01/20/24 - It’s a covid symptom, something invaded his brain and nervous system and caused zombie-like behaviour
“A little PSA today, in sociology, America has a group called “incels”, which is basically people who can’t get a date. The main reason seems to be due to ugliness.
Incels love dating fresh off the boat Asians, because these people are usually from middle class backgrounds, are highly educated, and really look up to white people. If they went for Cubans or Mexicans, they’d probably have to marry someone illiterate, who’d start cheating on the next door neighbour the second they got their PR.
At first glance, I can tell that Liu Yiting [the girl who the famous book “Tiger Mom” was about—who has gained a lot of controversy on the Chinese internet lately for only turning out to be “normal middle class”] clearly married an incel. A bunch of you ignorant idiots are saying I’m just prejudiced, so I’ve found a bunch of sociology papers from your American daddies. Am I prejudiced now?”
Comments say, “Yeah, he is pretty short. Average height for Chinese men is 168cm, but it’s a bit higher in America. At this height, he’s just a midget in America.”
“So China needs to get richer and stronger, so our men have competitive advantage and draw in other countries’ women too.”
“Her husband, Scott Sambur, is her Harvard classmate and got a Harvard law degree, and is currently a partner at Seward & Kissel LLP. He’ll win against 99% of men in the world when it comes to both diploma and capabilities, so there’s no way he’s an incel like you said. Just so you know.”
“The guy in the picture isn’t even her husband. He’s probably a groomsmen or some other guest. Her actual husband looks completely different. They both have their own careers and live in a 2.6 million USD house. They’re doing a lot better than just “normal middle class.”
A tiktok video showing salad dressing being made, with OP saying, “My first time realising that eating salad dressing is basically drinking straight up oil.”
Comments say, “Every time I make a cake for myself, I feel like I’m just eating straight sugar.”
“And the can of salmon was even marked “no oil” lol (although I’m sure no one drinks the oil out of cans anyways)”
“I always thought salad dressing was made with yogurt or other kinds of dairy. I never realised it was all oil.”
A tiktok video teaching you how to pick out fruit:
When buying grapefruits, pick the ones that are a bit heavier, that weigh your hand down. The bumps on the skin should be very densely packed but relatively smooth. The kind with scarce bumps but a rough skin isn’t good.
Super red apples with little dots in the skin are potato-y in texture. Pick the lighter apples with vertical stripes, especially if the stripes are wide, and those will be crispy. The skin should be a bit rough to touch too.
Don’t pick straight bananas, pick the ones that are a bit curved. Don’t buy bananas with sharp ridges, buy the ones that are more rounded.
Pick out oranges that are flat in the head area—those are from an older branch and are sweeter. Oranges with a bump on the head are from new branches and are more sour.
Don’t buy perfectly round pomegranates, buy the ones that are a bit bumpy, where the skin feels rough to touch. Even better if the top looks like it’s starting to open up.
Don’t buy durians with pointy butts. Buy the ones with round butts. The more dense the spikes, the thinner the skin. You can sniff them to pick out the ones that smell sweet, or shake a durian to feel the flesh inside too.
Buy strawberries where the green leaves are curved up. The red bits should reflect light. And if the strawberry looks a bit deformed, it might look ugly, but it’ll be extra delicious.
Comments say, “I didn’t learn anything from this video, because I spent the whole time worrying about his pants splitting.”
“Learn quickly, or he’ll tire himself to death.”
“Are we sure he’s not actually here to sell suit pants?”
A question, “Why are more and more cars doing away with physical buttons these days?”
The top-reply is, “Because they’re retards.
Like, for example, the defrost button is the most important to safe driving. The entire point is to defrost the windshield right now, so I can see the road right away.
Right now! Immediately!
You should be able to press it and immediately see it work. Even doing a voice command is too slow because the computer has to react to you.
And yet some manufacturers will bury it two menus deep.”
Comments say, “What’s the logic in having to defrost your windows right away? If you haven’t pressed the defrost button yet, then it doesn’t matter if it takes a while. Even if your windows start frosting up, did that fog form in literally a second and block all of your vision? You haven’t even figured out actual contexts in which this would be used, and you’re bullshitting on the internet?”
“What car can instantly defrost the windshield as soon as you press the button? It all takes time, right?”
