(a) don’t trust anybody not using vpn, they’ll upload your info to google docs
(b) vassals should influence metropole
They’ll eventually block or outlaw VPNs. Encrypted traffic will be rejected. This sucks because that’s the only way I can access the real internet. “why don’t you just use China’s intranet?” I do, it’s kind of boring. I was on Xiaohongshu (rednote) years ago and Douyin before it got rebranded at TikTok. Lots of sexy cosplayers on Douyin though. The golden age was on Weibo before the highspeed rail crash the government covered up. After that they cracked down hard. Used to see the craziest shit on Weibo. Lurid crime stories, bar fights, trucks dumping chemicals into rivers. I still have my account but haven’t checked it in ages.
That’s not the DSA account. That’s some random meme account with no followers. There was a period after elon bought twitter when hogs were posting location screenshots of fake accounts to say that socialists are actually foreigners.
There were lots of MAGA accounts and “Crusaders don your armor” type accounts that were revealed to be from India or Malaysia, too.
For those who don’t get the reference this is about the old blog Great Moments in Leftism, biting satire from the pre-social media era back when everyone had web logs. Some gold in there but be aware it is from an age before content warnings so I don’t even know what to warn about. It has things i didn’t even understand. Posadism? https://greatmomentsinleftism.blogspot.com/2013/
More like cringe in Portugal
After my article the other day about Ph.D not being an easy route to China green card any more I looked up what are the easiest countries for Americans to get green cards in. South America and Portugal topped the list. The most difficult?
- Vatican City
- DPRK
- China
Vatican City
This one is just silly though. No one has a Vatican “Green card”. Citizenship of the Vatican is temporary and residency is “You work for the pope”.
And if youre going to be playing silly buggers, then San Marino and Liechtenstein probably top China. I don’t even think you CAN get a Liechtenstein residency unless you’re Swiss.
Edit: Which means the process for getting a Lichtensteinian “Green card” is: (Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong in the process here, I’m sourcing from my memory and the government website)
A: Move to Switzerland
B: Live there for 6 years
C: Acquire language fluency in the official language of the canton. This requires tests and possibly formal educational qualifications. I would suggest one of the German cantons, since your eventual goal is a place that also speaks a similar type of German.
D: Have a steady job for those 6 years while you’re learning the language. (Also don’t do crimes and pay your taxes). Also until you get the citizenship don’t be unemployed if at all possible.
E: Get a C-Permit
F: Live there for 4 years more.
G: Apply for citizenship
H: Pass the communal level citizenship test
I: Pass the canton level citizenship test
J: Pass the national level citizenship test.
K: Get a job in Liechtenstein
M: Communte from Switzerland for a while
N: Win a lottery for the chance to be allowed to legally move to Liechtenstein
O: Move there
P: Live there for 5 years
Q: Apply for permanent residencyAnd none of this is getting into non language based educational qualifications and financial requirements.
This is the kind of thing that AI is good at, taking information from disparate sources and assembling it into a whole. China is: have Chinese relatives. By blood or (this is the loophole) by marriage. The spousal route isn’t really for whitey but for North Korean or Vietnamese wives of Chinese men, which is why it doesn’t allow work. You don’t need to work because you’re at home with the kids anyway. Or found a company that brings in tons of investment capital or be a well-paid executive of a big company or be a Ph.D. in a field that China wants badly, like AI. Citizenship is all but impossible and you probably wouldn’t want it anyway. Permanent residency all but makes you Chinese in the eyes of the law, you get a national ID card and can participate in life just like a Chinese. No language requirement.
