I think the funnest parts of posts about muh west falling apart is that China absolutely has the same problems or worse, but much like Europe and the US believing we were losing the Cold War pretty much all the way through until the Soviets imploded, the extreme censorship of dictatorships distorts this. Not only does it hide it from us, it hides it from them, as well, and as a result corruption is basically impossible to root out until it makes itself painfully obvious. It's like a retarded hydra, one retard is sacked for flying too close to the sun, another retard better at hiding it takes their place. Maybe the Chinese can get over it and not end up completely Russia-ed, but I doubt it, at least not in the next two decades. Anyone sane despises the fucking press, journos are the scum of the earth and I would like to hang them as Christmas ornaments, but the first step to fixing stuff is knowing it's fucked in the first place.