My favorite interactions are Chinese users coming up with really obvious solutions, and having to explain how much deeper the problem goes.

“Since your rent is high, why not just build high-rise apartments?” Because if we gave poor people a place to live it would bring down property values and investors and landlords would lose money so it’s easier to harass them until they go to the next city and become someone else’s problem.

“If you have all these taxes but poor social services, where does all the money go?” Not only does it not go to helping us, it goes towards the military and police who are actively harmful.

“If your groceries are expensive and you have lawns, why don’t you just grow your own food?” Well, we should, but if you have a landlord they might not let you.

“Why do you put up with this instead of standing up against the rich?” Hey, you know that Marxist theory that you had to learn in school and thought was super boring? Well, while you were learning that, we’re taught that communism is the devil, so instead everybody comes up with their own bizarre explanations of why things suck that usually involve siding with the ruling class against other countries, if not blaming minorities in our own country. And also people are so chauvinistic that they think any problem we have must be even worse everywhere else because “WE’RE #1!”

There so much stuff that I’m not used to explaining because everyone’s just internalized the horrors and rationalized them away, and there’s also so much stuff I wouldn’t be able to say because people run away screaming if you try to apply Marxist framework to things.

There’s gotta be a “Oh yeah, the time knife, we’ve all seen it” meme I can make out of this.

i can’t find the original post again but it was posted very recent so i’m sure there’s many more comments now. the OP wrote a couple long paragraphs expressing heartfelt shock and initial disbelief with our conditions, saying they believed we were spoiled and pampered bourgeois, and are now losing sleep over stories they heard

there was also a comment like “i need to reread marx with this new information in mind”

Chinese people have way too good of an opinion of Americans and view our conditions as if they haven’t changed from the times before neoliberalism hollowed us out.

Xhs realizing that the US never had the mandate of heaven

Godamn if only mandarin was easy

I’ve been seeing comments be like “Americans are lying to us. There is no way what they say is true.”

is right

If America is “freedom” and China is “tyranny”.

Someone please oppress me!

I gave an honest description of what the US media says about Xinjiang and it was taken down lol

since the ban got lifted, it’s been insane seeing all the libs have to internalise the contradictions they’ve been present with by talking about how ‘its hard to unsee all the propaganda that just played out in front of our eyes’ or how ‘obvious’ it is that this is proof of TikTok trying to control the American public

as if every single chinese person on XHS is a plant lmao

the cognitive dissonance is just only gonna get worse from here out. maybe one day they’ll figure out that the rest of the world doesn’t spend every waking moment thinking about how to trick americans who are too docile and bought in to ever do anything but be led by the nose on behalf of their state department

(about cars)