oh my god i had forgotten all the pearl clutching over "ghost cities"
No! You can't just create cities were they are needed! They have to be created from slums that are built for workers mining gold and such!
it just the west coping with their pathetic failing infrastructure while China lifts millions out of rural poverty each year :sicko-zoomer:
US Media: The Three Gorges Dam is going to break any day now!
China: Hydroelectric power go brrrrr
You're supposed to use the stick and keep the carrot for yourself stupid authoritarian idiots
Cuba destroys freedom by forcing you to get your doctor without the right to purchase one on the free market
Ah yes, parents flocking to wealthy areas because they have good schools, thank God that would never happen in America because your ass goes to jail if you try to give your kids a better life
LMAO I literally did exactly this with my kids. Got them into the rich kid school because my mom lives just barely inside the boundary. Said she was their "primary after school caregiver", even though they took a city bus back home every day. We're white enough that nobody looked into it, though. :D
I would move anywhere they offer me a half off house haha
"In authoritarian communist china, really nice houses in major cities are sometimes expensive"
Please mr. Xi, force me. I've been a very naughty boy and need to be punished.
In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.
-- Blackshirts and Reds, Part III
lol US states have a fuckload of incentive programs for teachers to teach in "underserved" (systemically impoverished and underfunded) schools temporarily and all they usually offer is job priority when they inevitably relocate.
