r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ActualInstance2195 • 4d ago

Video Fascinating growth made by China!

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u/Mundane-Pen-7105 4d ago

England has pots holes that have took longer to fill.

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u/OverCookedTheChicken 4d ago

This post feels propaganda-y. I have nothing against China (because I don’t know enough) but like…

Am I seriously the only one who prefers aspects of the “before” pictures? The afters all looks like if billboards could be whole-ass buildings. It’s just so flashy, so consumerist and fake-looking to me. Why? Honestly, that’s what a dystopian world looks like to me personally. No nature, all flashy on the outside like a million seizures, tons of light and sound and who knows what other pollution, just trying to distract you, vie for your attention, and sell you whatever they can, including an image of prosperity whilst being a very different story on the inside.

It just.. doesn’t seem necessarily “good” to me that they could have been doing things like filling in potholes and renovating what was there, but instead it’s like they replaced everything… this feels like there’s another goal than just improving quality of life for citizens. They’re going for an image and they want to send a message to the world that they’re super advanced now. I just feel like if they were more focused on quality of life for their own citizens, that would speak for itself and there would be no need to waste time energy and resources on an image and a message for people who don’t even live there.

The total lack of nature is also personally extremely concerning. Humans keep going too far in this direction and then facing the consequences that occur as we remove ourselves further and further at an alarmingly fast rate from our natural environment. We frown on removing wild animals from nature, yet we are one and the same and we’re doing it to ourselves. No wonder we have a mental health crisis. The more I look at this video the more sickly and troubling it seems.

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u/Meows2Feline 4d ago

Yeah dude a dystopian world is a country that built 25,000+ miles of high speed rail in 10 years. Thank god I live in a country where we can build 100 miles of high speed rail in the same time.

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u/OverCookedTheChicken 3d ago

…… possibly, yes. Who’s doing all the labor? Are they being treated fairly? Jesus. I don’t fucking know. I’m done though, because this has been infected with people who are fighting the US vs China battle and I want no part in that because I don’t fucking care about their stupid rivalry. I don’t hate China for fucks sake. Funny how authoritarian everyone is though, can’t say anything that isn’t praise without being accused of being a China-hater…

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u/Meows2Feline 2d ago

Brother we use prison labor to fight forest fires.

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u/OverCookedTheChicken 2d ago

Yes we do, and that’s very bad. Why is this a competition? I am genuinely confused. I commented on a video of China, why is everyone coming in and inserting shit about the US?