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Herring · 2026-03-14T21:04:08 1773522248

> All in all, I would rather live in a somewhat free America than in communist China.

The last 15 years has significantly changed peoples' opinions on that matter. https://data.worldhappiness.report/chart

Let's see how the next 15 goes.

cushychicken · 2026-03-14T21:08:47 1773522527

The last 15 years has significantly changed peoples' opinions on that matter.

I’m gonna need to see some immigration statistics on influx of foreigners into the PRC to believe that claim.

monkaiju · 2026-03-14T23:45:48 1773531948

Might have more to do with language than anything else TBH

cryptonector · 2026-03-15T04:58:53 1773550733

Ok, but what is China's immigration policy like?

They could be importing young people from nearby India, yet they're not. Why?

lm28469 · 2026-03-14T22:43:53 1773528233

Get yourself a plane ticket from your """free""" America to visit """communist""" China one day, you might be surprised by what you see

PeterHolzwarth · 2026-03-15T00:59:56 1773536396

I've done so. I saw a country that is a mix of third and first, full of wonderful people who the government fear so much they have to cut them off from the rest of the world and run the place as a police state.