“The biggest difference between physical buttons and a touch screen is that once you get used to it, you can use physical buttons blind. That’s super important while driving, to avoid distractions. A lot of this “smart technology” is basically just a toy. It doesn’t actually help with driving at all.”
“I remember back in summer, when I was riding the bus home, a 50-some-year-old farmer got on in Yangjia Bay. He was playing a video, and a female voice was telling him that men can’t be nice to their wives after marriage. As soon as you’re nice to your wife, she’ll start looking down on you. You’ve got to pick her apart, make her feel like she’s worthless. If she actually makes a mistake, you have to scold her, yell at her until she doesn’t dare to lift her head. If necessary, beat her a little, but don’t injure her and leave any evidence. The point is just to make sure she never makes a mistake again. If you be a husband this way, you can maintain absolute power and authority at home, and your wife will always obey you and listen to you. Women aren’t for loving—all men need to remember this. Women need to be managed and used. As we’re getting to Shijing Village, the video ended, and the farmer replayed it again.
A middle-aged farmer woman was listening to it while mumbling with contempt, “Don’t get with men like this. Nothing good will happen.””
Comments say, “I mean, why do you think he’s a working farmer? Because he’s stupid and full of himself.”
“There are people who make a living out of spreading ideas like this, and there’s people making a living out of absorbing ideas like this.”
“I was on the train when I encountered some middle-aged woman playing some video super loud, all about how high EQ women should speak to men in order to make them like her. All the examples used are super cringy “pickup lines” from like 800 years ago. I was in so much pain listening to that the whole way.”
[The case where a Chinese Qinghua graduate, Chen, killed his wife in Santa Clara, has been big on weibo lately.] A blogger writes, “Graduated from Qinghua + works at google. What a textbook case of “someone else’s child. And yet he killed his wife. When he was found by police, his hands were bruised and covered in blood. Can you imagine how hard he beat her T_T
His wife was graduated from Qinghua too, working in America—famous uni, famous work, high pay. They should’ve been living it up. I guess this means that being typically successful doesn’t necessarily make you a good spouse. Diplomas can select out people who can’t learn, but it can’t select for whether they’re good or bad. He’s only 27. He’s learned advanced knowledge, but he never learned how to keep a healthy and stable personality.”
Comments say, “So the first criteria I have for finding a wife for my son is health, physical and mental.”
“Your spouse is who you love the most, and your spouse is who you hate the most. She clearly knew where his vulnerabilities were, and obviously, she stepped over the line and made his lose rationality.”
“They’re both their parents’ treasure, and once they went overseas, only one of them could live T_T No one was even around to persuade them to stand down.”
A tiktok video of a class of kindergarten students crossing a street, and the cars don’t stop for them until a traffic cop appears. [It’s okay, nobody gets hurt.]
Comments say, “But the light is green for the cars, right? I feel like the teacher’s the one running a red light with her class.”
“Even if the light was red, you still have to yield to pedestrians. If you don’t stop for old people and children, who will you stop for?”
“So kids can break traffic laws when they cross the street? If the teacher was doing her job, the kids would’ve finished crossing the street in time for the light to change. If they can’t, then it’s a problem with the length of red and green lights. You can’t blame cars that are just driving normally.”
“How was radical feminism born in China?
The harsher the environment a group exists in, the more prone they are to radicalisation.
There are large numbers of marriageable age women in China who face a lot of challenges dating.
A lot of people talk about how there are 30 million more Chinese men than women.
But just because there’s a lot of men, doesn’t mean there’s a lot of high-quality men on the dating market.
To be a high-quality man on the dating market, you’ve got to fit in with urban middle-class standards: a car, a house, a decent income, a good education.
If you filter by these standards, there really aren’t that many men on the dating market.
But what about women?
These last few years, as mandatory education is rolled out and university becomes more commonplace, hundreds of millions of rural girls have changed their fate with college entrance exams and entered into the cities from the countryside.
And would these girls find a man to marry in their rural village like their mothers and grandmothers did?
No way.
And would these girls who have no economic foundation at all choose men who also have no economic foundation and have just entered the city from the countryside?
They’re not willing to do that either.
So in the middle class dating market in Chinese cities, women far outnumber men and involute among themselves.
In this fierce competition, radical ideas are very easily born and spread.
For women who have failed at competition, radical feminism is like a deeply addictive mental heroin.
