LadyAutumn

The 2026 global financial crisis will be really interesting to live through I'm sure.

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This comment is so frustrating 😅 one of the only concrete statements you make about Chinese policy is "i cant imagine them handing out free food to anybody". Literally political criticism based on vibes.

I don't understand why it's on everyone else to research baseless claims you are making, but sure, whatever lmao. So to even answer the question you have to specify what exactly you mean by food bank. Providing food for people who are impoverished takes many different forms. From individual meal based facilities like soup kitchens, to dry and preserved goods providers, to international warehousing of emergency food relief supplies. So assuming the question at hand is, does the government of China provide its citizens with any kind of nutritional assistance? Yes, they do. The available facilities vary by region, city, and even district levels. Most of the development of large organized food relief organizations has been relatively recent, with the first to adopt a "food bank" label starting in Shanghai in 2015. Between 2015 and 2023 the Oasis public food bank setup facilities across China formalized as a national network of food relief facilities. At the same time the government of China has worked with public enterprises in China including restaurant chains and grocery stores to implement "Surplus food programs" to reduce food waste and redistribute food to relief programs and facilities. This was all information I found on my own with pretty basic cursory searches in about 20 minutes. There is far more public information out there and I would encourage you to use free resources to research subjects yourself before making foundationless statements like that.

Wumao refers to posters who post unrelated content to disengage conversations around subjects that are critical of China. The term also referred to a phenomenon on chinese social media platforms, and alleged that the community party was paying people to make the posts. The majority of people engaging in that pattern of content are members of the communist party, party officials in any capacity.

I'm guessing this will lead to more things being locked behind their subscription model. Ransoming core features for cash is the standard template of this process.

If you read the comment I just sent, I point out that I think I know what you mean but that the word you are using is not the correct word for that and in fact refers to something entirely different. Meaning can be conveyed its just in this case you're actually diluting a term used specifically to talk about an obfuscation tactic used by the Chinese government to interfere with political discourse on their social media platforms.

I genuinely did not know that, I had not checked what instance they were from. You're essentially saying theyre a paid disinformation disseminator? But thats not what wumao means. It also doesnt describe a phenomenon in western online spaces, but rather one on China's social media networks. I'm not making a statement of agreement or disagreement with the idea that theyre a paid bad actor. I am calling out your usage of the term wumao.

Is Lemmy a chinese social media platform? :o Also, you're using the term to describe someone who is not engaging in the behavior the term is meant to describe.

You said "I feel like China wouldn't give out free food." in the context of food banks. I made no claims about America. I made no claims about anything other than your statement "I feel like China wouldnt give out free food." I was frustrated because you are making a feelings based statement about verifiable factual information that is accessible online.

You go to great lengths in this comment to say that China has had issues with citizens not having enough food, which makes sense, why else would they make food banks if no one needed the food???

I also stated exactly how recent these developments are in my previous comment. These are ongoing changes based on the literature I found and read on the subject. Nowhere in my comment did I suggest that no one in China is dealing with nutritional problems and nowhere did I suggest that China was doing everything in its power to solve those problems.

I only responded to your feelings based statement with verifiable information I was easily able to find online. You said something that suggested that there are no food relief programs in China, that suggestion was wrong. I clarified it for you when you refused to clarify it yourself. I am entirely uninterested in engaging with you on any other point here. Frankly a lot of your language betrays a very strong emotional bias in this discussion and I do not think you are interested in a legitimate discussion about food relief problems and existing programs in China.

As a side note it's so typical for people in any discussion about China to just label random people propagandists. Yes for sure I'm a propagandist on a social media forum that sees less throughput than an average Facebook group. Tankies call me western interference and American liberals say I'm a paid propagandist. Imagine that there could be any nuance in discussing a nation comprising over a billion people, crazy I know right.

Lurking in the background but I am low-key decapitated.