While the rest of the world is collectively freaking out and going through the same sort of stuff we did in January, here in China things are closer to getting back to normal
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The moment Trump put his lackey Pence in charge i was like "that's a veteran dictator move". Now, if this all goes to shit, he can let Pence's head roll. But if somehow he pulls off a "victory", he'll swoop in to take all the credit. It's very upsetting to see it play out so blatantly.
The "gratitude" thing was a rare misstep by the CPC. There are a lot of people in China who find the party arrogant, corrupt, out-of-touch etc, but they just shut up and deal with it because they know there's no point making a fuss - either it'll get censored, or it'll land them in prison. But very occasionally the party manages to piss off so many people that the backlash forces them to pivot. Not nearly often enough for my liking, but what can you do?
With regard to how i post - honestly, the government doesn't care very much about people posting in English to an international audience. They are much more concerned about people who post on local social media or those who use foreign social media to try work around the censorship and reach a local audience. When foreign sites get blocked, it's usually in response to an explicit complaint by nationalist internet trolls. (See the recent block of AO3, for example.) It's likely that LJ will get blocked at some point, but i doubt the authorities would specifically target someone like me.
The "gratitude" thing was a rare misstep by the CPC. There are a lot of people in China who find the party arrogant, corrupt, out-of-touch etc, but they just shut up and deal with it because they know there's no point making a fuss - either it'll get censored, or it'll land them in prison. But very occasionally the party manages to piss off so many people that the backlash forces them to pivot. Not nearly often enough for my liking, but what can you do?
With regard to how i post - honestly, the government doesn't care very much about people posting in English to an international audience. They are much more concerned about people who post on local social media or those who use foreign social media to try work around the censorship and reach a local audience. When foreign sites get blocked, it's usually in response to an explicit complaint by nationalist internet trolls. (See the recent block of AO3, for example.) It's likely that LJ will get blocked at some point, but i doubt the authorities would specifically target someone like me.
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