Look up a video in Shenzhen or Chongqing. Everything looks 2 decades out, and the giant crystal skyscrapers light up different colors. Sometimes the whole thing is a TV.
China surpassed USAmerica in GDP already, but it doesn’t look close to tied in development and advanced technologies.
The trains there go hundreds of miles in less than an hour, you could commute across the country every day.
Meanwhile in America the “middle class” is struggling to have some walls and a roof. Record debt and crumbling infrastructure. How is all of this ignored and not talked about everywhere?
Propaganda isn’t just about what you show, it’s also about what you don’t show.
What Americans don’t know can’t radicalize them
“futuristic Chinese cities” is a genre that trends on TikTok once in a while, but that’s the closest I’ve seen it get to the mainstream.
There’s actually nothing in those towers, they’re just big empty buildings with a bunch of led panels on,
anyway I was late to work today bc the bridge on my commute collapsed
Speaking of big empty buildings, even Pyongyang, DPRK has some Neo Tokyo lookin’ night photos.
There’s a fucking North Korean city that looks cooler and more ‘futuristic’ than most US cities.
The virgin Chinese ghost cities vs the chad US zombie infrastructure
The trains there go hundreds of miles in less than an hour, you could commute across the country every day.
Oh yeah sure, maybe they have all that, but at what cost, mhh?
The ticket prices are relatively inexpensive, and lots of people ride the train. It’s horrible.
I enjoy freedom a hell of a lot more than riding on a superfast train
There’s this one video I found ages ago that’s just a three hour compilation of someone driving around Chongqing. The traffic does seem pretty awful but goddamn. They’re in the year 3000 and we’re routinely bulldozing the homeless camps in my
city. How people are not more radicalized here I still don’t understandHere in Europe we don’t build new buildings, but instead reuse ones from around the 1960s (Marshall Plan and all that). To me it’s always screamed “we’re too poor to build new stuff”. And you know, old buildings can only get older, at some point you’re gonna have to make new ones…
it’s like we like living in the past it’s so unreal.
That’s how I feel about transit infrastructure in North America. We can’t be bothered to spend the required money or effort to solve transit issues properly, but we accept ever-higher costs for constantly having to maintain and build car infrastructure because you can always kick that can down the road, so to speak.
It’s pathetic. I was in Minneapolis when the I-35 bridge just up and collapsed. Majorish city, population of millions, I-35 is one of the country’s major transit cooridors, and this giant fucking bridge just folds one day.
Every single US city outside of maybe NYC (and that’s a very big maybe) is a complete dump compared with some no-name tier 3 Chinese city. Like, imagine comparing somewhere like Ningbo and Wuhan to Houston and Miami. Honestly, most of East Asia blows the US out of the water, and SEA is catching up too. There will be a time when cities like Hanoi, Bangkok, and Jakarta also surpass US cities, if they haven’t done so already. The US really is that much of a dump and it’s only going to get worse. It’s just that Americans soyface over Japan and South Korea because they’re the good honorary white Asians. They don’t even give Taiwan enough credit because Taiwan is too Chinese, which I guess is appropriate with Taiwan being a Chinese island and all.
IMO Taipei doesn’t look nearly as new or cool as the likes of Shanghai, Tokyo, or Seoul. I visited Taipei a few years ago and my first impression was that it was like Shanghai was 15 years ago. Everything was just very worn down. Infrastructure, buildings, and such just looked old and grimey.
That’s what I’ve heard from most people who have recently gone there. But we’re not comparing Taipei to real cities like Shanghai. We’re comparing Taipei to dumps like LA.
Downtown Taipei vs Downtown LA
Yeah, this is kinda cheating because the LA video has Skid Row, but as even the LA video admits, “it’s actually very sad to see downtown LA like this. Much of it is rundown and I hope it has a brighter future.”
In fairness to Taipei, it looks older because most of it was built before Shanghai and unlike Tokyo there’s less need to rebuild everything after 30 years. Also in fairness to Taipei, it’s still a very safe city, especially compared to anywhere in the US.
americans are the most propagandized people on earth
