I swear unanimous appreciation of china was a pretty common sentiment and now I'm consistently seeing upbeared comments about how china isn't and never was a socialist state, and how actually their use of markets is as bad if not worse than america. What's going on? IDK what to think or what side I'm on here but it just seems like opinions fundamentally changed so quickly, it's weird.
TBH I think it's less about what most users think and more about what most users think they can post here without being made to feel like shit about.
The reward of spreading our (objectively correct ofc) views on C H Y N A to a few extremely online commies, is to most of us for most of the time, not worth spending hours of our life arguing on the internet or the negative emotional impact of having a community we kind of care about dunk on us about.
So a few uncontested dunks/public shamings can quickly shift, if not people's opinions then the opinions that they're willing to express.
Yesterday someone got genuinely and publically upset about being dunked on for saying china bad so now some china good posters took a break and some china bad posters were emboldended. I think a very small portion of posters actually care enough to risk posting about controversial topics so discouraging/encouraging a few of them can have wildly disproportionate impacts on the dialogue on this website.
Give it a month or so and it might swing back the other way.
Pretty much this.
The site as a whole isn’t like GenZDong. It’s got a few people who care, and a whole lot of people who are just happy to read the arguments.