banger essay https://ismatu.substack.com/p/girl-go-to-sleep-ft-lessons-from

hey… as the only poster in the clarinet community - yeah no that’s fair i only posted because i saw someone else created it and there were no other posts

Went to the university i’m going to next fall’s encampment. It’s crazy to go from high school where i could barely find anyone supportive of palestine(supportive enough to actually take action. most people were supportive but like no one did anything which pisses me off to no end but tangent aside) to a full on encampment. food was bussin tho

I have also had the chance to meet a pre-new china member of the cpc. He was my grandpa actually. Unfortunately he died a couple years ago and the last time I was back in china I didn’t know what a marx was…

I wish you the best of experiences though.

I mean they’ve done this before… a quick invasion, taking of a treaty port, and a whole lot of opium

I personally really like to journal but even if you don’t I like to prepare for interview by writing down like what i would answer to the questions. Then in the case of an interview I kinda already know where I want to go so i can focus on making myself more articulate and prose more interesting. Of course you won’t cover everything you will get asked and will still need to impromptu some questions but i find i feel a lot more prepared and that helps with my anxiety.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/347925/#:~:text=The People’s Republic of China dealt with addiction as a,Large opium distributors were imprisoned.

https://www.persee.fr/doc/cemot_0764-9878_2001_num_32_1_1607

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2092&context=hon_thesis

others have said a lot, but i just wanted to add

I’ve tried talking to a therapist about it but they just suggested that I try to stop identifying as Chinese and start identifying as American.

is ridiculous to the point of satire. It feels like something someone would satirically say rather than unironic advice from a therapist.

god damn that’s like half the US military budget

They are mutually exclusive. For an example of how China tackles religion: https://redsails.org/on-the-question-of-religion/

I wish you the happiest of birthdays comrade. Long live the revolution

I haven’t finished it, but probably the Karl Marx one(though it is a donghua, not an anime)

Wow that article was just full of anti-china sentiment and sinophobia. I especially found it funny when they mentioned how liberal democracies also had their own training schools, but that’s okay because it’s liberal democracy.

China exporting it’s system is not okay because it’s “authoritarian,” but when we it it’s promoting freedom. There’s this inherent white-supremacy, this racism that the western system is factually better, and they make their conclusions from there. They don’t justify it, it’s just viewed as a fact.

But either way, it’s really inspiring that China is doing this.

Just finished finals, will have to wait to see how I did but I’m pretty proud of how it went.

This is actually quite interesting and makes a lot of sense. I’m a high schooler so a lot of the spaces I’m on are quite young and that kinda explains the different vibe of this platform.

but at what cost

Hmm for me a pretty recent 180 i took was on Deng Xiaoping. I was a commie but I really wasn’t super educated on the state of AES(even though i am part of the chinese diaspora) and was always under the impression that it was capitalism. That deng xiaoping turned china capitalist. Probably not really as big of an 180 as some other people here but really learning about china was really inspiring and restored my hope in the world ig. I feel way more patriotic towards china right than amerikkka.

Thinking of possibly doing my master’s in china after my undergrad.

TFU

thanks! Another reason to finally get around to reading imperialism i guess. Been meaning to for a while.