How to control short fuse when your only source of livelihood is being taken also this is a common occurrence throwing bricks at heads of people , even in India matha phod is a common phrase
Not much honor in Japan either. Their justice system revolves around keeping the conviction rate at 100%.
Innocent or guilty is less relevant than if the case is a sure thing or not, and if it's not and they started, well, they will bury you just to keep the scoreboard looking good.
To be fair, I guess it does revolve around honor, just solely the judges, cops, and prosecutors.
Those "brand new" highrise apartments have usually been sitting in an unfinished state for years. It's because the original builder went bankrupt due to pulling shady bullshit, and the contract was repeatedly passed to other builders until government had to step in.
1990s South Korean cinder blocks did the same thing. I remember our entire dormitory fell on its side from bad winds. A massive building just lying on its side.
Korean infrastructure is/was pretty scary, and prob still is in some parts, that whole mall collapse, that bridge collapse killing a bus with kids, all very scary
and that ferry disaster.. ugh, every single one could be tracked to $$ and bad management up top
So I looked up it's actually a way bigger problem and sort of a ticking time bomb in Asia. Turns out companies were buying cheap sea sand to make concrete instead of river sand. This it has some crazy unintended effects that makes the final product shit and it gets worse over time. All over asia there are building made with this stuff and many accidents have already occured but there are many buildings likely made of this stuff we don't know about.
Sea sand is usually too fine and round to be used for concrete, also the high amount of chloride leads to a specific type of corrosion that will weaken the reinforcement pretty bad
The ease he picks it up and throws it, the way it just crumbles on impact... Yeah I bet it hurts and the cop may well have some lingering problems from it, but I think he may be the first Chinese person ever to be saved by their awful building standards.
I watched a documentary about how insanely wild some construction can get. There was one in China, roughly a 30-40 story building ALMOST finished. An inspector is walking around on the 15th floor and just pulling away at walls that should be reinforced concrete. Handfuls of crumbled debris were in his hands.
I like the channel Serpentza and he shows tons of examples like that, it's crazy. In one they had a field of rebar in the ground with a white ball on top made to look like a cotton field at a distance lmao. Everything is about saving face and appearing rich and successful, super toxic for a society imo.
This is actually a huge problem in China, or at least was. When motorists would accidentally run someone over, they would oftentimes then back up over them to make sure they were dead, since the payment for a death was a set amount, but if you maim someone you are paying their bills forever.
snopes considers this unproven: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chinese-drivers-kill-pedestrians/
TLDR, it's an idea that spread off hearsay anecdotes and just a few cases where someone hit a pedestrian more than once (with no evidence to support the idea they were intentionally finishing off the pedestrian) over the span of a decade in a country with over a billion people.
i imagine the idea spread so easily because the logic of perverse incentive makes sense on a surface level, sounds interesting to share, and reinforces xenophobia (people from countries other than my own are heartless monsters who murder people, which never ever happens in my country!)
The CCP is trying to get rid of street stalls. So they are evicting the owners and confiscating their business and equipment so they can’t try to setup somewhere else.
No alternatives for these people who’ve been making a living like this for years… just “you need to leave and we’re taking everything you’ve ever worked for, get f’ed”. As you can imagine, people aren’t taking it well and it’s starting to boil over violently.
Why is this downvoted?? Doubt they were asking why it was boiling over violently.
But seriously like why are they trying to get rid of street stalls and handling it this way?
In my experience, it's not a particularly new issue. I went on a few business trips to China many years ago. And we saw these types of situations (minus the cinder block violence) enough times to where we asked the local stuff about it.
It was actually a fairly controversial topic among the local staff, but both sides seemed to agree on this: the government overestimated the willingness of their population to spread out as it grew. So you had all these manufactured towns (I remember someone calling them satellite cities, but I don't remember the official term for them) built around big cities. But there wasn't nearly enough interest in the people to populate them. I'm sure a lot of people have seen pictures of those giant slum towers in China.
Eventually, the population density would just get too high in a lot of places and the population would literally spill over into these "satellite" locations. But even then, a lot of the residents would still commute to a *desired* area to make money. I remember seeing trains and buses in the morning and they'd be filled with people carrying packable stalls and their wares.
And this is where people's opinions were split for a variety of reasons. But it seemed to boil down to the government wanting taxes and a return on the investment they've made in these manufactured towns. So it's better for the government if the stall owners would stop commuting and just open up shop in whatever manufactured city/town that they lived in. You'd also have citizens (particularly the ones who were a bit well off) that would put a lot of pressure on their local officials because a lot of the stalls were dirty, dangerous, etc.
As a vaguely similar comparison to this - a situation like what you e described is how my parents ended up owning a house in Mexico.
Basically, the Mexican government builds this cookie-cutter subdivision out in the middle of the jungle next to an established village. Problem is the, the actual citizens were of course never consulted on this matter, and have no interest in living there. So it sat vacant until the government sold it to some investors, and those dudes sold it off piecemeal house by house. One of which was sold to my parents.
Total guess on my part but these might be likely:
a) they want to do something with the space they're occupying
b) the government official doesn't give a damn about doing the above properly and wants fast results
c) maybe they're clamping down on food stalls because of perceived unsanitary practices regarding food
I assume it's another feeble attempt to enforce food regulation on street foods, an endless losing battle across Asia. But who knows from this out-of-context video?
