I haven’t read this yet, simply skimmed a few sentences here and there. This is really insightful helpful info that every American (and everyone with interest in America) should absolutely check out. The info covers last year, 2022, and how America is changing, spoiler alert, it ISN’T for the better. The writer really didn’t pull punches. This article is essentially China’s version of 2pac’s Hit Em Up. And instead of Notorious B.I.G. as the target, it’s the USA.
This is incredible. Feel like it’s been a while since we’ve gotten such an extensive condemnation, or polemic, out of the socialist-governed world, and it’s even bigger coming out of China. The struggle for multipolarity is paving the way for a brighter future, and I am glad the CPC feels confidently positioned enough to release information like this.
From my own perspective, there is some strange or personally disagreeable stuff about cannabis in the article, although I agree that its prevalence among the youth, as in teens and children, is indeed a societal failure, and that the burgeoning U.S. weed industry is just as exploitative and horrible as the rest. I do think it is likely cannabis has great medicinal potential, and I do not think full-blown criminalization is the answer.
I read some takes on this from Chinese ppl to get their perspective, and I’ve come to agree with it. Some points:
- There is no historical or cultural use of cannibis in China. People just don’t smoke it, and those that do only do so after they adopted it while being in western countries. The decision then becomes, do we allow the import of this non-indigenous substance and industry?
- They’re have a strong anti-drug stance given the history of Opium used as a tool of colonization, pacification, mass suffering, and death. The introduction of new, non-indigenous drugs is not taken lightly considering that history.
- It stinks. Most people live in close quarters, in large apartment buildings in cities. Alcohol is something that you consume, and doesn’t usually affect strangers. I live in an apartment in the US, and I had to get a door stopper thing just to keep the gross-smelling stink out from a neighbor down the hall. For some reason I’ve found the vast majority of potheads in the US to be some flavor of “don’t tread on me” libertarians, who love to do exactly that to other ppl with their smells.
- The weed / drug industry is not a productive industry, and is harmful from a Marxist perspective. Most charitably, you could liken it to something like an unhealthy food, which isn’t something any country should be giving it’s citizens access to.
The US, like with everything, is going over the top with their weed culture imo. It’s one thing wanting to smoke joints but to make it your entire identity is just weird. In The Netherlands, where it has been semi legal for decades now, you don’t have such a prominent weed culture. Apart from tourists in Amsterdam I’ve never been bothered by anyone smoking weed. I sometimes forget we’re allowed to smoke it because of the absence of people doing it out in public, bothering others. I’ve been around the block a few times with drugs, being part of multiple subcultures who are known for their drug usage, and I’ve never met a single person making an identity of smoking weed. Not saying whatever the Dutch are doing is the perfect way, but it’s very different compared to the US.
Definitely, ppl who are “stoners” or make weed their life is cringe. Can’t say that a few of my friends aren’t like that lol, it has its benefits but the cringe t-shirts in public are tough to be seen w🤣
The “weed is my personality” people remind me of the Quentin memes.
this is hilarious, especially in its self-seriousness
(however I did at one point have friends exactly like le stoner)
Some of them get even more ridiculous than that.
What do Stalin, Hitler, Jesse James and Ted Bundy have in common?
That’s right. They all did things in moderation.
