cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/5070152

TLDR: In recent years, as China has suffered from an economic downturn, the rate of random mass attacks has soared. After three random mass killings unfolded in Chinese coastal cities in the last two weeks, some people on social media echoed the official line of harsh punishment, while others called for freedom of expression so that people could express their grievances and the authorities could address their pain in time.

Some also suggested economic reform to boost the employment rate and policy reform, such as social welfare and labour laws, to improve working conditions. In short, people need to see hope for their future.

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However, as anticipated, the Chinese authorities are fixated on their standard social control handbook. While social profiling is common in China through it’s social credit system, on Weibo, many said that the Chinese Communist Party’s grassroots branches have started profiling residents into additional categories, namely, “4-without” (四無) and “5-failure” (五失).

The “4-without” are those without a spouse and children, job and regular income, normal social connections, and assets like property and cars. The “5-failure” are those who “fail” in their investments, lives, relationships, and suffer from mental illness.

**The party branches were told to pay special attention to people labelled “4-without” and “5-failure” as they are assumed to have nothing to lose, and thus might be more likely to harm society. **

However, such a measure won’t relieve the social strain. One social media user pointed out that the two social groups are victims of an unjust system and need assistance, rather than further social labels and control.

Having them screened out, and then what, put in jail? [People labelled] 4-without and 5-failure have not broken the law, and almost all of them are in need of economic assistance. The CCP does not have a comprehensive social welfare system, so how can it let these people who are in trouble get through their difficulties? The CCP keeps giving local governments money to solve their debt crisis, and it keeps pumping money into the stability maintenance system, but it is not willing to spend any money to solve the real problem! Shouldn’t the CCP know which is more effective: damming or dredging the river?

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People are forced to work 16 hour days in factories in the ‘communist’ stage of China, apparently. Tankies?

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It’s called primitive accumulation in Marxist-Leninist circles or to put it another way;

“To achieve a great leap a generation must be sacrificed” Liu Zhijin, Minister of railways

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I thought modern Chinese were supposed to be getting these benefits for their parents and grandparents making this sacrifice.

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Don’t worry, only one two three four generations of wage slavery to get to the communist utopia you’ve been waiting for! It’s coming any day now. No need to struggle or question the rich and powerful, we know what’s best for you.

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Crickets from the ML gang. Guess they aren’t getting paid anymore.

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Nah I’d say crickets because OP is banned from instances like lemmy.ml, and as a result, most MLs won’t even see 0x815’s constant stream of propaganda. Win-win, I guess.

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You mean stream of accurate information about china that china tries to cover up?

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It’s almost as if population control is a cause of problems rather than a solution to them.

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