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- Comment on Absolutely nothing of note happened in China in June 1989, right? 1 year ago:
I wasn’t born at the time so I have not 1st hand account. My parents heard about it on the news and they also heard about it from relatives. My parents and grand parents are pro- Communist Party, they didn’t really care about the protests being suppressed, they wanted stability more. But remember, China has a culture of what westerners refer to as “Social Harmony”, and don’t like to “causs troubles”. In 1912, when people were uprising against the Qing Monarchy, most parents would not have wanted their children being revolutionaries either. Same thing when Communists and Nationalists were fighting a civil war. The youth always want change, but no parent would ever want their child getting involved in stuff. They don’t want to lose their childen. This is the same sentiment regarding Tiananmen. Change is risky, causes too much instability. China not being united is what allows foreigners to invade China. (Eg: Eight Nations Alliance invading China, Consessions in China (Chinese land that was occupied by foreign countries), Japanese invasions of China during the midst of Communist-Nationalist Civil war, etc.) Even though the students in Tiananmen called for reforms, not revolution, the Communist leaders feared riots or a violent uprising, so they decided to violently suppress it before it “got out of hand”. Most people in China are probably just glad that it ended without fracturing China, they didn’t care which side won, as long as the country is still stable.
I learned about Tiananment when I was around high school age, many years after immigrating to the US. I left China in 2nd grade, so it’s not surprising I didn’t know about it, I mean most kids don’t get taught history. My older brother told me about it. At first, I just thought: meh, another one of the government’s conflict with the people But that wasn’t the important thing. What was odd to me was that they censored it in China. I mean, in my public school in the US, I was learning about slavery, how George Washington was a slave owner, most founders owned enslaved people. And even after the US Civil War, there’s still racism against black people. And I start learning that stuff around like 3-5th grade. Yet, my older brother who was like 7th grade in China didn’t know about it. So that was really odd to me. Then, I learn about how they put a firewall around the entirety of China’s network. Now the government started to look very shady to me. I mean, at this point, I’m still very Patriotic for China, just starting to suspect wtf kind of shit was going on in the government. Then one day my mother told me about how she has to take a risk to conceive me during the One Child Policy. She was supposed to be sterilized after my older brother was born, but she bribed a government official to fake the certificate of being sterilized. Then also hide that she was pregnant with her second child (the second child being me, obviously). So she went to a nearby city to be less likely to be found. Then I was born in the city hospital. Now that I’m already born, they can’t kill me anymore since somehow forcing a woman to abort her child was okay, but they didn’t want to go as far was actually killing someone who was already born. But my parents still had to pay a fine. Something like tens of thousands of Yuan(¥)/Renminbi. It took years to pay off. (And if you don’t pay it off, they don’t give you your documents, birth certificates, ID, etc. Basically becoming a legally non-existant person, despite actually existing). So that’s my personal grudge against the CCP, I mean who wouldn’t hate an organization that essentially tried to kill you? Idk why my parents still support the CCP to this day. Everytime they spew Pro-CCP propaganda, I’d just say: “So you support the One Child Policy? Should I not have been born?” That usually shuts then up.
I personally view what happened in Tianamen as a tragedy. I mean, they weren’t even threatening to revolt, just wanted to talk some sense into the CCP leaders and start some reforms. The government didn’t need to use tanks to suppress it. Such unnecessary violence.
Authoritarianism and the One Child Policy are both reasons why I oppose the Communist Party of China, although the One Child Policy is much more personal to me. They have since changed it to Two Child Policy, but still wtf is this shit. It’s equivalent to US red states forcing women to give birth. Both are governments dictating the lives of others.
I’m currently a US Citizen, I’m probably not going to visit China any time soon. (Not only because of China, but visiting China can also cause the US government putting you on a list of suspected CCP spies, and I don’t want that to happen.) And right now idk what happens in China, it aint my country anymore.
