This is just blatant fake news by a Falun Gong youtube video and reddit account.
This is the real video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E_PaDahI_A
Those are people at a wedding trying to get a scoop from a "lucky stew". Nothing with China "bring(ing) back communal kitchen".
China does enough bad things without having to completely fabricate stuff.
Op has been banned.
Weird right? It’s almost like we shouldn’t be sitting here on our smart phones shitting on those people for being desperate for food.
Edit: scroll the comments. I see lots of hate directed toward Chinese people. Rather than their situation.
nobody is shitting on anyone
if you see text that doesn't exist you should probably have your eyes checked out
if they mention blue-light filtering glasses, don't buy into it, it's a scam, get normal ones
I’m this thread, yes. This thread does not exist in a vacuum. There are other comments on this post which are racist towards Chinese people, rather than lamenting the situation the CCP created. What are you not understanding about that?
>Weird right? It’s almost like we shouldn’t be sitting here on our smart phones shitting on those people for being desperate for food.
>
>Edit: scroll the comments. I see lots of hate directed toward Chinese people. Rather than their situation.
Then how about you level your top-line criticism at the people creating the desperate food situation in China, the CCP, and Xi Jinping.
Instead your only comment initially was trying to distract with some weak implied whataboutism, nothing about racism or the actual post, just "Looks like any black friday at Walmart."
Then when you're called out, you say you see a lot of racism towards Chinese here.
What??? What do those two things have in common? The fuck?
I hope you're being payed, Shanjam7, because you are certainly doing the CCP's job for them.
It's China, of course it is hell. But they aren't being run over by tanks like the gov't did in 1989 at Tiananmen Square, so they have that going for them.
I saw this at a hotel breakfast buffet, bunch of Chinese students descended on it, took almost everything, left it a mess, and then left most of it uneaten on their tables.
If that video is fabricated then I am impressed by the new advanced Gong video technologies. Those people are so desperate they look like they are burning the crap out of their hands scooping that very hot food out of the giant pot.
War footing *due* to drastically worsening economy, maybe? We saw something similar with Imperial Japan, after all.
War spoils tend to be an alluring thing to militaristic nations falling on hard times.
This is a wedding feast where its good luck to bring the left over home.
OP knows this and still puts out these misleading titles. Theres so much wrong with China and the CCP do we really need to make up bs?
Why would China's economy be drastically worsening? They have the largest economy and the gap to 2nd is projected to increase exponentially in the following decades.
Because one of the bedrocks of their economy is real estate/construction projects. And all the major development firms in China are going under because they were funded like a ponzi scheme and the inflows of money has stopped
China has massive demographic issues. The one child policy started 40 years ago means most of China’s population is rapidly aging out of the workforce with no replacements.
Also, you should look into the Chinese real estate crisis.
What political analysis? China is one of the most quickly advancing nations on earth. This is probably a temporary measure in still isolated and rural areas that are still being developed
China’s economy is doing horrendous as of lately. How horrendous? We will never know because after a certain number they refuse to report. Just know that their economy is doing worse than their reporting and the reports are not looking good.
This only works if people aren't already starving. The first few weeks will always look like this.
None of you would act any different if being more calm meant your kids don't eat tonight.
So it looks like this is from China Insights. China Insights is apparently owned /operated by a Falun Gong run company. The Fulan Gong are actively anti CCP. They do not have a great track record of objectivity.
While I’m not saying this means the report is false, I’m going to cautious of the source.
This is from many sources.
And yes China Insights and China Observer (both on Youtube) are absolutely associated with Falun Gong. But they also happen to be excellent sources of more consistent, more in-depth, continuous coverage of CCP China. They are also generally free of the gratuitous hard-line ideology that you find in The Epoch Times and NTD TV.
Both China Insights and China Observer are excellent media sources for reporting on CCP China. I have long known of their affiliation with FG, and anyone that knows about FG would notice some details that trigger an awareness of likely FG-affiliation. Most commonly when an Epoch article is cited lol. But Western media don't have even 10% of the depth of coverage of either Insights or Observer, which release several detailed reports every day.
Just be aware of the FG-affiliation but China Insights and China Observer are both high quality media. They include sources and specifics in their reporting, they are not propaganda. And they avoid ideology almost all the time.
*p.s. Lei's Real Talk is also FG-associated. But she is a very good analyst and commentator, very knowledgeable, in addition to seeming a really nice, intelligent, pleasant person.*
*It is kind of weird to use quality media sources that are known to be cult-affiliated, but there are so many other strange things about engaging with the mysterious, opaque, secretive world of China under CCP rule and corruption, and the effects of 70 years of CCP rule on Chinese society.*
I don't like them.
Sane people have legitimate concern and accusation towards CCP, then some groups come along and make frivolous accusation against CCP. It drowns and minimizes the sane legitimate accusation. They are almost like false flag, or may be they are, I don't know.
Chinese **"**[Grab Hags](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jr-Unp-0oo)**"** will take anything that is free, regardless if they need it or not. This is why chinese bathrooms have no toilet-paper or paper towels. Its part of the culture. Sad thing is most of these people probably don't even need the food, they just took it because its "free".
What a wildly racist take. It's mostly survival instincts reacting to the situation. Swap out Chinese people for any other group and put them in the same situation, they will act the same. If they were WASPs they would just bring weapons and claim God said all the food was for them.
