He made the Birds Nest Olympic stadium in Beijing so he'll be brought up forever. I was introduced to his work as a kid and people seem to always mention him and his work just to say "China bad." Everytime I try to listen to why it just sounds like grey unlistenable sludge. Partially because I don't know much about history in general so I don't know what the mentioned parts of Chinese history are about. My final reason to give up is because I know much/all of what I hear is probably whitewashed propaganda. If he indeed has good criticism, I don't trust Western media to not twist his words out of their original meaning.
If so, how so? I hope it doesn't because love how the song sounds. Tbh idk what Zionism even is. I just judge from news that a lot of them, maybe up to all of them, support Israel. Feel free to educate me.
Maybe it's common in China and I just didn't spot it.
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Happy birthday Bailey! I patiently watched this photo load like it was printing from a fax machine. 
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I didn't know people think it's funny. I thought it's viral because his voice is very impressive. It's also an earworm. I always saw it as a sad party song. Like the song I'm Blue(dabadee).
Edit: I just listened to it in full for the first time and read the lyrics. It's chilling poetry. You're completely right.
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I'm Asian and I'm very hesitant to include myself as a "brown" person even though some people do. In terms of suffering from colorism, I feel like my skin isn't dark enough and I tend to have more privilege than other brown people. Racist stereotypes of Asians say they're all super smart and high achievers. Many other racial stereotypes say the complete opposite for other ethnicities of brown people. I feel like I'm stealing victimhood when I say I'm brown.
My anxiety about this is so great, I don't talk about this at all, not even to my closest loved ones. I don't want to step on anyone's toes about this topic of if I'm brown or not. I don't want to be excluded but I have guilt about being included.
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I have other priorities higher than a completely plant based diet change. I might do it one day, for now I've just reduced my meat consumption. And I didn't say you can't criticize it.
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Idk, but I love watching a YouTube channel called Little Chinese Everywhere. By a Chinese woman who is on her way to making videos of every single province in China. She goes into homes of locals like every episode. Asks them about life there. Sometimes multiple homes. Crazy levels of hospitality in many total strangers. I'm American and it made my bf cry because we deeply feel like these are our people. Maybe her channel will inspire your choice making. It certainly makes me want to move to China.
And are they generally far left?
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I had trouble thinking of what to say because there are dynasties in my ethnicity's culture. With many cultural traditions centered around the dynasties and the concept of money. My parents are immigrants and my childhood was filled with cultural practices. If I were to say my culture is worth more than a chain restaurant, I'd believe it.
But the question stands: Where does the hegemonic culture begin and end? What is the answer when capitalism existed in the making of my ethnicity's culture? Where does one end, and another begins?
Wanting these ends on a bob that stops around or below my chin or collar bone. I want really spikey ends, hopefully with a straight line in the space between them. Literally like this picture. Can I simply cut it this way? Do I have to use product? Can I recreate it post-haircut by simply brushing my hair? If I can't just brush it out back into this post-haircut, and I must use product, what do I use and how?
I grew up with culture and assumed everyone else had culture. Then I came across a white person who fetishized black and Asian people. She grew up in America completely without contact with their ancestral tree for generations. I'd sit down, and they'd tell me their DNA is part Asian around 20x before I got up from my seat. She and her entire family looked completely white. That's how far back she was digging. She's not black by any stretch, but she claimed she couldn't understand white slang because she only speaks black slang... even though she grew up with my also white boyfriend in the same white suburb neighborhood. My boyfriend simply talks like a white person. She wore cultures as costumes. Like not growing up wearing durags then wearing one at 25 and dressing up in gang colors and lying about being in a gang, growing up in a ultra-rich suburban neighborhood and explaining to my boyfriend what is like to grow up in the hood(you grew up in the same ultra rich suburb shut up!), Buddhist beads(in her chosen gang color) with long "Buddhist nails" when they were cruel and dehumanizing at every chance, and nothing else about them was Buddhist. She is also immunocompromised, but started the pandemic insisting she wear a paisley bandana(also in the gang color) instead of medical masks I gave her a full pack of. She claims it's distasteful to talk about feeling animosity towards the 1%, but she loves watching videos of black gangs getting shot. They were constantly trying to look like "an exotic white person." They never realized they are just white and can only be shown around other people's cultures as a guest, but can never become "one of them." Always just as an outsider. They taught me part of what whiteness was. Because of them I know about people who are white and nothing else.
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Ah right the very concept of an existing colonial entity. I suppose you can't make it right by letting it exist.
I wonder what First Nation people would call the land when it's all said and done. I feel like it would be defended against more strongly if they protected it as one unified power.
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That's a really good quote. Is State and Revolution an easy read? I'm a dumber communist because I get demotivated easily with reading material.
This is not a joke. I actually don't know.
