09/21/23 - Why do they only beat him and not any of the other kids?
#Department of education responds to five-year-old boy abused at preschool. “Mommy, I didn’t get hit by the teacher at all today! It’s so great!” This one line drew suspicion from a lady, who looked up her son’s preschool’s security cameras. In the last 17 days, her 5-year-old son was hit by his teachers 130 times. Three teachers have been fired from the preschool.
Comments say, “…That’s it? They’re just fired?”
“Child abuse isn’t illegal?”
“If he’s bullying other kids, then he deserves to be beaten. Why would several different teachers beat him? Why do they only beat him and not any of the other kids?”
A story’s been trending of a girl who’s been trying to pass her civil servant exam for 5 years. A blogger writes about it, “A lot of people are leaving really cruel and prideful comments under this story. It reminds me of two of my postgrad classmates. One of them was my roommate. She attempted the postgrad exam three times before she got into my major. She’s super insecure, doesn’t dare to walk in front of people, doesn’t dare to talk to people, doesn’t dare to be seen by people. Even in the heat of summer, she goes to bed fully-dressed. Aside from when she’s in class, she’s always alone in the dorm. Her face is super pale. She doesn’t sleep at night, she scrolls posts on a soccer forum. It’s her only form of entertainment.
I did my best to help her. I spent almost all of my time hanging out with her. But it didn’t work. No one else wanted to be friend with her, and she pushed everyone away too. About three years after graduation, our professor found me and asked me if I was still in touch with her, that he had a job he wanted to introduce to her.
Another girl was in the same school, different major, I forget if she had to try for two years or three. Her undergrad school was actually pretty good, South China University of Technology, but she insisted on coming to our school and our major because we were number one in the country. The postgrad exam gave her a ton of stress, and she’d already had some mental health problems. Later, just before her finals one time, her mental problems exploded all at once. She spewed a bunch of gibberish in her dorm and disappeared. Our class leader and I spent all day looking for her, and only found her the next day (our school is too big). We had to take her to the mental hospital. It was my first time spending the night in a mental hospital to keep her company. I’ll never forget it.
Our obsession with high diplomas has given people way too much psychological pressure and torture. It’s beyond what people can reasonable bear. It’s eaten people’s youth, and left countless scars behind. My classmates are all victims too. Our culture traditionally values high diplomas, but it’s so hard to actually climb up in society. The schooling system is so cruel, and yet it’s the only way for a normal family to change their fates. People hate “climbing the ladder”, but they don’t have the freedom to not climb the ladder either. They’re all doing their best to get used to the rules of this society. Because aside from studying, there are so few ways to become successful. We see the occasional lucky few, but we don’t see the countless bodies buried under the shadows—and no one single person is at fault for this.
That’s why I didn’t want to blame the girl in the story. It’s her choice. No matter how ridiculous, how unbelievable it looks to other people, it might still be her only way out based on her circumstances. A lot of things are hard to change. All I want to say to a living human being trapped by their dreams is to give them my best wishes.”
Comments say, “T_T True story, I feel trapped too, like I’m drowning. Waiting for my grades to get back or for some other option to open up is so long and tortuous. So many negative and pessimistic emotions. It doesn’t just swallow me up. It swallows up everything around me. It feels like even more parents aren’t as colourful as before.”
“I can totally understand. I spent three years like this once. A lot of times, you’re also putting up with expectations from your parents and other invisible pressures.”
“It doesn’t really matter if she can’t pass the exams either way. In the end, we all work shitty jobs making no money at all anyways.”
A instagram post of a wedding proposal:
“My boyfriend bent a cotton bud that you clean your ears with into a ring and asked me for marriage!”
Beneath is a compilation of comments:
“Here, take my grandpa’s pickles as celebratory fireworks. They’re so loud when you chew them.”
“Wow, that’s so nice. There’s even gold on top of it.”
“Oh my god, why didn’t he also dig out some snot and roll it into a diamond on top?”
“I just pee’d, you can use it as wine at the ceremony.”
“Just bought some kebabs, there’s still some crumbs on the stick left. If you sprinkle some salt on, I bet you and your boyfriend can still eat it for a couple of days.”
A long article on the life story of Maleesha Kharwa, an Indian model who was born in the slums and scouted by actor Robert Hoffman.
Comments say, “She truly is blessed by God. Just that completely neat and clean set of teeth is a true rarity.”
“She might’ve left, but millions of people still live in that hellish place. A lot of people don’t understand why our country spent so much money and effort on ending poverty. This is why.”
“She’s just pretty. There wasn’t really any hard work involved.”
“Jin Xing [famous dancer and choreographer] once said, “You imagine that rich people have tens of millions in savings, earn millions of RMB in interest every month. Their garages are filled with luxury cars. Their luxurious mansions are an entire acre big. They spend every day with supermodels. They don’t even need to brush their own teeth.