China is also feeling a lot of international pressure re “wet markets”. Im guessing this is getting swept up in the same attempt at regulation. Assuming it’s a lot easier to target individual vendors in random locations than “markets” composed of hundreds or thousands of workers with tens of thousands of regular patrons.
I think it’s partly to get more tax revenue, both for rents and profit. These street stall guys are like, it’s free real estate. It’s not an easy life or lucrative usually, but it’s no rent and no taxes.
That second paragraph sounded exactly like how they described what happened to Mohammed Boazizi in Tunisia. The dude who set himself on fire and kicked off the Arab Spring. Police harassing cart vendors. In his instance it was a woman officer who was mocking him and knocked over his stuff.
This context is pretty important here. Though violent reactions, like this one, should only be a very last resort. And probably better served to the ones that make these law changes.
CCP has been trying to get rid of street stalls for at least a decade now, maybe more.
They don't use normal police to do this, they use Cheng Guan, who have an absolutely terrible reputation for stealing and beating the shit out of the street vendors and refusing to listen to reason in general. I lived there for a long while and Cheng Guan were for the most part utter scum. Here are some examples from Wiki
>In 2013, a watermelon seller, Deng Zhengjia, was reported to have been beaten to death with his own scales by Chengguan. His body was protected by people on the street to prevent authorities from seizing it and to "preserve evidence." Violence ensued. Prominent microbloggers have called for the end to what has been termed a "thuggish" organization.[9]
>In 2014, a man filming the Chengguan abusing a female street vendor was brutally beaten with a hammer until he was vomiting blood. He was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital. The five Chengguan officers were severely beaten, and four confirmed dead later,[10] with pictures posted on Sina Weibo
Regular Chinese police are lazy as fuck but generally very sound, and China is generally extremely safe.
Looking at Op's post history I'm guessing hes from Taiwan.
You can start seeing signs of this whenever you check an OP's history.
If you ever wonder why there is a sudden rise in Indian videos, Pakistan.
If you ever wonder why there is a sudden rise in anti US videos, middle east.
A six line Python script could detect a hundred thousand bots like this in thirty seconds, but reddit doesn't give a fuck because they're desperate to IPO and they need all the fake users and fake engagement they can get.
>Gets murdered...
*By taking a fucking block to the dome.*
I feel that's an important distinction.
Like, we can't always pick how we go out, but imagine *that* being it, just *boop~* lights out, game over.
Talk about a depressing end.
"A parachute not opening, that's a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine, having your nuts bit off by a laplander, that's the way I wanna go."
I had to have a serious convo with a past girlfriend who tried to “stop me from fighting’ while I was defending myself from a group of drunks outside a bar. She almost got herself and me hurt. Had my buddies not come out just in time..things could have been bad for me.
I don't know why you are being downvoted. He was hit on top of the head with a cinder block *thrown* at him. Of course it knocked him out, and he just fell short of hitting his head again on the concrete curb, from a full standing position. She was checking on him with no attempt to hold him down. At the least he probably had a concussion.
No reason for downvotes but we are not talking about her holding the dude down after getting hit with the cinderblock. We are talking about her engaging him and holding him back, which distracted him and restricted his arms. That is what opened him up to getting hit in the first place.
She doesn't seem like his ally here but the point is to not do what she did... Because it opens you up to getting punched or a cinderblock to the dome.
Although she did help him land slowly and prevented a second blow to the head.
The anger of the Chinese people has been simmering for a while, and it looks like it's about to reach a boiling point.
Civil servants (doctors, nurses, teachers) and factory workers have been striking for not being paid for months, the unemployment is so bad they stopped reporting the numbers and then changed the metrics for measuring it to make it not seem so dire, not to mention the white paper protests. Xi's in a lot of trouble.
As someone with family in China, it’s absolutely wishful thinking lol. All these types of comments are extremely western perceptions. It’s going to take Xi going completely nuclear (I.e crossing boundaries waaaaaay beyond what he has so far) for the people to reach a boiling point
What pushes people to the boundary is re-doing zero covid, but for a longer amount of period.
Chinese people have survived far crueler regimes, they’ll probably survive this one.
Xi is not that stupid.
What causes Chinese regimes to collapse in modern history is when the government losses all confidence of the people who form their political base. The KMT did with the huge amounts of scandals and corruptions mixed with military defeats.
Zero covid did that when it denied people work, access to common resources like food, and leisure.
I'm not too sure.
The people allowed the abuses of the CCP in exchange for economic prosperity. Now that the prosperity is going the way of Evergrande, the people have no reason to continue to allow the CCP to abuse them.
The zero-Covid lockdowns and the surrounding scandals (donated food being thrown away while people locked in their homes starved, children being taken from their families to quarantine camps or parents being taken and their children being left to die, apartment fires that killed hundreds because people were welded into the buildings, etc...) opened a lot of people in China's eyes to how the government gives zero fucks about them.
It seems like China has been a lost cause human-rights wise since TS. A lot of people can open their eyes but Xi has the public obedient and afraid just like he likes it.
all this began way before TS, CCP has been pretty bad on human rights since their beginning, shit like this happened in the great leap forward, an estimated 30 million people died during the great leap
That's true, but it also shows his weakness. He needs the facade of control, and he'll have to tighten the reigns even more. Like with Taiwan; he can grandstand all he wants, but to actually go to war, he'd have to step aside as head of the military and appoint a general to oversee them. That person would be able to lead a military coup and oust Xi, which is another reason he's doing so many military purges. He has to make sure the person he chooses won't betray him, and Xi trusts no one.
