the great firewall isn't there to protect Chinese people, it's there so the internet isn't flooded with western malding about constantly getting owned
It's going to be hilarious if one day the firewall comes down and the entire net switches to Chinese poster's control like someone just built a cultural wonder in civ.
Every fast food chain establishing a Russian branch as soon as 1992 rolled around but it’s Weibo dominating the internet once the US becomes a spiritual rump state after ramaswamy pushes his luck too hard or smth once trump dies idfk
I mean, take that population size, and assuming this is an example of their powerful but not necessarily MOST powerful posters and yeah. The rest of the internet would be taken by fucking storm! The sheer posting power and constant ownage will finally overwhelm the Western Internet and force the it's citizens to finally finally touch grass. And they will find fighting the real fight offline easier than the fake fight online. They will find their landlord can't post better or really do anything better, their employers can be hanged and stopped from clapping back as hard as the Chinese posters can. Then....then we will see the sun rise for the first time in generations.
The 4 columns of Chinese posting will be joined by a 5th, Hexbear Column
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
not vegetarians (meaning they are not pushovers)
Based Chinese recognize that vegetarianism is a weak-ass substitute for the true strength of character that is veganism
Hell yeah. They do have one of the fastest growing vegan movements in cities. Half the Chinese ramens I buy in borgerland have gone vegan in the past few years.
wow, that's wonderful. i go to chinese food places on campus because they have the only good vegetarian (not vegan 🫤) food. i had seasame potatoes which was mouth watering and really satisfying.
First as Tragedy, then as Farce
spoiler
beyond tickled that we are the farce
I'm imagining an alternate timeline now, wherein Texas and Hong Kong seceded at the same time, and Hong Kong is just immediately annexed by Texas because Britain didn't want them and Texas was a good enough second choice for Imperial Daddy. Hong Kong is reabsorbed back into China and Texas back into the USA within about a month tops, the incident fades into obscurity, and within two decades history YouTubers make videos presenting Texan Hong Kong as a zany did-you-know
The worst part of this timeline is YouTube still existing in 20 years.
Don't worry, it was nationalized following the Great Californian People's Revolution
when they put all the homeless into YouTube content generation camps
YouTube still existing in 20 years
By that point you'll need a minimum 64-core CPU, 2TB of QDR16 RAM, 5gb/s fiber downlink, four instances of Google™ TrustedWeb™ ChromeNext™ running in parallel to compile and execute the 1.2GB of tracking and adserving javascript in realtime, and at least one 3D capable 8k webcam cryptographically paired with your GoogleAds™ PartnerInnovationsAI™ account to guarantee the Sponsors (praise be upon them) receive unfaltering eye contact and attention (note: blink detection will still be buggy and you may occasionally be blocked from all internet access as determined by the AI for bot-like behavior, the technology to ensure better accuracy just isn't there yet).
It's not fair, I can't read Mandarin and I'm missing out
Mentally preparing a list of China watching libs I know I can send this to for salt harvesting purposes
Bit idea: Han Zheng takes a Pelosiesque flight to Austin
what is the context?
are these comments saying its cool that texas is trying even harder than the US Govt to maim and torment immigrants?
It's about turning around rhetoric about Taiwan towards the USA. I honestly don't see a reason for Chinese people to articulate the nuanced position, like you suggest, of condemning Texas for being 100% Hitler to the USA's 99%.
It’s also about the HK protest that had a nativist characteristic against mainlanders but westerners seem to think it’s all about freedom and democracy. These are just using western rhetorics against themselves
no but it's cool that Texas is flirting with secession and civil war
If that civil war does happen, then the real international community gets
a nice little treat, and it'll be like 1917 againReducing US the reach of US hegemony? Yeah, that's probably a benefit for a lot of people (supposing that other powers don't just fill the power vacuum just to continue exploitation - "new boss, same as the old boss").
Suffering and death of millions of vulnerable people and non-combatants? Not so great.
Do have to apreciate the great snark/turnabout though, even if I don't agree.
Yeah, the decline of the U.S. is going to hurt a lot of people, it really comes down to how many, who, and where. It's ultimately a net good but it sure won't be pretty.
not sure if you read mandarin or not but i'm a complete beginner so bear with me:
when describing the us, why do they not use 美国？
Could you point out where you're talking about that?
The only two instances of the US being said is
美国
美国政府
Which is America and American government respectively
in the first post:
美万
or something, i can't recognize the second character but it looks very similar to 万, but with a dash
方, meaning direction. In this instance 美方 meaning "the American Side". Similarly, 甲方、乙方 are used in legal documents meaning Party A and Party B.
https://qxk.bnu.edu.cn/#/danziDetail/49c12ccb-35cc-437b-af4a-3fe126df8fca/%E6%96%B9/22d3af76-1ffe-46da-8c28-40e7dfe6b8d2/0
Not pictured but you may also sometimes see 美帝 which means American Empire
HE SAID THE LINE
