04/29/24 - If you die, they’ll just have another one. It’s their idea of just starting a new account.
“Beating a dead horse here. The reason modern society has such high bride price, that a lot of men can never find a wife, looks like the fault lies with women, but actually, most of the problem lies with men.
For example, look at men like Xu Bo. He’s willing to spend 300 million on a girl. Of course you don’t have a wife. Yang just has to suck it up and kiss Xu Bo’s ass and she can get 300 million. Of course asking for 300K in bride price from you doesn’t look like a lot by comparison. After all, that’s a 1000 times difference. No matter how many kids Yang has for Xu Bo, it’s not gonna be 1000 kids, right? Not to mention, most people aren’t even willing to pay 300K, and Xu Bo probably gave her far more than 300 million in reality, considering other sources of income. If she’s lucky, she might even have a share of his estate.
The logic is very simple here. I’ll make an example and you’ll get it right away. Imagine you have 10 servings of food you want to sell to 10 people on the market, for 10 RMB per serving. And for whatever reason, you suddenly only have 9 servings of food. How much will the food rise in price?
11 RMB? 15 RMB? 20 RMB? No, it’ll rise in price until the tenth person cannot afford it. Bride price follows the same reasoning. The main purpose of bride price is just to ensure that the extra 30 million men cannot afford it. It looks like women are making ridiculous demands, but it’s actually just market supply and demand.
And currently, not only are we going through a famine when it comes to the dating market, but some people are taking more than their share, they’re dating more than one person. Xu Bo, for example, takes up a lot of resources by himself. That’s going to exacerbate the resource shortage. Not to mention, Xu Bo doesn’t take up one reproductive resource by having one kid, it might be two—one to take the egg from, one to carry the foetus in. And he’s done this sinful business more than once.
You think that’s over? Not at all! Because he’ll shamelessly tell you that he’s doing it for the country, he’s the spine of the Chinese race, he’s contributing to the birth rate. That’s like someone spitting in your mouth and telling you it’s to help with your thirst.
So why do men even support bastards like Xu Bo?
It’s very simple. Because a lot of people fantasise themselves to be rich people by speaking out on behalf of rich people. That’s all. It’s like slaves feeling bad for their slave masters, or peasants being worried on behalf of corrupt officials.
Now that Xu Bo’s fallen off of his pedestal, he’s been knocked out by the boomerang of “knowing the law”, what we should be doing is allying men and women and beating him while he’s down.
He’s been flirting with both feminism and extreme men’s rights, turning morality upside down. Now is the time we pursue justice, while he’s weak and reeling! We should look into whether or not he’s been paying all his taxes, whether he’s made controversial speeches, whether he’s been friendly with foreign powers, whether he’s laundering money…if any of it turns out to be true, I hope relevant departments will remove this tumour from our society as quickly as possible!”
Comments say, “You talk about women like they’re furniture or vases.”
“Lol, aren’t you worried he’ll see this post?”
“What you’re saying doesn’t make sense at all. Rich people in the west sleep with more women too. That’s not a phenomenon unique to China. It’s probably worse overseas, actually, so why doesn’t anyone else have this problem?”
A video of Chinese grandmas exercising:
Comments say, “But the second they get on a subway, they’re still frail and weak and need people’s love and consideration.”
“This is actually really difficult, though. You gotta use every muscle in your body.”
“I hear this exercise is really good for herniated discs.”
A long article going into the lives of the four main influencers known for eating areca nut, which causes oral cancer and oesophageal cancer and all that. Of the four main influencers who were known for eating 5 bags of areca nuts every day, three of them passed away from cancer, and the remaining one had to have half his tongue removed, and now posts videos educating people about the damage of eating areca nuts and trying to persuade people to quit while they’re still healthy.
Comments say, “Areca nuts is a classic case of profiteers taking society hostage to force people to accept drugs.”
“Why don’t they ban the sale of these then?”
“They’re addictive, aren’t they?”
“I tried these once while I was studying in the south, and found later that my mouth was covered by little cuts the fibres made. I was scared shitless. As someone who’s never smoked before, I felt like there was something in my throat all day. I have no idea what it was marinaded in, but it made my head feel super dizzy too. Never again. Oh, and they corrode your teeth too.”
