China shuts down city of 17.5m people in bid to halt Covid outbreak. Authorities adopt a zero tolerance policy in Shenzhen, imposing a lockdown and testing every resident three times

Look up hypernormalization. It's happening here. I don't hide what I believe like a lot of people. I dunno why. I absorbed that to get your way in the US you have to scream at people to get what you want and to some extent that's true...


It's also part of the problem... The only advantage I've had over other Americans is not becoming an instacitizen of the US. Online culture birthed a cyborg cult. We're both in it right now. This place is a bit more honest than when people post to their public profiles attached to social networking. I have never thought I would hear my family members having arguments with their neighbors over FB and not just trying to talk it out, with the guy down the street. These are family members who are older, more successful and I envy them in a lot of ways, but not that way at all. Everyone is in their own personal hell in this country. I encounter it everyday. I have advantages and challenges that always force me to find people and talk news shit with them when it's all over the headlines...


I don't think I'm more free thinking than other Americans. I think some Americans would rather not think too much about the news ever. When they do it's only to support their team and not to speak to the other side. Sometimes it's to support America. There's also a diversity to America that isn't fully represented by the Americans on here both in terms of demographics and in terms of nuanced political thought.

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