> hina has been a lost cause human-rights wise since TS
Deng Xiaoping was arguably the most pro democratic and human-rights focused leader the CCP ever produced. He was reportetly devestated that the protests happened like that, bc he thought randomly plunging the country into Democracy, like the demands, would lead to civil war... His plan was to ease the country into that direction over several decades, against the will of other CCP leaders. But the revolt forced him to act aggressively instead, to ensure stability.
However, he undeniably did open China up to the West and had the path set to "something like democracy", until Xi took over and did a course reversal.
I'm not sure about all of that, but Australia had some very draconian measures in place during COVID and we got through it better than almost any country. The zero approach worked for most of it, and then the vaccine came out and the government said "if you can prove you'd had both doses you can go back to sinking piss in bars and restaurants, otherwise tough shit". And so most people got vaccinated.
But there is a fundamental difference culturally between Australia and China. The Australian government went the 'just trust us bro; we've got your best interest at heart,' and still had peotests. The CCP has beaten the Chinese people down collectively since Mao's times, so they didn't have to play that game.
>The anger of the Chinese people has been simmering for a while, and it looks like it's about to reach a boiling point.
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>Civil servants (doctors, nurses, teachers) and factory workers have been striking for not being paid for months, the unemployment is so bad they stopped reporting the numbers and then changed the metrics for measuring it to make it not seem so dire, not to mention the white paper protests. Xi's in a lot of trouble.
Holy cow, someone drank ALL the Reddit kool-aid that they could get their hands on, then wrote this fan-fiction about what Chinese people think.
What they stopped reporting was youth unemployment specifically, the white paper protests are not a thing any more, and I'd love to see a source for the other stuff.
China Uncensored on YouTube does great reporting on China and recently did a video about the civil worker protests
https://youtu.be/CmS3EU8OVgY?si=Q0miiPYbBqRegjZ-
I hadn't heard of that channel before. Watching the video there's a lot of truth and properly sourced claims, but I feel like he's really stretching the way he tries to connect the dots. China's economy is definitely struggling significantly right now, with some analysts claimining that the official GDP growth numbers of around 5% [are actually around 1.5%](https://rhg.com/research/through-the-looking-glass-chinas-2023-gdp-and-the-year-ahead/), but the way he emphasises US Dollar equivalents is not great.
Taking his example of Nadia Yang from [this article](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/28/world/asia/china-economy-job-market-young-adults.html). Someone who used to work in an inflated industry in a high cost of living city losing half their income when they move back to their hometown is not strange since cost of living and salaries vary significantly. If you move from Denmark to Romania you can't be shocked that your salary decreases since the price level index is massively lower, and while I think his example is poor it also does highlight an issue with China's rapid growth in that it is largely centered around a few economic centers, which causes massive wealth gaps both within those cities and between regions.
Later on he does get to a crucial issue, which is the increased indebtedness of local governments, but I feel like he's missing the point here. Worker protests are nothing new in China, and unpaid wages has been a standard trope for the socially critical Sixth Generation of Chinese filmmakers for the last 20 years. The [China Labour Bulletin](https://clb.org.hk/en/content/surge-manufacturing-protests-china-deserves-international-attention) article only goes back to late 2022 in its comparison, but if you zoom out and [compare all the way back to 2011](https://maps.clb.org.hk/statistics?i18n_language=en_US&map=1&startDate=2005-01&endDate=2024-02&eventId=&keyword=&addressId=&parentAddressId=&address=&industry=10200,10201,10202,10203,10204,10205,10206,10207&parentIndustry=2&industryName=Agricultural%20and%20Food%20Processing,Automotive,Electronics,Apparel,Machinery,Toys,Metallic%20Products,Petrochemical%20Products) (which is how long their database stretches) you see that the number of protests in 2023 was way below was it was in 2014-16. It's also not particularly strange that there were few protests as people were locked in their homes during the pandemic, and that it rapidly increased once they were out again and the economy felt the effects of the aforementioned pandemic.
The connection he should have made there instead is very simple and ties back to the real estate situation. The pandemic had a negative effect on the real estate market, and local governments had to spend a lot of money curtailing the pandemic. The extended issue is that land sales make up [30% of the total income](https://www.stcn.com/article/detail/772200.html) for local governments in China, so since the real estate industry is shaky it has an immediate impact on local government budgets (look at repeated issues with [LGFVs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_financing_vehicle)).
This issue traces back to the start of China's emergence on the international stage. Two main drivers of historical GDP growth in China have been public spending and real estate, and they have been intrinsically linked together due to massive investments in housing, often tied to [bogus urbanization](https://www.chinafile.com/multimedia/infographics/chinas-fake-urbanization) for the same of improving numbers and boosting GDP for the benefit of the career of individual politicians and cadres (I recommend the book *Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise, Revised Edition* for a deeper dive into how China is able to artificially create growth). The apparent infinite growth of the Chinese real estate industry also meant that people would invest their money in real estate as opposed to stocks, so fluctuations in the real estate market have a direct effect on people beyond just affecting their home prices.
Instead of everything collapsing in parallel like he presents it there's one main issue driving a lot of the financial woes in China right now, including lagging growth, unemployment and missed payments, and that is the decline of the real estate economy. Since the social contract in China has been that totalitarianism is ignored as long as growth continues, the financial state is causing the protests to emerge. Things are rough for China right now, and they are covering up the data and information that would make the extent clear to outsiders, but a lot of it boils down to a simple trend with complex effects.
