ok i looked up the video because i was curious and it was even dumber than i expected
the video opens with "traveling by train in china can really be a nightmare" and then it's like a full minute of footage of crowded trains with ominous, spooky music
i can't deal with this shit man, why are you such a fucking imbecile
There was an oped in the NYT about a white American woman raising her children in China. She let her middle school age daughters ride the train by themselves because it was safe. The only thing she hated about the country is lockdowns and her children speaking in a nationalistic tone when talking about completing homework lol.
They moved back to the US and the first day they went to class at an American school, they had to learn mass shooters drills.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/opinion/china-education-parenting-culture.html
https://archive.is/y1pQP
I've been in a crowded train. It's kind of annoying. Not exactly an ominous and spooky nightmare LMAO.
But then suddenly I overhear someone talk about their cop brother and how people just don't want to work nowadays I GOT FIVE ON IT (SUSPENSEFUL) STARTS PLAYING
Oh yeah, crowded trains can be awful. I've been on crowded trains in summer while the AC was out, that was an actual nightmare and I'm sure that happens in China as well.
But the framing of it all is just so... blatantly disingenuous, it's malicious in such a mundane and uncreative way, it's exhausting. Because it feels like yeah, you could point out "Crowded trains in a country with 1,3 billion people are to be expected, a cherry-picked compilation like this could be made about trains in any country and the spooky music is supposed to make it feel special when it isn't" but it's so blatant that these people just do. not. care about reality or truth.
They know they can lie with impunity and the burden of proof will always be on you if you decide to defend a state enemy. They know the establishment is behind them, the imperialist structure is behind them, so they can just say random bullshit. They can simply talk over you and impose their nonsensical beliefs onto the rest of the world, regardless of reality or reason, because as long as it's about a designated enemy state, there will never ever be negative consequences. There is no fucking point in talking to these people because their ideology, their perception of what is true or false is based on power alone.
Reality just doesn't fucking matter to anyone. The empire has designated China as an enemy and the people blindly follow. China's trains are not a nightmare because they're crowded or unsafe or made of cheap material or because people were forced out of their homes to build them or whatever (just examples, none of this is true afaik), China's trains are a nightmare because they are in China, and Western power structures have deemed China as evil, therefore everything they do must be evil. These videos are pure fucking ideology and it's so exhausting because half of these dullards probably aren't even aware of it. They don't know why they believe the things they do and just babble incoherent nonsense to convince themselves why the status quo is actually great for very real and material reasons and you just don't get it.
Sorry for the rant but I seriously just cannot deal with this shit anymore. Responding to arguments based on neoliberalism, white supremacy and imperialism with arguments based on material reality is like trying to cut water with a knife.
Edit: haha i accidentally did the thing, by "rest of the world" i obviously mean
Don't show this dude videos of Japanese trains at prime time hours. He'll think they've gone Commy too.
fun fact: standing infront of a car going 50kmph will also kill you
That's why we see so many traffic accidents around the world. All vehicle related accidents are the fault of the Chinese.
a single glance at any railway accident stats will tell you how deeply unserious this person is.
china is nowhere near the top. most railway accidents? US (or possibly india, depending on who you believe and how it's counted). most fatalities in railway accidents? south africa.
but yeah, it's china's railways that are uniquely, especially dangerous.
remember the east palestine ohio deraiment and when everybody freaked out the rail companies said "dont worry this happens all the time" and then everybody forgot about it.
I 'member when the safety issues around this were called out by over worked rail workers who were going to strike and then pro-Union Biden broke the strike.I swear, that incident should have instantly ended anarcho-capitalism as a concept right then and there.
: "Train derailments with tons of collateral damage are normal, bro. We have no incentive to change this"And people think these types need MORE power?
I still can't believe that we were all told by Porky and Biden that the giant black cloud engulfing East Palestine was actually perfectly safe, and every Lib just went "okay"
American low speed rail, famously not deadly. They have whoopie cushions on the front of trains here so it's really funny when people get hit.
One funny thing about this: the train in the thumbnail is a Velaro CN model, a model developed by Siemens in Germany.
Every time I think anti Chinese youtube propaganda has reached peak stupid I'm surprised again
Fool, he could be working for some DC think tank instead of making clickbait
I got this recommended to me by the algorithm and I immediately thought of Hexbear.
I got an add on for Firefox that causes all thumbnails for YouTube videos to instead be a screenshot of 5 seconds into the video (Clickbait remover for youtube). Between that, ublock, sponsorblock, an addon that gets rid of recommended videos+the side bar (DF Youtube or Distraction free youtube) I feel so much better about the website
it's ogre for jina, the walls are closing in, china in collapsing in 23 minutes, waa waa waa
China's High Speed Highways are Deadly!