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Fatty

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Is this the deal Trump worked out with Xi? Good God… The Chinese libs are finished…
I actually think that it’s fine if China begins to lift the firewall. The firewall successfully prevented Chinese tech companies from being slaughtered in their infancy and now there is a very robust internet ecosystem in China. Furthermore, the whole Lib view of America being great and amazing can be successfully combatted with the help of Americans themselves. Nothing’s better messaging than directly seeing.
 

Elevenz

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About the only "gotcha" that the XHS haters are pulling right now is that Americans are telling Chinese people their salaries. It's hardly the own Americans think it is and in fact, could just end up deepening the soft power that XHS is promoting.
  1. The most obvious fact is that XHS's users are mostly young urbanites. It is very likely a good chunk of them already have friends or friends of friends who studied abroad in the West and found employment in American FAANG companies afterwards. America's higher salaries is not some kind of great epiphany to them.
  2. Out of all the supposed benefits of living in the land of free, even the anti-China propagandists are struggling to come up with other things besides that and "freedom of speech."
  3. Over the past few days since the XHS phenomanon began what have we learned? That consumer goods in China are cheaper, China's infrastructure and public transportation is lightyears ahead of America's, many Chinese millenials are home owners and rent is cheaper.
So when all's said and done, Americans have higher salaries and....? Why are so many struggling to budget groceries and gas from their paychecks? Why are 33% of American millenials, in a culture that traditionally frowned on multigenerational households, still living with their parents? With all the income tax the government is extracting from high American salaries, why are the roads falling apart? Why is the piss, crime, and rat infested New York subway the crown jewel of American public transportation? With the 6 figure salaries afforded to American police officers thanks to American taxpayer money, why aren't they doing their jobs to keep a lid on crime?

Nothing's changed. Since this whole saga began, one group's reaction to seeing the other side's lifestyles has been mirroring that of the Vikings looking up at the Hagia Sophia for the first time and it is not the Chinese, even with the added factor of American salaries.
Only true morons fall for the salary in a vacuum shit. Get paid 5x the salary so you can buy shit on Amazon marked up 10-1000x lol. But then again, don’t expect many Usians to be able to be able to read charts and numbers. They act like stats collection is some objective truth done by god. The most they can do is see one number is bigger or smaller than another (see the McDonalds quarter pounder vs 1/3 pounder incident and it looks like illiteracy is getting worse).

On a similar note, saw some people claiming that Usians actually spend only 6.3% of income on food vs 20% for Chinese but the data they cite seems heavily distorted. It relies on some US government sources but they shouldn’t be so off with their own country imo. It claims the US number is roughly 3k food cost /50k total income but that comes out to $9 a day on food which is extremely suspicious even pre food inflation. It also doesn’t count dining out but $9 for at home meals per person suggest people are eating nothing but beans and rice. Seems very off even if they were just measuring the bottom quintile.
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9dashline

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If this is true, then damn they caved so damn quick. This proves that the U.S. government are truly pansies that quite obviously never seem to think about the consequences until it hits their stupid faces
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This has taken on a life of its own beyond tiktok .... As I said, Trump is doing EOs before even getting into office

Chicago illegals are finna get wrecked
 

Expert1324

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Guys, many people on reddit are speculating that Tiktok is gonna be allowed to get sold to a US owner (likely META), or at least be a 50-50 joint venture with a US company under the Trump administration. Is this true???

God pls dont let this fucking happen. This defeats the whole purpose of the defiance this whole time and trying so hard to protect the valuable proprietary technology!!!!!!
 

Fatty

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Also one thing I want to add is that the CCP needs to go harder on propaganda about safety. For the average Chinese it seems natural but the idea of walking around at 2am and feeling safe is a very very foreign idea to the vast majority of urban Americans. All this stuff about food being cheap and QoL when this point is by far the most important one.
 
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