chapotraphouse

Chaser:

Couldn't decide which order of pics worked better as shot/chaser.

seized from tw

https://subium.com/profile/behrbones.bsky.social/post/3lf7lbpcees26

Green dream or whatever they call it

Green dream or whatever they call it

Green dream or whatever they call it

Green dream or whatever they call it

(watch pelosi ass getting elected again lmao)

linky

https://subium.com/profile/johncusack.bsky.social/post/3lfbbkfb7n22f

He posted the photo without any text.

Some select comments:

Maybe the war in uKKKraine would finally end.

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Absolutely nuts how they bleached the Judeans.

It was very much either an e-mail leak or a hater signing me up for a bunch of weird shit because I got a bunch of 'thank you for filling out our interest form' messages from 1) the mormons, 2) the US army, 3) credit card debt consolidation, and 4) enhancement surgeons.

I really mean this. Most of the time its embarrassing as fuck what they thought going in. Literally, "I thought it would be a dystopian totalitarian nightmare where everyone walked around like zombies." It's just amazing to me to see how much people buy into the propaganda they are told. You didn't have a single nugget of skepticism on that nonsense, homey?

Or, "OMG I did not expect to see [restaurant] here!" Yeah, it's a modern, thriving economy which by most measures that actually try and compare it fairly to the west puts it well ahead of America. You think some western companies would try and break into that market?

Another good one is, "I can't believe how nice everyone was!" This one is wild to me because it's an accidental admission to racism. "I thought the Chinese man would be duplicitous and suspicious of me as is the nature of his ilk!" Fuck off. I would suspect that almost anywhere in the world you go as a tourist most people either won't pay you much mind or be kind to you as the average person is generally fairly kind and welcoming. Or they want to sell you something because they make a living off tourists. There are exceptions, like the French who will treat you like shit and also try to sell you something while doing it, but otherwise this is true almost anywhere.

Oh and don't forget the final thoughts segment where they have to add in a caveat that of course you can't really trust anything any of the people from China say about their country or it's political situation because obviously they must be frightened that secret CCP agents will jump out of the shadows as soon as the travel vlogger walks away and take the poor Chinese citizen to a political re-education camp. Though, I admit that this sentiment is at least dying down and you don't see it as much.

Obviously these are the extremes but in all seriousness the travel videos of white people going to China and being blown away by it's progress are overall pretty based and it's nice to see the bubble of western propaganda being popped even if it's the most ridiculous liberals who are doing it.