Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

  • American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
  • Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
  • The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
  • gubblebumbum@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    You do it by exploiting the billions outside your borders from countries even more poor like mine where they sell their garbage low quality products that cant be repaired or recycled, from shitty earphones to bikes that start breaking down in a year, taking advantage of poor people who cant afford to buy anything of better quality. China isnt better than us when it comes to exploitation and inequality.

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        3 hours ago

        I think the Chinese businessmen are exploiting slave laborers to produce cheap goods and export them to most of the world. Would you call that a mutually beneficial relationship?

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          What do you think “capitalist” means?

          I don’t think you know, because by definition there cannot be “alot.” That’s the whole point of capitalism- to concentrate the means of production into the hands of a very few.

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        Hold up. You think the Chinese are the ones deciding to manufacture low quality products, and not the capitalists who are ordering them that way?

        Chinese brands owned by Chinese capitalists operating with consent from the chinese state.

        spreading their wealth to those in need

        Using planned obsolescence and taking advantage of poor consumer and environmental protection laws to sell garbage to people trapped in a cycle of poverty isn’t exploitation? Also China ‘invested’ billions here too and we didnt get any hospitals. We got china flooding our markets with its shitty goods and chinese ‘businessmen’ running scam centers.

        They value mutually beneficial relationships

        they do have a mutually beneficial relationship with our dictators.

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          I love that capitalists attacking communists always end up accidentally attacking capitalism. Classic.

          • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            4 hours ago

            China is a capitalist country with aspects of socialism. it’s not really communist anymore.

            No one here is shitting on communists, were shitting on you for a thinking the Chinese are any different than us.

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            China is a capitalist shithole but for some reason its biggest defenders are always self proclaimed western communists.

            edit: we also have a few militant communists groups that like to blow up chinese nationals working for their govt every now and then.

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              4 hours ago

              What exactly do you think “capitalist” means? Because it sounds like you think any participation in markets is capitalism.

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            4 hours ago

            What do you think “capitalist” means? It sounds like you think it’s just market participation.