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Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Crazy when an authoritarian country like China that can just execute people when they don't stay on message, get way off message and say shit like this. Boomer's who bitch about people not wanting to work anymore, this lets me truthfully respond with "even with a gun to their head, today's hopeless work is probably worse than death"

Edit: Looks like I pissed off some tankies, too bad fuckers, China is an evil country with black souled sons of bitches at the helm, and that's as an American with even more disgusting darker souled miserable sons of bitches at the helms of our branches of government. Get real and get over it. Xi is a Winnie the Pooh looking CUNT that can go fuck himself!!!!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

China is a authoritarian country, but it doesn't have the resource and political will to capture and kill every person that doesn't align with CCP.

Things can get pretty ugly (like death, torture, or removal of livelihood) for strong anti-governmental message, like bridgeman; significant public figure expressing dissent (even as a joke), like Bi Fujian, the host of the most popular variety show; or significant public event like wuyi (乌衣), Quanmei, and other activist in the chained woman incident.

But Chinese government is not going to kill someone for saying "I am so fucking overworked". Arrest for telling the story to foreign media (which obviously is neither humane nor legal, I am not trying to defend CCP), maybe, but not worth any more serious punishment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

One of the things I learned reading Three Body Problem is that their police problems mirror the US a lot more than either country might realize. One of the characters is a cop who knows he's supposed to act a certain way in investigations, but doesn't give a shit. In other words, there's an expectation that their police respect certain civil liberties, but they often don't. Which is basically what happens in the US.

That book was originally published in 2008, though, and since then, Xi Jinping has been pushing things back to being more explicitly authoritarian. Oh, and the author has made some statements in support of that, so that's great.