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I mean... I kinda get it, but nowadays it's starting to get absurd.
(EDIT: This was supposed to be a "blow air out my nose and get on with my life" meme...)
I literally just watched a video essay about The Thing and this made me laugh.
As a Canadian: fuck American products. Y'all want a trade war with us, fuck your shit.
All that to say, it's understandable to be angry at and suspicious of products made by antagonistic nations.
Y’all want a trade war with us
We really don't. Even by America-is-racist standards, we've historically only been pissy about Mexico. Tariffing Canada used to be a punchline to political jokes.
I don't want a trade war. I love Canada. Most Americans on Lemmy didn't vote for Trump you know?
As a Venezuelan,Yeah!! fuck both, the US and China! 🔥🔥
As an American, i'm forced to concur. I wish it weren't so.
40 or so years ago, the hip ingrained racism was being scared that the Japanese would take over everything. That caused cyberpunk to have cool japanese aesthetics and in turn influenced media like Akira. I just hope today's racism at least also ends up looking cool.
I really don't care how much the US complains about Chinese nationalism when they pull the same crap in practically every 3rd world country for the sake of holding power.
There's a reason why so many 3rd world immigrants in the US feel unfazed by Trump because they essentially grew up in some Washington backed imperialist government which was way worse, hence the reason they emigrated.
They understand that neither country is some beacon of hope, they're just two big competitors that keep each other somewhat in check. The tradeoff you get for joining the US is freedom of expression and representation (mostly) and the tradeoff you get for joining China is faster upward momentum and social stability (mostly). Its better to have at least two choices instead of one which in reality would be none.
Yes there will always be sketchy things you probably shouldn't touch, but we're really out here defending internet censorship over TikTok as if the NSA doesn't have 2/3rd of the modern world permanently bugged.
Influence campaigns in full effect this week, even on Lemmy.
Me, as a American: Huh, we just set up camps in Guantanamo Bay to pick up immigrants? That's fucked up.
Also Me, as a American: China does some shit with the uyghu? That's fucked up.
Society: (ignoring Guantanamo bay) Yeah fuck China!
Also me, as a American: openAI stole art. Wow.
Also me, as a American: Deepsink stole from OpenAI? Hilarious.
Society: Hey fuck you for supporting China! You can't even write Tiananmen square on there! Winnie the Pooh! Winnie the Poooooooh!
Yes, China not bad, China good. You should like China cause they don't do bad things to their citizens and anything you've heard to the contrary is just western propaganda.
This is the most neutral 😐 meme I ever did! What "campaign" are you talking about? 😭
Living in a sanctuary city, plenty of people around me are Chinese. I’ve also been enjoying the current state of Chinese gaming. Of course…I play those games on devices I can sandbox.
Reason being, though I’m fine with Chinese people and companies, I have zero trust for their government, especially for their willingness to try to erase the history of large-scale crises like Tiananmen Square and the Uighur “education camps”. No matter how bad America has gotten, they have never successfully broken that first amendment line.
Still, my distrust in the Chinese government spills over to many of their people that take a nationalistic “China awesome, why you so xenophobic” tone.
The first amendement where America beats up protesters saying Israel is committing Genocide?
You don't understand! Critising the actions of the ccp is sinophobic!!!!
spoiler
Hopefully obvious sarcasm.
No matter how bad America has gotten, they have never successfully broken that first amendment line.
Trump is gonna have another go at it. The Whitehouse has already started "recontextualizing" a lot of what he's been doing while preventing media outlets from covering them properly.
As an ethnic chinese in South East Asia, there's two kind of chinese i've met, "China is the best country in the world! CCP is the best because they take good care of all the chinese everywhere! Everything about that country is good!" and "China is the worst country in the world! CCP is the worst because they censor everything and lie about everything! Everything about that country is dogshit!", rarely in between.
Sounds a lot like my experience with Americans re: their government.
I guess propaganda can be pretty insidious.
My stance is a democratic China would probably be as prosperous as Taiwan and my family wouldn't have to leave.
Me and my brother hates CCP
My parents love CCP
Grandparents also love CCP (I assume, I don't talk to them much)
Every time my parents praise CCP, I just be like: "So you agree with the CCP? Why didn't you abort me like they were trying to force you to?" (I'm talking about the One Child Policy btw) Then my dad said 国情不同 (state of the country is different) as an excuse, country was poor and needed to lower birth rates. And my mom started saying how much she "sacrificed" for me, lile bruh just conpletely steer away the topic. Yea sure thank you for your sacrifice and the millions of Yuan RMB they paid as a fine. But why steer the topic?
So they love CCP, simultaneously disobeyed a core CCP policy of birth control? 🤔 Doublethink much?
May she she should've, instead of hiding, just let them take her and let them forcefully abort me, maybe I wouldn't have to deal with this fucked up world with dictators everywhere, state capitalism disguised as "Socialism", and also democratic capitalist countries devolving into fascism (ahem USA ahem). Man fuck this world
Maybe I shouldn't have been born, less surffering in the world 🤷♂️
If it helps in any way, every country in the world has their set if problems, but in essence it evolves around the fact that many/most people are incapable of realising they were wrong and change their behaviour and voting.
One of Germany's issues for example is that while industrialization has made the country prosperous it also made it demitral to the environment. Those that lived in the golden times and worked for it naturally don't want to miss out their hard-earned pensions. However the younger generations have to work even harder to finance their pensions as they make up much of the population. Meanwhile the world's environment is fucked and we need to swiftly transform the country which is expensive all the while dealing with rising nationalism in the world slowly rising in heat and already discharging into war around european neighbourhood. And yet the same lucky generations are calling us weak and lazy, but insist on voting parties that don't have any tiny ounce of interest to work to deal with the problems we face and actually oppose working towards an actual solution.
So yeah, i am honestly quite hopeless for the future myself, but I force myself to at least try to change it - I mean sticking our heads in the sand only helps the assholes doesn't it?
It sounds to me like your parents are engaging with nuance in a complicated world, rather than boiling everything down to either "this is good" or "this is bad".
ETA: You're welcome to downvote me, I don't mind, the points don't matter. But I prefer discussion. Tell me why I'm wrong so we can have a conversation!