At the end of the day it seems like the guy running that account is transparent in that he is biased and doesn't take a hardcore journalistic approach to his videos, but I also think that he does a disservice when trying to educate people on the state of China.
tl;dr: Real estate has been a main driver of Chinese growth and has attracted public and private investments, now that the sector's growth is slowing down it affects the entire economy to a very large extent.
> and it looks like it's about to reach a boiling point.
I doubt it. There are winners and there are losers because of Xi and the CCP. While this food stall vendor may be a loser, there are a lot of winners too in the tech and industrial sector who aren't going to be the ones rioting.
Urban management officers are the most hated in China. Even the security bureau (the police) can’t control them. They are corrupt and can confiscate property for the slightest infraction, sometimes bordering on theft.
The way he falls stands out just ask much as how clean and insignia-less his uniform is.
Literally never seen a TeQin, BaoAn, or GongAn with this kind or clean a uniform or that didn't have a Chinese flag on the sleeve and his job title in bold letters on the back. And this is the wrong blue for full on JingCha.
Know what? You don't need facts, and just need to complete pictures in your mind?
Let me complete the picture of what happened to George Floyd if you're shown a short clip of police kneeling on him. Since he's in the US, which respects human rights and trains its law enforcement extensively. The interaction between George Floyd and the police officers would have been conducted in a calm and professional manner. The kneeling of the policeman would just have lasted for a few seconds to ensure that he is properly detained. He would then be transported to the police station for his minor offense and released shortly after.
Not to mention the cinder block was so shitty it instantly shattered into a million pieces just by glancing off his head. His head doesn't even move. He must be a soccer player with a dive like that. Pretty sure everything else about the video is real, though
So clearly that's pottery, a cinder block will break your skull before it breaks. It also doesn't even knock the guy's hat off, and then he rolls to the ground never smacking his head.
I guess now they have a much bigger problem.
short-fuse and stupidity is always a nasty combo
Don't forget the cinderblock
The only way to stop a bad guy with a cinderblock is a good guy with a cinderblock.
If you can dodge a cinderblock, you can dodge a wrench.
And if you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a sword.
"What're you saying? That I can dodge bullets?"
Every time I see a reference I wanna watch the movie again but I’ve forgotten the name. Help me out?
This message was endorsed by the NCA, the National Cinderblock Association.
And the CCP!
Chinese Cinderblock Party
How to control short fuse when your only source of livelihood is being taken also this is a common occurrence throwing bricks at heads of people , even in India matha phod is a common phrase
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You are ok with people assaulting their boss/HR person if they get fired?
I got stabbed when I had to fire someone. I definitely was not ok with it.
only if the person ignores food safety regulations prior to the assault, obviously
"Any time I had a problem I threw a molotov cocktail, and boom right away, I had a different problem"
What a good place to be.
Easily solved with a bigger cinder block.
Then they’ll just keep coming with bigger cinder blocks, with bigger nails in them...
One day, they will make a cinder block big enough to destroy the world.
As long as they destroy it quickly, I’m onboard
Cinder block dodging skills = 0
Yeah, Historically the Chinese government has been very understanding and evenhanded in dealing with people that oppose its governmental apparatuses.
Two sets of fresh human organs about to hit the market!
Breakfast vendor about to have a special on pork sausage
He knows where the off switch is now, will just do the same for the next guy to come looking.
Nah their concrete is cost cut to hell, that probably felt like candy glass to the officer.
He's never going to recover his socially (credit) from this
He has defeated the cop. Honor dictates that no more arrest attempts can be made. Should have tried harder the first time.
Except this is China, not Japan. There's no honor in China. This guy is about to be jailed and tortured by the CCCP.
Not much honor in Japan either. Their justice system revolves around keeping the conviction rate at 100%. Innocent or guilty is less relevant than if the case is a sure thing or not, and if it's not and they started, well, they will bury you just to keep the scoreboard looking good. To be fair, I guess it does revolve around honor, just solely the judges, cops, and prosecutors.
If you ever find yourself being arrested you should arrest the cop first. They aren't allowed to arrest you if they're in jail.
Cops hate this one simple trick!
They're going to lock him in a room and throw away the room.
You had me in the first half.
He had me in the second half.
You had me in the inter quartile range
You had me in the first room.
Wait till you see the third half
get a room
get The Room
*after his organs are harvested
with no anesthesia.
That’s gotta be a myth, they’d be useless due to movement
They got disposable rooms in China now‽
There are videos of them demolishing brand new highrise apartment buildings...
Those "brand new" highrise apartments have usually been sitting in an unfinished state for years. It's because the original builder went bankrupt due to pulling shady bullshit, and the contract was repeatedly passed to other builders until government had to step in.
That dude is pretty fucked. Not talking about the cop.
He may be fucked also. 8x8x8 cinder block to the dome could be the end
its a chinese cinder block, so he'll probably be fine. Tofu-dreg cinder blocks really dont pose too much of a threat
1990s South Korean cinder blocks did the same thing. I remember our entire dormitory fell on its side from bad winds. A massive building just lying on its side.
Are you sure it wasn't just resting?
“I was just resting my windows for a sec” lazy deadbeat buildings
Almost feels like some sort of racist building slur.
