Can the Chinese even discuss politics like we do here? Haven't seen anything on rednote beside "political studies" and some Marx praises.
Must admit it's a bit more difficult with all of it being in mandarin, but god damn, are they under surveillance.
Yes they can. They don't do it in English. They also don't share it on international social media. There is not much of a difference between the day to day life of someone in the US and China and everything they know about each other is propaganda.
Le chat mistral told me differently. I'll have to talk openly about politics with a Chinese citizen before I change my mind.
It's not fucking normal that a country with such an economy doesn't have people on the global scene.
You have us, Europeans, you Americans, Aussies, Japanese, Indonesians (VPN), Singaporeans, ... All here talking to eachother.
Chinese? Nope. Great firewall of china. I couldn't even speak to my wife when she was in Shanghai unless it was on WeChat. Her emails were blocked. WhatsApp was blocked. The other phone she tried to use VPN on became completely useless.
China controls their population. Until enough Chinese citizens are able to tell me otherwise.
Brilliant economy, brilliant growth, but god damn, allow them to come out of their hole.
All the countries you mentioned have large English speaking populations. America, Australia are both primary English speaking, Japan was occupied by the US, One of Singapore's official languages is English. Indonesia while not colonized directly by the US has been in its sphere since the cold war and the end of the direct Dutch colonialization. China not so much. They don't really speak English there so they don't really participate in the English internet. Same with my home country, Iran isn't as controlled as Americans think either and lots of people are extremely vocal. But they also do not tend to speak English unless they have family that live in the US. When people in Iran learn a second language they tend to learn French. So the effect is despite the fact they are able to they don't participate on the English internet either.
You can go to the indonesian subreddit and you'll see them all speak Bahasa Indonesian. Reddit is banned in Indonesia. They still go there with VPN.
Chinese government is richer, they went after the VPNs.
Chinese citizens cannot be here, they cannot form a Lemmy instance where they speak mandarin to eachother.
Social media has to accept Chinese laws, which includes moderation by the government. They are only allowed to have political opinions that align with those in power.
Iran and America hate eachother. Completely different culture, etc.
My friend was born in Iran, his family did all the effort to get into Belgium. He'd rather be shot dead than to live in Iran. But he's also a bit loco. Saying he would nuke Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan if he had the chance. Edit:forgot his favourite nuke destination which is india
But that's just one guy. Sorry, had to include cuz random.
What most people would dislike about Iran would be the dress code. Girls protesting it and being arrested. For some reason never to be heard from again.
Just things that I would not want my wife or future daughter to live in.
My wife came from a Muslim dominated country, would be told to wear a hijab while she's not even religious.
She likes that she can wear whatever she wants in Belgium.
And now... Would I be allowed to say things like this in Iran, or would it be removed by their government employees? I have no idea about Iran.
I just know that us Belgians are allowed to shit talk our government as if it's a national sport.
Go to Belgium2 subreddit, everything is spoken in Dutch. Most of it is complaining about the government.
Social media has to accept Chinese laws, which includes moderation by the government. They are only allowed to have political opinions that align with those in power.
Not true, Chinese people on Weibo are allowed to say things against the government and talk politics.
Iran and America hate eachother. Completely different culture, etc.
Also not true, and you are completely full of shit. The Iranian government hates America not anyone I've ever met or the people. Our cultures are actually pretty similar in a lot of ways as are the governments in structure and behavior.
What most people would dislike about Iran would be the dress code. Girls protesting it and being arrested. For some reason never to be heard from again.
They also had a woman's only vote and voted to keep it
Just things that I would not want my wife or future daughter to live in.
No one asked you to
And now… Would I be allowed to say things like this in Iran, or would it be removed by their government employees? I have no idea about Iran.
Clearly you have no idea what you are talking about just repeating government propaganda. No as a foreigner you probably wouldn't be allowed to go there and talk shit about everyone but everyday Iranians can. Americans disappear for protest too but you never hear about it. In America they keep almost 2 million people in prison and assassinate any political opposition (Fred Hampton, Mark Clark, Malcom X, Martin Luthor King Jr just to name people off the top of my head)
Look I get it, you hate China and are steeped in propaganda and won't listen. I've been to China multiple times, people there can talk about politics all they want
Go to Belgium2 subreddit
American corporate social media that Chinese people don't want to use.
Talking to you is mind numbing. You are so steeped in lies and repeat them without any knowledge of what you are talking about.
Why do you think I hate China lol. What I'm doing is antagonising a marxist leninist in order to get banned from tankie subs.
China's pretty great. I like Europe more though. Not a fan of america.
Do you live in Iran? You said "my home country" instead of "my country" so I assumed you're not living there currently.
Weibo is better than rednote, thanks for that. Saw someone talk about the Ukraine-Russian war, so politics are present.
Voting in favour of forcing other women to wear clothes they don't want to wear. Aye, whatever.
Some VPNs do work in China, otherwise the subreddit China_irl wouldn't exist.
Weibo/rednote have a nice translate feature that Anglosphere apps do not have.
Not by voting, but tomorrow I will hold up a sign near a road for 2 hours. Trump will have no choice but to step down after that.
Protests are for building public solidarity. You know, organizing.. the only way for the masses to accomplish anything in the face of fascism. It's not for convincing Trump of anything.
I think OP might have been talking about that pesky amendment that comes after the free-speech one
Which also benefits from organizing.
Another fairy tale is thinking that Vooting Bloo No Matter Hoo can defeat fascism.
Im vooting! I'm vooting!
True… but you can sure enable one by not voting.
Repeat after me …. The democratic party is funded by the same wall street military and prison industry profiteers that fund the republican party and they are fundamentally opposed to shifting policy to the left and adopting economic democracy to any extent in their platform to the point they would rather ensure a right wing candidate wins by sabotagingrg any popular pro workers rights candidate rather than nominate anyone left of their platform which makes american western neo liberal democracy a defacto class dictatorship!
Whew! I followed you though. There are other factors as well I'm sure, but yeah, those are some of them, and big ones too. Greed sure does become complicated over time. Institutions are built on it. It was a bit hard to get past the arrogant-sounding "Repeat after me" but I'm glad I kept going.
The american government was designed to serve exactly the people it’s still serving (rich merchants and landowners). It’s working extremely well, they just lied to you about what it was designed to do.
