Global Superpower

Like pervasive American influence into everything. Military bases everywhere. Hollywood everywhere. Internet is mostly American sites with American users, taking about American politics. But replace all that with China.

Is this one those stories where people legally get married for the pension fund to not get wasted (widows get half of the pension when the primary beneficiary dies), or some other tax purposes, but not an actual relationship?

Or is this like arranged and y’all just rolled with it?

🤔

I mean, just curious how this huge age gap just… happened?

That… very thoughful… 😅

I’ll make sure to remember your kinds words and never give you up, and never let you down 😎

break the rules

My mom once told me she bribed a government official to basically “turn a blind eye” to her second pregnancy during the One Child Policy. I was that second child.

(I mean, these are just anecdotes she told me, I have no idea if she’s just exaggerating to make herself seem like a “great mother”.)

The rigging wasn’t done at the polls. (The Democratic and Independent poll watchers would’ve reported that, and I’m not seeing any of such reports)

The actual manipulation was the constant far-right propaganda made possible by the Citizens United ruling, which allows the rich to spend unlimited amount of money to spend on propaganda. That and voter rolls purges. These things have always happened to some degree throught the history of the US.

If you can’t even get people to care enough to lift a pen and mark a ballot (or press a button on some machine), how do you get people to riot?

One word:

Shenanigans

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OP please do some captchas 🤖

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But also: a lot of those points have nothing to do with who the global super power is

I mean, Americanization of the world was helped by the fact that US became a global superpower.

When you say “Chinese” becomes lingua franca, do you mean Mandarin? Cantonese? Yue? Hakka? Other? If Mandarin, do you mean Jilu? Jiaolio? Other?

Mandarin Chinese. (I had this in mind when I was typing it, but then forgot to type it 😅)

Lots of Chinese people aren’t into fengshui. That’s kind of a bizarre stereotype for you to pick out of everything mentioned.

Idk, my parents are very into it, so I just assumed its a standard thing. The friends that my mom talk to seems to discuss superstitions a lot. My parents wouldn’t buy a house with the number 4 on the street address.

(For Context: My family and I were born in PRC)

I meant more like “Chinese Superstition” rather than just “fengshui”, but the “fengshui” term was more widespread so I just used that instead.

What I actually hope is the idea of a single global superpower dies completely. It’s not even the current reality for the US; it’s just propaganda.

Yea I don’t like superpowers either, but this is more like a “If you had to pick” type of question.

Please don’t road rage.

Instead, get a bunch of dog shit and smear them all over their car once they park it and leave.

Remember to wear a mask, Big Brother (the cameras in the swasti-car) is watching.

China will never be democratic.

“Never” is a long time

I’m sure people back then thought we’d never get rid of monarchies… but then most monarchies are gone

collectivism

I mean, Covid would probably be handled better. Look at the democratic Asian countries, they did much better than the US.

Huh?

If you de-select a language, how do you see it? 🤔

I have no idea how Lemmy works 🤷‍♂️

Remember, if a Nazi’s head is approaching your fist at a high rate of speed, don’t move your fist

Einstein says motion is relative. 😉

If a CEO just happens to accelerate towards a bullet, its not anyone’s fault.

Not-Guilty, case dismissed!

Do you happen to have every language selected? Because if you have the “Chinese” de-selected in settings, and you see that, then the language flags is broken.

Offtopic but:

So I posted another comment with the language flag set as Chinese. Can y’all see that? Just want to test some thing…

语言 “Flag” 测试…

Language Flag Test…

This comment should be flagged as “Chinese”. You shouldn’t be able to read this comment unless you have Chinese selected in settings.

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (blocked by lemmy.world instance)