So, what's happening with Desanctamonius now?
He said people should run over protestors and then a sheriff in ~~Orlando~~ Cocoa Beach said to protestors “We will kill you, graveyard dead.”
excuse me, that was Brevard County sheriff who threatened to murder protestors, Blood Meridian style.
not to be confused with Osceola County sheriff, who was arrested last week for running a $21 million illegal gambling operation.
the only thing the Orlando sheriff's office has made the news for this summer is being so slow to answer 911 calls that they caught the attention of state auditors for being shit.
it's very important to remember all the types of Florida sheriffs there are. they're like Pokemon. you wouldn't want to use a sleepy type vs a psychotic killer type.
... Florida sheriffs... they're like Pokemon....
Gotta
them all!
Ah fuck you’re right my bad. I was told about those stories by the same person around the same time so got them mixed up. Osceola County definitely counts as Orlando
Is this XHS?
Yeah
I'm tempted to try it due to it being a very accessible way to interact with Chinese netizens, at the same time I don't like the instagram/tiktok shit it has and idk if it's worth it lol
I chat regularly with a few Chinese netizens on XHS. A couple of things you should know:
- The US government actually monitors what is said on there and if you say something expressing violent intent towards the USA or it's allies the FBI will visit you and this has been documented happening to a user.
- The built in translation works pretty good but some notes: misgendering happens a lot and its not intentional (spoken Mandarin is genderless and netizens don't care to correct pronouns in written Mandarin) and Mandarin is very direct and that can sometimes come off as rude in translation.
- The app itself is pretty unsecure so just assume all communication you do on there is open to everyone and their mother to see.
- You will learn some Mandarin if you spend enough time on there between just comprehensible input and the occasional video that pops up of someone teaching short, basic Mandarin words and phrases.
- There are also a few accounts of North Koreans and a few of Chinese students studying in North Korea and it's kind of cool to see beyond the veil into snippets of North Korean life here and there.
- There is a punk/hardcore scene in Beijing and it's dope af.
So anyways I encourage everyone to do it and see what China is really like. Even though there are many things to criticize about China (they have a long way to go for LGBTQ rights, for instance) there is more to praise and most people walk away with a better view of China than before going in.
Yeah I have seen XHS uses literal http lmao wtf, I have good opsec dont worry comrade, also not in the US, running it in a grapheneos profile should be good enough tbh, they prolly block vpns though
Yeah what you said sounds nice I want to meet people out of the anglo english bubble. Thank you!
I would imagine there are other Chinese sites/apps that are more similar to what you tend to use?
XHS works well for me because I like TikTok. The parts where it’s more Pinterest-y is where it loses me.
They dont really have good english automated translations and it's pretty much hard to use (e.g. Bilibili). Chinese forums idk and basically hard to find. Weibo is meh. I don't want to fuck up my attentionspan with Tiktok slop XD
You cant signup without already knowing someone from China
I will say XHS doesn’t quite have the same attention span issue as bad as TikTok, because the infinite scroll of auto playing videos isn’t the default option.
I see, nice. The best aspect of it that I saw was the ability to post questions so it kinda gave forum vibes like here
Wow, you have Chinese friends? Sounds to me like you're a CCP bot.
FBI please visit this grade school teacher in China because they put out a threat on Mr. Desantis' life.
FBI handler, I volunteer to go to China on this mission and fully promise to return to the US.
I remember when he was supposed to be more dangerous than Trump
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