In China knives are considered deadly weapons if carried/brandished in public. Same in Japan and probably Korea.
I once took a kitchen knife to get sharpened in Japan and the shop told me that it was extremely important for me to wrap the knife up in a towel and then tie string around the whole thing tightly so that it can’t come loose. If the cops found me carrying an improperly secured knife, the could charge me with carrying a weapon in public.
But of course, China is uniquely dystopian, Cee Cee Pee oppression, etc etc.
This reminds me of a video that went viral on Twitter of a woman dual wielding butcher knives in China and the cops were able to apprehend her without lethal force. They used a long stick thing to lasso her leg while other officers used these plastic bins to subdue her without causing harm to her or themselves. Of course, the person who posted the video was crying about state oppression but thankfully many people came through to discuss how they handled the situation much better than western cops who would’ve beaten her to death had they not riddled her with bullets first.
Iirc that clip was posted by some Fa Lun Gong cultists and it blew up in their faces pretty bad. Makes me wonder how out of touch they are with Western society that they thought cops putting themselves at risk to non-violently apprehend an armed person was an own against China.
It’s also quite common to see cops with man catchers or staves all across East Asia. Very effective tools, but it takes a lot of training and coordination to use well.
I know this isn’t what you said but I just imagined you flying all the way to Japan from somewhere in NA for the express purpose of having a knife sharpened and it amused me. Sorry, I’ll get back to lurking.
Lol or the UK: Judge says kitchen knives should have blunt tips
Judge Nic Madge has suggested introducing a scheme whereby members of the public could get their kitchen knives modified.
Why would anyone do this? If they’re not out committing crimes with their cutlery, they won’t need to. If they are out committing said crimes, they won’t want to. Baffling.
“I don’t know how to cook but here’s my opinion anyway.”
CW violence
Wasn’t there a spate of public stabbings/attacks In the 90’s/early 2000’s by Islamic fundamentalists? This is probably partially in response to that
Ahh I wasn’t disagreeing with you Comrade, just adding more context. Sorry if my post came off as argumentative.
Mf too young to remember when the fucking pens in banks were chained to the tables
Wdym, in Poland they still are (not everywhere).
Xi Jinping and Chairman Mao were making Uyghur genocide in the closet and I saw one of rhe baby Uyghurs they were genociding and the baby looked at me.
Say the line, Parenti.
The quote
In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
– Michael Parenti, Blackshirts And Reds
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most honest china bad reporter
I briefly looked her up and first thing was some article about how she was living in Shanghai and everything was dystopian. I couldn’t actually read it because it was behind a paywall (I also wouldn’t have read it if it was free).
It drives me up the wall that cracker pieces of shit like that sit on their ass and whine about imaginary oppression in Shanghai. She’s probably pissed that she can’t scream at brown people about how much better the West is, and thinks her words are worth their weight in gold. If she thinks its so miserable, let me take her residency in Shanghai.
A huge portion of the west thinks that living a good life is just buying things. The best things in life are free (like being part of the Lemmygrad community).
The “expat” community in Shanghai is so incredibly dogshit its not even funny. Entitled assholes who get mad when Chinese people don’t bend over backwards even more than they already do. When I read all those “boo hoo woe is me, I’m leaving Shanghai” articles during COVID I thought that I’d be a real improvement for the city.
Like why in the world would you want to live in Shanghai if it’s so terrible there?
