Regarding 小红书 "Xiaohongshu" or "The little little red note
I see a lot of people in this sub reddit feeling quite optimistic regarding all the "Tiktok refugees" using the application. They say things like "This is a loss for the US government, American people will now learn more and converse with Chinese people daily", or some other type of comment that places emphasis on the users learning, growing, and then somehow changing their country.
I also see a number of users that feel as if they're being invaded: A Chinese app that was for the Chinese is now being invaded by the Americans, and Chinese apps are notorious for having no english/foreign language translations but now the team is working hard to get an in-built translation service going. Already, the little red note is changing to accommodate americans, and this places many people's favourite app in the spotlight, which isn't a good thing.
Now I have to say that I'm part of team "This isn't good, it isn't immediately bad, but it won't lead to the sort of enlightenment" that some are naively believing it will.
A number of people have been saying things like "The American government is the government, and the people are the people, and so you should separate them" meaning that by giving the average people a chance, that all the aggression, billions in propaganda, covert operations, slander, lies etc etc can be stopped. I want to say that unless those hundreds of thousands fleeing to 小红书 are going to pick up pitchforks and fight the UsGov, they cannot help you.
No matter how much broken mandarin they learn to speak, no matter how much they love Chinese pop starts, or China's food, no matter how beautiful they think the country is, none of that will save you from the imperialist wrath of the US/western countries. All that's going to happen is you are mentally on the road to becoming occupied Koreans, or Japanese. Where everyone loves your food, music, art, thinks you're great, and part of the freedumb, human rights, and democrazy gang, probably travel to brothels to sleep with the local women, sure, in the eyes of everyone in the world you're loved, but when it comes to politics, economics, sovereignty, etc etc, anyone who has spent more than 10 seconds in this sub would know how those vassal countries are faring.
Occupied Korea nuking it's trade surplus against China, Dutch asml unable to sell Chips to China, Japan can't by US steel, EU told to destroy any 5G infrastructure it already had (2019) by spending billions ripping decades of tech out of devices (won't be done till circa 2028 in UK, not including delays lol), and the list goes on.
Americans in America have no political power, they don't "change" things, they can't fight the system, they simply align themselves with a certain side, and receive trickle down benefits, or complain for 4-8 years, when a side they wanted to align with didn't "win" and now they have to watch the other side get "benefits", or in most cases, empty promises.
Those tiktok refugees fleeing to 小红书 didn't do it because they wanted to help promote China to the world, they didn't do it because they realised their sites suck and are filled with Propaganda, they didn't even do it out of the goodness of their hearts. They simply did it because their home got burned to the ground, and now they need a new one. Its beneficial to them, not to you. They needed a tiktok replacement and 小红书 was the next closest thing.
I just wanted to provide a more fleshed out pov for those in this subreddit to remember that the real changes comes from bombs, and bullets, and economic might, and full conviction to the fight against imperialism, and not from petty matters like this that only have benefit for 1 side.
I see a lot of people in this sub reddit feeling quite optimistic regarding all the "Tiktok refugees" using the application. They say things like "This is a loss for the US government, American people will now learn more and converse with Chinese people daily", or some other type of comment that places emphasis on the users learning, growing, and then somehow changing their country.
I also see a number of users that feel as if they're being invaded: A Chinese app that was for the Chinese is now being invaded by the Americans, and Chinese apps are notorious for having no english/foreign language translations but now the team is working hard to get an in-built translation service going. Already, the little red note is changing to accommodate americans, and this places many people's favourite app in the spotlight, which isn't a good thing.
Now I have to say that I'm part of team "This isn't good, it isn't immediately bad, but it won't lead to the sort of enlightenment" that some are naively believing it will.
A number of people have been saying things like "The American government is the government, and the people are the people, and so you should separate them" meaning that by giving the average people a chance, that all the aggression, billions in propaganda, covert operations, slander, lies etc etc can be stopped. I want to say that unless those hundreds of thousands fleeing to 小红书 are going to pick up pitchforks and fight the UsGov, they cannot help you.
No matter how much broken mandarin they learn to speak, no matter how much they love Chinese pop starts, or China's food, no matter how beautiful they think the country is, none of that will save you from the imperialist wrath of the US/western countries. All that's going to happen is you are mentally on the road to becoming occupied Koreans, or Japanese. Where everyone loves your food, music, art, thinks you're great, and part of the freedumb, human rights, and democrazy gang, probably travel to brothels to sleep with the local women, sure, in the eyes of everyone in the world you're loved, but when it comes to politics, economics, sovereignty, etc etc, anyone who has spent more than 10 seconds in this sub would know how those vassal countries are faring.
Occupied Korea nuking it's trade surplus against China, Dutch asml unable to sell Chips to China, Japan can't by US steel, EU told to destroy any 5G infrastructure it already had (2019) by spending billions ripping decades of tech out of devices (won't be done till circa 2028 in UK, not including delays lol), and the list goes on.
Americans in America have no political power, they don't "change" things, they can't fight the system, they simply align themselves with a certain side, and receive trickle down benefits, or complain for 4-8 years, when a side they wanted to align with didn't "win" and now they have to watch the other side get "benefits", or in most cases, empty promises.
Those tiktok refugees fleeing to 小红书 didn't do it because they wanted to help promote China to the world, they didn't do it because they realised their sites suck and are filled with Propaganda, they didn't even do it out of the goodness of their hearts. They simply did it because their home got burned to the ground, and now they need a new one. Its beneficial to them, not to you. They needed a tiktok replacement and 小红书 was the next closest thing.
I just wanted to provide a more fleshed out pov for those in this subreddit to remember that the real changes comes from bombs, and bullets, and economic might, and full conviction to the fight against imperialism, and not from petty matters like this that only have benefit for 1 side.