It entirely depends on the couple and region, 老公 (basically husband, most commonly heard between long time girlfriends to their boyfriends) is common enough to count, but 情人 can and is also used, which is closer to ‘lover’ but is used for any type of close intimate relationship including cishet married couples.

Material analysis does tend to go contrary to liberal fantasy. Have a good life full of surprise and wonder at how the blue tie doesn’t materially change things.

The regional poverty has dropped. Drastically. Unlike the US, a rising tide lifts all boats.

Does more work need to be done? Sure. But food insecurity isn’t a thing in China. Ever. You are guaranteed income, land, food, and farming supplies if you live in a rural area. Is it a lot compared to the top of the top? No, not really. But it’s infinitely better to be poor in China than in the US. Every poor rural Chinese person is either a land holder or is in the household of a land holder. Tax free as well under specific income thresh holds.

Remember they are taking a society that 35 years ago was the poorest and most populated country on Earth and have so far raised median living standards above all of their neighbors. There is of course more to go, because most of the country has yet to be industrialized. Hence the ‘Ghost Cities’

Ah yes, the chinese propaganda of 209 countries and the UN all being in agreement.

Disclaimer, I don’t think harris would have been as bad as Trump. But this is the US.

If Harris won, do you think we’d be engaged in a war with Iran right now

Yes, Israel is America’s ally and this is Israel’s war. The choice would be between letting Israel get absolutely destroyed which would have unironically happened by now if there weren’t 3 carrier groups trying to intercept missiles and drones, or going to war with Iran.

that the Epstein files would be as blocked as they are?

Yes, as an AG she spent her time refusing to charge pedos and disproportionately arresting (and arguing against the conditional release of) minorities. She worked with a know pedophile for four fucking years and called him one of the best people she knew.

Do you think she would have signed a bunch of EOs that are illegal to enrich herself and her family?

She went fairly middle class Californian to one of the richest women on Earth by the time she ended her tenure as Senator. You tell me. Maybe they would’ve been legal like how all other presidents massively enriched themselves in office. Maybe that’d be the difference.

Do you believe that ICE would have invaded cities all over the country, illegally capturing minorities and murdering two people?

It’d be way more than two, and it would be less invasion and more silent takeover based on how Biden and Obama used ICE to terrorize cities for decades.

The main difference is it would still be comfortable for the ever shrinking middle class, and it would be quiet since liberals by and large don’t listen to unapproved news sources for information. Just like Obama’s kills of US citizens across the world, just like Biden’s record number of child arrests, many of whom are still detained in “Trump’s” ICE facilities (or just missing).

You pay over your lifetime what a US citizen might pay in a particularly bad year. Including all tax burden.

Hey, tell that to the Guardian, not me. Its your propaganda source funded by Rothschilds.

The Guardian currently believes Israel is the victim, Iranian drones are coming for UK citizens, and that Donald Trump is a trusthworthy source of information.

How does that help the owners of the western world continue to make exponential money, exactly?

The Goal at the very top is to wholly, or as much as they can, eliminate the lower classes and all they deem lesser and live in, ironically, fully automated luxury space communism. AI, theoretically, is a path to letting them do just that.

If AI doesn’t work out their goal remains the same, and it’s not improving your life if you turn out to be an essential ‘lesser.’

To be fair Americans don’t really know history, being the most propagandized people on the planet.

Which you know about how? From the same state-sponsored propaganda companies?

Do people actually believe this nonsense or are we all in agreement that the propaganda mill has become satire of itself lately?

And let’s live in the alternate reality you’re talking about for a minute

We’ve been in reality for quite a bit.

Can two straight people get married in China with no intention of procreation?

It’d be really, really weird culturally and a huge risk most aren’t willing to take. Also if you’re a straight foreigner marrying a chinese national your application will almost certainly be denied if you state you’re not willing to have kids, since that’ll be seen as a fake marriage trying to gain Chinese spousal residency.

Can two gay people get married if they’re planning to adopt?

Since they can enter into a mutual guardianship and adopt yes? You people get tripped up on the word ‘Marriage’ way too much. A rephrasing would be can two gay people cohabitate, share full financial resources, get tax breaks, and adopt? Sure. Can they get ‘married’? No. The difference is entirely without substance at this point, but because Stalin was so incredibly anti-gay, we’re still suffering through the lasting ‘but that’s not the right way’ nonsense cultural war he started so you can’t call it marriage.

Can they even adopt?

Yes.

Come on man, I get being wrong, but don’t double down on it.

I live here half the year, dumbass. You are objectively the incorrect one, in anything you say about China.

Nope Guardianship is available country-wide (I can’t find an english language document that goes into more recent updates which allow property and tax breaks.) Beijing, Hong Kong, and the entire province of Taiwan all recognize marriages from outside of china though, which is where that gets confused.

Unfortunately the overall chinese public isn’t really up to voting for more explicitly stated parity of rights due to a lack of educational push in that direction, which is compounded by the general public’s lack of interest, and so on.

It’s usually 5-10 years depending on country, though almost all countries allow you to file for an early judicial declaration of death to potentially speed things up.

Though even then don’t really count on life insurance, which almost always has separate clauses for the type of death which would be impossible to prove if there’s no body. Extremely few insurance types pay out for missing people, since it’s a legal and PR nightmare for the company if that person shows up again.

Liberals keep the machine fed, and when threatened always hand the keys over to fascists. Every single fascist dictatorship in world history was created by liberals. It’s actually incredible the track record liberals have.

Liberalism should have been dead the second they gave Hitler power in order to fight the communists (aka actual working class people that found solidarity).

I’d rather live in a poorly maintained commie block with intentional 15 minute city design than step foot in literally any single family home.

No, they can just legally join in partnership and have all of the same government incentives as married people… They just don’t call it marriage since marriage is for incentivizing procreation.

Given Ukraine’s arguments to join the EU, yes, bordering Russia is the west. I also never suggested you did live in the US, I simply listed four capitalist dictatorships.

I already addressed this but good try little buddy. I hope they’re giving you overtime pay.