Belgian 29 year old male, accountant, into physical fitness, outings and watching TV series/films. Enjoy pestering you about your political views and interested in economics.
With the market cap of their SOE’s, they have a broader impact on their economy. Sure, china is the most socialist relevant country in the world as of now.
Censorship can be ranked like anything else can.
https://rsf.org/en/index like they are trying to do.
Sent you a message after clicking on your username on the post I got banned on, just to see if it reaches you.
I know Belgium isn’t socialist, we’re rather social democratic.
There’s also market socialism which doesn’t require public ownership, just that the workers own the company. Something like Huawei.
But the end result. We have a median net wealth of 250k euros per adult. I’m quite happy about that.
We have some nationalised stuff. Our commuting train company, post company, Bank and insurance, bus transport, télécommunications company. Infrabel.
The government plays a major role in our lives but they are still liberal.
They just tax and transfer. 45% of the GDP is tax revenue. Belgians are doing just fine.
Owning key industries is useful, like the french with their nuclear reactors. But you as employee it’s better to have private options as well when it comes to employment.
Like in Cuba they have 1 employer. The government. Sure, the doctors get paid the most in the country, but still they flee to other Latin American countries so that they can fund their family in a luxurious housing unit in Havana.
This is because there’s more competition to buy the doctors their services in those other Spanish speaking countries in the Americas.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike socialist economic stuff, if it’s used properly.
I despise the censorship.
With the last ban, I messaged 3 people and none of them responded even though we were having quite some conversations in the thread. So I assume it doesn’t reach. Lemme try again.
@[email protected] so bruv, what were you saying? I got banned from that thread over there.
Why do you think I hate China lol. What I’m doing is antagonising a marxist leninist in order to get banned from tankie subs.
China’s pretty great. I like Europe more though. Not a fan of america.
Do you live in Iran? You said “my home country” instead of “my country” so I assumed you’re not living there currently.
Weibo is better than rednote, thanks for that. Saw someone talk about the Ukraine-Russian war, so politics are present.
Voting in favour of forcing other women to wear clothes they don’t want to wear. Aye, whatever.
Some VPNs do work in China, otherwise the subreddit China_irl wouldn’t exist.
Weibo/rednote have a nice translate feature that Anglosphere apps do not have.
You can go to the indonesian subreddit and you’ll see them all speak Bahasa Indonesian. Reddit is banned in Indonesia. They still go there with VPN.
Chinese government is richer, they went after the VPNs.
Chinese citizens cannot be here, they cannot form a Lemmy instance where they speak mandarin to eachother.
Social media has to accept Chinese laws, which includes moderation by the government. They are only allowed to have political opinions that align with those in power.
Iran and America hate eachother. Completely different culture, etc.
My friend was born in Iran, his family did all the effort to get into Belgium. He’d rather be shot dead than to live in Iran. But he’s also a bit loco. Saying he would nuke Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan if he had the chance. Edit:forgot his favourite nuke destination which is india
But that’s just one guy. Sorry, had to include cuz random.
What most people would dislike about Iran would be the dress code. Girls protesting it and being arrested. For some reason never to be heard from again.
Just things that I would not want my wife or future daughter to live in.
My wife came from a Muslim dominated country, would be told to wear a hijab while she’s not even religious.
She likes that she can wear whatever she wants in Belgium.
And now… Would I be allowed to say things like this in Iran, or would it be removed by their government employees? I have no idea about Iran.
I just know that us Belgians are allowed to shit talk our government as if it’s a national sport.
Go to Belgium2 subreddit, everything is spoken in Dutch. Most of it is complaining about the government.
Le chat mistral told me differently. I’ll have to talk openly about politics with a Chinese citizen before I change my mind.
It’s not fucking normal that a country with such an economy doesn’t have people on the global scene.
You have us, Europeans, you Americans, Aussies, Japanese, Indonesians (VPN), Singaporeans, … All here talking to eachother.
Chinese? Nope. Great firewall of china. I couldn’t even speak to my wife when she was in Shanghai unless it was on WeChat. Her emails were blocked. WhatsApp was blocked. The other phone she tried to use VPN on became completely useless.
China controls their population. Until enough Chinese citizens are able to tell me otherwise.
Brilliant economy, brilliant growth, but god damn, allow them to come out of their hole.
Can the Chinese even discuss politics like we do here? Haven’t seen anything on rednote beside “political studies” and some Marx praises.
Must admit it’s a bit more difficult with all of it being in mandarin, but god damn, are they under surveillance.
Wasn’t the opinion of my psychologist about me. She told me I’m mildly autistic and that I show little empathy.
For example I saw a dead pigeon on the bike lane and my concern was: my wife behind me might ride over it and be distressed.
And it’s not that I care about her being distressed if I’m saying the truth. It’s that her distress would be a pain to handle. That the bike would be dirty which would cause further distress to my wife.
Her response to seeing the dead pigeon was that she thought it was sad.
Empathy is tricky 🤷🏻♂️ the only thing I feel about this truly, is guilt. But that’s all.
Took 2,7 seconds on le chat
RSF was just an example to show that such a ranking exists. Removing conflict of interest and the ability to censor will be what’s needed in order to have real unguided public opinion.
That’s difficult to achieve.
The major thing to think about are things like CP, obviously that needs to be removed from existence.
So there’s positives to control, but nobody does anything for free.
Like here at Lemmy, I assume an instance creator of a popular instance will be able to be bought by companies or politicians.
Like Musk just bought twitter, lots of newspaper companies are owned by oligarchs. Other sources of news are owned by governments.
There’s always a conflict of interest.
It’s difficult to get away from.