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People are going to be hostile to your argument as its clearly AI generated, and quite lengthy. I say this as a Marxist, I’m generally pro-PRC, but this is not an effective way to gauge.
If I were you, I’d ask a simple “would you rather the US or PRC win the trade war?” Or “Is life better in the US, or PRC?” And let the answerers decide how they wish to respond.
Thank you.
Yea, the responses have not been what I expected, but I can see why and I’m open to learning to improve my voice as I really want to get involved with current affairs and bringing about change in the west.
If one wants to improve upon their voice, step one should be to ensure that it’s their voice. Don’t use AI for such things, it defeats the purpose. Instead, I would recommend reading more, journaling, and learning more about how to write effectively. There are books on how to do this. I liked “How to Write” by Alastair Fowler personally.
I’m gonna echo the sentiment that if you can’t be bothered to write it, or work on improving your own writing, then your thoughts are likely not well thought out to begin with.
That’s fair and I’ll end my posting on these kind of topics career here.
Using a one-sided narrative to counter a one-sided narrative comes off as disingenuous to me. Despite Marx’s urging, the US turns out to be the place where a worker can strike with his union and own a gun.
US unions have no power and were thoroughly destroyed during the Red Scare. The CPC frequently supports worker strikes, they just don’t strike as frequently because their material conditions are improving rather than falling, and people are more hopeful as consequence:
Would you have any tips on how to structure an argument from a neutral place as I wasn’t trying to be biased here, I was looking at how I perceive the world.
In the first place I think a better way to establish “is life in this given place good”, would be to address to good vs bad in that place, as opposed to the good in that place vs the bad everywhere else.
If you must make the point through comparisons, using the weakest possible arguments while standing in for the opposing side makes it seem you’ve either want to misrepresent it, or don’t feel secure enough in your position.
I could get into the factual claims that could be challenged but maybe that was the AI. There’s absolutely an argument that Western media and cultures create intense, xenophobic biases, but there are more compelling ways to make it.
Thank you. This is helpful.
I added an edit, but I want to be abundantly clear, however faltered, that my intention here was ton draw attention to western media bias and not to whitewash China in any way. I am aware of the things bad in China like Uyghurs, etc.
It’s clear so far that I failed, but i am open and expect constructive criticism as I want to be better and have a voice.
Why don’t you ask your AI about how to achieve objectivity in your fake writing?
That’s constructive.
I was merely trying to get MY ideas into a someone coherent format and asking for constructive criticism.
Let’s end it here and you have a nice weekend.
Have you been to these three countries?
I’ve lived in the UK all my life. I’ve been to the USA once and China nonce.
Anyway, it’s clear my post wasn’t put together well as it seems people think I’m saying China good, when I’m really not. I’m trying to say western media bias is a thing and although China has bad things, we do too and I wanted to open a discussion about this.
I was just asking, because reading about somewhere and going are radically different. I quite like life in China compared to America. They do a lot of things right. And I agree the west isn’t morally or censorship wise better sadly.
I’m shocked the user isn’t that US immigrant who’s constantly depression about China and the US.
Also this definitely isn’t the right con because you’re not asking
Me? I’m from the UK. Check my post history. First time posting anything about China and clearly I missed the mark in my execution of criticising media bias in the uk and USA.
No no no, there is another depressed user that immigrated from China to the US super young as is only posting about how horrible both are lol
Oh sorry I misunderstood.
Do they say what he hates about each one?
He seems to think they’re both authoritarian regimes. I’m sure you will come across one of his posts soon! He just posted yesterday or so about fighting his mom over protesting
I’m not going to read in detail a text you can’t be assed to write in detail. From a glean I’ll say two things:
That’s fair criticism and clearly I am not well versed enough to be attempting to write about this topic. I’ll not do this again and I’ll remove this post soon.
Edit: I also want to highlight that I sourced this material and used a tool to help me write it challenge western media bias and not to whitewash China. I can see on reflection how it might seem that way.
Good on you for owning up and best of luck. You did well being transparent about your process. I’m going to add two things about generative AI:
Thank you, as I tried to allude to in other comments, I am open to learning and as I’ve aged I have less ego.
I appreciate your feedback on writing and I am going to put this down to a lesson of the perils of overthinking (not just writing words myself).