08/26/23 - That's the only reason I can think for a child that small to be infected with STDs.
A tiktok compilation of livestreams where fishermen are selling their catch of the day facing large amounts of one-star reviews and internet bullying on their products the day that Japan released its nuclear runoff into the ocean. The blogger says, “This is all Chinese people?? Why are we not banding together right now, instead of attacking our own people?”
Comments say, “The people bullying these fishermen might not be Chinese people. It could be foreign bots.”
“Start by internet bullying the Chinese seafood industry. Then rig and film a couple of anti-Japanese hate crimes in China. Then engineer a couple of boycotts of meaningless Japanese products. And that’s how you create conflict and shift the focus.”
“Just arrest anyone bullying the fishermen and prosecute them as Japanese spies and be done with it.”
“A bit of cringe history about myself. Before I left China, I was also super brainwashed by study culture. How bad was it? I’ll give you an example.
Because top high schools in China don’t allow dating, in order to alleviate my crush, the first solution my psychological defense mechanism could come up with was praying that the girl I had a crush on would get bad grades. Because then, I’ll instantly fall out of love with her.
It got a lot better once I came to the UK.”
Comments say, “Holy shit! I thought I was the only one! Hahaha, I wanted the guy I had a crush on to embarrass himself or something, so then I could be all like, “Pft. I guess he’s only so-so.” Later on, I figured out that everyone I had a crush on had some kind of “title”, like class leader, year leader, best in a certain subject or whatever. As soon as they lose that title, I lost any interest in them. Then I understood that with the general cultural pursuit of grades, I was crushing on someone’s grades more than them as a person.”
“Isn’t this just because you’re a degenerate with bad grades and no matters?”
“When I was in middle school, I was a total socialist+misogynist too, and got cured after studying in Germany for a while. Being stuck in an environment filled with so much propaganda can make it really hard to look at problems from a forgiving point of view. But truly kind kids will return to their true nature once they make enough contact with the outside world. I call it awakening your DNA. If you never awaken, I can only say that you must just naturally be evil then.”
“The effects of the nuclear runoff water is clear as day.
My cousin works in seafood, and yesterday, he got the same amount of stock as always. And in the morning, everyone who visited his stall and checked out the seafood would ask, “Is this from Japan?” And he’d explain time and time again that it was caught in Fujian, locally. And some customers would still shake their heads and say, nah, we’ll stick with freshwater fish, I guess.
After a day, he still had 2/3rd of his fish left unfold. Even his regulars who came every day wouldn’t buy any.
Once he packed up at night, he put all the remaining seafood in the freezer, and whatever couldn’t fit in his freezer, he gave out to his family. He brought a Turbot to my place.
My cousin said that if it kept on like this, he’s bound to lose money. He might not even be able to keep up with rent on his stall. The nuclear run off hasn’t even reached us yet, and people already resist seafood so much. Once it really reaches us, what’s going to happen?”
Comments say, “The nuclear contamination is the thickest along Japan’s own shoreline. Chinese seafood is safe at least for now.”
“If nobody eats any seafood, at least it’ll give the ocean a little bit of time to recover from overfishing. It’ll be better for the environment. It’s just that people in those industries might lose their jobs.”
“By the time the runoff reaches us in, like, a year, seafood might be popular again.”
A blogger reposts a news story about an English mom selling her house in order to afford breast reduction surgery, saying, “Man, big boobs are really annoying too.”
Comments say, “Small boobs really are better. Big boobs get in the way of exercise a lot.
“I love the comment section—it’s true. People might get breast implants out of vanity, but breast reduction surgery is always out of medical need.”
“Yeah, most women’s clothing on Taobao look better on if you have small boobs (except for a couple of styles of cocktail dresses).”
A tiktok video of a doctor talking about three underage patients she saw that day. She explains that, “I’m in a very heavy mood right now. These three patients made me see how much China needs more education on STDs. The first patient had genital warts around his anus ever since he was a 6-year-old boy. It didn’t get better even after two years of treatment. His mother has HPV. He himself doesn’t have any sexual history, he hasn’t been sexually abused, so I think the source is still that his parents aren’t being hygienic in their daily life. That’s the only reason I can think for a child that small to be infected. He was the only child that small in my waiting room, whining and fussing because he didn’t want to be in the hospital. He’d went through a lot of treatment plans over the last two years. He’s already traumatised about hospitals. When he finally came into my room, even though I didn’t have a needle or any other equipment in hand, he was still terrified. He looked like a tall, strong, very sturdy kid, but two years of genital warts has brought him a lot of trauma. He was super scared. So if you have HPV, especially if you’re a woman and you have a family, then you really need to pay attention to your hygiene, especially sharing baths, bathing products, or washing your underwear in the same washing machine as others. You really can pass it along to your children.
The second case was a 17 year old with AIDS. He’s on medicine for his AIDS, but he’s also got genital warts around his anus at the same time. He’s from a very backwaters region, so his local hospital couldn’t treat his genital warts either. When he first came in, he hadn’t told me he had AIDS, but as soon as I saw him, I asked if he had HIV, and he said yes. He came with his sister. You can see how important it is that we educate people about STDs and AIDS.
The third case is a 19 year old girl, very tall and pretty, with a kind of cold-looking face. Guess what she had? She was born with syphilis. So, it wasn’t her fault that she got syphilis. Her mother was infected, and didn’t get treatment when she gave birth, and now this 19-year-old girl has syphilis affecting her brain—because she acted very cold and detached. Her dad accompanied her, and he practically plead on his knees with me, being all like, “Doctor, it’s my fault she’s sick. I made a mistake 20 years ago, and got her mother sick. And her mom hadn’t gotten tested when she gave birth. I remember when she was first born, that she had a rash on her skin. Doctor, can she still have children later in life?” I was like, “Let’s not even worry about that right now. We need to figure out whether we can still treat her syphilis.””
