If this leads to Chinese protests and pressure for Xi to liberate the US, this will be the funniest result of TikTok's ban.
Oh they have no fucking idea
Can we get Trueanon translated into Mandarin? They need to learn the sick truth about this vile country
I remember a bit of chapotraphouse AI-tranlated tl chinese keeping the original voices. No idea of it was a good translation
Also don't remember if it was good, but I do remember someone saying that they spoke Chinese with a Beijing accent
Allah will awaken the Chinese people to the malefactions of the American state
As a communist in the USA, it’s weirdly affirming how both USSR citizens and now red book users both experience a shock in learning the reality of living in the west. The former tragic because it was caused by transitioning to it, but this time it’s vaguely warm. There is no threat, just exposure.
I saw a post where people were shocked to learn that ambulance costs weren’t government propaganda. I know the app trends bougie and liberal in the mainland, but maybe that’s good given the current context? They are being exposed to the reality of America rather than the RFA version.
awhile ago there was a youtube video posted here where there was a comment seemingly from someone outside of the US who claimed to hear that we had good healthcare or something. If one isn’t deep in the web it’s hard to know for certain
for example, i have the benefit of living around and having friends who’ve lived or currently live in China. Exchange students in college for example, and that set me straight in my libs years. Just asking about daily life and recognizing that ppl r the same everywhere. Not everyone views the world in that simple way which leads to understand of differences and nuance etc
I live outside the West and people who want to move to the United States know basically nothing about it. I've never seen one acknowledge homelessness, people who need multiple jobs, healthcare costs etc.
I might be the most anti-USA person I know because I have a lot of USian friends to explain the experience first-hand.
Bit idea: chinese incels moving to Utah because of this
Yee-haw,
mingzemy name is Chan-Bama.I’m a 27 year old Chinese Latter-day Saints ("Mormon" for you gentiles)
We used to have that too in Denmark until summer time in the 2010's I think. Authorities could grant a so-called king's letter to minors aged 15-17, allowing them to get married. I think it was mostly used in the case of teen pregnancies. I don't think it was done very often towards the end though.
It was eventually abolished for racist reasons. A Liberal Party minister of integration decided to forcibly separate all refugee families where one of the spouses was ages 15-17, hinting at the Muslim brainpan predisposing Muslim men for being nonces. However, the decision was illegal, not for being racist and causing harm to people but for violating principles of administrative law.
In the ensuing scandal the chuds claimed that the minister shouldn't get in trouble because she had saved little girls from being victimised by 50 year old dark-skinned men with huge scary beards. This led people to point out that the feigned concerns were bullshit since minors could still legally get married in Denmark. The institution of the king's letters, mostly forgotten by most people at the time, became an embarrassment and was quietly abolished.
If you want social progress to happen in this country, your best shot is to make a racist argument for it.
I don't know how long this Xiaohongshu in the West thing will last, but at the very least it has been really interesting.
The China Hawks will be sure to ban the hell out of the app the first chance they get.
One China Hawk, Tom Cotton, has already called for Xiaohongshu's ban.
I can't find the clip but it's part of his earlier rant while blocking Dems from extending the ban.
We need to list out the shocking facts as a center piece for our own posts. Someone wanna drop some literacy rates on them? Or how about legal segregation for private schools!
Wait what? I'm Canadian, I didn't know this.
Yep. It's mostly bible belt states, and typically requires parental consent. So usually (as best I understand it) parents marrying off very young daughters to much older men who happen to go to the same church as them. A couple of states have tried to end it, only for it to get blocked by their legislature or vetoed by the governor.
Outside the Bible belt too; the fundamentalist Mormons in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico also have child brides, but I think they're more reprehensible since they also expel their teenage boys by abandoning them in Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Albuquerque, and Las Vegas to a life of destitution due to being uneducated and sheltered their entire lives in cult like conditions.
They also have complete control of the towns they inhabit including the police and judiciary to shield them from state efforts to stop them; with Colorado City being the most egregious example imo.
Its actually most of the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States
Although that's with all the exceptions on the book. It might be easier to get the exceptions in the bible belt.
Also notable: states with zero minimum age using all exceptions CA, OK, NM, MS.
Edit: in 2017 there were 25 states with no minimum age. All 13 states with 18 as the final minimum were applied after 2018. The triggering event seems to be HRW pointing out Afghanistan had better child marriage laws than the US. So this is something that the US is just now coming to terms with.
Most famously in the CIA larvae nest
Damn... That's a way to put it... Utah may be beautiful, but it's a portal for demons.
They also limit screen/game time, which I support as a parent to avoid creating a tablet kid. And they also don't allow certain political topics, that I think some non far left would support. It's interesting, there seems to be something for everyone to like about it.
