Think of the worst, most dangerous, most wasteful, most corrupt practices you can imagine. The reality of what they do in China is going to be a million times worse and a million times bigger.
Putting this in c/Conspiracies because most of these practices are technically "illegal" in China, but are so completely widespread it makes them defacto sanctioned by the government. So it fits the textbook definition of a conspiracy, which is 2 or more people committing a crime together.
In this case it's an entire nation agreeing to commit crimes together. It's unreal.
Here are some of the more crazy videos.
Gutter oil and spit oil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu6yJyi97ZI
Tofu Dreg Construction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2ockFOVGp4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm8q43XtTvU
A wasteland of brand new discarded cars and ebikes produced for the sole purpose of some "big guy" getting 10%.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SEfwoqKRU8
Government grows fake crops, while arresting farmers for growing real crops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AynNsPs9i80
Want a good social credit system? Just be a snitching communist sycophant, and never complain about anything for any reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVkWokLqPOg
Ghost cities are the biggest ponzi scheme in human history, and the apartment owners have a financial incentive to make sure their apartments are vacant and not livable. (livable apartments have a lower value in their culture)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ8JBTIVUVw
Better not get injured in China... No one will help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjj_mkc6b6s
Chinese shit where they eat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bUH36GS9Fk
After watching a bunch of these videos the best way I can describe China is soul less and evil. Now, I'm an atheist that doesn't even believe in a "soul" in a religious context.
But I'm sure we can agree that a place with no art, no inventions, no social cohesion, no joy, no trust, where libraries are filled with fake books, where buildings are made with fake materials, and where food is fished out of the sewer counts as "soulless"
This is the society that is waiting for us if we let commies take over America.
I'm starting to understand what people mean when they call it a "paper tiger".....
Their whole society is just like their skyscrapers. Big, imposing, and modern looking, but cannibalized from corruption to the point where it will crumble under your feet at the slightest push.
When world war 3 finally pops off, China's gonna nuke themselves because someone skimmed all the missile fuel for a little bit of extra profit, and they only have a range of 20 miles. Just enough to fly over the horizon and fool the inspector who certifies them.
I could see this scenario. The only modernities and modern combat tech they have, they either copied or stole. Their newest assault rifle......copied from Western designs..... Their infantry night vision goggles..... Aren't night vision goggles, they are cameras...... The state stole the people's desire to innovate, own property, own the fruit of their labor and IP and as a result must steal everything from their superiors. If America falls, how can China stand without us? It would be like cutting your legs out from under you. We hold China up.
Even if they stole all the best designs in the world, they would just pillage their own production process to the point where everything is broken right off the factory line, or worse functions just long enough to blow up in their soldiers faces.
In these construction project videos they are building skyscrapers, and the workers can just grab inch thick rebar and break it in half with their bare hands.
Cause I guess someone somewhere down the line is watering down the metal to skim the difference in cost. Then they do it with the concrete where it crumbles like dry mud. Everywhere..
By the end of the project it looks nice for a month, collapses and kills a thousand people, and then the same company gets the contract to rebuild it and start the skim all over again.
Serpentaz calls it "destructive construction" and that's exactly what it is. Everyone but maybe 1 guy at the top would be better off just leaving the lot empty and building nothing at all.
what scares me is developers in the US buy rebar among other materials from china because it is 'cheap' and then wonder why buildings aren't settling properly.
Yes. This was a serious problem for the US Bay bridge and will continue to be for decades until it goes down. QC issues were so bad, they had to send US inspectors overseas to the Chinese prefabrication site to QC all the materials and construction and they still had issues.
Hmmm... I wonder if they used Chinese building materials on that leaning tower in San Francisco.
Just the gutter oil alone is reason enough to never step foot in that country, let alone the fact you're taking a chance with your life just crossing a bridge or being near a building.
PRC in the chat, who else would down vote this? 🧐