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Luckily Green Snake is on YouTube. I watched it! https://youtu.be/oBjycaw5ulk?si=mjJJ8b1wwYd-aN_B
Is it a classic Chinese folk tale? I liked all the silly seduction moments and disliked all the moments men tried to bring the snakes down. I don't see what made the snakes evil. There was no negative effect of them looking and behaving attractively. The way the men were trying to bring them down made me think they'd kill the men they attracted, but the snakes did nothing but treat them well. Prude people just need to enjoy being horny and let everyone else be horny.
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Saw the red scare one on Netflix. Does the Tencent one not have red scare?
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I'm trying to watch some 90s films so I can relate to Chinese people my age lol.
That is SO smart. I haven't thought of that strategy to get on the level of people my age. Thank you for your recommendations.
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It won't play on my phone. What year is this show?
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You mean Three Body Problem? I saw the first 2 minutes and it looked like red scare propaganda. Depicting communists punishing people for believing in science and god.
I saw some set in ancient China which seemed pretty cool. I'd love to find it and get some subtitles going. One show had an evil character that was a woman with many lower ear piercings. Starting on her ear lobes, trailing up the edge of her ear. She seemed like a power hungry royal who'd slap and punish other women a lot. Really pretty show. Her looks and character's tendencies are why I remember it.
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Can you just say you want a vaccine they have that's not available in the US?
She responded to accusations of being a Nazi by posting [she's proud of "white culture"](https://mixmag.net/read/grimes-proud-white-culture-called-nazi-white-supremacist-news) and I'd like to quit consuming her stuff.
A Chinese communist news site full of happy news is called [Sixth Tone.](https://www.sixthtone.com/) Another is China's official newspaper, [People's Daily.](https://peoplesdaily.pdnews.cn/) I love what I've read on there, but I tend to barely read articles. And please, if you spot an podcast in English on one of these sites, let me know!
My perfectionism is disabling. I ban myself from doing anything I don't feel like I'll do perfect at. I barely do things I love and don't know my interests well. I love people and mingling, but I grew up selectively mute until highschool and to this day I have a hard time being direct. I overthink all texts. I used to type one sentence for hours and not send anything. My humor is very underdeveloped because I don't risk bombing jokes. There's so much I won't do unless someone is there encouraging me and enthusiastically approving of what I'm doing. I have severely low self esteem because of my level of perfectionism. I just want to hang out and chill with people and have interests that I act on. Btw, what do you do when you need to do something you love, fast?
Like in a dehumanizing manner. I want to go by it/they/them but I'm scared I won't be able to handle it if someone does that.
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Putting things in gendered boxes wears on me to the extent I want to go by it/they/them. I'll go by "she/her" sometimes but it's to embrace the underdog role I have in this patriarchy.
How do you handle it someone calls you "it" in a mean way?
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What do you mean by dehumanization?
I prefer giving to a mutual aid resource, but other kinds of answers are fine. I know goodwill is shitty, I won't give to them.
It would be deeply triggering to see him and he is extremely manipulative, plus he has friends that attend the scene. Some of them were doing meth last I saw them over ten years ago. If I make friends, they could easily link back to him through themselves or multiple people. I seriously cannot tolerate that. I don't want him knowing anything about me and my life. Do you think I can manage being part of a small scene with these conditions?
I think hexbear has them. Is it a connection thing where cookies spot other cookies? Do tracking cookies matter when it comes to insurance and therapy sites/apps? I'm thinking about therapy that I saw advertised on YouTube, and I bet they're somehow sketchy. And their app requires the use of third party tracking and cookies. I just don't want these sites/apps to see I'm a communist.
Tips to make friends without spending money are welcome. I've spent years in a city without making friends. Luckily even though I'm a minority in America, I'm not a minority in my city. :) It's filled with people of my ethnicity. So I have more opportunities to be closer with my people, and I want do the right things to get there. Btw they don't have to be my ethnicity. Just wanna make friends to begin with. My dream is to meet cool communists around here. It's a minority city, and I figure I can't be the only one.
I'm curious how that could work. That peaks my interest because I've known people who have autism and seem great at socializing. I don't have autism, but I'm very socially awkward, and if autistic people can do that I find it inspirational for my own socializing journey. A podcaster on [Radio Free Totebag](https://radiofreetotebag.castos.com/) casually said it, and idk if it was just as a passing joke, or if they were speaking factually. They mentioned a therapist not liking that they still say they're autistic when it's an old diagnosis.
I'm more exposed to American conservatism. And even here I barely understand it. I used to be Christian, but I left the religion before I realized I was bi, and before I knew genderfluidity and trans people existed. I guess I'd have to know why individual religious groups, countries, cities,(etc...) have anti-LGBTQ beliefs. Maybe there are no blanket statements that properly address it for the entire world.
Worked a lot as a child and barely played. Missed out on lots of personality development. I have more free time now and I want to play, but I don't totally understand how. I was told when I have something fun to do, learn to fail the marshmallow test and just immediately eat the marshmallow. I feel paralyzed. I'm used to playing only if I'm invited by someone else to play, and I want to play more when I'm alone. So far I sometimes draw and read a fun book. Both usually make me anxious, but they bring me feelings of accomplishment.