Comments say, “God, that father in the third story makes me so mad!!”
“I can’t believe all he cared about is whether or not she can have children. Is childbirth really so important? Fucking ridiculous.”
“We don’t need to be educating kids about STDs, we need to be educating men about STDs.”
“School is about to start soon, and my family owns a supermarket. I was gonna bring some of the expired snacks from home to share with my roommates. My mom told me that I’ll lose face if I do that, that it’s rude behaviour. And I was like, “No way!”, right? I mean, it’s still perfectly good food. Like a lot of skincare products are still good months after their expiration date. Snacks are still okay after a few days, right? But now I’m worried my roommates are going to overthink it too. What should I do?”
Comments say, “You’re fine. I go out of my way to buy snacks about to expire that are on clearance.”
“Just text them and ask—you’ve got a ton of snacks, but they’re technically just expired, if your roommates want any. If they do, bring lots. If not, just bring your own share.”
“In the men’s dorms, we call people like this “Father”.”
A tiktok video of a little kid with his arms stuck in a monument. It’s labelled “Climbing is prohibited. Suffer the consequences yourself.” But his parents ignored it. Internet commenters say, “They need to save the brat, but they can’t destroy the monument—what are they supposed to do?”
Comments say, “??? Do monuments matter more or do lives matter more?”
“It’s okay. Just starve him for a couple of days. Once he gets thinner, he’ll slip out on his own.”
“Keep him shackled there for three days—it’ll teach him a lesson better than anything else.”
“My ex-coworker got married when she was 6 months pregnant. Once she gave birth, she had a bit fight with her MIL while sitting the month, and went back to her own house in a rage, and was in a cold war with her husband for three years. Finally, he agreed to a divorce, but the condition was that she gave up custody, but didn’t have to pay any child support either.
As soon as the divorce came through, she quit her job, and took her mother travelling from Kunming to Chongqing, from Chongqing to Tibet, on a roadtrip. It’s been two months now, and they’re in Beijing currently, saying that they’re going to relax for a little longer before returning to Kunming and finding a new job.
I’m so jealous. Btw, her parents were fully supportive of her divorce. When the man was fighting it, her dad even got her a lawyer to sue. It’s rare to see such progressive parents.”
Comments say, “Yeah, but from another angle, she’s pretty heartless too to abandon her kid like that.”
“Three years? So she raised a baby for the guy? He still got off way too light.”
“If it was a newborn, I might give up custody, but if the kid is three years old, there’s no way. So what if he doesn’t want a divorce. I’ll just keep living my own life. A piece of paper isn’t gonna stop me from doing anything. I could even keep dating people. Once enough time has passed, he’ll want a divorce sooner or later.”
A compilation of the reactions on the internet to Japan releasing its nuclear runoff water:
“Remember to wash your hair as soon as it gets wet from the rain after 24th of August. If it’s in the summer and your arm, pants, or feet get wet from rainwater, you need to hurry home and wash yourself off too. Because industrial pollution and nuclear pollution is everywhere. There’s acid in the rain now, carbon dioxide. It’s all acid rain. If you’re not careful, you’ll get fleas in your hair, or eczema on your skin. Big red welts. Remember to use shampoo and blow dry your hair and use body wash. Just trying to help people out after suffering for years from skin allergies to rainwater. Keep spreading the positive energy!”
“Why can’t they just dump their nuclear water in space? T_T”
“We should build dykes along the sea, like some kind of shoreline Great Wall. I’m willing to donate money and one year of volunteer labour, to build a beautiful, unpolluted China for my descendants.”
“Anyone in Guangdong want to go attack Japan with me?”
“I can’t. I’ve still got a family. But I’m willing to donate funds and materials.”
“As soon as they dump it in the sea, 80-90% of people will stop buying seafood. Seafood markets are going to close down. Fishermen are going to become unemployed. Fishing boats will stop fuelling up. Demand for gas is going to go down. Gas station employees will lose their jobs. Truck drivers will lose their jobs. Large amount of second-hand trucks are going to appear on the market, and new cars won’t sell anymore. Car salesmen are going to lose their jobs. There’s going to be layoffs at both car manufacturers and boat manufacturers, causing more unemployment. It’ll cause a series of chain reactions that might cause severe economic crisis. Is that possible?”
“Professor Zeng [some kind of expert on the I-Ching??] prophesised once that if Japan dumped its nuclear run off, it’ll cause a tsunami that washes it right back into Japan.”
“If war starts, I’ll volunteer on behalf of all 80’s kids. 90’s kids can stay home and protect our soil.”
“Take me along to fight the Japanese. I’m not afraid of dying.”
“Marry me. We’ll have a kid, and then go fight as a family. More people, more power.”
Comments say, “That last guy trying to get a date in all the chaos is hilarious.”
“I’m deeply disappointed no one was taking advantage of the opportunity to promote that Chinese medicine can cure radiation poisoning.”
“So does anybody still remember when Russia dumped like 16 reactor piles into the ocean in ’93?”
On the 24th of August, the Wagner Company posted a video of the founder of Yevgeny Prigozhin talking with co-founder Dmitri Utkin about “unavoidable events”. Utkin claimed, “Death is not the end, it’s a new beginning.” Prigozhin expressed approval, and said, “We might go to hell, but we’ll be the strongest in hell.”
Comments say, “Ohhhh, so they’re being sent as scouts to hell. This tactic of Putins is leagues ahead of what Americans can dream up. [Doge]”
How popular can posts pushing back on popular narratives get, on average? For instance, if someone were to point out that tritium runoff from Chinese nuclear plants is higher than the Fukushima dump, or that the amount released is harmless, what would the response be?