Don’t mind me, I’m just carrying my um…

glances at my stuff

Personal Portable Gaming Desktop PC, 4K 144hz Monitor, Mechanical Keyboard, Gaming mouse, etc…

👀

whispers to border agent Btw, I’m a real gamer 😉

Yea, I read about Schengen and I love the concept.

Unfortunately the rest of the world has not been enlightened and still have border control.

I hope one day, there will be a world-wide Schengen area.

You mean the same People’s Republic of China that… checks notes

• also has a huge wealth gap
• expensive healthcare
• you have to pre-pay for any treatments, including emergency room treatments (they will refuse to to treat you if you don’t have the money). That shit you see about China having “Free/Socialised Universal Healthcare”? If you actually lived in China, you’d know that doesn’t exist.
• most people have no health insurance to cover medical expenses
• have a strict control of movement within the country. You can’t even freely move outside where your 户口 (Hukou - a Household Registration System) is. And migrant workers are essentially treated as an immigrant, even though they are citizens, they face discrimination.
• most of the welfare programs you see in the western world doesn’t exist in PRC

It’s just State Capitalism

I hate know people go USA bad and then pivot towards PRC. I’m like, the EU is right there. Norway, Finland, and all these countries are actually implementing some socialist policies. Even though they are still capitalist, its the most socialist and egalitarian the world that exists on a large scale (beyond just a small commune)

I mean, China still have an all men Politiburo. Zero women in positions where it actually matters. China is literally doing the “Anti-Woke”/“Anti-DEI” thing the US is doing.

Its also because people aren’t not flawless, socialism/communism need almost everyone to be good people to succeed, both the leaders and the followers.

My dad told me the people in factories (in China) would just slack off when the supervisors aren’t looking.

The people in his factory said: 做也三十六，不做也三十六

“Work and you get paid ¥36, Don’t work and you also get paid ¥36” (Currency in Yuan/Renminbi, pay is paid monthly, but this is a long time ago so its probably equivalent to like ¥2000 or more these days)

I don’t think a utopia will work if this is what people do. People are selfish, from the leaders, to the workers, everyone.

Villages over-report their productions, then they have feasts to celebrate because they think there’s a surplus.

Both external and internal struggles caused communism to fail

Does matter either way. You make China pay for the tariff, they just add the tariff to the sale of the product.

The item is $100 and there is a $100 tariff? Well, now they selling it at $200.

Doesn’t matter who the bill goes to, the consumer always end up footing the bill. The only winner is the US government (whose money will quickly find its way into some rich people’s pockets)

For residents of the United States the duty free limit when returning is 800 dollars worth of stuff

Well, they just removed the de mininis rule…

Stuff that you exported and reimported for personal or business use, but not for resale, is exempt from duty with no dollar limits. If you want documented proof that you are reimporting, you can register the stuff at a customs office in the United States before you leave.

I’m pretty sure nobody registers their personal smartphone and laptop every time they leave the US for a vacation.

I don’t understand the “be shitty to food service worker” attitude.

They do realize its the people making their food, right?

You don’t even have to be a nice person, just be pragmatic, act nice.

Don’t die by poisoning.

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I know this is a parody, but:

In the US, you might soon need a white “walking buddy” when they re-instate Jim Crow laws, because you wouldn’t be allowed to travel without a white man leading the group.

Worst of all, when bullies harass and attack and beat people over and over in school, on the rare occasion when a student defends themself, the defender often ends up charged because “cool” bullies get a free pass

Literally me.

Charged with fucking “Aggrevated Assault with a ‘Deadly Weapon’” for self-defence against a bully

I’m like, WTF?

Charges were dropped because they ibviously has no evidence. But still

WTF?!?

I was kinda worried about deportation from the US, but then I remembered I’m already a Citizen because my mother Naturalized so I automatically derived Citizenship.

Can you imagine the potential of deportation for a fucking school fight (not even a fight on my side, its SELF-DEFENCE)?

And cops don’t bother to invesrigate and just take the school admin’s word for it, you know, the school admins are famously known for their impartiality? Lol nope, they are biased as fuck, they pick favorites and screw over anyone who isn’t a teacher’s pet.

ACAB. Fuck the school admin.

Tankies are now supporting trump because he’s advancing putin’s agenda in Ukraine.

That’s tells you all you need to know about the tankies, they were never left wing, they are far-right masquerading as leftists.

There’s a term for this: Red Fascism

My parents told me the Tianamen Square Massacre is fake and CIA propaganda, meanwhile watching their WeChat shorts playing on loop about how the People’s “Liberation” Army will “liberate” Taiwan and “reunify” China.

They were not even 60 yet

Funny thing is, WeChat is also attacking the Democrats and blaming them for “migrant crisis” in NYC.

Maga and CCP seems to be on the same team lol

Cats are also a good option.

My cat got rid of the mice issue, but then there’s a roach issue. Cats unfortunately cannot get rid of roaches. 🤷‍♂️

Then: Representative Leo Ryan (Visited Jonestown to investigate Bob Houston’s Death. Leo Ryan was assassinated in Jonestown.)

Now: Senator Chris Van Hollen (He went to El Salvador to try to get Kilmar Abrego Garcia back)

History Rhymes

The Force AWOKEens

_breX_it v2: Economic Crash Boogaloo

Skynet saved humanity from Global Warming 🤗

Plot Twist, OP is an actual sentient AI from the alternate timeline 🤖

DJI DRONES!

You can’t even avoid them because they are a monopoly. (There are “no-name” drones but these drones are very bad)

Even the 2nd place of the best drone manufacturers, Autel, their drones also has mandatory app-based internet activation.

I’m not sure and I don’t really care. But I’m assuming its just the admin’s personal dislike of lemmy.ml. Regardless, I chose this instance because of it. I’m sure there are still small number of users acting in good faith on lemmy.ml, but I just don’t wanna deal with their admins’ tankie influence and the higher ratio of trolls on that instance.