Another poll on whether it was too much to expel a college student for photoshopping revenge porn of a fellow student. Comment say, “I hope everyone who clicked on it was too harsh gets revenge porn photoshopped of them. I’ll vote on that poll too and say it’s not too harsh at all.”
A trending topic is #Do you support criminalising domestic violence? A blogger says, “I fully support making domestic violence a criminal offense, if and only if the children’s futures are not affected by their father or mother’s domestic violence.” Otherwise, “criminal domestic violence” will still just be an empty and powerless law with no one willing to pursue it, because the chances that the children write a letter of forgiveness and the abuser will get away with it.”
Comments say, “I don’t think domestic violence should be a crime. It should just be prosecuted as assault and battery or attempted murder like if you beat up on a stranger.”
A blogger writes, “I sincerely suggest that old people stop writing on the internet anymore, pretending to sympathise with young people, giving advice, acting like you’re everybody’s supervisor. You have no sympathy at all—you’re just trying to show off that you’ve worked hard, you’ve struggled, and you’ve achieved everything you have through your own effort and talent. You’re just fucking lucky. The 20-30 years of your life you’ve spent being an adult, China’s went from opening up to the west to becoming a part of the WTO. The economy is shooting up like a rocket. Life is better and better every day. So long as you work hard, you can make money. If you save money, you can make investments. So what if it’s a little tiring? You’re still walking uphill. All the incentives in society are working—the harder you work, the better off you are. But society has changed now.”
“I honestly don’t even want to acknowledge you, but every time that anything goes wrong with society, people immediately start pointing fingers are young people. I’m sick and tired of this shit. Everyone is only talking about how young people don’t want to have kids, young people don’t want to work hard, young people are giving up on life. Really? Are you serious? Is that actually what’s wrong with society? Stop pretending like you can’t see the real problem.”
“Everything you write is just sucking your own dick. And just about everything you write is just to add to the stress of young people. Societal forces are stronger than anyone’s hard work can make up for. Technology isn’t developing as fast, employment opportunities aren’t exploding out of the market, economic cycles have ups and downs. No matter how hard you try, you can’t fight against the currents of history. Our generation just had the bad luck of being born in an era where China made a bunch of mistakes, and there’s nothing we can do except give up and lay flat. Why do you have to keep heaping shit onto our plate? Can’t you see what’s going on?”
“There’s a reason there’s a saying in China that big money is made in silence. If you’ve made a shitton, wipe your mouth clean, shut up, and mind your own business. Don’t get out into society and try to be everyone’s dad. You don’t deserve it. You just want to show off how much better you are than everyone else on the internet.”
“Is your social security payout is higher than your children or your grandchildren’s monthly salary? Did you only pay 5 years of taxes, but you’re getting several thousands every month, and your children haven’t had a raise for 5 years? You never think about why this all is, you just think it’s because you’re awesome. Look at how farmers have spent half their lives shackled to their fields, handing most of their produce up to the government for “redistribution” and have only been able to work for themselves since 2006. And now that they’re in their 70s and 80s, they only get 110 RMB a month. You don’t feel any guilt. You’re just wanking off on the internet to how brilliant you were when you were young. Have a little bit of face. No matter how lazy and greedy young people are, they’ve yet to become a brick in this monolith of exploitation. You’ve been adding bricks to it your whole life.”
A tiktok video of someone saying that they went to Thailand on vacation to go to the viral restaurant staffed by male models. When they saw not a lot of other Chinese people are going at the airport, they became uneasy, but they still went ahead thinking that surely, Thailand is pretty safe, and they’d gotten an expensive international hotel. But they were two girls, with no men accompanying. And the second night they were in Thailand, they were out late—and they’ve been to Thailand before and had fun at night markets until the early AM and never had a problem—but she was starting to feel uneasy. Because there was almost no Chinese people on the streets. It’s just Europeans and white people. And they’re all partying and drunk and high (she did not know before she went that marijuana was legal in Thailand). It was terrifying. They ran into a Cambodian influencer while at the restaurant, and she got super scared and wanted to go home.
