I'm also 99% sure credit is tied to your family just from anecdotal evidence. Both me and my friend signed up for credit cards the same day at the age of 18.

He could only get a "secured" credit card with a $150 limit, while I had an insane limit for a kid making minimum wage.

Of course his parents filed for bankruptcy years before that, but it does make me wonder.

Didn't you know? Usonians are in front of mirrors at all times, spew incoherent garbage nonsense about social credit scores, china genocideded muslims and 500 gorillion homeless then pretend they don't recognize themselves in the process.

Exactly, while Americans are discovering that much of what their government said about China was false, the Chinese are realizing that conditions in the US are as bad, or worse, than their own government said.

was thinking this. the radicalization can go both ways

Reposting this one

that would be the funniest catalyst for the collapse

I mean with how absolutely astoundingly incompetent the Biden administration was I could see their actions being another "stepping on a rake" moment.

Unironically it’s a huge move that will piss off a lot of people. Half of Americans use TikTok. Half. If you’re in a room with 30 people, 15 of them have TikTok on their phone, and 14 are pissed about this ban.

You know what has less monthly users than TikTok does? The New York Times and the Washington Post. Put their monthly readerships together and it’s about equal to TikTok, except you know they have like a 90% overlap. Also waaaaay more than TV news has viewers, honestly adding all TV news viewers together still might not beat TikTok.

TikTok is absolutely massive and is arguably the dominant force in American culture. Banning it for reasons that literally everyone except my father can see are bullshit is a good way to piss off a lot of people for no gain.

That's why direct interactions between people are so important. As soon as Americans start talking to the Chinese, they quickly realize that they've been fed bullshit their whole lives. And while it's still a small number of people talking, I think it will grow because of networking effects. People will tell their friends, and they will get curious, and so on. I really think this is an incredibly important moment.

You can even track how effective it is over time. Negative views on china in the us and canada jumped 30% in like 15 years.

I thought MMOs and online gaming would do this when I was little, nah gamers can't be helped.

Exactly, and the beauty of social media is that it's a lot cheaper than travel making it possible for millions of people to get exposure to other cultures for free.

PRC+USSR propaganda posters with hunky dudes? Move over. It's time for cats.

Trump gonna throw out an EO banning it on like day 2

sadly Americans never had a chance to talk to Soviet citizens back then

it's not real, and even western media reported on this before

• https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/15/china-social-credit-system-authoritarian/
• https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/16/chinas-orwellian-social-credit-score-isnt-real/

You might also find it interesting how Chinese users react to being asked about it:

https://xcancel.com/KHAMCHANH/status/1879651724308398141

But yeah, it's always been utter nonsense, and was debunked years ago. But these sort of fabrications and twisted stories work well, because people will easily believe whatever they hear and read about a country they're supposed to see as an enemy.