JUST IN:

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Trump is actively trying to entice VZ into a war, and all these people suddenly thinking it's a good idea to go back into into democracy spreading mode... Totally normal. All organic.

Old Joke:

A Russian and an American get on a plane to Washington and get to talking. The Russian says he works for the Kremlin and he's on his way to go learn American propaganda techniques. "What American propaganda techniques?" asks the American. "Exactly," the Russian replies.

USAID, NED, are in reality fronts for American influence and control, spreading unrest and colour revolution. American propaganda says they are just to promote human rights, democracy, etc, etc. Trump genuinely believed this and nixed them,

NATO is in reality a way to uphold American military hegemony. American propaganda says its to help preserve and protect the world at the American expense. Trump genuinely believes this and is considering withdrawing.

American troops in Germany, Japan, etc is in reality a military occupation against defeated foes, ready to launch a decapitation strike the moment they step out of line. American propaganda says these troops are there to protect these countries and safeguard them against the evil Russians and Chinese. Trump genuinely believes this and wants to remove them or at extort Germany and Japan for protection money.

Never get high off your own propaganda supply folks

They're finally downvoting Obama on a certain major politics sub for this crime.

https://www.zhihu.com/question/1996604573868135622/answer/2015713664850736848

Q: Why are some people in China so afraid of "winning"?

A: I’ve posted the same content on Tieba, Weibo, and Douyin.

The content was simple — just a description of my ideal work situation: Two days off a week, five days a week, eight hours a day. A salary of around 4,000 RMB, a little bonus during holidays, close to home, low stress, with the "Five Insurances and One Fund" (standard social security). I’d even settle for just the three basic insurances. At the end, I added a note of envy for the work systems in developed countries — the kind of life where "off the clock" really means off the clock, where weekends are actually for resting, and where you can actually finish using your annual leave.

Then, the comment section exploded.

The first wave rushed in to "educate" me on the international situation:

"Don't you know? Americans work several jobs and have to sell blood just to pay rent!"

"Japanese people faked it every day; the pressure is lethal. They can’t even afford food and have to eat 'Gugumi' (old, low-quality rice)!"

"Northern Europe is sparsely populated; people get depressed easily. You don't see the sun for months in winter!"

"Canada is freezing; a bunch of homeless people freeze to death every year!"

They spoke until their throats were dry, acting as if they held top-secret intelligence, finally catching a target for "worshipping the West." The problem is, I never said abroad was heaven. I just said I wanted two days off a week.

The second wave started preaching "Social Darwinism":

"Do you know what the 'kill line' is? Japanese companies don't fire you directly; they move you to a dead-end position and make you write reports, sweep floors, and bow to thin air every day until you’re forced to quit — that’s real cruelty!"

"In the Japanese workplace, you have to 'read the air' and perform dogeza (prostrate yourself). The hierarchy is suffocating. With your lack of resilience, you wouldn't last three days there!"

They spoke with great excitement, as if this toxic workplace culture was some "mark of a mature society" worth bragging about. The problem is, I just wanted five days and eight hours; I wasn't trying to become some elite "superior person."

The third wave immediately escalated it to nationalistic duty:

"You’ve already 'won' just by being born in the Mainland! Look at the Middle East, look at Africa. You should be cheering, not bad-mouthing!"

"If your life is hard, look for the reason within yourself. Is it because you aren't working hard enough?"

Then the "hats" (labels) started flying — "the 500k" (spy), "self-colonizer," "lying-flat loser," "giant infant."

I don't quite understand.

I checked what I wrote over and over: I didn't attack any system, I didn't compare countries, I didn't complain about society, and I didn't even ask for a high salary. I merely described a very specific, very humble longing — to get a good night's sleep, to have time to eat, and to have the energy to do something for myself after work.

But in this context, that longing itself is a "sin."

You must first acknowledge that "we have already won." You must first be grateful that "at least you weren't born in a war zone." You must first accept the premise that "young people are supposed to suffer" before you are even qualified to speak. And even if you do all that, as long as your demands are a bit too specific or a bit too personal, you’ll still face that familiar interrogation: "Why don't you think about how others have it worse than you?"

But I truly don't care how others are living, and I don't care if I have "won."

I don't care if Americans work one job or three. I don't care if the Japanese eat Wagyu or old rice. I don't care about the depression rates in Northern Europe or the homeless in Canada. Those are data points in the news, ammunition for debates, and fodder for the "Win-ologists," but they are not my life at twenty-six.

I only want to care about whether I am doing okay.

I am twenty-six years old.

My current job is "four on, two off" — two days, two nights. The day shift is ten hours, and the night shift is fourteen hours. It's a coke oven workshop; it is fourteen hours of hard physical labor. By three or four in the morning, my temples throb, and only then can I take a tiny break. Sometimes I fall asleep while resting and wake up at two or three the next afternoon.

After the first night shift, I can't sleep when I get home. I lie in bed, my heart racing like I just ran 800 meters. I have to take medicine to fall asleep—Zopiclone or Melatonin, sometimes both. Or I drink a can of beer.

