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[–] timochka@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tbf, I'd move to China permanently in a heartbeat, based on more than a decade of working there. If China ever lets foreigners buy property, I'll be first in line.

I wouldn't touch the US with a hundred foot pole, on the other hand.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

accurate representation of an average lemmy.zip user.

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's nice. When I was a kid my dad worked in China, and they confiscated our passports, so we literally had to flee the country.

So there's also that side of the coin.

[–] timochka@lemmy.zip -2 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My dad had a work visa for a company and when his contract was up they held his passport saying he was to continue working for the company.

So no. Not like ICE.

Also, we're talking about China, not how shit America is right now. Maybe try and stay on topic.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

so did the company withhold the passport or the chinese government?

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 2 points 1 week ago

The company and government officials were involved from what my mom told me.

[–] timochka@lemmy.zip -5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not sure why you think your dad is the fucking topic to be honest.

[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because you're pretending like China is some fucking paradise when they literally tried to keep my family from leaving the fucking country?

We had to hide in a shipping freighter to get out of the country. But sure, go ahead and move to China, citizen.

If you don't want people to respond to your room temperature take on something don't post it.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 1 points 1 week ago

I literally could care less if you believe me or not. Because I know what we had to do to leave. So keep fetishizing these people. Maybe you'll get lucky and get to try it as well. May the odds be ever in your favor.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In this particular thread that you commented on, the subject was I deed his father and China,

[–] timochka@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No, it was not. He tried to make it about that, true.

Show me where it says "and now let's have a conversation about some wet who got scared because he went to China, that's the only thing that's relevant now?"

I don't mind the story about his poor, sad daddy, everyone gets to share an anecdote. But to suggest his father being pathetic is on-topic but US citizens being massively hypocritical is weak sauce.

I'm sure the US's ICE concentration camps are happy-fun-joy-camps, they probably even have Burger King for all I care, but that doesn't change the fact that you lot lost the moral high ground long ago, and one story about a wet who got scared doesn’t change that.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

No, they were not put into concentration camps or shot dead.