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Americans are joining the Chinese social media app en masse to protest an imminent TikTok ban.

  • American users have flocked to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu in defiance of security warnings.
  • Chinese and American users have engaged in surprisingly friendly conversations about each other’s lives.
  • The influx of American users could burden Xiaohongshu’s censorship mechanism, experts say.
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[–] john89@lemmy.ca 53 points 1 day ago (41 children)

This is a fine example of how the american government doesn't care about the interests of americans.

The government only exists to serve the wealthiest among us. Some of those wealthy people are upset that Chinese aristocrats are getting all that money.

This trade war only exists because rich americans want more money for themselves. It has nothing to do with national security and you're a useful idiot if you think otherwise.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It has everything to do with national security, they just don't consider common people as part of their nation same as slaves weren't.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

Yeah, national security for the rich, they don’t want us plebes getting any ideas about what real justice looks like.

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The hexies are so excited about this too. They've got a thread up (erroneously) hoping that Americans will now stop believing that Chinese people are bad, because they can't face the truth that Americans (who aren't magats) only think the Chinese government is an authoritarian shit show and have no problem with regular Chinese citizens.

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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] HoMaster@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SlamWich@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (6 children)

You should, my wife is one of these folks and she's having a very eye opening time.

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[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago (20 children)

Is it that surprising that your average person in another country is easy to get on with? I've been to a fair few different countries and the everyday people you interact with are lovely (except France).

It's the fucking politicians you've got to look out for, and not just the foreign ones.

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