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Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Fascism of course, just like we are heading towards.

To be clear, I violently oppose fascism, just that it seems to be to historical outcome of socially disconnected youth about the time they hit adulthood. Those disaffected youth become the audience that charismatic dictator-wannabes can manipulate.

China MAY be able to avoid this as their social controls are far more strict but with the internet and how tech savvy the disaffected Chinese youth are, this isn't a guarantee.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yes blame the "youth" when the average age of our politicians is 65. Makes perfect sense.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Gullible people are partially to be blamed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What you mean like the fucking Boomers who keep voting for these pieces of shit? Yeah I agree.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

A lot less of them now Covid is here, bada bum tisss

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes this is true but there is nothing you can do to fix gullible people so no action can be taken to mitigate their idiocy.

I don't care about blame, I just want to stop our nation from falling into fascism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

They're going to be dead soon from old age, I'm more worried about all the gamergaters and magapedes that will be old enough to vote this year and all the elections afterward.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

China is already essentially an authoritarian dictatorship. There’s no big leap to fascism for them, they just need to fetishize the military and act more nationalistic than they already do. They’re already prejudicial, blaming minorities within for all sorts of problems, attempting to control speech and thought, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

China has other problems right now which is why they are playing nice, they're heading into a population collapse and it's gonna be real messy.

They already fetishize the military and are nationalistic AF, but they also have leadership more invested in the status quo than becoming the dominant military, so their new weapons are finance and trade instead of bombs and bullets. That said, they have a FUCKTONNE of bombs and bullets and MILLIONS of people willing to use them.