News from within the empire - From a leftist perspective
I bounced off it because in the end it's social media but vibes were definitely much better. I was about to get into an argument over Stalin but the person I replied to ignored me. Would have loved to get that off the checklist before leaving.
Can't blame her. A country with credit score will believe in social credit system
I am not a big social media user but I downloaded xiaohongshu just to see how things were going there firsthand.
It was downright heartwarming.
Chinese users being incredibly open to people coming on to the platform, going out of their way to provide messages in English and tutorials on how things work. Obviously it is a great chance for them to expand their viewership too. USians to their credit, being pretty humble and often even trying to use some mandarin or express interest in learning it. A lot of questions that seem to stem from legitimate curiosity as opposed to any kind of maliciousness. Legitimately some of the most positive social media I think I have ever seen in my life.
Will people stick with it? I have no idea, but I can only hope a little bit of the attitude sticks around longterm.
This has truely been a wonderful thing to see. I do wonder about what actions will be taken by the west in response to this.
At least 小红书 seems to be in the position that they want to allow the western users to keep using their platform non-region locked.
It probably helps that XHS is one of the more LGBT and feminist friendly platforms with a mix of libs sprinkled in to ease them in. Some of those same libs were shocked that Americans healthcare costs and needing to work multiple jobs to survive was actually true, and not state propaganda as they previously thought.
The whole thing turned out to be incredibly wholesome. This is the first mass cultural exchange between regular people in US and China, and it went better than anyone could've expected. I really think this is exactly what we need going forward. Regular people talking to other people across the world, realizing we're not that different from each other and we all want the same things.
The death of Capitalism? I didn't relise the west was so onboard with that yet
I bet a significant portion of young people is onboard at this point. They didn't get to live through the "good times", all they've seen is a dehumanizing system that continues to tighten the screws on them.
Can't help it but feel empathy towards the struggle of new york times writers 😞, all their work gone, completely erased overnight.
Dont worry they have not given up yet
but their job just got exponentially harder 😔 they'll need to pay up some chatGPT subscriptions to meet their quotas now
Look you think they will give up just because its hard NEVER they will come up with even more outrageous lies, Even angrery things to say about people who use it, EVEN MORE RED SCARE LANGUAGE, and mention the sky is yellow!!!!
On X, libs are shitting their pants talking about what if you posted "tiny man square" or "weegers" or "pooh". Good thing is though, this is separating the people willing to learn from the people too high on their own ethnic supremacy.
People also saying shit like there is nothing comparable to tianamen square in us history. There is tons of violence much beyond what racists even think even happened there. They just think that violence is good so it doesn't even have to be censored. A lot of these types would love running a tank over races or genders they don't like.
MOVE bombing, assassination of Fred Hampton, Kent State shooting, and the Tulsa Massacre, just to name a few. That's all stuff done only within the last century or so and only the stuff done on US soil.
Sometimes the sinophobia machine paints the June fourth event as a brutal quashing of a student protest, which is like maybe a smidgeon of the truth in that there were students there, and well... the US has got that right at home, from recent ceasefire campus protests to Kent State 1970.
However regarding 6-4, I must point out that many prominent student leaders were very much not gunned down. Many of them (along with other dissidents) smuggled out of PRC by Operation Yellowbird; CIA and MI6 already had a network in place as they were aiding students in organizing protests, so were able to react quickly when China announced arrest warrants. Like, these student leaders didn't die, they went on to get (or were honorarily awarded) degrees from prestigious universities. They're still alive today, thriving even. (except for one guy who wants to go back to China, even tried to turn himself in, nope. Dude's got a whooole interesting entanglement in dissident activities, but then again many of the other beneficiaries of Op Yellowbird do as well)
Yeah, even BBC cables at the time debunk the current narrative about the protests. Amazingly though, all the libs forgot about the IOF running over children with a tank. CNN did a piece feeling sorry about the piece of shit that did it even.
I've been reading An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States for Young People to my kiddo, and it's just incredible how persistent, systematic, and brutal the settlers were to the Indigenous. I plan on posting them later, but there are direct quotes from Washington and even Jefferson explicitly calling for the eradication of the Indigenous.
Is there anyone else in history as systematically ruthless as the capitalist West? Not sure if even the Vikings or Mongols can compare.
Just people wanting to replicate European nobility on a new land mass via extermination. Just trash human beings that figured out you can have all the advantages of wealth and power with a veneer of enlightenment by quoting Voltaire, etc
I love to explain to libs how the Tank Man in the famous video was stopping tanks from driving away from the square, and his gestures suggest he was telling the crew to drive back to the square and clear out the protestors.
Also how the "oppressive massacring" Chinese soldiers were willing to talk with him for quite a while and did not drive over him, as they had supposingly driven over all those protesters afterwards.
Meanwhile, in the US, police are using police cars to drive into protesters without consequence.
I've always found it funny how westerners tend to be utterly ignorant regarding the atrocities that the west commits. Really shows just how effective censorship here is in practice.
CNN recently put out a sympathy article for an IOF soldier that literally ran over dozens of people with a tank/ bulldozer. That literally happened (we have confessions) and so many atrocities have happened since that I forgot about it even though I pay attention to this stuff almost 24/7.
I've been enjoying red note so much. USians honestly seem embarrassed that they believed all the nonsense they were taught.
I wonder will the americans finally start to wake up or will they forget this in 2 weeks
Well, let's just say that Lemmygrad is to me what XHS is to these people
The material conditions in the states will keep them focused.
I mean, the material conditions here for the not capitalist class could be ripe for atleast agitation, my hope is that maybe this will shake enough of a crack in the propoganda to let it become an acceptable thought
Exactly, and people were already starting to question the system before. Now they know there is an alternative where people actually live happy and fulfilling lives.