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Western leftists are so eager to talk politics on Little Red Book and the Chinese users are like (hexbear.net)

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You are welcome here but please don’t talk politics. This isn’t Baidu Tieba. I just want pictures of your cat.

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[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago

typing the first letter of characters for an abbreviation isn't american laziness, Chinese speakers frequently do it too, and it's an easy way of typing common words with Pinyin input, for e.g. typing XHS brings up a list of words including tomato (xihongshi), vibrant red (xian hongse) and Xinhua news agency (xinhua she)