DeathByBigSad

Crazy amount of side information you have there. The sterilisation part is wild

Not that wild. 150 years ago, during imperial rule, you get your head chopped off along with your close relatives for criticizing the emperor, this is tame in comparison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_laws_by_region#Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_laws_by_region#New_Zealand

Basically a lot of fetishes/kinks deemed "weird" by the government

As a naturalized citizen:

Bouta be stateless, since my birth country doesn't do dual citizenship. Thanks a lot, Xi 🙃 (not that I would like it there anyways)

As corrupt as they are, its still better chance than 1 man deciding it.

Wong Kim Ark decision happened around the same time as the "Separate But Equal" pro-segregation ruling happened, just to give some perspective.

I used to think that romance subplots in movies/tv shows are so ridiculous, then I see this divorce on the news. 🤣

Does two strokes cancel out? Because I think he should get another stroke to see if he suddenly becomes a progressive lol

"Responsible Spending" 🤣

Chinese child care is the adults going to work and the older generation (the grandparents) take care of the child.

Or sometimes my mother brought me to her workplace and I just sat there playing a video game on the portable dvd player thing with the games loaded on a dvd (or a cd, idk the difference) and with controllers attached to it. (She worked at an electronics store as a salesperson).

My parents were in an arranged marriage (the consensual type, I think, but there was high pressures to enter into a marriage), and they argue a lot.

When we first immigrated to the US, my maternal grandparents weren't part of the "immediate" family, so they weren't allowed on the immigration visa, my paternal side of the family (who are already in the US) didn't like the responsibility of taking care of us (unlike my maternal side of the family), so my older brother who was around age 13-15 at the time when we first arrived, had to pick me up from school, and he resented having this responsibility, my brother didn't really like me, we were frienemies (now, present day, actual enemies).

But eventually, like around 6th grade I just walked home by myself. Most of the time, the house was empty (other than my brother). I barely talked with my parents, never had real emotional connections with them.

Childcare in China isn't that different from the US. (Well... in the US, kids get like a small child credit in their parent's tax returns, and some food stamps, but that's about it) The lower class is really very similar regardless of country. We the lower class people have more in common with each other than we do with the rich that runs our respective countries.

(If you are confused at the "Older Brother" part, my mother "illegally" gave birth to me. Then they sterilized her to make sure she can't violate the one child policy again. I was literally not even supposed to be born.)

Very USA-Centric of you lol

USA =/= "The West"

~~Robots~~

Terminators

Hong Kong about to become "Xianggang" (香港 in pinyin)

Not quite. Hong Kong is a devolved democracy, the PLA has already occupied since 1997 when the british handed it over.

This is more like the US sending troops to Los Angleas.

The PLA does not occupy Taiwan. They don't even occupy Kinmen Islands that's very close to Mainland China (not sure why they still haven't taken it). They'll need to send troops to even control it in any way, where as in Hong Kong, they are already there.