• AfricanExpansionist
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    1 year ago

    Hey real question: Do you work at state media? I used to work at China Daily. Maybe we’ve crossed paths

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      1 year ago

      No, I don’t work at state media, and it’s pretty weird to assume that anybody who sees China favorably must work at Chinese state media to be honest.

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          Wow, you should really hook me up with that job. Didn’t know people got paid to post on Lemmy, seems like I’m missing out.

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            I know you’re being sarcastic, but I’m not. My friend posted on Twitter and Reddit, among other sites. Go to the CD website and apply. You can also apply at CGTN. Why do Xi’s PR work for free?

            Not everyone who works there is a true believer but a few are and they get to advance over time.

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              I love how you’re just doing a low key smear on me here, and you probably think you’re being really clever in the process. It’s kind of adorable really.

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                I am not trying to smear you… I assumed you were getting paid because you post quite often and your English reads native level. Who has that kind of time to defend a government trey don’t live under?

                I’m also not joking. I really recommend you look at state media jobs. You get a visa to live in Beijing, free housing, top-line private health insurance (because even CPC knows Chinese public healthcare is terrible), and a regular paycheck. It’s a great deal. I lived in the CD employee housing and was quite satisfied with it. Beijing is a fun place to live, and the expat scene is among the best I’ve encountered.

                I left for Shanghai and that’s a whole other crazy story.

                If you earnestly support the CPC, why not consider moving there? There’s a lot to like

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                  1 year ago

                  Again, this is the most surreal conversation I’ve had in a while. Plenty of people discuss politics nowadays and China in particular given that it acts as the main counter to US led world order. You can go to Lemmygrad and see plenty of people discussing China all the time, I assure you we’re not getting paid for it.

                  The reason I personally feel strongly about the subject is because I grew up in USSR, and saw my country destroyed through liberalism and western intervention. I personally suffered living through the collapse, and when my family moved to the west I was frankly shocked to see the insane things people believed about USSR here. I see a lot of the same smears being used against China today, and this is a personal subject for me.

                  I have friends from China, I have a pretty good idea of what life there is actually like. China is by no means perfect, but it’s nothing like what western media paints it and what people living in the west believe about it.

                  Finally, I certainly would like to move to China at some point. However, it’s not easy to just uproot yourself and move half way across the world. I have friends and family where I live, people depend on me. I can’t just up and move no matter how much I’d like to. Also, even learning the language is a challenge. I’ve been studying Mandarin for over a year now, and I’m just becoming minimally conversational in it.

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                    Yeah I’m sure that life under the USSR was definitely better than the bullshit that came next. Albanians are living with similar headaches now, but lucky enough to live in a place that’s largely inconsequential on the world stage.

                    Anyway I’m not here to debate the merits of your worldview or reasons for supporting the CPC. I was genuinely curious whether you worked at state media and whether we may know some folks in common. This is my first time in such an online community

                    Good luck with your Mandarin. I could never get the hang of it, but most of my friends seemed capable of basic conversation and they always told me how easy it is.

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      1 year ago

      9999999999999 FICO POINTS. Now you can pay the rent for 00000000.01 seconds.

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        In China, low-to-middle income people actually have deeply subsidized or sometimes no rent payments. Their apartments aren’t the best, but they’re not slums either

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          Yeah, FICO points are a social scoring system created by the West, it’s a joke because Westerners thing le ebil communism gives social points to citizens for doing pro government stuff. They are so alienated from their bourgeois dictatorships they can’t fathom people actually liking their government.