Amnesigenic

Whichever western shithole nation you’re from is complicit in more atrocities and crimes against humanity in the past decade than China has been in a fucking century, you’re either an incurable moron or a fed, embarassing either way

You are proving them right

This is 100% bullshit, most people enjoy learning when it’s presented in an engaging manner. Modern western education systems are not designed to facilitate learning in a natural and enjoyable way, they are designed to psychologically brutalize normal humans into a state of submission sufficient to keep them laboring quietly and profitably for the rest of their lives.

Part of it is arrogant bullshit stemming from a complete inability to accurately remember what the experience of being young was like. Most people suck ass at honest self-assessment at every stage of life, so they fall into the trap of thinking they and their cohort were different than “kids these days” and are unable to empathize with or relate to young people because of this.

Part of it is that kids genuinely just aren’t fully developed neurologically, in ways that frequently lead to making shortsighted decisions with negative results. Unfortunately that’s still true way past 18, it’s an arbitrary threshold and the expectation that people should instantly stop acting childish at 18 is just as stupid as assuming that anyone younger than 18 is categorically incapable of making the right decisions for themselves.

The specific examples you’re using have some reasonable claim to option 2 depending on the context. Even as adults most people struggle to some degree with eating healthy nutritionally balanced diets, and children generally have less self-discipline so it can be more of a problem for them. Forcing kids to eat things they don’t want is a bad idea though, you’ll just give them a complex about eating and make them hate that specific food forever. My parents rule was that I never had to finish anything I didn’t like, but I had to try at least one bite of everything before deciding I didn’t like it. Worked like a charm, I eat everything.

Screen time is similar, plenty of adults struggle with regulating their gaming and social media usage, and the companies that make games and websites get paid more when people use their stuff more, so they have an incentive to design things to be addictive and predatory. Adults assuming that all screen time is bad for kids are stupid, but it is possible that an adult might recognize a predatory system that a child wouldn’t have any experience with and save them from being taken advantage of. Best practice is to actually pay attention to what’s on your kids’ screen and discuss it openly with them. Unfortunately a lot of adults don’t want to do that because it’s difficult, they default to either assuming all screen time is bad or to not trying at all, so their kids are either needlessly restricted in their growth or exposed to the worst the internet has to offer. Both bad.

Tldr the adults you’re dealing with aren’t necessarily completely wrong but they’re probably still full of shit

You’re losing and you know it

This is projection

Literally all governments are definitionally authoritarian, it’s a stupid criticism

Patronizing and completely unsubstantiated!

Other than the safety nets this sounds exactly like working at an Amazon fullfillment center in the US. The safety nets are a good thing, letting people die isn’t.

Can’t say anything good about China without droves of butthurt westerners showing up to regurgitate outdated state department talking points and be weird & racist

Cool story

You didn’t know anything about China five years ago either

The “Uyghur camps” are bullshit, the only countries claiming otherwise have spent the past 50+ years indiscriminately imprisoning and bombing innocent muslims around the world, zero credibility

Not a bad way to spend a day off

I think I remember an episode of Buffy like this

Hate to break it to you but refusing to admit you’re wrong about completely trivial info isn’t generally recognized as a sign of being well adjusted. There is exactly one medical definition of hypoxia and nothing about it will help make you any less incorrect.

I felt this way about my sex drive until I transitioned, HRT killed the beast then brought it back perfected it like a gandalf the white