Under the hashtag #do we really have to work these two days?, a blogger writes, “A lot of kids these days might not know, but we used to get 7 days of holiday for Golden Week. But this beautiful long holiday stopped existing in 2008.
From 2000 to 2007, we had 8 years where we got a whole week off for Golden Week, and a whole week off for Independence Day [1st of October]. Everyone loved it. The TV stations even put on special programs for it, like Golden Week Holiday Joy, Independence Day Joy, and Xingguang Dadao [reality TV singing competition] was super popular back then and it would air during these week-long holidays. But our 7-day holiday ended with one person.
Professor Cai Jiming of Qinghua University.
Before 1999, he taught at Nankai University, and later transferred to Qinghua as a PhD student advisor for Economic Research. In 2006, Professor Cai’s research team made a suggestion. He strongly demanded we cancel the 7-day holiday for Golden Week, because the holiday was too long and too concentrated. He thinks the long holiday should be broken up so that people get a day off for Midsummer Festival and Autumn Equinox, and other traditional holidays. Professor Cai’s team believed that long holidays cause traffic jams, crowds at tourist spots, and impacts people’s experience. There are mountains of people wherever you go. And such long holidays impacts industrial and agricultural productivity too. He suggests we replace the long holiday with paid leave instead. At the time, Professor Cai has taught in Qinghua for 7 years, and is a visiting scholar from Harvard, so he had a lot of influence in his field of study.
After a year, in 2008, relevant departments decided to cancel the Golden Week long holiday, turning it from 7 days to 5 days (with makeup weekends), drawing a tsunami of controversy. In actuality, a lot of people working out of state used this opportunity to get together with their family and children back at home, not for vacationing. Suddenly cancelling it means that a lot of workers won’t get to go home from Chinese New Year all the way until Independence day. Professor Cai thinks Independent Day holiday should be shortened too, but he was attacked by just about everyone. A lot of people got very emotional and they were all looking for the culprit. And they discovered it was Professor Cai in Qinghua. And after cancelling people’s Golden Week holiday, he’s aiming to cancel their 7 day break for Independence day too, leaving just Chinese New Year as the only long break people have.
Little did Professor Cai realise how difficult 2007 would be fore him. There were people haranguing him all over the internet. He discovered there was a Cai Jiming forum on Baidu, and there, tens of thousands of users got together to rip him apart, believing he stole everyone’s holiday. Worse, his family was getting attacked online too. A lot of people would call him on the phone to swear at him and threaten him. His children were threatened too. Professor Cai was very upset. He’s accepted interviews when he said that he wasn’t the one to make the decision, he just made a suggestion. He isn’t enforcing this, it’s not fair to go after him. But the netizens didn’t care. Everyone believed that it was only due to Professor Cai’s insistence that their week-long break was cancelled. Why is he trying to wriggle out of it now?
Although Professor Cai still wanted to cancel Independence Week holiday, due to the massive PR disaster going on, he was forced to set the idea aside for now. And relevant departments noticed people’s heightened emotions, and thought people would be even more riled up if Independence Week was cancelled too.
But the professor sued the forum, thinking they were at fault for not putting a stop to the bullying campaign against him, allowing a specific forum to be established for trashing him. The platform lost the law suit and was forced to apologise to Professor Cai and pay him in damages.
16 years have passed since then, and Professor Cai’s idea of giving people more paid leave instead of a Golden Week holiday has still not been implemented. Aside from some government offices that have such benefits, it remains a dream for most people. I can say that, Professor Cai’s idea of cancelling long holidays is very idealistic, but reality is cruel.
In 2023, there is an eruption of tourists in various spots around the country for Golden Week. Although the five days we’re getting were pieced together out of holidays, it’s still a rare opportunity for most people. I don’t know how Professor Cai would feel seeing his campaign to end long holidays end up like this. Perhaps the luckiest decision he’s ever made was to not push for the cancellation of Independence Week too.”
