Mental health acceptance is stilk a huge issue

Yes, definitely. Mental health (and regular healthcare in some specific ways) definitely has room for improvement. Only panhandler I remember was a guy asking people for money, with what looked like his mother, saying he had depression.

Also, if I posted any of my posts that I posted here about my mother’s behaviors on the Chinese internet

Depends on who the audience is. I’ve seen quite a few Chinese, particularly LGBT+ posting about their parents on xhs, but presumably there’s not a lot of boomers in their algo.

My ideal country would be one with a lot of Asians (or more specifically, ethnic Han Chinese) but that are westernized

If you have Chinese citizenship, but your hukou is mainland China, can you get a job in Hong Kong? I didn’t like the few hours that I spent there, it’s expensive and charmless, but it’s pretty westernized.

Also maybe talk to people who live there, your mother sounds like she might have a specific agenda in which experiences she shares. That’s not to say abusive families aren’t a major issue. One chinese was confused that americans don’t beat their children, “even if the child is intentionally misbehaving”. She seemed to accept “children learn from their parents, so hit someone who doesn’t do what you want isn’t something I want to teach” tho. I didn’t investigate if that meant she sometimes beats the kid for behavior she believes is unintentional too.

Late-stage capitalist problem:

There’s tracks, but trolly service was defunded as it wasn’t profitable. Now everyone spends thousands per year to maintain a car.

According to google (I am not a lawyer) I don’t have it anymore the moment I got US citizenship

Yes, but if the US says you never actually had citizenship, maybe China will accept that.

If I had to leave the US, I rather go to Canada, Australia, or perhaps EU for asylum

I’ve heard they’ve made it harder to get asylum, and there’s often poor outcomes for asylum seekers, after Arab Spring. If you have a US passport and money to start a business or any extended family, you can stay for quite awhile. This applies to most of Asia too where US passport gets you 90 days on arrival, or 90 day evisa for vietnam. US passports are pretty powerful.

Or perhaps Taiwan, or maybe Singapore.

Never been to either, can’t tell you about it.

I have an existential crisis over it… I’m not even supposed to be alive in this world, I’m an anomoly.

Eh, it’s a different place now. My family who worked there in the 90s and 2000s had completely alien experiences to when I went there in last year. All I’m saying is it’d be wise to be aware of what options you have.

President Xi, my people yearn for freedom.

Do you still have chinese citizenship? A few immigrant friends have gotten the paperwork ready, either to return to their home country or immigrate elsewhere, just incase ICE picks them up, they can agree to self-deport instead of ending up in a salvadorian concentration camp indefinitely.

IDK how the chinese US citizenship thing works, maybe China’d accept getting literally deported as proof you’re not a US citizen.

tRump wouldn’t be able to do a regime change here

You don’t think the CIA has bot nets, money, and assets in your media capable of ensuring an acceptable candidate wins the election? Weird how rarely leaders hostile to the US are elected in the west, despite having a direct conflict of interest, and how if they are elected, they’re never able to actually accomplish anything.

Then again, maybe the senile old man will just order the military to kidnap Justin Trudeau.

You’d risk sanctions and regime change? I mean cool, but there’s a reason nobody steps in to help whoever the US is kicking around, except countries already getting sanctions.

So did Bernie. We all saw where that got him.

Do you have any solutions to make genocide more popular? I tried “trump will also do genocide, wouldn’t you rather we continue killing all the Palestinians at the current rate, instead of accelerating it”, but for some reason it’s really hard to get people to vote for a candidate who refuses to stop a genocide.

Beegoo boo ra zaa

And Kazakhstan.

I have a russian coworker that goes back every year to visit her family. She too insists that russia is awesome and it’s even better since the war started

Bizarre. I don’t know any Russians who haven’t commented on the increased propaganda and how expensive everything’s gotten. Apparently there’s more diverse brands in stores now tho lol. Do they at least mention how expensive everything is?

I’m sure all those places aren’t as bad as American media makes them out to be, but they’re not as peachy as their side says either.

That’s literally my only point here. There’s people who think NK is full of mustache-twirling villains who execute you if you watch a TV show.

Shit, I’m back in Tokyo now, would you direct me to the closest secret Chinese police station?

I have no judgement because I have no reliable data

I have no idea why you’re so interested in making North Korea seem like a great place

You understand the difference here right? Not immediately dropping your pants and jerking off while grunting about how bad and evil America’s enemies are isn’t the same as withholding judgement on something you don’t have reliable data on.

North Koreans have to escape to tell their stories

I’ve never heard from a North Korean in a country where they don’t risk prison if they don’t tell the right story, but presumably there are North Koreans telling their stories in North Korea, Jilin, and Vladivostok, that we haven’t heard.

you should definitely move to China since you love it so much :)

Eh, I wouldn’t want to tie myself to a single place.

Tank man? The guy who blocked the column of tanks leaving Tienanmen Square, then climbed on top of the tank to yell at the tank commander?

IDK, the tank commanders are probably trained to hide in the tank if someone climbs on top. It’d probably look goofier as the guy runs around the top trying to get in while the commander asks him to leave.

China was never the ‘bad guy’

I will argue this to libs all day long, but with actual leftists, there’s a lot of “critical” when it comes to critically supporting China, especially if you’re looking at historical foreign policy after the sino-soviet split.

Just read first-hand accounts from the many people that have escaped the country

Those accounts aren’t credible because at any time they can called a spy and imprison. Also because they include laughable claims like that there is only 1 train in North Korea, which they have to pull by hand and “In North Korea, every room has to have a portrait of the Kims. The inspector comes out of nowhere in the middle of the night and touches the portraits. If they see any dust… you can get executed.”

The same person making those claims also says their friends entire family was executed in a stadium for watching TV.

If they literally make it illegal for their citizens to have real Internet

Alternatively, they’re just trying to avoid the US using the internet to feed their citizens propaganda and organize a color revolution, as they constantly do to all of there adversaries.

I continue to have no judgement on what NK is like because again, no reliable data.

Travel to North Korea is tightly controlled by the North Korean government, you are NOT allowed to go out of the allowed areas and while you are there you are monitored at all times by the North Korean government.

For Americans maybe, that’s why I’ll talk to Chinese who aren’t such a risk when I return to China. I met a Russian who had the same shock upon seeing she was lied to about China and wanted to go to NK, I wouldn’t be surprised if Russians can travel somewhat freely in NK either.

Sure, was this after they required everyone in North Korea get Dear Leader’s haircut, while also executing anybody who got his haircut?

Western news sources are not reliable when covering America’s enemies. I will develop an opinion when I talk to people who’ve traveled there, and aren’t in danger of being thrown in prison/executed if they don’t promote the state department line.

Eh, I heard the same thing about China, then I went there, and I heard the same thing about Iran, but everyone I talked to who’s actually been there had much more level-headed criticisms of the government than the horseshit the news makes up.

Its unlikely that NK is a nice place to live, but 98% of the stuff we hear is obviously fake or wildly taken out of context.