It was almost 1am by the time they were done eating, and they called a local uber. As soon as she got in the uber, the driver locked the car doors. She looked up to see that he is playing a video of strippers dancing on the screen on his dashboard. And he’s playing party music. Her friend starts freaking out and insisting they get out of the car right away, and at this point, he is now playing porn on his dash screen. Her mind went blank and she felt like it was over. Even now thinking back on it, she feels like she can’t breathe. Her friend is texting her to calm down, and she managed to say to the driver that she left her wallet in the restaurant and she wanted to go back for it while he waits for her here.
Driver can’t understand her, but he pulls out a translation app on his phone, and at this point she realises that he didn’t even have his phone out previously, nor his uber app page pulled up. So she’s wondering where he was intending to bring them if he’s not looking at his GPS. At that point she really felt like she was done for. But the driver pulled around and dropped them off at the restaurant. They hopped out, gave him a tip, and said they don’t want to ride with him anymore and fled back into the restaurant, terrified he’s going to follow them. It was only when they made it safely in the restaurant that her friend confesses she’d smelled a strong scent of marijuana on the car.
At this point, both of them start getting second-hand effects of marijuana. She’s feeling like people around her are getting super big and sounds are very high-pitched. Her heart is hammering away, felt like her skull was super heavy and she can’t breathe. Her face, shoulders, and arms got super red like she’d drank a lot. She felt like she had trouble organising her language too. Her friend is getting it even worse because she was sat behind the driver.
They’re trying to figure out how to get back to the hotel, too afraid to call another car, and feeling like they’re surrounded by bad guys. Because it was only white people around them and not Chinese people. They don’t feel safe in the restaurant either, because she’s not sure if the Cambodian guy had left or not. She’s too afraid to look. They try calling the embassy, but nobody picks up the phone because it’s 1:40AM. They felt despair and were wondering if they should just sit in this restaurant until daybreak the next day. But that’s not realistic, because the restaurant will close at 5-6AM, and the streets aren’t going to be safe yet.
In the end, she remembered that she watches the livestream of a girl who’s in Thailand, and got on livestream chat and begged for help. She told OP to get a cab, and that she and her entire livestream going to stay on the phone the whole time with OP until they get back to the hotel.
Even after they got back to the hotel, they were terrified of someone coming in and couldn’t sleep all night. Just felt like their lives are in constant danger and everyone in Thailand is a criminal. She can’t stop thinking about where that guy was going to bring them if he didn’t have his map up. She got so strongly affected after just a minute of breathing in marijuana on the car. If she’d stayed for a 20 minute drive, would she have passed out? What would happen to her in the end?
They’d planned to visit more places in Thailand, but they were in no mood for more tourism and went back to China the next day. When she finally made it back in China, she cried, because she knows there’s no place in the world that’s safer than China. China is great.
She’s on here telling people to think carefully before they go to Thailand, and that you really need to go with male accompaniment and to not stay out past 10pm. Thailand is a completely different place post-covid. Don’t see a bunch of influencers go and think it’s okay—those influencers have body guards and chauffeurs.
Comments say, “Why go to Thailand when you can go to Russia for the same amount of money? And the environment here is a hundred times better than south-east Asia. We’ve got stable society, no crime, friendly to Chinese people, lots of cool scenery and architecture, great for photo shoots. And our summer temperatures are very Mediterranean, blue sky, white cloud.”
Screenshots of a group chat of students going to a famous community college that teaches construction equipment operation. The principal asks, “If your house is on fire, and inside if a dog you have kept for 8 years and a child you don’t know, but you can only save one of them, which one would you choose?”
A couple of people reply, and the principle says, “Interestingly, I’ve asked dozens of people this question, and girls always choose the dog, every time.”
People continue choosing, and the principal adds, “I guess there is a gender difference after all. Up until this point, all the boys have chosen the kid, and all the girls have chosen the dog.”
“Girls can’t understand how anyone can give up on a dog that they’ve raised for 8 years, who is like family to them. Boys can’t understand how girls can give up on a human life.”
Comments say, “I obviously save the dog, because I’m the most important person to myself. If I save the kid, I’m the one who’s grieving and upset. If I save the dog, someone else is grieving and upset. Why do I have to bear the pain of losing a loved one?”
The one about the Chinese girls being terrified of Thailand made me belly laugh. Is there some kind of intentional irony I'm missing, or do these people genuinely not get clowned on?