I know that it’s Chinese and it translates roughly as “white/Western left.” Looking it up on the Chinese wiki, Google translate gives me… well, this:

It is used to describe people who support policies such as the abolition of the death penalty , [ 3 ] animal protection , environmental protection , body equality , skin equality , LGBT , feminism , vegetarianism , marijuana decriminalization , euthanasia , abortion and immigration , that is, people with cultural leftist ideas in the European and American world.

This paints baizuo as something akin to American conservative terms like “woke” or “SJW.” On the other hand, I’ve seen baizuo on Hexbear a few times, but in those contexts it seemed to mean something closer to “succdem” or “Western chauvinist” rather than the definition above. Obviously, a term used to insult feminists, LGBT people, and environmentalists would be incredibly out of place on this site, hence why I’m asking about it rather than taking a machine-translated Wiki article at face value.

        • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          9·
          1 month ago

          And this makes the whole DOGE cost cutting thing even more absurd because if the US goes into recession, the demand for Teslas in both countries will certainly plunge, and Elon would have effectively killed his own business. Would have been funny if not for the fact that millions of people will also lose their jobs because they let this idiot dictate the fiscal policy.

          Elon won’t be dictating policy, he’ll be dictating who in government gets purged. The job he’s angling for is to be the one to determine who goes and who stays.

          He’ll determine who survives to dictate policy.

          You know how when a company wants to save money and it sacks 60% of the workforce? That’s what Musk wants to be in charge of doing to the US government and all of its agencies.

        • mamotromico@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          1 month ago

          I was unaware, thanks for the insight! I thought domestic EVs were already bigger in China.

    • bdonvrAEnglish
      21·
      1 month ago

      Trump is a comrade who will help take down the US empire.

      Comrade? No. Take down the US empire? Maybe lmao

    • SadArtemis [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      19·
      1 month ago

      Not Chinese (nationality) but there are gay, trans, internationalist people who love geopolitics, maps, etc!!! Dozens of us!!! (Actually far more than dozens, it’s more common than you’d think)

        • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          9·
          1 month ago

          if you go out and talk to normal people about why Stalin did nothing wrong, they’ll look at you like some crazy conspiracy theorists lol

          shit I’d better make a different plan for my upcoming visit to China

          • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
            19·
            1 month ago

            From my understanding, most Chinese people, like most people elsewhere, aren’t really political, and don’t really want to get involved in long discussions about politics. The “I just want to grill” mentality is universal.

            • miz [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
              13·
              1 month ago

              I’m totally kidding I’d much rather learn about the person I’m talking to and their life. I’m not going to bring up politics (other than wearing a sweatshirt with a huge CPC emblem on it)

              • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                10·
                1 month ago

                I’d be the same. I’d totally go up to the old grannies playing mahjong in the park and try to chat with them in broken mandarin.

    • Lussy [any, hy/hym]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      leftist circles on Chinese internet. And when I say Chinese leftists, a large portion of them are the nationalistic, anti-LGBT people who really hate American and Western imperialism

      So, like, nazbol except they’re most of the Chinese left? Is that what you’re saying?

    • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      and how he deserved to lose

      As someone who lost family to that cracker’s crime bill, I absolutely would agree with that take tbh. I hope I live to see the entirety of the Biden lineage die out uncontinued.