oregoncom [he/him]
When I first saw jellied eels in a video I thought it was kinda gross but never felt compelled to express my opinion about it, but after hearing the British complain about Chinese and American food so much I feel a moral obligation to make fun of jellied eels. It’s not the eels, it’s the hypocrisy.
Literally no native speaker of chinese considers Pinyin a real writing system. The latin alphabet barely works for Latin and its modern descendents, let alone a tonal analytical language in another language family. You’re just another illiterate expat who’s bitter at your inability to learn Chinese. Fuck off back to reddit.
Sounds like bitter sexpat to me.
Edit: lmao this coomer freak literally went around asking for “porn instances” https://lemmy.eus/post/172123?scrollToComments=true
Shills for NFTs, Check. Also confidently incorrect about how they work lmao. https://lemmy.ml/comment/2707218
Inability to learn to Chinese renders him incapable of doing basic tasks while in China, blames it on phones while even other expats prove him wrong. https://lemmy.ml/comment/2690720
Admits many Taiwanese consider themselves Chinese but decides some random sexpat knows better. https://lemmy.ml/comment/2483288
Thinks Chinese people can’t write “native level English” https://lemmy.ml/comment/1174241
After having been kicked out of one Asian country, has decided to be a parasite in another one where they bitch about every minor detail. https://lemmy.ml/post/1648171?scrollToComments=true
Weird insecurity about being unable to learn Chinese leads to him accusing random Chinese people of not being able to read. Common sexpat trait. https://lemmy.ml/comment/1186287
because realistically speaking only very few people relative to everyone else will even know what a VPN is.
You spend too much time talking to techies who think they’re super special people who are the only ones smart enough to touch computers. Everyone knows how to use a VPN. A working VPN is was the first result on Baidu when I tried to use one last time. Boomers who are afraid to update their computer know what Tor is. And even besides that there are plenty of times I’ve seen articles from western news media posted in China, usually consumed by the local libs. Who do you think the NYT Chinese version is for? Chinese diaspora don’t read the NYT enough to justify them having a Chinese version of like half their articles, it’s for Mainland Chinese liberals. Chinese people know about and complain about DW, BBC, NHK, CNN etc because we can read the articles and see the shit they pull (for example a big meme is when DW published some article about China and the title said “human fork” instead of “human rights” in Chinese, or the time the BBC published an ominous photo of the WIV (with a grey filter) and another photo of the BBC photographer having to to lay in a ditch to take the photo came out).
Ultimately in the 21st century access to information doesn’t matter as much as having a population that actually is capable of consuming information. In the west people are trained to ignore everything that goes against the narrative as propaganda. The average westerner can not name a single Chinese social media site or news publication. They cry shill and propaganda followed by some racial slurs any time they encounter Chinese people online.
I have to say, from what I understand it’s the nations themselves that petition US bases
Okinawa/Ryukyu has regular protests against US military bases. The people there do not want a US military base. It’s so bad I even saw a Ryukyu nationalists cringily try to cozy up to China.
this is probably a really intense issue here but I honestly just don’t really agree… I don’t think a country is entitled to invade land just because it previously held it
You do realize that Taiwan officially considers itself the “Republic of China” and the legitimate government of not just China but also Mongolia right? Even Tsai Ing-Wen calls herself Chinese when giving campaign speeches. The whole Taiwanese identity thing is an idpol ruse by the DPP. Those same “taiwanese” will go on long rants about how they’re the only real Chinese and all mainlanders are “yellow russians” right after yelling slurs about various northern Chinese minorities/Taiwanese aboriginals. If you can read Chinese they’re all over social media. This also ironically leads to the 2% aboriginal Taiwanese population voting for the pro-China party. The funny thing is these people drop the act immediately when they sense they’re about to get hatecrimed abroad. I personally knew a guy who went out of his way to call himself Taiwanese and make fun of mainlanders until Asian hate crimes started happening, then he started posting about how he was Chinese and had Chinese flags all over his social media.
This is in contrast to places like Singapore, which are majority ethnically Chinese but have an actual legitimate national identity, instead of whatever crazy shit the DPP does. Again if you can read Chinese you can easily see the difference between well adjusted Singaporean vs. Deranged DPP supporters on social media(look up 1450 army, every liberal accusation is an admission of guilt).
because realistically speaking only very few people relative to everyone else will even know what a VPN is.
EDIT: wait I just realized, in a lot of places there is no visible homelessness because the police just kicks them out, I’m not sure if that’s the same for China…
I’ve had anti-CCP liberal Chinese people unironically ask me “why are there so many homeless in America, why can’t they just go back to their home villages and receive government assistance”. These are people who will complain about the CCP 24/7 and Idolize America. That interaction was my wake-up call.
