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Can the Chinese even discuss politics like we do here? Haven't seen anything on rednote beside "political studies" and some Marx praises.
Must admit it's a bit more difficult with all of it being in mandarin, but god damn, are they under surveillance.
Le chat mistral told me differently. I'll have to talk openly about politics with a Chinese citizen before I change my mind.
It's not fucking normal that a country with such an economy doesn't have people on the global scene.
You have us, Europeans, you Americans, Aussies, Japanese, Indonesians (VPN), Singaporeans, ... All here talking to eachother.
Chinese? Nope. Great firewall of china. I couldn't even speak to my wife when she was in Shanghai unless it was on WeChat. Her emails were blocked. WhatsApp was blocked. The other phone she tried to use VPN on became completely useless.
China controls their population. Until enough Chinese citizens are able to tell me otherwise.
Brilliant economy, brilliant growth, but god damn, allow them to come out of their hole.
You can go to the indonesian subreddit and you'll see them all speak Bahasa Indonesian. Reddit is banned in Indonesia. They still go there with VPN.
Chinese government is richer, they went after the VPNs.
Chinese citizens cannot be here, they cannot form a Lemmy instance where they speak mandarin to eachother.
Social media has to accept Chinese laws, which includes moderation by the government. They are only allowed to have political opinions that align with those in power.
Iran and America hate eachother. Completely different culture, etc.
My friend was born in Iran, his family did all the effort to get into Belgium. He'd rather be shot dead than to live in Iran. But he's also a bit loco. Saying he would nuke Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan if he had the chance. Edit:forgot his favourite nuke destination which is india
But that's just one guy. Sorry, had to include cuz random.
What most people would dislike about Iran would be the dress code. Girls protesting it and being arrested. For some reason never to be heard from again.
Just things that I would not want my wife or future daughter to live in.
My wife came from a Muslim dominated country, would be told to wear a hijab while she's not even religious.
She likes that she can wear whatever she wants in Belgium.
And now... Would I be allowed to say things like this in Iran, or would it be removed by their government employees? I have no idea about Iran.
I just know that us Belgians are allowed to shit talk our government as if it's a national sport.
Go to Belgium2 subreddit, everything is spoken in Dutch. Most of it is complaining about the government.
Why do you think I hate China lol. What I'm doing is antagonising a marxist leninist in order to get banned from tankie subs.
China's pretty great. I like Europe more though. Not a fan of america.
Do you live in Iran? You said "my home country" instead of "my country" so I assumed you're not living there currently.
Weibo is better than rednote, thanks for that. Saw someone talk about the Ukraine-Russian war, so politics are present.
Voting in favour of forcing other women to wear clothes they don't want to wear. Aye, whatever.
Some VPNs do work in China, otherwise the subreddit China_irl wouldn't exist.
Weibo/rednote have a nice translate feature that Anglosphere apps do not have.