Oh boo hoo, so is the us. Fuck you

It’s legal, not recognized. I’d bet money it’ll be accepted on the mainland before it is in US. Same with trans surgeries. Now you’re blocked, go spread this nonsense on the internet everywhere :)

So is lying all you do? It’s not up to one person. Also the fact it COULD be completely banned by the government is not scary, any government could ban ANYTHING. And it’s never just one persons decision. You clearly don’t read or know how shit works. Take a civics class for fucks sake… oh wait, we’re westerners so it costs too much. Now I understand your stupidity. Have a nice life

This is a lie. You can publicly support lgbt and be openly gay or trans in China. Unlike some places in the US where trans people are being killed and there have been over 200+ pieces of legislation against trans people in the US.

No it’s not. Porn is treated as vulgar. Romance and Gay Romance is legal. China had legal gay marriage before the US. So has Cuba.

you think that’s such a big gotcha. Most people in China use their own fuckin websites dude. You can go to metal shows where they show graphics of pigs being slaughtered in China, where they show gay stuff, it doesn’t matter. You can also do that stuff in USA as long as where you do it won’t be so offended they shut you down.

I live in a very liberal city in USA and I love metal so I see crazy edgy shit like that at shows all the time, I’ve come to learn it’s not only legal in China but it works pretty much the same way, the worse “censorship” you’d get is you might have to write a fake band name in your request to play, and I’ve known people who have done that in USA since the 80s to be able to play gigs. If you guys read a little more and go outside for once you’d see the world isn’t as scary as your online hug box tells you it is

Wait wait, let me guess, your website is banned in China so I can’t see you heheheheh, I’m so smart !! See, you’re a Chinese CCP bot and guess what the website is banned so that’s it!! Ha ha, can’t see you cuz it’s BANNED. IN CHINA! Can’t see it!

Subvert the government. lol. Yall are scared of your own shadows. I have to also subvert my government to watch Netflix shows or download music. Scary authoritarianism oh my god.

There’s also Chinese VPNs, not that it would ever matter where the vpn would be from, for someone who’s progressive seeming you don’t like people using “foreign” stuff? I don’t see the problem. Literally every single piece of clothing I’m wearing right now is from China except for My undies which are from Vietnam. Look at all of the stuff around you right now, I’d bet money the first thing you pick up was made in China. Oh no it’s not American so it’s scary!!

No, I know you’re lying. You and the other person that responded to me with this little factoid y’all must love. I can promise you if a Chinese citizen thinks it’s worthwhile to access any “banned” websites like Lemmy in China they’ll just download a fucking VPN like the rest of the world. What, you think they’re scared of your Tiananmen Square posts? You know Reddit is still taking users? this ain’t r/neoliberal

No it’s not. Lmao. Stop lying. If you mean “you need a vpn to access” That’s not blocked. It’s the easiest trick in the book. I bet every single person in here has one. Also China has their own native language speaking social medias I don’t know why they’d go to a western mostly English speaking website that’s not popular in the slightest, and don’t you know it, all you need is a free vpn you can download anywhere in the world. If you wanna talk about censorship or banning education look at the US actively banning books about lgbt and gender

Yes. Your freedom to educate yourself against all this bullshit is the freedom you have. It’s a shame it goes to waste but, like I said before, it’s never too late. Read Parenti

That’s just straight up untrue

You both have no understanding of history and it’s sad, though it’s not irreversible.

some of you think Trump or Cuomk would be a better leader than someone like Mamdani, who’s probably too radical even for you because you’d rather have a rapist capitalist than someone who’s even slightly more anti-capitalist than Reagan. Seriously. Mamdani isn’t even a leftist really and I bet yall would have called him a tankie before he beat the mainstream DNC candidate

Do you actually believe US is not imperialist?

I could just as easily say “president is untrustworthy by nature” or “king”, “prime minister”, “dictator”, “state”, “soldier”, “police”, ”judge” etc. Dictatorship doesn’t automatically equal “authoritarian tankie evil communism everyone starves”

Dictatorship by definition means the person or party that dictates. A judge is not authoritarian for providing someone a fair trial regardless of how harsh or fair they are, but they are still dictating a system or an action. So when you hear “dictatorship of the proletariat”, it literally means you and everyone else controls the law. It doesn’t mean you get to decide everything it means that democracy actually involves every single person that participates instead of being “dictated” by money.

Every country expresses authority in some way, wether it’s USA something like Bay of Pigs, UK with their actions in India and Africa, USSR defeating Nazi armies and liberating concentration camps sometimes WITH the us and British. Technically Warsaw ghetto uprising was “authoritarian” and it was a good thing that they expressed authority on the Nazi regime.

Just trying to provide some clarity, a lot of people in the US truly have no idea how evil our government is and what they do overseas to help maintain your lifestyle, and it barely does a good job of maintaining our lifestyle. If anything socialist policies are always provably better at building society, and even the bare minimum in the US are people like Mamdani or Walz that prove even if you enact quasi-leftist policies like healthcare you’re an evil communist who likes dictatorship. You’re falling for it but you don’t have to, if you believe in people like AOC and other “progressive” dems like Ilhan Omar in theory you should be unlearning these things you’ve been taught by the right wing American media.

I tell people that we share the same pain cuz it’s funny when people are like WHAT. lol. Then I say sometimes I send him messages telepathically, cuz I actually do. Does it work? Only twins know…

Thanks! I’m extremely lucky my parents are both in great health, so I’m focusing on being happy w them. My dad has a strong spirit. He gave up smokes in the 80s. For anyone it may help reading, quitting feels awesome after a while. It’s so worth it in the long run. Just think of how much longer we could have had some of our favorites: Lenin, David Lynch, the list goes on

Animatrix is cool as fuck tho

I almost smoked over the weekend, found out we lost my grandmother on Saturday morning , still haven’t picked one back up. Starting a new job this weekend too, after the strike on the first, Almost gave myself the excuse that I’m stressing so might as well.

I can put it this way, my grandmother lived a beautiful long life, created wonderful paintings and ceramic vases, career artist, never smoked once in her life and lived to be 95. My grandfather smoked like a chimney, passed about 15 years ago, I think he was about 80. Makes a youngin’ think

I would consider myself 100% tech illiterate and I have a hard time figuring out this website I’m on right now and what it even is. And there’s like hundreds just like this. Or something. No advice just yapping.

Smoking cigarettes isn’t dangerous to everybody in your vicinity only to second hand smoke and it’s kinda disingenuous to pretend the danger to society from the two is comparable. And like I said I smoked for over 10 years and I’m gen z. Society makes it look cool but I should have listened to my mom the whole time.