TBF, I could sacrifice one person and use that million dollars to save hundreds of lives. Trolly problem, I have to pull that lever.

Can’t even watch porn with Chinese internet, westerners won’t survive a day on using that internet without a VPN.

Statue of Liberty is gonna get deported

Dude didn’t watch Final Destination Bloodlines 💀

At this point, we’re gonna end up have two “congress”, two “supreme court”, two “president”. Two groups of people having their own definitions and interpretations of what “The Constitution” means.

A Divided States of America

Coming soon in the 2029 season of USA DSA (Divided States of America)

Chinese culture is like you pretend to be very nice to other people, but the abuse is within the family.

Like the 红包 (red packets) for Lunar New Year is so… wild.

Like so you give your friend’s kids $50 and their parents give your kids $50 then pretend like this is an actual gift, but then when they go home, the parents are like: “给我帮你保管” (Let me help you safeguard it)

Like… what is the point of the red packets then? Money gets shuffled but it just end up in the same people’s hands.

I mean at least that’s how my parents did it, I think my aunt’s more Americanized family actually let their kids buy stuff?

I went to my cousin’s house once (not willingly btw) and their family arrived in the US earlier than mine, so they cousins were born on US soil (as opposed to me who is first-gen immigrant), their father (my uncle) was from Hong Kong, so basically very western-minded.

They had an entire game system (Nintendo Wii something) in their house, I never had a game system lol, I was so jealous. Tbf they are slightly richer (like “middle class” rich), but even later on when my parents got more disposable income (like teenage years), I never got any games, or toys.

Like the vibes I was getting was that their household was still very strict, but not they actually get to have fun sometimes.

I think its this “filial piety” thing that is fucking toxic as hell.

I guess I see this with politics as well. I mean on the surface you never see Xi acting like the buffoons in the US-Republican party (I mean y’all know those crazy trump tweets and thinnly veiled racism, that sort of crazy stuff). The CCP might not outright do crazy shit like that, they do put up this act that make them look good, but deep down, they are both the same. In this analogy, the country is like the family, the civillians are like the children, children gets yelled at or even beaten (police harassing dissidents), but then the parents (the CCP) talks to everyone else (other countries) like everything is fine.

Family, Country, these patterns repeat.

I mean on the other hand, the US is like that conservative man in the suburb that open-carries a gun everywhere (the 18 aircraft carriers and hundreds of military bases world wide) and sees everyone as a threat (“inverventions” in other countries)

Seems like culture and politics are so intertwined.

(I feel like I’m rambling… idk if this wall of text even makes sense)

Not sure if this is relevent, but I just wanna share my story.

My mom wants me dead because I have depression.

Not schizophrenia, not sociopathy/psychopathy, just being a little more sad than “normal”.

The reasoning? “Because you wouldn’t be able to enjoy life anyways, and your life is meaning less”, threatning to leave me out of the will because “you can just get welfare from the government”, despite me helping her with a lot of her stuff like bussiness licenses, filing taxes, translation (they are first-gen immigrants), etc. Like wtf is this concept of leaving someone with nothing when they have been so helpful throughout your life, just because “you have depression and you are no longer useful to society”. Then put obstacles in me getting antidepresdants because “you can’t be relying on meds for the rest of your life, just go outside” bitch wtf? Go outside to the ICE agents swarming the streets?

(I’m Chinese-American)

I mean at lesst I’m not dead yet, so I probably don’t deserve to complain too much, some people have it worse than me, I mean this person in the article literally got murdered. Tbh there were moments when I was a teen that I thought my mom was gonna stab me when I sleep. The fact I’m even alive is a miracle.

This toxic culture is why I never want to return to PRC, not to mention, the CCP problem.

But… now… the USA is also on fire becauses… I mean… you know… current events…

Life is going great! 🫠

Can’t complain! (literally can’t complain else you get arrested)

Yes I support the United States Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic 😏

Its fine, netanyahu gave them the “H-Word Pass” (its like the “N-Word Pass” but for “heil hitler”) /s

Okay, I’m gonna say something very controversial, and the mods might not like it, but hear me out:

Adolf Hitler deserved to die. If I had a gun and he was alive standing in front of me, I would have aimed the gun to his head, and repeatedly pull the trigger until I ran out of ammo, then reload, and keep shooting at him until I can confirm that he is indeed dead.

