• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    800 million people out of poverty is a stretch but if you wanted to make that claim

    Yeah, where do these stupid tankies get these numbers anyway? I’m sure China says they lifted 800 million kajillion people out of poverty or whatever, but let’s see what a western source like, say, The World Bank has to say about it.

    it’s because the west spent so much money to get goods from China.

    I swear these arguments get worse every day. You could just as easily say that the only reason the West has so much stuff is because China made it for them for cheap.

    Wait, that’s actually a much more coherent argument lol.

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      3 hours ago

      The world bank? My person they are quoting the Chinese propaganda. The west had lots of stuff after ww2, they got more cheaper stuff when they offshored it to China that’s the coherent argument

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        The world bank? My person they are quoting the Chinese propaganda.

        I see. So The World Bank is also in on the communist plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids.

        The west had lots of stuff after ww2, they got more cheaper stuff when they offshored it to China that’s the coherent argument

        “You only made a bunch of money because you produced stuff people wanted to buy” is not the own you think it is.

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          I see. So The World Bank is also in on the communist plot to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids.

          What?

          “You only made a bunch of money because you produced stuff people wanted to buy” is not the own you think it is.

          Who said anything about “own”? It’s just what happened. Forget the issues that this type of capitalism brought though.