Actual rich people: I haven’t been paid for my project last year yet, had to borrow all my cash flow for this year’s project. Every day I’m stressing out about how to deal with the bank. All the cars in my garage are collateral, and they’re all gas-guzzlers too. They’re not even as good as a Wuling [Chinese car company]. My house is collateral too, and I still need a couple million to remodel it. Whatever, guess I’ll let it sit for another year.”
What you imagine stinginess to look like, Pack up that dish to go too. And there’s still half a bottle of this wine left. Might as well take it home. I can still drive this car for two years, so I won’t buy a new car yet. The house is good enough to live in, so let’s not worry about remodelling. So long as there’s a roof over our heads, right?
Actual stinginess: Just had to give [so-and-so] a gift today, dunno if two boxes of Moutai was enough. Gotta donate another billion to the clubhouse so they can polish things up a little. Otherwise, I don’t even have anywhere to meet people when we’re talking business. If I work hard this year, I can get a couple more projects and buy another house for my kid. And I’ve gotta make enough money to fund next year’s projects too…”
Comments say, “Tens of millions in savings, and millions in interest every month?? Did your PE teacher teach you maths?”
“Ahhh it’s so true. I still haven’t paid my supplier, because my client’s held off paying me for months.”
“How many people on the Forbes list end up declaring bankruptcy? It’s just a different concept.”
A blogger screenshots someone’s comment, saying, “Now I get why poor people are poor.”
The comment reads, “When I was going to uni, a classmate of mine bought 3000 pens for 200 RMB and planned to sell three pens for 1 RMB. And all of them turned out to be broken.
Another classmate of mine was selling USBs, 70 RMB each. His USBs came from his auntie’s shop, so he doesn’t have to worry about them being broken. He can pay her back when he’s done seling them. If he can’t sell it, he can just return it to her store and not pay.
Poor people aren’t just poor on money, they’re poor on opportunities too.
If they fail once, they’re bankrupt. But rich people have countless chances to try things out. Just based on that, their mentality and the amount of pressure they’re under is completely different. So, the only creatures that try to talk chickens into throwing themselves off a cliff to learn how to fly are foxes hungry for chicken meat.”
“Just read a super amazing webnovel. The female lead has gender cognition disorder, and started dating a guy’s sister, because she thought the sister was him. The guy was super jealous that the female lead liked his sister more. The sister was super jealous that her brother was a man and could be together with the female lead. They ended up fighting super crazy later on. I was totally on the edge of my seat, but the author was way too daring. They set it during Nationalist China and used real names for all the historical figures. I almost thought I was reading an unofficial history textbook, and got scared out of reading more.”
The comments are full of people begging for which novel it is, and OP replies, “The name of the novel is “Don’t call me” (别喊我), the female lead’s name is Shi Ping (石娉). If you don’t like it, then don’t harass the author. The sister and brother duo I mentioned are only side characters in the story, don’t take it too seriously.”
“Millions of parents are fighting in Canada! Some of them are strongly against LGBTQ2S and tolerance education. Some of them are strongly for teaching gender politics in school.
A Chinese parent who moved to Vancouver says, “I used to think the monsters are the minority. I only found out today that they’re the majority in Canada. Not only do they have the numbers, they’re organised too. It’s parents who oppose them who are in the minority.” Meanwhile, a bunch of monsters are screaming at her, “Children don’t belong to you.”
There’s a 20-year-old girl who had cut off her breast who’s pulling her shirt open, exposing her chest, and holding up a sign that read, “Surgery made me happy!”
The Chinese parent says that after witnessing this, she felt despair in Canada.”
Comments say, “This group’s name is getting longer and longer [Doge].”
“It makes me happy to see emigrants unhappy.”
“No, no, no, but they have such great air quality and social services! Canada is a great place to live and everyone’s really polite! Stop complaining and stay over there! Don’t you dare come running back to China!”
“Whose 94-year-old grandpa is still drinking coffee and beer and eating barbecue? Sometimes, he’ll ask me for a popsicle too. We share chips and cookies too. It’ll be the full moon festival soon, and he’d been eating two huge mooncakes with every meal! I hope my grandpa can live forever! I hope all your loved ones can live forever healthily too!”
Comments say, “People with this sort of mentality always live super long! My grandma only quit smoking at 90-years-old. She was still drinking liquor on his 100th birthday party! She doesn’t like veggies and only eat meat. She hates getting up in the morning and love staying up at night. I pulled an all-nighter watching the World Cup with her. Any kind of health supplement is just trash to her. Her life quality was fantastic. She was a little old lady with bound feet who lived to 102!”
“I feel like most 80’s kids are gonna grow old like this. Maybe at 80 years old, we’ll still be able to drive a sports car with one hand, and go be a DJ in nightclubs or something.”
“My grandma’s 85, and she’s cooked her whole life. She never lets anyone help her do the dishes, and she’s got OCD too, so she keeps her house super clean.”