Comments say, “He had good intentions, encouraging businesses to give more paid leave to workers. Giving time off for traditional holidays is protecting our own culture too. The problem is just that most companies don’t offer paid leave at all, and even if you do, you might never get approved for taking any days off. Compared to some other countries, we really don’t get a lot of holidays at all.”
“He just got too detached from reality as an academic.”
“Oh, I knew about this at the time. Cancelling the Golden Week long holiday to split those days into other traditional holidays is because we used to not get any days off for traditional holidays at all, to the point where people would forget they were even going on. That’s why they had to split up Golden Week to increase traditional holiday’s days off.”
“Golden Week wasn’t so great back then either. You really only had 3 days off. The other four days are taken from weekends instead. And you didn’t get any days off for Qing Ming [memorial day] or Autumn Equinox at all. Why can’t we have bridge holidays? [when a public holiday falls on a Tuesday, so you get Monday off too]”
“Talking about some old news, when they were first rolling covid vaccines out, a lot of people didn’t want to get it. My former boss at the hospital, Mr. Li, decided to lead by example and get the vaccine first. Two days later, he felt fatigue, yellow skin, and found out his liver was performing abnormally and had to be hospitalised at a clinic in our city. His liver continue to perform worse and worse, and he eventually had to receive a transplant. Unfortunately, the transplant failed. Later, they announced that he was sick to begin with. I don’t know whether they accounted for any unknown side effects of experimental drugs he was taking, and whether his death was related to that vaccine at all. This is just a hypothetical anyways, don’t think too hard about it.
The day he passed away, several coworkers told me right away (way early in the morning). One of those coworkers knew that we had a bad relationship, and he used to be shitty to me, and asked me, “Are you happy?” And I was like, “How could I possibly be happy? The deceased come first. All of our past grudges doesn’t mean anything compared to his life. The worst thing you can say to someone is to tell them to go die. Now that he’s dead, I don’t feel any hate towards him at all. Not to mention, there are a lot worse people in the world than him. I don’t want to say anything, I just want him to rest in piece.”
Honestly, he was a decent person at heart. Pity, when other people got infected on the front lines and died, they got ranked as “martyrs” [烈士—those who pass away in the course of duty, applies to police, soldiers, first responders, and other government positions, comes with various benefits for your family.] And of course, they deserved it. But he resolutely and bravely accepted the very first batch of vaccines, but his name didn’t even get reported. He didn’t even get employee of the month, much less get martyred. I can only say that all those bastards around him were pulling down anyone they can while trying to crawl up. These bitches aren’t gonna die well.
Our relationship was only okay. Maybe there were even a lot of grudges. But I’m writing about this in the hopes that he’s doing well on the other side. I just don’t want to forget about my past coworkers.”
Comments say, “My cousin passed away from leukaemia shortly after getting the vaccine. Every time I got a shot, I would get super dizzy for several months. I was really scared, researching for reasons on the internet. I had a bunch of other smaller symptoms too, like rashes. That’s not even the saddest part. The saddest is reading all the news of people getting arrested for not getting their covid tests. I was terrified of getting arrested for refusing to get the vaccine too. I still remember that feeling of being trapped and being helpless. How ridiculous.”
“From the beginning, I’ve been telling everyone around me and all my fans to not get the vaccine, to tell their family to not get the vaccine. There were all sorts of rumours flying around, like you wouldn’t be allowed to get on planes or trains if you didn’t get it or something. But whatever, I’m just an unemployed loser. I’m not gonna be anyone’s lab rat.”
“If a new drugs was developed in less than 100 days, without any data for animal or human testing at all, and they’re using it on everyone around the country, anyone who knows anything about medicine would get scared.”
“I live in a small town of just a few hundred people, and we literally ran out of monks to perform funerals. They’d chant for a couple of minutes and hurry to the next one. Was it really because of covid, or was it become of the vaccines? I don’t know. Will we ever find out the truth one day?”
“When housing prices fall to the point that rent covers mortgage, it’ll stop falling.
I’ve got a friend who professionally sells houses. She owns a unit worth 2 million on the market. Since it’s got a good location, she never lacks renters. Back at the height of its value, this unit was worth 3 million. It’s already lost 30% of its value now that it’s only worth 2 million.
