Infrastructure which was built 10 years ago is more shiny and fancy than infrastructure which was built 100 years ago, what a surprise...
Also note how there are some 16 surveillance cameras in just this single picture of a Chinese subway station, lmao!

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Mar 19 2023 06:03pm

Rofl at communist dictatorship worship. All you need is a few pretty lights to distract you from all that surveillance. Just in that one photo alone is 10+ cameras lol. You can't use the rest room without xin approving it.

Macron approval rating hitting a three year low? Nice https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-19/macron-s-popularity-reaches-three-year-low-in-ifop-poll?leadSource=uverify%20wall

Pretty sure it's super shitty in Djunioristan

*Buthurt Whataboutism noises*

This post was edited by addone on Mar 20 2023 02:47am

China has a fucking army of people who, in tier 1-3 cities at least, go around touching up every single little public space so it looks like new.

People even make fun of it, calling it a New Deal-like make-work program where people get paid to take down the plaster on a wall and re-do it all every 6 months. (edit: tbc, that's not what the New Deal was, but that's the meme)

American infrastructure is shit not because it's old, but because it's not immediately profitable.

Also, who cares about cameras? Chinese surveillance is actually pretty fragmented and performative. In China, municipal doesn't really talk to provincial which doesn't really talk to federal authorities. Completely unlike GB or USA, which are nearly panopticons in comparison. Fusion centers exist in every major American city, which staff hundreds of people each and whose goal is to integrate all knowledge between the local police department, the FBI, BPS, INS, etc. Nothing like this exists in China. Besides, without cameras, how would you get your 6 year old anecdotes from a country with 1.4 billion people that you base all your garbage takes on?:




This post was edited by kusotarre1 on Mar 20 2023 11:04pm

Dont know how accurate the numbers are since I just Googled it quickly but I read China has around 200 million CCTV cameras, and the US has about 50 million so it doesn't seem that crazy in comparison if you account for population difference

This post was edited by DizzyBusiness on Mar 20 2023 11:06pm

You downplay the fact that the Chinese government puts cameras everywhere as if their people were all would-be criminals who needed to be watched constantly.

Naw.

Very few people in the West care enough about China to want to demonize it.

This post was edited by JessiWan on Mar 20 2023 11:21pm

Well that is how they roll. Probably why you seldom get mugged or rape since there are some pretty draconian laws against those crimes and with Cameras, people will think twice.
Similar to Singapore.
You will think twice about raping and assualting a girl since the max sentence is 24 strokes of cane and 24 years in prison.