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Cake day: January 4th, 2026

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  • Degradation of the welfare state. That does sound really familiar. A classic excuse politically is to say the immigrants and minorities are taking it, we have had it erode more and more so many times here. Back in the 90’s it was the (totally not black) welfare queens mooching off the child care income from her (totally not black) 4 kids she had in the inner city. Now it’s anyone from south of the border that is apparently taking it. There are countless examples of prejudice fueling keeping the poor poor here, the arguments were a lot more overt right after the civil war but eventually they just became a corporate co-opted smoke screen since they really stand to benefit more than anyone. It sounds really hard in Europe too I guess. It’s such a vicious cycle fascism and wealth inequality. Or even just scapegoats and wealth inequality. They do say polarization correlates with wealth inequality but the overton window especially in the US has shifted so far right that it’s hard to even beleive sometimes.


  • I honestly kind of wondered where the whole social credit score thing even came from tbh. I know US media paints such a horrible picture of China and everybody here parrots it. I think with the being afraid to speak out thing I was more talking about the media walking on eggshells as just an unwritten rule and people still feeling a little wary saying things on social media against the government. That is what I kind of heard was one of the small downsides in China after watching a video of someone who moved there 10 years ago. I have heard that Europe is a bit of a mess right now, but I honestly think the US is worse, aren’t we half the cause of it anyways? With this war, and Trumps policies, and corporations funding politics and MAGA propaganda encouraging nationalism in places getting a lot more immigrants. It probably sounds really America-centric but I talked to somebody else that said we had a huge influence so I’m not really sure how much of this is our country’s fault abroad.





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    I have seen videos about how they have invested in their cities and public transit and the cheap futuristic cars and rich cousine the people make in China itself. But from I understand now their education system is kind of useless with their entry test forcing people into a certain career they don’t want, so companies hire more on likeability, queer rights is horrible, women’s rights are behind and while it isn’t quite dystopian people are scared to say anything that offends the government. And everyone knows they have the most invasive privacy system, they will even use it for things like knowing automatically that you paid for a train ticket wheb you walk in so it feels like a plus as long as you’re a good citizen. The cost of living compared to wages is definitely lower there right now though, but I don’t think I would ever move to China. Honestly, almost anywhere looks better than the US in the 2020’s. I think Mexico looks better in most places. Europe looks so so much better.