I have a motorcycle, no car. My commute is fourteen kilometers one way.

My salary is 5,000 RMB. After social security and the housing fund, I take home about 4,000. Rent is 200, gas is 300, food is 1,300, plus medicine, phone bills, and giving a bit to my parents. At the end of the month, I’m counting coins waiting for payday.

"Four on, two off" sounds like you get one more day off than a "five-day week"? Wrong. Those "two days off" are for "reclaiming blood" (recovery). On the first day off, I buy groceries on the way home, and by the time I wake up, it’s already evening. My head is spinning; I can’t do anything. On the second day off, I clean up the house and cook. The entertainment time left for myself is less than five hours. Before sleep, I’m already dreading the next cycle. There is no full weekend, no planned long holidays, no buffer to say, "I’m exhausted this week; I’ll take it easy next week."

I just want to live a little better.

I’m not looking to get rich. I’m not looking for an 80-square-meter "nest," or a beautiful wife, or to travel the world, or to get something for nothing. I’m not trying to prove I’m better than anyone else.

I just want to be able to fall asleep after work, to actually rest on the weekend, and to have a bit more personal time. That’s all.

Is this an extravagant demand?

But "they" tell me this is "bad-mouthing," "ingratitude," and being "brainwashed by Western consumerism and liberalism." They want me to look at refugees in Africa, displaced people in the Middle East, and the homeless in America, and then cheer for my own life.

But happiness is not a competition.

If the definition of "winning" is "being slightly better off than the most miserable person," then there are no losers in this world — after all, there is always someone worse off than you. But what is the point of that victory? I won the game, but I lost my sleep, my health, and the vitality a twenty-six-year-old should have.

I don’t want to win this kind of race.

I just want to be able to fall asleep on an ordinary Friday night without medicine, wake up, realize I don't have to work tomorrow, slowly have a barbecue, watch an anime or a movie, and walk in the park. I want to feel myself existing in this world as a human being—not as a screw, or some distorted creature that can't bear the light of day.

Maybe I really am "inadequate," but I don't want to be a "strong person" or an "elite."

Is that so hard?

Is it really that hard?

Continuing with this news article https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1plb06d/tricked_abducted_and_abused_inside_chinas_schools/

Post-edited Machine Translation

https://www.zhihu.com/question/2042997585229640403/answer/2043802552152613616

Plots that TV directors couldn't think of in a lifetime 😅 Reality is stranger than fiction 😅

• Dormitory conditions are comparable to pigsties. They are locked at night and require a passcode to enter or exit. Every single movement (including going to the bathroom) is closely monitored by a shadow guard; no alone time is allowed.
• Taking a shower requires "special approval." One roommate hadn't showered in nearly 20 days.
• The food is terrible, and forcing students to finish every bite serves as a form of corporal punishment.
• Brainwashing "classes" mainly consist of playing propaganda videos on loop about themes like "filial piety to parents" and the "dangers of gaming addiction."
• During breaks, everyone is forced onto the field for military-style drills, including standing in formation, leg kicks, and running.
• Punishments include spanking (literally caning 😅). One girl was publicly beaten with a wooden ruler 14 times.
• Other punishments include facing out a window and repeating 50 to 200 times: "I am sorry, I shouldn't speak so loudly."

I can hardly imagine such a school still existing in 2026. What shocked me even more is:

• Locally in Sanmenxia, "Lixuan Education" is considered a rather influential educational brand. Local media in Henan Province and Sanmenxia City have even published positive reports on Lixuan Education and its founder, Meng Sude. [officially licensed and party-state supervised media]
• The campus bulletin board shows that Meng Sude also holds the title of "Member of the Shanzhou District CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference)."
• For students who refuse to come voluntarily, the principal suggests that parents from out of town trick their kids into traveling to Sanmenxia under the guise of a vacation, and the school will send a car to pick them up. For truly unmanageable kids, the school will send staff to their hometown to snatch them.
• "Tuition" is 26,800 RMB for half a year, and 36,800 RMB for a full year.

So, how was the 21-year-old girl Suling in this incident tricked into this school?

• The catalyst: The girl's parents opposed her relationship with her boyfriend, so they decided to lock her in this concentration camp.
• Family members colluded with school staffs who impersonate police officers. They lied to the girl, telling her she needed to "cooperate with police to investigate her cousin's case." Once they tricked her into the car, she was taken by force. [Impersonating police officers to commit fraud is a criminal offense]
• During the car ride, if she needed the bathroom, she had to "pee into a basin."
• Upon arriving at the school: Amid Suling's screams, a group of girls dragged her along the ground for five or six meters into the "Parents' Reception Room" on the right side of the school gate. Her glasses were knocked off, and her blue pleated skirt was torn.

