Well, brightside is it saves you a few thousand dollars on renouncing your citizenship. It isn’t a cheap or easy process normally.

Look, I fully understand this is a case of doing a good thing for probably the wrong reasons/by accident, but yoooo I will take it.

But man, the easy pickings for Shit Reactionaries Say will be gone.

US speedrunning driving their economy into the ground. I would be curious to see if this is just a momentary blip or actually some kind of long running sanction.

There are so many things I get from China that I would be missing out on if I were in the US. Nevermind the most simple things like care packages for people living overseas.

What in the world is going on in US aviation recently? Isn’t this the third or fourth aviation accident in a week over there?

I am not a big social media user but I downloaded xiaohongshu just to see how things were going there firsthand.

It was downright heartwarming.

Chinese users being incredibly open to people coming on to the platform, going out of their way to provide messages in English and tutorials on how things work. Obviously it is a great chance for them to expand their viewership too. USians to their credit, being pretty humble and often even trying to use some mandarin or express interest in learning it. A lot of questions that seem to stem from legitimate curiosity as opposed to any kind of maliciousness. Legitimately some of the most positive social media I think I have ever seen in my life.

Will people stick with it? I have no idea, but I can only hope a little bit of the attitude sticks around longterm.

I read through this and I hate it.

Author apparently regularly speaks at the UN and is writing a book on ethical AI? I see we are off to a great start. And by the second paragraph we already have:

But dig a little deeper, and the reality becomes far more insidious.

Every post, like, and comment exists in an ecosystem designed to prioritize “core socialist values” over freedom of speech.

Remind me which country is the one banning TikTok and censoring speech?

For instance, posts addressing politically sensitive issues, such as criticism of Chinese cybersecurity laws or advocacy for human rights in Xinjiang, have reportedly been flagged or removed

Assuming they even are (note reportedly), not really a bad thing. You don’t need to sell me on the platform more Jason.

In a report by China Digital Times, RedNote’s (Xiaohongshu) content moderation includes strict guidelines for handling “sudden incidents,” a term used to describe politically or socially sensitive topics.

One might assume that China Digital Times is a Chinese newspaper as the name might suggest to a layperson. However, they are based in California and have direct connections to the US government. Hardly an unbiased source to be citing.

By exporting a content control and surveillance model, RedNote challenges the open exchange of ideas on which democracy depends.

If the open exchange of ideas is that critical to democracy, isn’t the US a more egregious offender? All of this stems from the US’s instigating actions, China did literally nothing except provide a service that they have provided for years.

Joining RedNote has also brought Westerners closer to Chinese citizens than ever before.

Framing this as a negative, even subtly, is arguably the most evil thing in an article chock full of propaganda.

“Exports censorship” Weird, and here I thought that Red was the one freely available everywhere and TikTok was the one being censored by the USians.

So in an attempt to thwart imagined Chinese propaganda, USians have pushed their user base into actual Chinese platforms. If even a portion of those users come to the realization that China are not evil harry potter villains, it would be a net win.

I would say it is one of the US’s bigger own-goals, but they have had so many.

Over the land of the freeeeee* and the home of the brave*!

*Terms and conditions may apply. Freedom only applies where designated by figure of authority. Contact your local nobleman to see if freedom applies to you. Bravery subject to availability and may not be present.

Don’t be silly, where would US soldiers go to steal from and sexually assault locals in Asia if they didn’t have military bases there? You expect them to do that out of their hotel rooms or something?

Weird how “US territory” is within range of Chinese missiles strikes, like they keep building bases closer and closer to China or something crazy like that.

Considering the US already has a law to invade the Netherlands should the ICC arrest a US national, this should probably come to no shock to anybody.

Best news since the doohickey.

There’s plenty of it. I have seen people praying for another hurricane to hit Florida too. Good thing we got those compassionate Democrats!

Lots of pro-genocide, anti-immigrant and pro-natural disaster tweets suddenly coming out the woodwork from the supposed compassionate dems.

I had the same feeling. I am not going to bat for Trump now or even, man is a piece of shit, but he’s still a known quantity. They have had a Trump presidency before. It sucked sure, but I don’t know why people are acting like he is going to declare himself emperor day 1. He has been in office, we know exactly the type of policies he would be pursuing. A couple of which I could honestly see as being good things, albeit for the wrong reasons (like if Trump actually withdrew the US from NATO, not that I expect that to ever happen).

Yet I see people seriously believing that he is going to round up all dissenters day 1 and declare martial law. ICE has been doing that already, for both flavours of administration.

Honestly, I don’t think they care. As long as they can keep people occupied with the theater of which genocidal maniac will be in office.

But if they did care…no they will assume that they were too far left and run even faster to the right.

Considering one of the major candidates didn’t even go through anything resembling a primary process, I am going with “not very”.

Am I right, do I win?

Aa yes, pursue AI in order to…avoid scams. Get back to me on how well that works out for them.

“No more porn industry”. What do they think the very first thing people did with AI was??

They will go with "We opposed Biden doing it, but with Biden we had the chance to push him left! We should have just given Harris everything she wanted, and then push her left! It’s worked so well in the past!