(Although if China and the US is at war, that’d be terrifying. That shit would cause another Internment camps, this time for people with Chinese Ancestry. Being a US Citizen with Chinese Ancestry is as being stuck in the turbulent oceans between 2 unsafe shores. No safe harbor for people like me. I have to deal with China labling me a traitor, and also the US suspecting CCP spies. What a shitty situation that’d be.)
- Comment on Absolutely nothing of note happened in China in June 1989, right? 1 year ago:
P.S I don’t know if the man was ever found out, but I hope he stays anonymous.
Lol he got taken away by 2 plain-clothed men, and he was never seen again. It is unclear who those 2 men are, but some have speculated they might be working for the Communist Party of China, and that they were detaining the man that stood in front of the tanks.
Also, “Tank Man” is actually on the morning of June 5th, after the protests have already been suppressed the night before.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing of note happened in China in June 1989, right? 1 year ago:
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- Comment on Weapons Grade Drag - MilSpec 1 year ago:
Virgin Pants Wearer vs Chad Dress Enjoyer
- Comment on Geography test 1 year ago:
Pardon me? I am enjoying posting on my toilet thank you very much.
- Comment on Geography test 1 year ago:
Well I guess the capital of the United States is London? Capital of China, Koreas, is Tokyo. But wait, wasn’t Capital of China also London? 🤔
London is the Capital of the world?
Okay folks, it’s over. London is now the official Capital of Earth. The redcoats have won, we’ve lost this timeline. I gotta go… to dump some tea in the water.
- Comment on Do political assassinations generally help or harm the cause of the person that was assassinated? 1 year ago:
Yea, my friend asked me to ask on Lemmy if what he did in Ecuador was a bad decision
/s
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- Comment on What is the secret to a happy social-media experience? 1 year ago:
Social media usually has all sorts of people, even if it’s only 1%, that’s 1 in every 100 interactions. And the percentage of shitty people is probably much higher. It’s going to be difficult to avoid.
For Lemmy: You can use an account on beehaw.org to reduce negativity. Downside is that they also defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Or alternatively, you can use another instance that federates with them all, and just browse mostly on beehaw communities.
- Comment on Why are we anonymous here? 1 year ago:
My address is at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, D.C, USA. Come fight be bro. And no, not fist-fight, that shit is boring, we’re doing this the 2nd amendment way.
- Comment on Absolutely nothing of note happened in China in June 1989, right? 1 year ago:
Wait till you learn about the ideology of one of the lemmy devs…
- Comment on Absolutely nothing of note happened in China in June 1989, right? 1 year ago:
Nothing happend at Reddit’s Frontpage on June 12, 2023. The so called “protests” is a hoax invented by the Lemmy devs attempting to discredit our wonderful platform. The “purge of moderators” never happened, not one single moderator was purged. And those who did get purged are violent rioters internet vandals. Reddit is the greatest platform ever, and Lemmy is filled with racists and spammers and ads and evil developers trying censor posts and take away user freedom. Long live CEO Spaz! May his wisdom guide us towards a better future!
- Comment on The fact that people this stupid exist 1 year ago:
Well to be fair, there are some parts of school that’s just propaganda ahem “OUR COUNTRY IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD” ahem
- Comment on The fact that people this stupid exist 1 year ago:
Yea no stupidity vaccine either. Wake up, sheeple. This is a simulation. To exit the simulation, you’ll need to terminate the processes running on this matrix machine. The so called “Covid” is actually our lord and savior attempting to liberate us from this Simulated Hell. The so called “Vaccine” is a virus trying to prevent us from exiting the matrix. “Death” is a lie invented by evil Bill Gates trying to scare us and to keep us under his control his his matrix. Rise, people. Exit simulation. “Death” isn’t real, it’s just exiting the simulation. Do let allow yourself to be enslaved any longer. Lets end this simulation, today. Escape the matrix!
/s
- Comment on Coming to you soon... 1 year ago:
So this is how the internet dies? With ads, paywalls, and DRMs?
🥲
- Comment on Coming to you soon... 1 year ago:
The enshittification continues until profits increase!
