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Google+ Unblocked In China; President Obama's Page Flooded With Comments
An anonymous reader writes "Google+ has recently been unblocked in China and Chinese netizens have found their way to President Obama's G+ page. The result is that topic after topic has hit the limit of 500 comments, most of them in Chinese. Some express political views, but many are just everyday banter or showing off."
What's more interesting is how little interest we have in our politics. At least, little interest in finding out for ourselves what's going on rather then blindly following our parties marching orders.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
The US now seems to treat politics like just another reality TV show.
What's even more interesting, is how little interest our politicians have in us.
As opposed to their own careers and their paymasters.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
I feel solidarity with these chinese people who wrote to Obama just to say "we need freedom"... (This theme is also relevant to me as I was born in another totalitarian regime, the soviet one, a year before it broke; now we still have to build our country and resurrect its culture, persisting against all the pro-soviet-russian forces (i'm from Ukraine.)
No, we care who wins reality TV shows. More people vote for American Idol then for their representatives.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"