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2023-11-16 00:25:21 ET
TBF xi is like the only person there i'd say i'm 100% ok with being here. i've known enough people from, or who have moved to, or who have lived in / been to china enough times (including my own brother in the US military) to know that basically everything americans are told about china and their government - as with basically everything else americans are told about, well, everything in the world - is pretty much all bullshit. china's by no means a perfect country, and they handled covid pretty abysmally (though no one can top the US in that regard. yay we're #1!) but i'm hopeful xi will at least be able to use his relative level-headedness to convince these neocon idiots here that trying to attempt WWIII with china, the country we're the most economically interdependent with and the country the rest of the world is increasingly liking a lot more than they like us, is a pretty dumbfucktastic idea.
now all that out of the way, APEC itself is a big elitist shit-show. and all the US politicians and fucknut money grubbing CEOs in attendance can all go to hell. fortunately, in that grand ol' san francisco spirit, the city and its citizens have been protesting it massively. even though APEC itself have literally shut down two large, multi-block sections of the city, barricading streets and bridge offramps, shutting off part of an entire subway line, basically giving the APEC attendees a total walled garden that citizens can't even get close to let alone into.
that notwithstanding locals have been doing a pretty good job. a bunch of protestors this morning blocked off one of the entrances for the CEOs in particular for a good 4 hours so none of them could even get in to attend. my homies have been doing a good job. i haven't been able to make it to any protest stuff myself yet just cause of kid stuff and trying to make ends meet still as i'm barely working. but, yeah, it's been real.
the public transit disruptions are what's most ridiculous, though, in a city that's basically as public-transpo dependent as new york. i told my kid he needs to take the subway to and from school this week cause traffic downtown is going to be a fuck (they've basically closed off at least 1/4 of downtown for this stupid thing, and a chunk of nob hill as well - shut off to citizens entirely) annnnnnd the kid decided to take the bus home instead of the train anyway today, and as such he spent an hour and a half just to get home from school. guess he figured out why i told him to take the subway and hopefully he opts for that tomorrow.
i've been pretty much just avoiding the areas where it's been happening since i don't have the time to join any protests, unfortunately. but i'm glad a shit-ton of people have been working very hard to let all these elitist US politician pricks and CEOs know that they're not welcome here and we ain't having their globalist bullshit. let's go brandon!
also i suspect this will do a lot to further deplete our mayor's last-i-checked abysmal 18% approval rating.
the next local election cycle is gonna be a fun time. |
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