The conversations are amazing
I spent $82 USD on cold, flu and bronchitis treatment last year!
The fact that this is considered expensive there made me do a choking double take in the same way as learning that an actual mansion in the 70s used to cost like 20 grand.
Circle jerking about China is as ridiculous as circle jerking about the US. We've been here before with US vs USSR, but this time everyone has a megaphone and an IQ that can be measured with a ruler.
Niether Moscow or Washington, but somehow Washington actually 
You keep on coping there little buddy. What's happening is that regular people from both countries are now talking directly to each other, and finding out what life is actually like.
I mean isn't this more "circle jerking " about dismantling state propaganda? Interacting with those you were told are your enemy?
Besides, people should always celebrate the positives, and look towards them as something that is possible in their country too.
And as an fyi: when we were here before, the workers revolution in Russia was new. The achievements were so profound that workers in North America began demanding similar concessions from our governments. There was a real threat of overthrowing the existing power structures. And what happened? Weekends, literacy, healthcare, just generally improved living conditions. To dismiss cultural exchange as circle jerking is to ignore history and the power that comes with knowing things are better elsewhere, and that you can have that too.
If banning tik tok ends up galvanizing demand for healthcare reform I'm going to laugh my ass off
imagine making social media so bad your own citizens actively procure your biggest rival's networks.
Imagine allowing citizens to be so free that they can go to your biggest rival's social media to read narratives favouring them, get influenced by rival propaganda, and then shit you on your percieved weak points.
Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Misinformation
Truths you find inconvenient are not misinformation, reporter.
Norway actually does.
Source: Am norwegiam. Am parent.
In the US? Lol, no.
Source: I work with a bunch of Texans.
Belgium: 4 months, better than nothing I guess
:lionel-hutz: oh whoops, they forgot the punctuation. It's supposed to say
"Americans have a year paid? Maternity? Leave!"
It's honestly very wholesome to see this kind of interaction. On top of cute moments like Chinese users telling the new US users that they are their "spies," seeing a lot of blatant myth dispelling surrounding the PRC is great to help tear down the Red Scare.