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In the latter half of 2025, a phrase began circulating widely on Chinese social media: “The Kill Line” (杀线). It is not a slogan invented by policymakers or academics, nor a meme meant purely for ridicule. It is a sharp, unsettling, and revealing metaphor used by ordinary Chinese commentators to describe how American society appears from the outside. The Kill Line names an invisible threshold in the United States: a point at which a single shock, medical, financial, or legal, can push an otherwise productive middle-class citizen into irreversible collapse.

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The Kill Line exposes how deeply American culture has internalized the idea that survival must be earned continuously, without interruption. It reveals how quickly empathy collapses once someone falls out of productivity. It shows how social trust erodes when people know that one misstep can erase decades of effort.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Please don't waste my time with botslop like this, I know China has massive problems and frankly your inability to have any conversation beyond that level is embarassing.

Nothing about my post or my words have defended China here, so your emphasis that yes China has many very serious problems is entirely unnecessary. We all know. If this article said "look at how perfect China is!" I wouldn't have posted it, but the article clearly lays out issues with China and identifies that this construction of "The Kill Line" is itself partially a form of propaganda (at least that is obvious to me?).

What feels unbalanced is the need of people like you to redirect any criticism of the US towards how bad China is especially whenever the two countries are brought up, even if it doesn't make sense and is tangential to the conversation.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No "we all" dont. You havent been paying attwntion. I invite you to view any .ml instance thread for proof.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What feels unbalanced is the need of people like you to redirect any criticism of the US towards how bad China is especially whenever the two countries are brought up, even if it doesn't make sense and is tangential to the conversation.

You may just be ignorant and never read my post history, but I am among the first to criticize the US and viciously, but deservingly mock them at every opportunity. No redirection required.

I also harshly criticize my own government in Canada, because I can and they deserve it.

What I can't stand is the Chinese desire to gloss over their rather extreme problems and point fingers. It's dishonest.

If you don't want your time wasted with opinions that aren't your own, you should leave public forums.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you don't want your time wasted with opinions that aren't your own, you should leave public forums.

It isn't the fact that I disagree with you that makes me feel like this interaction is a waste of time, it is the need in your comments to dumb the conversation down, to turn this into an Us Vs. Them conversation when the point is about the extreme fragilities in US society independent of how much better or not better China is.

In this entire conversation you have completely directed your words away from empathizing with people in the US who may be on or past "The Kill Line" and wasted our time by talking over the conversation yelling about "ChiNa iS woRse ThoUgH".

Do you understand how that comes off to someone who feels like they are on that kill line in the US? You come off like an asshole trying to deflect the conversation to the least relevant area.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You brought China into this, not me. If you wanted to talk about the US killing line you should have done just that. Why did you bring it up, if speaking about it is offensive?

Why can you bring up a topic and demand how people engage with it?