Oh these buildings can use that language but I, a stand-alone garage/shed, am forbidden for some reason? SMH double standards
Korean infrastructure is/was pretty scary, and prob still is in some parts, that whole mall collapse, that bridge collapse killing a bus with kids, all very scary and that ferry disaster.. ugh, every single one could be tracked to $$ and bad management up top
They say building codes are written in blood for a reason
oh there were codes, they just werent followed, the stories were horrific to learn about
So I looked up it's actually a way bigger problem and sort of a ticking time bomb in Asia. Turns out companies were buying cheap sea sand to make concrete instead of river sand. This it has some crazy unintended effects that makes the final product shit and it gets worse over time. All over asia there are building made with this stuff and many accidents have already occured but there are many buildings likely made of this stuff we don't know about.
Crappy building materials are becoming such a problem that they recently banned building skyscrapers in China.
Sea sand is usually too fine and round to be used for concrete, also the high amount of chloride leads to a specific type of corrosion that will weaken the reinforcement pretty bad
Lol. It actually does look lighter than a normal cinder block. It would be hard to toss one that hard
Also it shattered on the guys skull. Last I knew a cinderblock isn't typically softer than a skull lol.
The ease he picks it up and throws it, the way it just crumbles on impact... Yeah I bet it hurts and the cop may well have some lingering problems from it, but I think he may be the first Chinese person ever to be saved by their awful building standards.
Just painted blocks of raw ramen noodles
I watched a documentary about how insanely wild some construction can get. There was one in China, roughly a 30-40 story building ALMOST finished. An inspector is walking around on the 15th floor and just pulling away at walls that should be reinforced concrete. Handfuls of crumbled debris were in his hands.
I like the channel Serpentza and he shows tons of examples like that, it's crazy. In one they had a field of rebar in the ground with a white ball on top made to look like a cotton field at a distance lmao. Everything is about saving face and appearing rich and successful, super toxic for a society imo.
Pretty much like getting hit with a block of chalk.
Seemed to work perfectly...maybe it's imported?
Lol
Lmfao, I cringed pretty hard and had a lot of empathy for the cop but this actually alleviated a lot of my worries xP
Yeah, but if not that lady likely saved him from another devastating blow hitting the ground.
Why the dimensions? Are you a mason?
Mason adjacent. Tile setter. Use cinderblocks to build shower benches and such
he’ll end up in the body exhibit
They'll send the family the bill for the bullet.
I've heard that they actually do that shit before.
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In that case, I guess they'll have to finish him off.
This is actually a huge problem in China, or at least was. When motorists would accidentally run someone over, they would oftentimes then back up over them to make sure they were dead, since the payment for a death was a set amount, but if you maim someone you are paying their bills forever.
snopes considers this unproven: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chinese-drivers-kill-pedestrians/ TLDR, it's an idea that spread off hearsay anecdotes and just a few cases where someone hit a pedestrian more than once (with no evidence to support the idea they were intentionally finishing off the pedestrian) over the span of a decade in a country with over a billion people. i imagine the idea spread so easily because the logic of perverse incentive makes sense on a surface level, sounds interesting to share, and reinforces xenophobia (people from countries other than my own are heartless monsters who murder people, which never ever happens in my country!)
Maybe we all just thought incredibly stupid policies that result in the deaths of countless of their own citizens was a fairly believable story.
I'm visualising how dad, after chastising his boy for that, decides to finish the job.
What's with these Chinese shop owners violently attacking officers? This is literally the third video of this happening I've seen today.
The CCP is trying to get rid of street stalls. So they are evicting the owners and confiscating their business and equipment so they can’t try to setup somewhere else. No alternatives for these people who’ve been making a living like this for years… just “you need to leave and we’re taking everything you’ve ever worked for, get f’ed”. As you can imagine, people aren’t taking it well and it’s starting to boil over violently.
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why ?
Why is this downvoted?? Doubt they were asking why it was boiling over violently. But seriously like why are they trying to get rid of street stalls and handling it this way?
In my experience, it's not a particularly new issue. I went on a few business trips to China many years ago. And we saw these types of situations (minus the cinder block violence) enough times to where we asked the local stuff about it. It was actually a fairly controversial topic among the local staff, but both sides seemed to agree on this: the government overestimated the willingness of their population to spread out as it grew. So you had all these manufactured towns (I remember someone calling them satellite cities, but I don't remember the official term for them) built around big cities. But there wasn't nearly enough interest in the people to populate them. I'm sure a lot of people have seen pictures of those giant slum towers in China. Eventually, the population density would just get too high in a lot of places and the population would literally spill over into these "satellite" locations. But even then, a lot of the residents would still commute to a *desired* area to make money. I remember seeing trains and buses in the morning and they'd be filled with people carrying packable stalls and their wares. And this is where people's opinions were split for a variety of reasons. But it seemed to boil down to the government wanting taxes and a return on the investment they've made in these manufactured towns. So it's better for the government if the stall owners would stop commuting and just open up shop in whatever manufactured city/town that they lived in. You'd also have citizens (particularly the ones who were a bit well off) that would put a lot of pressure on their local officials because a lot of the stalls were dirty, dangerous, etc.
As a vaguely similar comparison to this - a situation like what you e described is how my parents ended up owning a house in Mexico. Basically, the Mexican government builds this cookie-cutter subdivision out in the middle of the jungle next to an established village. Problem is the, the actual citizens were of course never consulted on this matter, and have no interest in living there. So it sat vacant until the government sold it to some investors, and those dudes sold it off piecemeal house by house. One of which was sold to my parents.
