Chinese culture is like you pretend to be very nice to other people, but the abuse is within the family.

Like the 红包 (red packets) for Lunar New Year is so… wild.

Like so you give your friend’s kids $50 and their parents give your kids $50 then pretend like this is an actual gift, but then when they go home, the parents are like: “给我帮你保管” (Let me help you safeguard it)

Like… what is the point of the red packets then? Money gets shuffled but it just end up in the same people’s hands.

I mean at least that’s how my parents did it, I think my aunt’s more Americanized family actually let their kids buy stuff?

I went to my cousin’s house once (not willingly btw) and their family arrived in the US earlier than mine, so they cousins were born on US soil (as opposed to me who is first-gen immigrant), their father (my uncle) was from Hong Kong, so basically very western-minded.

They had an entire game system (Nintendo Wii something) in their house, I never had a game system lol, I was so jealous. Tbf they are slightly richer (like “middle class” rich), but even later on when my parents got more disposable income (like teenage years), I never got any games, or toys.

Like the vibes I was getting was that their household was still very strict, but not they actually get to have fun sometimes.

I think its this “filial piety” thing that is fucking toxic as hell.

I guess I see this with politics as well. I mean on the surface you never see Xi acting like the buffoons in the US-Republican party (I mean y’all know those crazy trump tweets and thinnly veiled racism, that sort of crazy stuff). The CCP might not outright do crazy shit like that, they do put up this act that make them look good, but deep down, they are both the same. In this analogy, the country is like the family, the civillians are like the children, children gets yelled at or even beaten (police harassing dissidents), but then the parents (the CCP) talks to everyone else (other countries) like everything is fine.

Family, Country, these patterns repeat.

I mean on the other hand, the US is like that conservative man in the suburb that open-carries a gun everywhere (the 18 aircraft carriers and hundreds of military bases world wide) and sees everyone as a threat (“inverventions” in other countries)

Seems like culture and politics are so intertwined.

(I feel like I’m rambling… idk if this wall of text even makes sense)

Not sure if this is relevent, but I just wanna share my story.

My mom wants me dead because I have depression.

Not schizophrenia, not sociopathy/psychopathy, just being a little more sad than “normal”.

The reasoning? “Because you wouldn’t be able to enjoy life anyways, and your life is meaning less”, threatning to leave me out of the will because “you can just get welfare from the government”, despite me helping her with a lot of her stuff like bussiness licenses, filing taxes, translation (they are first-gen immigrants), etc. Like wtf is this concept of leaving someone with nothing when they have been so helpful throughout your life, just because “you have depression and you are no longer useful to society”. Then put obstacles in me getting antidepresdants because “you can’t be relying on meds for the rest of your life, just go outside” bitch wtf? Go outside to the ICE agents swarming the streets?

(I’m Chinese-American)

I mean at lesst I’m not dead yet, so I probably don’t deserve to complain too much, some people have it worse than me, I mean this person in the article literally got murdered. Tbh there were moments when I was a teen that I thought my mom was gonna stab me when I sleep. The fact I’m even alive is a miracle.

This toxic culture is why I never want to return to PRC, not to mention, the CCP problem.

But… now… the USA is also on fire becauses… I mean… you know… current events…

Life is going great! 🫠

Can’t complain! (literally can’t complain else you get arrested)

Ooh I wanna live long enough to piss on my parents graves

Reminds me of:

Samsung: “Apple Bad! They removed headphone jack and the charging brick.”

Also Samsung one year later: “sAvE tHe eNvIrOnMeNt 🤡”

But you also have to consider the “court of public opinion”

Funding a foreign assassination attempt will only unite all of the right-of-center and take away some of support of “centrist”/“conservative” democrats. Bush popularity skyrocketed after 9/11, Patriot Act and all that.

On the otherhand, some right wing nutjob young adult loser having nothing to lose and start targeting policitians left and right (like that kid in 2024), would be your best bet. There won’t be any “rally 'round the flag” effect.