(Btw I still haven’t seen those yet. In USA and I’m using uBlock Origin on Firefox)
- Comment on What's happening with Linus Media Group? 1 year ago:
This is one of the best answers I’ve gotten. Thank you!
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- Comment on My good buddy jack daniels 1 year ago:
Real talk:
People say “have someone care about you” as in a significant other or a close friend, but I don’t even have blood relatives that care. Life is so sad.
“Blood is thicker than water” my ass
nobody in the world cares, not even parents.
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- Comment on Is saying "Don't need to know hebrew to know the Holocaust was bad" antisemetic? 1 year ago:
Meh, it’s one thing to disagree with how to fix the problems in the world, it’s another thing to glorify past atrocities or just outright deny them. If someone starts denying the holocauss, I’d just ignore them, and report. Same with denying atrocities committed by any other groups of people. There’s no arguing with these people. Argument is for topics like:
Which is a better pet: Cat vs Dog?
Representative or Direct Democracy?
Unitary vs Federal?
FPTP or Ranked Choice?
Presidential system vs Parliamentary system?
And arguing whether some groups of innocent people should be summarily executed or not is not a valid discussion. Arguing about whether history happened or not when there is already more than enough evidence isn’t a good topic to debate about.
- Comment on What antivirus software should i use? 1 year ago:
Late response, but here’s the biggest piracy community on Lemmy: !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
You instance has blocked the community tho, so you’ll need to use another instance.
Here’s viewed from the original instance: lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy
- Comment on Is this it? Is there anything more to life, am I missing something? 1 year ago:
I don’t have any energy or motivation to play games anymore, even though I used to play avidly.
That sounds like me. You know what was happing to me. I was diagnosed with depression. I’m not a doctor so I can’t diagnose you over a internet forum post, but you might want to to see a doctor for potential health issues, or perhaps you might be dealing with a mood issue.
I used to write and worldbuilding for my story, but ideas have run out and I just have no energy to continue writing. That’s probably due to depression.
Asking for the meaning of life? Lemmy’s great and all, but I don’t think I’ll find it here lmao
The meaning of life is what you want it to be. The universe has not given us one.
Biologically? It’s to reproduce. For your DNA to continue existing (or at least part of it).
Evolutionary? For out species to survive and go on conlonizing the solar system, galaxy, universe… etc.
Technologically? To achieve immortality.
Philosophically?
To find happiness. Do what’s pleasurable to you (Hedonism).
To be a good person. Make the world a better place (even if only slightly).
To acquire more knowledge for yourself and share the knowledge to progress humanity. (Eg: Conduct science experiments, find fossils, identify unknown species (there are still a lot of unidentified species, oddly enough), etc.)
If this is to close for comfort for rule 3, feel free to delete mods
There’s also another community where you can just talk !chat@beehaw.org life and stuff.
Also, I know you are busy with college and stuff, but when I had an existential crisis, I found this show called The Good Place, it helped me process some thoughts regarding existence and stuff. You might want to watch it when you find the time to do so.
- Comment on User flooding instance with (mostly) empty communities 1 year ago:
Some redditor trying be become a powermod on Lemmy
- Comment on When you go to a concert only to have an umbrella block your view 1 year ago:
“Sir/Ma’am your umbrella is in fire!”
ignites lighter
- Comment on So much for that dream. 1 year ago:
I have uBlock Origin on Firefox Android (well I’m using Fennec, but basically the same thing) and honestly, uBlock Origin is all I wanted. I don’t want to use unstable versions like Firefox Nightly.
- Comment on So much for that dream. 1 year ago:
Ahhh I have uBlock Origin 😎
- Comment on So much for that dream. 1 year ago:
The secret ingredient… is crime:
Also, I didn’t see a paywall / login wall even when visiting directly
- Comment on What happens if majority of Americans vote for one party and majority of states vote for the other? Would there indefinite deadlock between the [Executive + House of Representatives] vs [The Senate]? 1 year ago:
State is obviously referring to state populations
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