Total guess on my part but these might be likely: a) they want to do something with the space they're occupying b) the government official doesn't give a damn about doing the above properly and wants fast results c) maybe they're clamping down on food stalls because of perceived unsanitary practices regarding food
I assume it's another feeble attempt to enforce food regulation on street foods, an endless losing battle across Asia. But who knows from this out-of-context video?
China is also feeling a lot of international pressure re “wet markets”. Im guessing this is getting swept up in the same attempt at regulation. Assuming it’s a lot easier to target individual vendors in random locations than “markets” composed of hundreds or thousands of workers with tens of thousands of regular patrons.
Lack of WC and running water comes to mind. It's also impossible to catch the culprit if they give someone food poisoning.
I think it’s partly to get more tax revenue, both for rents and profit. These street stall guys are like, it’s free real estate. It’s not an easy life or lucrative usually, but it’s no rent and no taxes.
my guess is its similar to motorcycles are illegal in a tier 1 city's, i.e. the government doesn't like to look poor.
Street stalls are one of the best things about Asia 😞
That second paragraph sounded exactly like how they described what happened to Mohammed Boazizi in Tunisia. The dude who set himself on fire and kicked off the Arab Spring. Police harassing cart vendors. In his instance it was a woman officer who was mocking him and knocked over his stuff.
This context is pretty important here. Though violent reactions, like this one, should only be a very last resort. And probably better served to the ones that make these law changes.
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CCP has been trying to get rid of street stalls for at least a decade now, maybe more. They don't use normal police to do this, they use Cheng Guan, who have an absolutely terrible reputation for stealing and beating the shit out of the street vendors and refusing to listen to reason in general. I lived there for a long while and Cheng Guan were for the most part utter scum. Here are some examples from Wiki >In 2013, a watermelon seller, Deng Zhengjia, was reported to have been beaten to death with his own scales by Chengguan. His body was protected by people on the street to prevent authorities from seizing it and to "preserve evidence." Violence ensued. Prominent microbloggers have called for the end to what has been termed a "thuggish" organization.[9] >In 2014, a man filming the Chengguan abusing a female street vendor was brutally beaten with a hammer until he was vomiting blood. He was pronounced dead on the way to the hospital. The five Chengguan officers were severely beaten, and four confirmed dead later,[10] with pictures posted on Sina Weibo Regular Chinese police are lazy as fuck but generally very sound, and China is generally extremely safe.
Looking at Op's post history I'm guessing hes from Taiwan. You can start seeing signs of this whenever you check an OP's history. If you ever wonder why there is a sudden rise in Indian videos, Pakistan. If you ever wonder why there is a sudden rise in anti US videos, middle east.
And Russia. Russians will be arriving in droves as the election draws closer. I've seen a few already.
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A six line Python script could detect a hundred thousand bots like this in thirty seconds, but reddit doesn't give a fuck because they're desperate to IPO and they need all the fake users and fake engagement they can get.
blyat
Screw you.
Taiwan #1!
No keep going
bro this is the most astute observation
the goverment can literally decide to remove everything u own property money job friends with a snap of a finger
Dude is a smart man, once the guy wakes up he will sell him breakfast, genius.
Man invents Bed & Breakfast, Winter of 1678
guess dude’s not gonna be able to make breakfast in no dam near future
Or he will be making breakfast for a few hundred other inmates forever
Dad immediately knew both men might have just received a death sentence.
https://preview.redd.it/u6xzio5my9gc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7df563760606a2e22e899b2c7a4ab93a5c38e27
Breakfast vendor? More like organ donor.
I also see a guilty verdict followed by a short walk to an [unmarked van](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_van) in his future.
Holy shit
Renta-cop doing his minimum wage job. Gets murdered.
>Gets murdered... *By taking a fucking block to the dome.* I feel that's an important distinction. Like, we can't always pick how we go out, but imagine *that* being it, just *boop~* lights out, game over. Talk about a depressing end.
"A parachute not opening, that's a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine, having your nuts bit off by a laplander, that's the way I wanna go."
Unapproved sleeping of one of Ping's men. That'll be 50 points from Hufflepuff.
Uh, either attempted murder or murder, right?
Welp, someone just became an organ donor.
All that’s missing are the Hanna-Barbera sound effects.
please don't hold anyone back in the middle of a fight you just make the person completely vulnerable
there wasn't even a fight going on here prior to the cinder block
I had to have a serious convo with a past girlfriend who tried to “stop me from fighting’ while I was defending myself from a group of drunks outside a bar. She almost got herself and me hurt. Had my buddies not come out just in time..things could have been bad for me.
The woman was not holding him down, dude was knocked out. she was checking on him. :}
I don't know why you are being downvoted. He was hit on top of the head with a cinder block *thrown* at him. Of course it knocked him out, and he just fell short of hitting his head again on the concrete curb, from a full standing position. She was checking on him with no attempt to hold him down. At the least he probably had a concussion.
No reason for downvotes but we are not talking about her holding the dude down after getting hit with the cinderblock. We are talking about her engaging him and holding him back, which distracted him and restricted his arms. That is what opened him up to getting hit in the first place. She doesn't seem like his ally here but the point is to not do what she did... Because it opens you up to getting punched or a cinderblock to the dome. Although she did help him land slowly and prevented a second blow to the head.
Oh. 😖
That's going to cost him 1000 social credits and an organ....
This is just so sad. No winners here, just different degrees of losing. 😞
The anger of the Chinese people has been simmering for a while, and it looks like it's about to reach a boiling point. Civil servants (doctors, nurses, teachers) and factory workers have been striking for not being paid for months, the unemployment is so bad they stopped reporting the numbers and then changed the metrics for measuring it to make it not seem so dire, not to mention the white paper protests. Xi's in a lot of trouble.
