elements. So while your point of bringing up prison population is a valid one. It is still (in part) related to homeless population numbers, just not totally useful by itself.

    That being said, I do think that China is actually putting much more effort into dealing with the problem. As bringing people out of poverty/homelessness is crucial to keeping support of the masses. When enough people are just tossed out and can't get help. It will lead to dramatic and very widespread revolts and even civil wars. That is true for any nation, no matter what system is in place. Socialist nations were birthed by such widespread poverty for the many while the few hoarded the wealth and resources. It is kind of one of the main points Marx and other anti-capitalist theorists base their shit on.

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