She’s posted this unit for sale lately, and people have shown up to check out the house, and haggled for another 200K off of 2 million.
So she’s decided to not sell anymore.
She gets 6000 RMB in rent per month for this unit, that’s 72K in rent per year. Back when it was worth 3 million, that’s a little over 2% returns per year. Now that it’s 2 million, it’s 3.6% returns. If she really was going to sell it for 1.8 million, that’s 4% returns on rent.
It’s not like she really needs cash right now, and getting a 3 year CD at the bank is only about 3% interest, so why bother selling it? She’s better off just sitting on it and taking rent.”
Comments say, “How is it possible to get 6000 in rent per month on a 2 million RMB house? You’re just making up bullshit.”
“You’re lucky if you can get 3000 RMB in rent per month on a 2 million RMB house. I’m in Xiamen.”
“So, if we massively increase rent, we can stop housing prices from plummeting?”
“Wow, people born after 2000s are already getting executed.
Culprit: Wang Jie, Male, Han ethnicity, born 24th of February, 2000 in Gong’an County, Hunan Province, middle school diploma.
On the 25th of August, 2020, around 50 minutes past midnight, Wang Jie was sleeping with a prostitute in Changsha. After agreeing to the price and time, the prostitute (Li, female, 24 years old at death) took Wang Jie to a rental unit to finish their transaction. As the agreed upon time drew near, Li began urging Wang Jie to finish quickly or she would be charging extra. Another employee at the same brothel also called twice over WeChat to remind Wang Jie to hurry. Wang Jie became upset over the interrupt, and wrapped both hands around Li’s neck and strangled her to death.
Final result: Victim’s family refused to sign a letter of forgiveness. Wang Jie has been executed on the 29th of March, 2023.”
Comments say, “People saying others have done worse, dude, he strangled someone to death with his bare hands! It might look easy and simple in TV shows and movies, but that’s horrifying in real life! It means he’s got a ton of murderous intent.”
“Lol, all these whoremongers in the comment section getting scared.”
“A lot of people have done worse, and how many of them got sentenced to death?”
“East Asian children’s ultimate fantasy about death is probably the image of their parents kneeling in front of their corpse, wailing to the heavens. What would they think when they saw my body? Would they feel regret? Would they feel guilt? Would they regret oppressing me so hard, putting me down constantly? Maybe every East Asian kid’s wondered like this. Guilt is the heaviest shackles parents can place on their child, and their children want to use the most extreme method to put these shackles back onto their parents. For them, death isn’t a release, it’s a twisted form of revenge.
But what would happen after they’re dead? Would their fantasy come true? Nezha’s story gives East Asian kids an answer. Even after cutting off his own flesh to return to his parents, when Li Jing [Nezha’s dad] saw a revived Nezha, all he had to say was a cold, “Bastard.””
Comments say, “I’ve seen a kid who jumped off a bridge and didn’t die. After he got hauled back up, his parents continued beating him.”
“I don’t know whether this comment section is filled with people who aren’t parents yet, or if they’re younger, but I treasure my children. I don’t require they take care of me when they grow up, because I think death is just a part of life. I want to die simply and quickly without troubling anyone else or burdening my kids. The parents that this comment section talks about are either cold-blooded or only exist in trashy TV shows. My parents never treated me this way, and I’m an only child born in the 90s.”
“I read a line lately, “Almost all children have fantasised about punishing adults with their death, because their weak bodies and their incomplete societal relations means that they can only end themselves to provoke guilt from the stronger party. If someone lacks tools for justice when they’re young, then they’ll feel a lot of fascination towards death.””
“If you die, they’ll just have another one. It’s their idea of just starting a new account. They never thought of you as a human being.”
Please correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the four betel nut influencers become (even more?) famous because all of them started educating people about the dangers of chewing betel nuts after getting diagnosed with cancer?
And were they a group of four people posting stuff together or did their respective followers come up with the group name simply because all of them chewed so much?
"so why doesn’t anyone else have this problem?"
Which specific problem is this person talking about? The Xu Bo case seems unusual enough that I find it hard to imagine it being a common issue in China.
fore him -> for him