Ancestors

Written by Chu 朱 on 2025-02-01 at 01:17

Hey Chinese Americans,

You know all those stories your grandparents told you about during the cultural revolution? Like how your neighbour's uncle got arrested for listening to the radio and and so and so snitched on this person or that person?

If you're lucky enough to have grandparents/aunts uncles old enough to remember any of this, ask them about life then. Ask them how they survived. Ask them what kinds of things they did.

All those lessons are about to become very useful. I heard my grandma tell the same stories and got bored of them. I sure wish I listened when I had the chance and took the lessons in.

There are fewer and fewer who remember those days but there are still some. Ask for their stories. You won't regret asking.

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Written by author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x7 on 2025-02-01 at 03:28

@chu Yes, have been asking.

The alternative, while it is still available, is to move to those countries that still remember this history.

Japan, Taiwan, Canada, Europe…

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Toot

Written by Stephen Elliott~Buckley on 2025-02-01 at 05:08

@ShrikeTron @chu

Yeahhhhh maybe not Canada, our Nazi is polling at the top

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Descendants

Written by author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x7 on 2025-02-01 at 05:14

@Maxfieldripken @chu Thanks. But I think all-in-all Canada wouldn't be as bad as actually having a coup -- having multiple Oligarch fascists already in the government buildings purging the systems -- as the US is now.

Meanwhile, hoping California can weather this, but still keeping an eye on backup options.

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Written by Stephen Elliott~Buckley on 2025-02-01 at 05:16

@ShrikeTron @chu

Ah yes, I was responding to whether we remember those older resistance skills

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Written by author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x7 on 2025-02-01 at 05:22

@Maxfieldripken @chu Sorry, I'm of the opinion that Resistance did nothing since #OccupyWallSt .

We need actual people doing the same things the Oligarch facists are doing -- ripping up and throwing the needle -- but in the opposite direction vs small actions of nothing that lull people into feeling like they did something.

To me this is War, not a gentleman's game of tag.

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Written by Stephen Elliott~Buckley on 2025-02-01 at 09:13

@ShrikeTron @chu

Yeah I don't think we've dug into anything real since Occupy

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Written by author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x7 on 2025-02-01 at 09:33

@Maxfieldripken The US had the Women's March, that was good, and some other events, but nothing sustained nor impacting.

Definitely nothing like a "normal" country like South Korea where they recently impeached their nutty President with a majority, instead of struggling to do so with KingT.

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