DEATH, DEATH TO ADOLF HITLER!

Tell me, is this “advocacy of violence”?

Crazy amount of side information you have there. The sterilisation part is wild

Not that wild. 150 years ago, during imperial rule, you get your head chopped off along with your close relatives for criticizing the emperor, this is tame in comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_laws_by_region#Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_laws_by_region#New_Zealand

Basically a lot of fetishes/kinks deemed “weird” by the government

Chinese child care is the adults going to work and the older generation (the grandparents) take care of the child.

Or sometimes my mother brought me to her workplace and I just sat there playing a video game on the portable dvd player thing with the games loaded on a dvd (or a cd, idk the difference) and with controllers attached to it. (She worked at an electronics store as a salesperson).

My parents were in an arranged marriage (the consensual type, I think, but there was high pressures to enter into a marriage), and they argue a lot.

When we first immigrated to the US, my maternal grandparents weren’t part of the “immediate” family, so they weren’t allowed on the immigration visa, my paternal side of the family (who are already in the US) didn’t like the responsibility of taking care of us (unlike my maternal side of the family), so my older brother who was around age 13-15 at the time when we first arrived, had to pick me up from school, and he resented having this responsibility, my brother didn’t really like me, we were frienemies (now, present day, actual enemies).

But eventually, like around 6th grade I just walked home by myself. Most of the time, the house was empty (other than my brother). I barely talked with my parents, never had real emotional connections with them.

Childcare in China isn’t that different from the US. (Well… in the US, kids get like a small child credit in their parent’s tax returns, and some food stamps, but that’s about it) The lower class is really very similar regardless of country. We the lower class people have more in common with each other than we do with the rich that runs our respective countries.

(If you are confused at the “Older Brother” part, my mother “illegally” gave birth to me. Then they sterilized her to make sure she can’t violate the one child policy again. I was literally not even supposed to be born.)

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Hong Kong about to become “Xianggang” (香港 in pinyin)

Not quite. Hong Kong is a devolved democracy, the PLA has already occupied since 1997 when the british handed it over.

This is more like the US sending troops to Los Angleas.

The PLA does not occupy Taiwan. They don’t even occupy Kinmen Islands that’s very close to Mainland China (not sure why they still haven’t taken it). They’ll need to send troops to even control it in any way, where as in Hong Kong, they are already there.

Democracies can also ban porn. See: South Korea, India, Ukraine, Malaysia, Singapore, Mongolia, etc…

Its a conservatism issue.

Yea… porn in illegal in China, erotic stories is just “word-porn” basically, this is nothing new.

This is what conservatism does. Same in China, same in the Deep South of the US (the only reason why porn is still legal-ish in the south is because of the first amendment, but the constitution is being eroded so that might not last long)

Conservatism is a disease that many countries still have. Take a look at this map:

Porn being legal is mostly only a thing in the “western world”.

Even if China has a liberal democracy like in the west, people would still elect conservatives. See democratic countries like: India, South Korea, Ukraine, Phillippines, Malaysia, they all made porn illegal despite being democratic.

I’m cisgender and probably straight (or asexual not sure tbh), but if I was trans or gay, my parents would’ve disowned me for being “mentally ill” and gave me zero inheritance. I mean, even currently with depression, my parents are already thinking about leaving me out of the will for being a “useless eater”, imagine if I was LGBT. For context, parents are from Mainland, PRC, currently we’re in the US, they are conservstives that just thinks everyone who’s is depressed is either “faking it” or crazy psychopaths and/or “useless eaters”. I hate my life.

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Many of the Russian invasion forces have desserted/defected to Ukraine. IDF could do the same. I mean like just run far away, never look back.

It wont be easy to desert, but like, if you are part of the russian invasion force, you’re gonna get shot, same with the IDF. If its “not your fault” for being conscripted, is also “not their fault” for the opposing side to shooting the invaders, the opposing side is also “just doing their job”.