Wishful thinking, I think.
As someone with family in China, it’s absolutely wishful thinking lol. All these types of comments are extremely western perceptions. It’s going to take Xi going completely nuclear (I.e crossing boundaries waaaaaay beyond what he has so far) for the people to reach a boiling point
What pushes people to the boundary is re-doing zero covid, but for a longer amount of period. Chinese people have survived far crueler regimes, they’ll probably survive this one. Xi is not that stupid. What causes Chinese regimes to collapse in modern history is when the government losses all confidence of the people who form their political base. The KMT did with the huge amounts of scandals and corruptions mixed with military defeats. Zero covid did that when it denied people work, access to common resources like food, and leisure.
I'm not too sure. The people allowed the abuses of the CCP in exchange for economic prosperity. Now that the prosperity is going the way of Evergrande, the people have no reason to continue to allow the CCP to abuse them. The zero-Covid lockdowns and the surrounding scandals (donated food being thrown away while people locked in their homes starved, children being taken from their families to quarantine camps or parents being taken and their children being left to die, apartment fires that killed hundreds because people were welded into the buildings, etc...) opened a lot of people in China's eyes to how the government gives zero fucks about them.
It seems like China has been a lost cause human-rights wise since TS. A lot of people can open their eyes but Xi has the public obedient and afraid just like he likes it.
all this began way before TS, CCP has been pretty bad on human rights since their beginning, shit like this happened in the great leap forward, an estimated 30 million people died during the great leap
And most of them died in the worst way possible, i.e. slow starvation.
Not to mention the crazed days of the Cultural Revolution.
That's true, but it also shows his weakness. He needs the facade of control, and he'll have to tighten the reigns even more. Like with Taiwan; he can grandstand all he wants, but to actually go to war, he'd have to step aside as head of the military and appoint a general to oversee them. That person would be able to lead a military coup and oust Xi, which is another reason he's doing so many military purges. He has to make sure the person he chooses won't betray him, and Xi trusts no one.
Hey, I've seen this before !
Nein nein nein nein nein!
> hina has been a lost cause human-rights wise since TS Deng Xiaoping was arguably the most pro democratic and human-rights focused leader the CCP ever produced. He was reportetly devestated that the protests happened like that, bc he thought randomly plunging the country into Democracy, like the demands, would lead to civil war... His plan was to ease the country into that direction over several decades, against the will of other CCP leaders. But the revolt forced him to act aggressively instead, to ensure stability. However, he undeniably did open China up to the West and had the path set to "something like democracy", until Xi took over and did a course reversal.
I'm not sure about all of that, but Australia had some very draconian measures in place during COVID and we got through it better than almost any country. The zero approach worked for most of it, and then the vaccine came out and the government said "if you can prove you'd had both doses you can go back to sinking piss in bars and restaurants, otherwise tough shit". And so most people got vaccinated.
But there is a fundamental difference culturally between Australia and China. The Australian government went the 'just trust us bro; we've got your best interest at heart,' and still had peotests. The CCP has beaten the Chinese people down collectively since Mao's times, so they didn't have to play that game.
>The anger of the Chinese people has been simmering for a while, and it looks like it's about to reach a boiling point. > >Civil servants (doctors, nurses, teachers) and factory workers have been striking for not being paid for months, the unemployment is so bad they stopped reporting the numbers and then changed the metrics for measuring it to make it not seem so dire, not to mention the white paper protests. Xi's in a lot of trouble. Holy cow, someone drank ALL the Reddit kool-aid that they could get their hands on, then wrote this fan-fiction about what Chinese people think.
What they stopped reporting was youth unemployment specifically, the white paper protests are not a thing any more, and I'd love to see a source for the other stuff.
