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China never manipulates data coming out of their authoritarian country so good thing we can trust it. I'm sure their life expectancy is great with all their industrial pollution that regularly causes smog in their inner cities.
- Here is my source do you have a source that disputes that? Or is your belief based entirely on unfalsifiable faith?
  
  Also curious if you think Chinese life expectancy is still like 35 or what lmao
  
  You may also be interested in what the World Bank, that infamous communist propaganda rag, has to say:
  
  Over the past 40 years, the number of people in China with incomes below $1.90 per day – the International Poverty Line as defined by the World Bank to track global extreme poverty– has fallen by close to 800 million. With this, China has contributed close to three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty.
  
  No one in China is over 50. If you're over 50 in China they just shoot you, and then they lie and say they didn't.
  
  I would expect you to understand unless you've read theory.
  
  What theory would that be, lol?
  
  Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand. In Fountainhead, she goes in depth about how Chinese life expectancy statistics are generally made up.
  
  Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand
  
  That's incredible, I honestly did not see that one coming.
  
  So tell me, what's your best guess at what Chinese life expectancy was before the CPC came to power, and what do you think it is now? Do you dispute the numbers from before the communists were even in power? Or do you think they're still living in mud huts?
  
  The Fountainhead is a novel about an American architect that has nothing to do with China. They're doing a weird bit, presumably about how evil tankies asking them to read books is cheating.
  
  Yeah I got that, at least after they posted a rickroll. Guess being an idiot is a defense mechanism when they realized they had nothing.
  
  Communism increasing life expectancy!?
  
  Shanghai Stock Exchange: http://english.sse.com.cn/
  
  Beijing Stock Exchange: www.bse.cn
  
  Shenzhen Stock Exchange: https://www.szse.cn/English/index.html
  
  That's more stock exchanges than the US, comrade!
  
  Oh, so you consider Deng's reforms to be right-deviationist? Are you a Maoist, then?
  
  Whether you consider the CPC to be communist or not, the fact still remains that they've made a lot of improvements in the lives of the average Chinese person.
  
  Deng was alive and well when two of those stock exchanges were opened and the whole argument was "look at the improvements only possible under Communism".
  
  How do you say "moving the goalposts" in Mandarin? Actually, no need to answer as you are all ~~suburban~~ petit bourgeois kids from the US.
  
  You can laugh, but communist oppression is no laughing matter. Please see this article where Ben Shapiro writes a thesis-level takedown of the mythos of Chinese life expectancy.
  
  Please, I've read that article countless times. Here is a response that breaks down all the flaws in his argument.
  
  No don't bother linking your dumb policies that you guys never abide by.
  
  I'm merely acting reflexively to the behaviors I constantly observe from Hexbear users.
  
  We always abide by the PPB, tyvm!
  
  No, but whenever you guys get "dunked on", you compulsively link to it like a goddamned Manchurian candidate.
  
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  Lmao
  
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  You just didn't bother clicking that Benny Shaps link, did ya?
  
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