If an attractive person wanted me to sell out my country. I have no issues with that. Having loyalty to a country that only cares about billionaires and companies is dumb.
this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2025
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a country that only cares about billionaires and companies
So... Both countries involved?
Yeah. Clearly the only thing that matters is money, if we're meant to idolize these ghoulish billionaires. My country should be proud of me following the example they set of selling out everyone they can in the name of the almighty dollar.
Hopefully the Chinese and Americans maybe radicalize each other for revolutions in each land
The Baltics got rid of their authoritarian governments by singing.
The Americans and Chinese will do it by shitposting.
Now this would be the dream.
I think it's cool that people can interact with each other. But damn it feels so dystopian that they're reminding people to follow china's policies. It's just really sad that people around the world don't have full freedom. Like damn I don't even feel like I'm fully free, but at least I don't have the government breathing down my neck 24/7.
Or at least not yet, I suppose. This is a good reminder on how lucky I am, I guess.
I really don't feel like even that is as different as we think it is. Not because I don't think China is breathing down the necks of its citizenry – I absolutely do – but because I think America* is doing it just as much. We just don't realize it because of the immense lengths local media goes through to make it look like it's not happening. Exonerative tense, copaganda, et cetera. Shit, it hasn't been much more than a decade since the Snowden leaks happened, and yet as far as I know we have no good reason to believe any of that has stopped at all.
It's easy not to think so if you've not personally experienced it. But it's important to remember that if you're not privileged, there are a lot of reasons to feel very oppressed in this country.
^*^ ^Mentioning^ ^America^ ^here^ ^because^ ^it's^ ^what^ ^I^ ^have^ ^personal^ ^experience^ ^with,^ ^not^ ^because^ ^I'm^ ^assuming^ ^that's^ ^where^ ^you're^ ^from.^
Pretty fair to say, I'd rather be Chinese then American. With a population of 1.4 billion they have less prisoners than America, the nation isn't infested by corporate control and you talk about not having governments breathing down you for 24/7 but forget meta, Google are actively harvesting your data and you're fully tapped by us governmental organisation. You've been propagandised about freedom, you have less freedom than a poor rural Chinese who is probably state subsidized
Interesting, I wasn't a tiktok user so I didn't care much, but this could be interesting to watch.
It has been very eye opening. No property taxes. One guy ate out for under $4 for three meals, with leftovers. A week’s worth of groceries for under $60.
A pretty girl is a pretty girl... I can overlook a little espionage.