「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」(old account, migrated to Piefed)

You can vote overseas…

Its actually ironic that people in Puerto Rico don’t even get representation but if you last lived in the 50 states and then go abroad, you can mail your vote.

Every time I hear the word “import” when referring to Human Beings, its always some far right xenophobic white dude complaining about “oMg tHeSe dIrTy iNdIaNs aRe tAkInG oVeR!”

it’s trading one capitalist place for another.

Funny enough, my family also did this, but reversed.

I was born in China and we moved to the US when I was 8 years old… my parents found more success here… I mean, not at the very beginning, but eventually… now they have more income and more time off vs back in China…

I can’t speak for everyone, but in my specific case, my mom had to work long hours and did not have the 1.5 overtime bonus she has now and have less breaks vs now, and then dad… well… he didn’t really have a stable job, spend a lot of the time looking for jobs…

social programs, healthcare, and such.

Not according to my parents. My parents were kinda shocked how much welfare American Citizens have, and at one point, my parents claimed that “Americans are lazy and just wanna not go to work and live on welfare”.

And in terms of housing, okay when we were in Brooklyn, NYC, that place was so expensive it was impossible buy a house, so they bount a house in Philly moved our family here… where we’ve been living ever since…

Okay it was like approximately $100k around 2014 but this place has very shitty schools :/

But both the Brooklyn place we rented and this house in this ghetto place called Philly, both looked nicer than the neighborhood where used to live in Guangzhou, a CITY btw… (okay to be fair there are a bunch of problems in this current Philly house but like that’s just parents being frugal lol)

As for the healthcare part… eh… my mom really don’t trust doctors in China (well she also doesn’t really trust healthcare people overall, but especially those in China). Mom told me about a lot of situations that she felt like she got scammed, I can’t remember all the anecdotes she told me, but at one point, she told me how she thought the doctors are trying to get her to do a C-Section just to make more money (cuz surgery = more expensive bill), she thought it was unnecessary and wanted to give a natural birth, but she doesn’t wanna risk it being that, in fact, the doctors told the truth and then us dying, so she just gave in and went along with the C-Section. And she told me they want to overprescribe medicine so they get a kickback from the pharma companies. Bascially, my parents say US quality of healthcare is better for those who can afford it. But even then, because of their experiences living in China for so long, they just became so skeptical of the medical industry which is why mom really don’t want me seeking help for depression, cuz: “yOu dOn’t hAvE dEpReSsIoN, tHe dOctOrs aRe jUsT lYinG tO yOu!” cuz she thinks they are just trying to get paid fot overdiagnosing people… so because of their experience in China, they now kinda grew skeptical of medical professionals overall…

Cuz there’s just so much sketchy stuff and scams in China, and on top of their own experiences, warnings about scams are always circulating throughout their WeChat.

So it can look cheaper… but you risk running into corrupt doctors because corruption is a very big thing there, I mean they could easily bribe their way into having a medical license when they shouldn’t be qualified…

“To to teach English”

Which is only possible because he happened to be born into the language

And English is only in demand because of British + American dominance in the world throught the past few hundred years

Most Chinese Citizens cannot enjoy the same lifestyle as him, WHICH IS WHY they want to learn English in the first place… so that they can find more opportunities in life

Like… this is not really “China good”, this is more like “English-Speaking white dude, who was lucky enough to grow up with the language, benefiting from Anglosphere dominance throught history”

It’s an SCP. The containment procedure is to livestream his location at all times and make it legal for everyone to beat him up.

I hope this means less Sinophonia and not copying the government’s authoritarianism lol

I wanna highlight this:

“Appreciation does not erase the racism that many Chinese people grew up with,” said Elise Zeng, 28, from Brooklyn, New York. A video she posted critiquing the social media phenomenon was liked by more than 36,000 people.

She recalls how during the COVID-19 pandemic she was afraid for her parents stepping out of the house because they heard about people getting attacked just walking down the street. At the time, many Asians reported being assaulted or verbally abused by people who blamed East Asians for the spread of the virus.

“Those experiences don’t just disappear because Chinese culture is suddenly cool and trendy,” she said.

I really hope my future children can go through school in the west without ever being called “ching chong” or kids do the racist “pull their eyes back” bullshit…

But like… the reality is: Obama being president for 8 years didn’t prevent George Floyd from getting murdered by a white cop.

He has to register as a sex offender when he eventually gets deported to the US… lmfao

Of course white dudes wanna enjoy their white privilage that even Local Chinese Citizens don’t have

Exhibit A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_monkey (this is not exactly “tourist” but the point remains)

The phenomenon is based on the perception that association with foreigners, specifically white foreigners, can signify prestige, legitimacy, and international status.

Edit: Lmao r/fragilewhiteredditors leaking into Lemmy 🤣

Nuclear Weapons stops WW3 yet again!

Thanks a lot to Mr. Oppenheimer

Does sanction in this case mean allowed or forbidden?

Cuz this stupid word has two contradicting meanings lol

Soon: “Former US President Donald Trump granted Russian Citizenship” 👀

🎵 We are all misfits living in a world on fire 🎵

Oh shit, he’s gonna Hiroshima it

💀

I bet Trump is gonna “confirm” CCP Claims that he’s “personally funding” “Taiwan Independence” so that CCP has an excuse to invade, but then he’s also not gonna help Taiwan…

Literally just playing both sides lol…

It’d be awkward when the Americans who fled to Europe to “get away from Trump’s fascist regime” get deported back to the US. 👀

Just another day in the Krasnov Administration

Mainlanders and Hong Kongers have the same oppressors, really should be working together, not be fighting each other.

You’re thinking too small. You’re talking about throwing molotovs at the popo… like… sure okay… not sure how that’ll help…

You really need to be taking it to Beijing.

Get Xi deposed.

Death to Xi Jinping.

You have the same mentality as the “left vs right” culture war type of people… when the real enemy is at the top.

Actually, a violent riot / attempted revolution would not have made things any better. Would’ve lead to a much worse crackdown. Much more deaths.

Its just impossible to win against the PLA as a bunch of civillians without military training…

And you won’t ever get western countries to help… you have zero outside military willing to intervene…

Seriously, you think waving a bunch of US or UK flags is gonna get them to send aircraft carriers and do airstrikes against the PLA? No lmfao…

This is not the Ukraine situation… Ukraine has a military built up… Hong Kong does not have it’s own military.

This isn’t Taiwan… Taiwan has its own military, and the PLA never stepped foot on Taiwan; in contrast, the PLA is already inside Hong Kong… Hong Kong government is already controlled by Beijing… (it’s called a devolved government)

Mainlanders already have low sympathy towards Hong Kongers, violence only promotes anti-HongKong sentinments amongst Mainlanders

Mainland has a MUCH BIGGER population…

You really need to sway Mainlanders on your side.

Like… my point is… at this moment “Free Hong Kong” is not gonna work, you need a “Free China” movement…

Hong Kong can never be free until CCP falls.

光復香港，時代革命。

撐粵語，反中共！✊

Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times.

Support Cantonese, Resist CCP!

democrats hold their elected officials accountable (sometimes)

republicans have no standards, they’ll always vote their candidate

seeing a senile candidate don’t exactly encourage democratic turnout