• Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    I have yet to meet an American who visited china who did not come back screaming praises for that country. When you mention their visits, they always grin even if it was a grueling work trip.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      There was ine ledditor that I spent too long talking to who claimed to like China until he traveled there and saw guards with rifles at Tiananmen Square, which he interpreted as exerting a psychic pressure to not even think about the June 4th Incident. No, as far as I can remember from his harrowing account, no one actually said anything.

      • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        Lmao I remember growing up post 9/11 and seeing armed guards with MP5s at hockey games.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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          7 months ago

          Shit, i can go to Seattle right now and see cops with body armor and assault rifles patrolling the train station like it's Fallujah. Even the motorcylce cops around here have AR15s sticking out the back like they're judge dredd

    • Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 months ago

      They're all actors, every last one of them, acting their entire lives in case a Westerner catches a glimpse of them. Nobody actually works in China it's just actors. It's a wonder they're the second largest global economy /s