I'd be more hyped if I had any prospects of getting to live there. I'm gonna be stuck here in the collapsing empire while the cool guys are doing communism across the sea
Well we’re a quarter of the way through but I’m sure they’re doing communism any day now
PRESS THE BUTTON ALREADY GODDAMMIT
I dunno I bet China us too nice to do a century of American humiliation.
We need an Iranian century too.
Gotta learn Chinese
10000 YEARS TO CHAIRMAN MAO
I was in a situation where I was all set up to learn basic/introductory mandarin in person in a classroom setting for no cost but my time, and covid hit and wrecked everything.
that opportunity is gone now, but if I can every orchestrate something like that again, I am going for it.
I've tried conversational audio lessons on my own, and have done that for basic skills in a few other languages... but the tonal thing with mandarin throws me and I can hear myself as being way off. baby needs in person instruction!
I know AI isnt very popular around here and for good reason, but this is one of the legitimate uses I think. Just like anything else, stuff like ChatGPT will hallucinate if you ask it direct questions, but its actually pretty helpful if you say something like "I'm going to speak to you in Mandarin Chinese, repeat back to me what I said in English and output my text in Simplified Chinese characters". I've used the new conversation feature of the mobile app to help me drill sentences and practice tones, along with stuff like Hello Chinese that has speech recognition for its lessons too.
Pretty hyped. Hopefully I can get a good electric car or go on a big train ride across Asia in my lifetime.
Moderately hyped, given that the PRC is definitely better than NATO by orders of magnitude.
I would be much more hyped if the PRC abolished private property.
However, I think that the celebrations over the disintegration of the empire are premature for many reasons.
{超级兴奋 | so fn hyped}
Hyped if the government doesn’t whiff things for us here in Australia, I want a cheap EV.
"yeah mate we fucken hate the bloody chinese, just look at how racist we are"
Also Australia:
"They ended the LOBSTER TARIFF?!? fuck it, ni how m8s, we love flogging off shit"
Meanwhile the Australian ambassador to the US is a fluent Mandarin speaker and Dengist
It does seem weird that Rudd is not Ambassador to China.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
lukewarm personally, since I am in the US sphere of influence
happy for them though
Please Xi, can I have honourary Chinese citizenship so I can become a train conductor for CRH?
I told Drew Pavlou on Twitter that me and his mother had sweaty, animalistic, National Geographic-levels of sex while Comrade Hao's rendition of Without the Communist Party there would be no China was playing on the surround sound
It would be a lot cooler if I wasn't stuck in a first world country that loves exploiting themselves.
hundred years of temu and shein and gacha games hooray
I mean I'm Chinese and I live in China and it's pretty chill rn. More like "hundred years of technological advancement, affordable housing and food, indoor smoking and space exploration hooray"
Like you can't fathom how little people care about such pressing issues in day to day life. Public spaces are public for the people to walk and loiter, old ladies will get together and form dance troupes on the side of the road, abundant housing and the public transport to access them.
Its pretty good.
This is another point in favor of “yes China is actually socialist right now” to me. Honestly one of the things that drew me to socialism early on was precisely what you are describing: a dream of a society where concerns for the essentials in life are minimal, people have spaces (and time) to socialize, and overall you just have a more socially healthy society. Would love to have this in the US but it’s pretty great that the largest country in the world (and ascendant) has it.
Because that's sooo much worse than Amazon and
and whatever western slop we already have