And for the bottom-class men who’ve been abandoned, the theory of staying single and childfree is also a numbing mental drug.
This has caused a very strange phenomenon where both women and men who have failed competition on the dating market all work together to promote the idea that you shouldn’t give birth to the next generation of slaves, in order to fight back against the injustice and oppression of society.
Isn’t that interesting?”
Comments say, “Bullshit. Women need to work just like men to nowadays, but they still need to deal with house work, child care, MIL relations all on their own, and have to face domestic violence and workplace discrimination. That’s why feminism exists.”
“All of this analysis is unnecessary. It’s just American imperialism spreading its influence. Spreading memes takes money, so someone has to be paying for it.”
“It’s still different. Bottom class men still have land in their village and ancestral housing to inherit. They might all be bottom class, but men at least have property.”
“It’s horrible being middle class in America.
A house that’s just over a million USD, mortgage interest rates are at 6.7%. You need to pay back nearly 10,000 USD every month. Add in property taxes, and it’s close to 12K.
A lot of people don’t understand, with how much big American companies pay, why would life be so stressful? Because you’re spending way too much too! Locals have families and have roots. Worst case scenario, they can move back in with their parents in the midwest. But what about immigrants? If they don’t have a stable income, they’ll be under a ton of pressure.
Take this 1.9 million USD house in Los Angeles. 20% down payment, so that’s 380,000 USD right off the bat. If you take out a 30 year mortgage, the interest rate is 6.7%, so that’s 9836 USD a month.
Add in 1852 USD a month for property tax and 665 USD for home insurance.
To buy this house, you need to pay 12353 USD per month, and that’s just housing. Everything is expensive in America.”
Comments say, “I mean, that’s better than draining six wallet on a presold house and having it never delivered.”
“Your example is way too off mark. You’ve chosen a huge mansion. How many American families need a giant mansion? And you’ve ignored middle class income—they make plenty of money for what they need.”
“You don’t need to spend much money on schooling or hospitals though.”
“Two Qinghua graduates who went to Google to work and have been married for five years. And yet the husband didn’t shoot the wife. He beat her to death with his bare hands. He is venting extreme rage and discontent. If she didn’t cheat and he didn’t get laid off and they’re not 35 yet, then there’s only two possibilities: 1. AI is replacing large amount of programmers and he’s facing too much internal pressure, so he’s full of despair at his future, and it’s filling him with fear and rage. Or 2. it’s a covid symptom, something invaded his brain and nervous system and caused zombie-like behaviour like with prion disease, so he wants to attack and eat people.
Diplomas only filter out people who are bad at studying, not people who are just bad. Morality has nothing to do with IQ. Although high IQ people generally marry moral people, because they benefit more that way.”
Comments say, “They’re both 27. I can’t imagine what external factor would cause someone to do such a thing at 27. Either she cheated, or he’s got violent genes. I can’t think of any external factors.”
“Yeah, his eyes were totally empty and looked really freaky. I thought of this too.”
A compilation of ridiculous things people have been punished for in high school:
“A boy and a girl was flirting on the field, and the video had a one second shot of me walking by in the background. And they said I was “accomplice to” their dating, and gave me suspension too.”
“Pooping after lights out, three day suspension.”
“My roommate talks in her sleep, and got reported by the dorm manager for chatting.”
“Classmate in high school took off his socks in his dorm room and got written up for “playing with feet”.”
“There was a girl in my high school who looked a bit…slow. She listens to class very seriously, but got written up every day for a week for zoning out during class. Not even the teachers could stand that one.”
“I couldn’t find my shoes going to the bathroom at night, so I was feeling around for them with my feet. And the dorm manager wrote me up for “dancing ballet in the middle of the night”.”
“I was asleep, but they suspected I wasn’t sleeping, so they shook me awake and made me go stand outside.”
“I got taken to the office for farting, because it “impacted school image”.”
“Someone smoked in the bathroom and then I went in there to pee, and I got written up for “smoking second hand smoke”.”
“My roommate was from Hengshui [famously high-pressure abusive school], and he once got written up for “attempted speaking”.”
"boy and a girl was" -> "boy and a girl were"
That one about the secondhand smoke reminded me of a story that happened in America a few years ago where a teacher accidentally showed pornography on the overhead projector and all the kids in the class got in trouble because they'd looked at pornography in class.