I prefer ++Respect;

Not to mention most jobs are gig work now. I haven't had a full time job with benefits for years now. I am able to survive with one full time contract job, but my mental and physical health are at an all time low because I sit and work all day five days a week, including holidays if I don't want to lose pay, even when I am sick. There's no reason all of these gig jobs shouldn't be full-time jobs with benefits (as well as the numerous low paying part time jobs that people worse off than me have to suffer working in multiple of them). Every time a US company needs an employee, they just hire a contractor so they can get away with not paying them benefits. I'm able to get health insurance from the contract company I'm hired under, but I have to spend around $500 a month, and that's for me alone. Funny enough, the health insurance cost at my workplace isn't any better, so even if I were hired, I wouldn't pay less in insurance. I worked in jobs that paid me much less where the insurance was around a few tens of dollars a week or so.

Don't forget, the reason those jobs are <32 hours is because they don't want to pay benefits and benefit from your feelings of insecurity in terms of employment and wages. If you feel that, you're more likely to do things employees who feel secure at work would balk at even if it's as simple as taking extra shifts at a moment's notice.

Xi is just trying to amass the world's largest collection of cat pictures

I think some are worried about some silly zoomer later becoming a senator and now the government has all this dirt on them from harvesting their private messages and other info to be able to blackmail them into doing what China wants.

Which is also very far fetched and ridiculous.

China has constructed a massive network of "autonomous zones" - our reporting leads us to believe these zones compel people to live in their traditional ways and exert authority over their ancestral lands in order to fool westerners into thinking they have rights and aren't being genocided.

It's cool, we've all been in your position at one point or another

It can honestly be a bit hard to keep track of all the lies

It really happens more often than you think. Social credit score is probably the biggest outright fabrication about China but there's a lot of big misconceptions, like:

• Thinking China somehow is oppressing Tibetans (only partly true in the sense they oppressed Tibetan slaveowners) or the whole Uyghur Genocide lie, I think Western govs have stopped pushing the Uyghur stuff but a lot of people still think there's a million Uyghurs locked up in detention camps even after years of travel vloggers going to Xinjiang and showing how active it is with cultural activities, traditional and modern Uyghur architecture, festivals, etc.
• Not knowing the history of the Chinese Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War, how the KMT and Chiang Kai Shek especially played a role in creating Taiwan. A lot of people seem to think that Taiwan is some kind of independent country that China randomly laid claim to, not another government that claims to control all of China because they lost the civil war.
• Misunderstanding of their whole political system, in a bunch of ways. Lots of people think China is a country where people don't vote or have any input over how the government runs. The truth is that the CPC is way more receptive to input from the local, regional, and national bodies that govern it. It's a system that's closer to a direct democracy (granted, with a lot of intermediary bureaucracies) than Western liberal democracies where many national bodies are decoupled from regional and local governance.