It's good if you're rich, you can send your kids to rich people school and they'll have a huge leg up on the poors who had to go to Jesus school and got taught a bunch of propaganda.
Of course the Chinese government is going to give Americans a warm welcome on their propaganda app. You're not going to see chinese people talking about Hong Kong, Uyghurs, Child labor. They could easily go to jail if they did any of that.
Maybe it's because they have long winters and didn't really like in person interactions.
So the Chinese government is spying on me, I'm literally never going to China, plus they have backdoor access to like every cheap security camera on the planet.
It's a better position than giving all my info to one of the u.s. companies where it has a real effect on me, especially now.
I would just buy houses in fancy HOA neighborhoods and let homeless people live there.
These things won't be on the road by the end of this year. They'll either fall apart, get wrecked by the people that own them, lit on fire for the insurance money, or completely recalled.
I got lucky on the fact that I'm old now so I was able to buy a house in 2014 with a low interest rate. I also live in a low cost of living area, my mortgage, which includes property taxes and house insurance is $1k/mo. The majority is that goes to taxes and insurance, interest is about $60/mo. I have 5 more years on the 15 yr mortgage. I've gotten lucky that we've not had to have any major repairs in the past ten years, but I was looking for houses that were who built with good roofing and hvac systems since those are the two killers. The house has a lot of dated aesthetics from every decade from the sixties onwards, but that stuff is easy and cheap, plus you're probably going to do that kind of stuff anyway.
If you built a snowman during the day the snow only needs to be below freezing. It can get colder that night or the next day by quite a bit. The exterior of the snowman would be colder than the inside even though they're both frozen.
You will be called "the new hire" until I eventually learn what your name is in a year or two.
Lack of fake accounts/trolls like on other platforms and you'll have that.
I didn't see how that will massively backfire on them at all.
The chilling thing for me is that Nazi Germany was able to accomplish this without the technology and mass surveillance we have today.
It will be a slow boil and they'll arrest people one at a time for "terrorism" and such. I won't be surprised to see extremist militias going after people as well.
They want more extreme rhetoric because it drives engagement. They went to a paid creator model and I see accounts that post random shit to get people going in the comment section.
Look at industrial places. I used to go to a bolt warehouse that just sold bolts. Another place sold bearings. There's lumber yards that sell hardware too. Check newegg for tools and stuff too.
Don't hold your breath
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