one of my very good friends made a 'social credit score' comment the other night off-hand (they were referring to a relative of theirs who apparently lives in China and 'has' one - but it sounded like bs to me lol) but I knew the argument wasn't worth pursuing so instead of I just went "huh?" & kept asking him to elaborate until he realized he was just spouting some insane propagandized State Department BS straight from either his' relative's dumbass mouth and/or from some bs alternative source. Works every time and he actually felt dumb about it afterwards.
Literally:
"yeah my cousin lives in Beijing and actually has a social credit score.."
huh??
"you know - the social credit score thing that China has?"
huh?? like the credit score we have for renting/purchasing property and loans?
"no no - its different than that, its a lot more fucked up you've surely heard of this you fucking communist"
huh? how?
"basically its how China prevents people from doing..."
huh?? that doesn't sound real to me lol - how has it affected your American cousin who is living in Beijing with a Chinese wife??
"he has a social credit score now"
so like an American credit score??
"NO NO NO HERE HOLD ON LET ME GOOGLE IT FOR YOU"
^ imagine this for like an hour and a half and you'll have my experience in NYC a few days ago.