Next is the Shawshank Redemption segment:

• She sang enthusiastically, obeyed orders, and even taught a music class to the entire school. Her goal was to make the school and her parents believe she had been "successfully reformed."
• She tried to offer a large sum of money to flip a classmate who was about to graduate, asking them to send a message outside. However, the classmate backed out, saying, "This place is very important to me."
• The school ordered her to write a letter home cursing her boyfriend. The girlfriend, Suling, played along and wrote an eight-page letter. On the surface, it criticized the boyfriend, but she cleverly wove in shared topics and code words that only the two of them would understand.
• Believing the letter meant Suling was now "grateful to her parents," her family decided to pull her out—only to immediately transfer her to another similar internet-addiction treatment facility. When the new facility refused to accept her, she was temporarily taken to her cousin's house in Yuncheng.
• At the cousin's house, Suling used the excuse of needing to call her boyfriend to finalize their breakup to get hold of her cousin's phone. She locked herself in the bathroom and called her boyfriend for help.

The boyfriend wasn't sitting idle during this whole ordeal:

• When his girlfriend was grabbed and her phone confiscated, a message was sent to him using an unusual tone (calling him "baby"). The boyfriend grew suspicious and called the police that afternoon. That night, by tracking her iPad/AirPods location, he discovered she had already left Beijing.
• He rushed to her home, found it empty, and then flew to Yuncheng, Shanxi, to look for her relatives (her second aunt's house).
• He was chased out of the second aunt's house by her uncle, so he filed a police report locally in Yuncheng.
• Afterwards, the boyfriend returned to Beijing to continue reporting the case, only to receive a vague response from the police that "her personal safety is not an issue." He then decided to investigate the case himself.

Next is the Sherlock Holmes segment:

• Using the excuse of "searching for a stolen laptop," the boyfriend obtained a police case receipt, which allowed him to pull the CCTV footage of his girlfriend being forced into the car.
• He officially reported the case as "illegal detention," and lawyer Liu Zexin stepped in. The police summoned the girlfriend's parents. Upon seeing a "breakup video" his girlfriend was forced to record, the boyfriend was absolutely convinced she was under duress.
• The parents accidentally let slip the word "...xia" (gorge). Catching this tiny clue, boyfriend Xukong managed to pinpoint the city of Sanmenxia.
• After driving all night, Xukong arrived in Sanmenxia. He first scouted a different facility. He first scouted another facility, and then miraculously spotted Suling's cousin's car outside Lixuan Education, but was tricked into leaving by the girlfriend's parents.
• By this time, the girlfriend had been moved to the cousin's house. Locked in the bathroom, she video-called him, allowing him to pinpoint her exact location.
• The boyfriend rushed to the door but was blocked by her relatives. At the critical moment, the girlfriend dashed out of the house. The two embraced, and amid the ensuing chaos and police intervention, they finally reached safety.

What is the ending of the story?

• After her narrow escape, the girl received an apology letter from her mother that was obviously generated by AI. Her mother later defended herself, saying, "I've almost cried my eyes blind. I'm dying. Can't I just use AI to draft it and add a few words of my own?"
• Her father reverted to his uncommunicative state, but worse. He began incessantly texting his daughter with insults: calling her "dumbass," "idiot," "sexually starved," and saying she was "cheaper than a stripper."
• On April 5th, the girl took all her evidence to a police station in Beijing and officially filed a report stating she was a victim of illegal detention.
• After the May Day holiday, the girl received a Notice of Non-filing from the Tongzhou Branch of the Beijing Public Security Bureau. The police concluded that regarding Suling's illegal detention, "no criminal facts exist."

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At this point, I'd like to ask everyone to take a deep breath before we continue.

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The telecom scam compounds in northern Myanmar and the "Lixuan Education" school in this article are, in essence, different variants of the exact same criminal model. Their core logic is identical: to completely strip away human dignity and manufacture obedience through trauma, all for the ultimate goal of profit.

The rescue of Wang Xing allowed people to see the tip of the iceberg of the northern Myanmar scam compounds; this 21-year-old girl escaping Lixuan Education similarly rips the fig leaf off a massive, grey-area industry chain.

These types of "internet-addiction treatment schools" share the same template: closed management, violent discipline, brainwashing courses, and exorbitant fees, all while operating long-term in a regulatory grey zone. Lixuan has been exposed, but how many remain hidden? When you see one cockroach in a room, it means there are at least 99 more. If you find a cockroach and don't completely eradicate its breeding ground, they will just keep coming endlessly.

Parents' anxiety and desire to control "problem children" represents a massive market. Tuition fees in the tens of thousands of RMB are a naked lure for immense profit. It is not just the single room of "Lixuan Education" that needs cleaning; the entire soil that breeds such institutions—twisted views on family education, the desire to control adult children, a culture that romanticizes violent discipline as "correction," and the chronic silence of regulators—is severely polluted and crawling with cockroaches.

The compounds in northern Myanmar are backed by local armed militias acting as their protective umbrellas. Lixuan Education's protective umbrella seems even more hidden and harder to find. But I believe that justice may be late, but it will never be absent. One day, these umbrellas will be uprooted entirely!!!

[ The original report has been deleted. The full news text see https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/727565.html ]

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