It would be so funny if China colonizes Mars, then the Martian Colonists declare independence, and Mars become a new bastion of Freedom and Prosperity.

Oye kopeng, beltalowda need dem OPA to protect our rights. Sasa ke?

Parallels to The Expanse too

My personal #1. Got to meet Le Guin at a play in Portland.

Also, the colonists from the view of the oppressor are "free on paper only" from their view.

Alternately, a buggalo ranch, named the Wong place.

But I want the Expanse timeline 🥺

(minus the blue goo, fuck that shit)

Risk aversion alone makes it worth having 2 plants colonized. Putting all your eggs in one planet basket is poor long term risk management. But that's more thinking in the hundreds of thousands and millions of years before that becomes relevant.

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Bear Head is one of those variations.

But the US didn't really have any natives to exploit either, they basically genocided them. The exploitation was mostly done with enslaved Africans who they kidnapped and trafficked to the Americas.

So all they need to do is just bring over a population to exploit.

(Which I'm not saying is in anyway okay btw, fuck slavery.)

China has enough subjugated people at home, they will just bring someone to feel superior to

I actually don't know enough curse words / insults.

Maybe like: 伊隆係個死八婆 (Cantonese for "Elon is a dead bitch", in Cantononese, they add "dead" in front of curseword nouns to make it more dramatic lol, its shall not be construed as an actual threat, legally speaking)

Or maybe: 埃隆有小鸡鸡 (Mandarin for "Elon has a small dick" ? Idk I heard other Mandarin-speaking classmates say it.)

Yeah but in expanse it's implied global government through UN was formed first and then the colonies. So it wasn't a single country's colony.

The disrespect for iron in this comment is too damn high.

Tbf, distance between Earth and Mars is way farther than England and American Colonies. A Martian revolution has much higher chance success.

*Restrictions apply, Martian land ownership required

Because I'm ethnic Chinese and I'm biased and I wanna see people like me build a place of freedom, a democratic country, a country that I don't get discriminated in. Would be cool, no?

Or to Stranger in a Strange Land, at least the very beginning.

Fuck.

Maybe add some westernized Overseas Chinese to the mix... see what happens? xD

I could lead the Martian Revolution xD

Its so ironic how the first line of PRC anthem is

“起来，不愿做奴隶的人们” ("Arise, people who refuse to be slaves")

Then we get... this... gestures at Mainland China

like...

lmao

Omg they play that shit like everyday, I have that PRC anthem stuck in my head, I can still kinda remember it lol.

I remember when I was a kid, I kinda wanna sneak into the broadcast room and like... mess with stuff... you know, I was 6-7 and curious. But they locked the door to that room.

I remember once I didn't wanna do the... I think its the monday thing (or was it a monthly thing?, can't remember), where like they make kids stand in the schoolyard and they make announcement, kinda like how in the US, they made kids go to the Auditorium, know what I mean?

Then I remember the raising the flag ceremony in the schoolyard.

I remember just standing there... listening to some... announcement thing? that I don't remember because it was probably boring as hell. Probably like school related, when tuition is due (I wasn't allowed in public school due to lack of Guangzhou Hukou, but I didn't remember learning about this until later on when I was older), or like when school trips happen, or like when school is off, about academics... I assume that's what the announcements were probably about, I have no memory of any of the content of it.

Sometimes the sun is just shining and it gets like hot and it's annoying to be there and I get tired.

So I remember like one time I didn't feel like being there, I just sneaked away as everyone was in the process going to ans gathering in the schoolyard, and I just hid in the staircase at like the very top (roof access is locked I was lile by that door, but still in the staircase), and I just looked over the schoolyard from the 3rd floor. I just sat on the stairs, my mind wandering, and occasionally looking over to see if they finished the boring-ass "rituals" yet. (Y'all ever hate being in the auditorium for so long? It's like that) I think by the end of it, like it was an hour long or something, some 4/5 grader found me and... told the teacher? and... I don't remember what happened after, probably got in trouble for not being with the class lol.

It's so weird, memories are fuzzy, but I remember the emotions associated with school. I kinda always hated school, like... I'm just socially anxious. Didn't like to conform. I don't remember ever really making friends. (Could be due being uncomfortabke with the language. I spoke Cantonese at home, school was Mandarin, so it felt "distant" to me, like methaphorically speaking, like I'm in a different realm. Or maybe that's just being an introvert.)

My throughts are messy, not sure if any of it was coherent.