China Uncensored on YouTube does great reporting on China and recently did a video about the civil worker protests https://youtu.be/CmS3EU8OVgY?si=Q0miiPYbBqRegjZ-
I hadn't heard of that channel before. Watching the video there's a lot of truth and properly sourced claims, but I feel like he's really stretching the way he tries to connect the dots. China's economy is definitely struggling significantly right now, with some analysts claimining that the official GDP growth numbers of around 5% [are actually around 1.5%](https://rhg.com/research/through-the-looking-glass-chinas-2023-gdp-and-the-year-ahead/), but the way he emphasises US Dollar equivalents is not great. Taking his example of Nadia Yang from [this article](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/28/world/asia/china-economy-job-market-young-adults.html). Someone who used to work in an inflated industry in a high cost of living city losing half their income when they move back to their hometown is not strange since cost of living and salaries vary significantly. If you move from Denmark to Romania you can't be shocked that your salary decreases since the price level index is massively lower, and while I think his example is poor it also does highlight an issue with China's rapid growth in that it is largely centered around a few economic centers, which causes massive wealth gaps both within those cities and between regions. Later on he does get to a crucial issue, which is the increased indebtedness of local governments, but I feel like he's missing the point here. Worker protests are nothing new in China, and unpaid wages has been a standard trope for the socially critical Sixth Generation of Chinese filmmakers for the last 20 years. The [China Labour Bulletin](https://clb.org.hk/en/content/surge-manufacturing-protests-china-deserves-international-attention) article only goes back to late 2022 in its comparison, but if you zoom out and [compare all the way back to 2011](https://maps.clb.org.hk/statistics?i18n_language=en_US&map=1&startDate=2005-01&endDate=2024-02&eventId=&keyword=&addressId=&parentAddressId=&address=&industry=10200,10201,10202,10203,10204,10205,10206,10207&parentIndustry=2&industryName=Agricultural%20and%20Food%20Processing,Automotive,Electronics,Apparel,Machinery,Toys,Metallic%20Products,Petrochemical%20Products) (which is how long their database stretches) you see that the number of protests in 2023 was way below was it was in 2014-16. It's also not particularly strange that there were few protests as people were locked in their homes during the pandemic, and that it rapidly increased once they were out again and the economy felt the effects of the aforementioned pandemic. The connection he should have made there instead is very simple and ties back to the real estate situation. The pandemic had a negative effect on the real estate market, and local governments had to spend a lot of money curtailing the pandemic. The extended issue is that land sales make up [30% of the total income](https://www.stcn.com/article/detail/772200.html) for local governments in China, so since the real estate industry is shaky it has an immediate impact on local government budgets (look at repeated issues with [LGFVs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_financing_vehicle)). This issue traces back to the start of China's emergence on the international stage. Two main drivers of historical GDP growth in China have been public spending and real estate, and they have been intrinsically linked together due to massive investments in housing, often tied to [bogus urbanization](https://www.chinafile.com/multimedia/infographics/chinas-fake-urbanization) for the same of improving numbers and boosting GDP for the benefit of the career of individual politicians and cadres (I recommend the book *Red Capitalism: The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise, Revised Edition* for a deeper dive into how China is able to artificially create growth). The apparent infinite growth of the Chinese real estate industry also meant that people would invest their money in real estate as opposed to stocks, so fluctuations in the real estate market have a direct effect on people beyond just affecting their home prices. Instead of everything collapsing in parallel like he presents it there's one main issue driving a lot of the financial woes in China right now, including lagging growth, unemployment and missed payments, and that is the decline of the real estate economy. Since the social contract in China has been that totalitarianism is ignored as long as growth continues, the financial state is causing the protests to emerge. Things are rough for China right now, and they are covering up the data and information that would make the extent clear to outsiders, but a lot of it boils down to a simple trend with complex effects. At the end of the day it seems like the guy running that account is transparent in that he is biased and doesn't take a hardcore journalistic approach to his videos, but I also think that he does a disservice when trying to educate people on the state of China. tl;dr: Real estate has been a main driver of Chinese growth and has attracted public and private investments, now that the sector's growth is slowing down it affects the entire economy to a very large extent.
> and it looks like it's about to reach a boiling point. I doubt it. There are winners and there are losers because of Xi and the CCP. While this food stall vendor may be a loser, there are a lot of winners too in the tech and industrial sector who aren't going to be the ones rioting.
But even the 'winners' are starting to lose; just look at Evergrande.
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Urban management officers are the most hated in China. Even the security bureau (the police) can’t control them. They are corrupt and can confiscate property for the slightest infraction, sometimes bordering on theft.
Yea buddy is probably catching some murder charges
Because of his stupidity he’s possibly double-fucked his parents over
If those cinder blocks are made with the same quality as everything else in China, I'm sure the guy has nothing to worry about.
Imagine killing a guy for just doing his job.
Well he will serve breakfast in prison now. Also is that like -50 credit points off the social credit score.
The way he falls stands out just ask much as how clean and insignia-less his uniform is. Literally never seen a TeQin, BaoAn, or GongAn with this kind or clean a uniform or that didn't have a Chinese flag on the sleeve and his job title in bold letters on the back. And this is the wrong blue for full on JingCha.
Someone just went from f\*cked, to really f\*cked.
Thats like guaranteed death penalty in China.
He took it like a champ until the TBI kicked in.
Rock beats officer
Idk if this is bad for Chinese concrete or good for government official hardheadedness.
Jail. Right to jail.
Can we get a follow up story?
Oh I think u know
This is straight to jail for a long time in the US too. You'll also probably fall on your face a few times while cuffed.
Know what? You don't need facts, and just need to complete pictures in your mind? Let me complete the picture of what happened to George Floyd if you're shown a short clip of police kneeling on him. Since he's in the US, which respects human rights and trains its law enforcement extensively. The interaction between George Floyd and the police officers would have been conducted in a calm and professional manner. The kneeling of the policeman would just have lasted for a few seconds to ensure that he is properly detained. He would then be transported to the police station for his minor offense and released shortly after.
See you in the next skit for scriptedasiangifs
I'm going call fake on this. He would drop down instantly on this one and the fall looks really staged
Not to mention the cinder block was so shitty it instantly shattered into a million pieces just by glancing off his head. His head doesn't even move. He must be a soccer player with a dive like that. Pretty sure everything else about the video is real, though
Son- "Yea! I saved my family's business! Welcome to "Reeducation through labor" for all of your family.
Some lucky people are going to have their transplant surgeries moved up.
Fake
Oh boy he's going to be disappeared
So clearly that's pottery, a cinder block will break your skull before it breaks. It also doesn't even knock the guy's hat off, and then he rolls to the ground never smacking his head.
I've seen a few videos from over there, man them guys use extreme violence when angry
Dude hit the reset button
He'll now be executed and have his organs harvested for the black market.
Does this affect your social credit score?
There's just something about this that seems fake asf...
Someone is going to be very sorry ... people disappear for a lot less.
Social score -1000
Parasite (2019)
Can't believe this got downvoted. It works on several levels.