As we can all see with all the US interventions overseas, they clearly don’t work that well, that principle also goes if Iran tries to do their intervention in the US.

And if you aren’t in the US, I’m not sure you wanna risk extradition. Donating money to an Iran sponsored assassination campaign is not an internet meme.

I mean, sure if Europeans wanna send an the military to liberate the US, go ahead. But that €5 donation to an Iranian asasination campaign isn’t really gonna change the US by much and would only put yourself on an extradition plane to the US, because this isn’t a meme, you’re giving material support, so I doubt any of the western countries would deny an extradition request for material support. And even if that plan goes into fruition, you might make the US even worse and in turn, the US could start fucking up the world even more.

Again, I’m not arguing against violence as a strategy, but you’re expecting nazis to be defeated simply by killing hitler, its not that simple.

Because the US has intervened in the middle east for a long time before 9/11 and it was actuallt said to be bin laden’s motivation to attack the US. Look at what happened after 9/11; article 5 was triggered. They didn’t seem to think the US interventions in the middle east were a “provocation”.

Bad idea if you live in a country with extradition treaty with the US.

You could end up in gitmo for “providing material support to terrorist activity”, because that is technically what you are doing, money is material support.

I can’t tell you what to do, but like if Iran actually manage to do it, it would be the best excuse to get Iran obliterated from the map, and most NATO countries will probably help with the invasion of Iran under Article 5, since that’s effectively like a 9/11 v2 (not in number of deaths, but in terms of being able to justify a foreign war).

Iran performing the assassination is 100x worse than, say that nutjob in 2024 doing it. If trump die from that kid’s gunshot, there wouldn’t be much happening, but if Iran did it? In this tense political climate where 1/3 of the US population are in a cult? Can you even imagine all the lynchings against Muslims, Arabs, and anyone who “looks middle eastern”?

Any soldiers or national guard that was bordering on “hmm, is this actually legal”, will now not even question their orders. Being anti-trump in the aftermath of this hypothetical assassination would be treated as almost as bad as supporting al-qaeda.

Its not a good idea, IMO.

That’s Presidential vs Unpresidential

Right, Briar is not anonymous btw

BRIAR IS NOT ANONYMOUS

Its for censorship resistance, but, in order for the mesh network to be able to identify each other’s device and initiate connections, by design it transmits your bluetooth MAC address to all your contacts, even those added via the internet.

Wear gloves, rinse the fingerprints off the money, wait for it to dry, then use it to buy stuff

Oh no, I’m gonna copy the folder a million times, I added ('murican) medical debt to someone’s net worth!

I think the accusation is against cuomo and his billionaire doners

The republican aint winning, this is a blue vs blue

Silwa is currently polling at 14%, last election he was polling at 25%, so it’s not happening. the best chance against Mamdani is still cuomo

Again, ranked choice does not apply in the general election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_New_York_City_mayoral_election

In New York City, primary elections are conducted with ranked-choice voting, while the first-past-the-post system is used for general elections.

I mean what did people think would happen if Sanders became president?

Congress and Supreme Court suddenly cares about checks and balances. Executive Orders getting striked down like less than 1 hour after they get signed.

Don’t even need to do any “JFKing” when they just have a perfect scapegoat to blame all the problems on one person about why “sOciAliSm iS eViL”

Don’t be depressed. Reality is (probably) not some martial law guns ablazing or vote rigging. Most likely the city council just blocks every policy he tries to implement, then try to blame every problem on the “eViL cOmMUnISt”.

General election is still FPTP plurality wins.

It’s almost as if they planned for this as a contingency plan in case an anti-establishment candidate won the primary.

The realistic thing that’s gonna happen is that Mamdani is gonna win, then city council is gonna block every policy he proposes. Then next election (if the country doesn’t fall apart by then) the billionarie ads be like: “Mamdani can’t do anything!”

r/conservative:

“Better a crook than a …”

checks notes

“… person who want to give people living wages, free buses, childcare?! pff, these evil commies”