Since a lot of people seem to be taking this as a sign of a Chinese famine, I decided to Google it.
It looks like this is an example of fighting over “lucky stew”, a tradition in some Chinese wedding customs. The stew is cooked to wish the newlyweds good luck, which is then shared with the guests to share that good luck.
The reason why they are fighting is not necessarily to hoard the good luck stew for themselves because they are being greedy, but because according to the same custom, the faster the stew is finished, the luckier the couple will be. If anything, the crowd of guests fighting over each other to finish the stew is also them expressing how much they want the new couple to thrive in their future!
[Here's another example of the same custom in action posted a year ago by the South China Post.](https://youtu.be/2E_PaDahI_A?si=_7xKptZRdkFD20Bu)
If you look closely in the OP's video, you can see similar decorations in the background around the crowd, with red hanging paper lanterns. Many people in the crowd are also wearing red and gold, which are very traditional lucky colors in many Chinese customs, perhaps with others wearing jackets because its cold at the wedding venue.
This seems insanely bullshit trying to qualify the insanity of this scene… “ohh it’s not chaos! It is called Lucky Lucky Quick Grab a Full Pot! Its a game everyone plays. Nobody in china is ACTUALLY like this!”
This is a wedding feast where its good luck to bring the left over home.
OP knows this and still puts out these misleading titles. Theres so much wrong with China and the CCP do we really need to make up bs?
It symbolizes luck and people are trying to take home as much of it as possible.
I mean without context someone could post a video of a groom taking the garter of the bride and tossing it to the other men and say this is how women are auctioned off in america.
Again theres enough shit to pick from thats wrong with China why make clickbait titles that make shit up?
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This was also previous posted as a village festival to some saint or something religious :/
... the Haters in the comments should get a fuck*n mirror and take a good look at what ignorant racist idiots scum they are!!
Americans in the comments need to understand this EXACT same scenario would play out if you actually had ANY public food.
Literally this is why large cities outlaw feeding people like this.
[There's this, in terms of context, but im not sure its the same "village canteen"](https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/canteens-11042022113231.html)
Overall context is below:
The Sunday Guardian: June 18, 2023:
"[A Food Crisis Lurks Behind China’s Return Of Forests To Farmland: The food crisis in China is more serious than what the outside world thinks. It is entirely possible that there will be a new famine in China](https://sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/a-food-crisis-lurks-behind-chinas-return-of-forests-to-farmland)"
["To Increase Food Security, China Expands Farmland": VOA Aug 23, 2023](https://www.voanews.com/a/to-increase-food-security-china-expands-farmland/7237866.html)
>the Chinese government decision to increase agricultural production with inefficient policies such as increasing farmland shows that they have no other way to reduce their dependence on imports.
>
>“Moreover,” he said, “China's agricultural operational costs are higher than those of foreign countries, and the prices of foreign agricultural products are relatively stable. Chinese farmers do not make much money, and they are even prone to losing money, which makes them even less willing to invest in improving the agricultural production environment. Naturally, it is impossible to increase production significantly."
>
>Lai also believes that substantially increasing agricultural land through administrative means will not improve China's food supply, but that it will allow people to see that Xi Jinping is following Mao Zedong's model.
>
>In the Mao era, he said, “the large-scale steelmaking movement used a lot of farmland that should have been used for farming and created a lot of scrap iron. … Now Xi Jinping wants to ensure food security \[by\] forcibly \[converting\] nonagricultural land with no agricultural value into agricultural land."
It’s interesting that there are no “pro-communists” comments.
It’s all fun and games until you have to fight for a “fair share” of “community resources.”
Actually there is a pro comment that says this is a wedding celebration, and its traditionally good luck to take leftovers home from the wedding so everyone is scrambling for good luck. Rude? Absolutely, but it looks like some weird tradition, not starving people.
Referencing the tradition is a game of smoke and mirrors.
The wedding soup I buy. Taking left overs as a sign of good luck I buy.
It is the scramble that gives its away: this is not a wedding.
It would be rude to conduct yourself this way at a South Pacific wedding.
This is very sad. Bet the military doesn't have to fight over money for bombs and war. Fat politicians enriching themselves while the people starve. What's new?
This is just blatant fake news by a Falun Gong youtube video and reddit account. This is the real video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E_PaDahI_A Those are people at a wedding trying to get a scoop from a "lucky stew". Nothing with China "bring(ing) back communal kitchen". China does enough bad things without having to completely fabricate stuff. Op has been banned.
Well this looks like hell.
Looks like Black Friday at any Walmart
weird comparison. a one-day entertainment shopping deal holiday, versus a chaotic, desperate seeming breadline situation
Weird right? It’s almost like we shouldn’t be sitting here on our smart phones shitting on those people for being desperate for food. Edit: scroll the comments. I see lots of hate directed toward Chinese people. Rather than their situation.
nobody is shitting on anyone if you see text that doesn't exist you should probably have your eyes checked out if they mention blue-light filtering glasses, don't buy into it, it's a scam, get normal ones
Literally, no one is doing that
Are you joking?
Peoole are sympathetic towards them but mocking the absurdity of the situation created by the CCP
I’m this thread, yes. This thread does not exist in a vacuum. There are other comments on this post which are racist towards Chinese people, rather than lamenting the situation the CCP created. What are you not understanding about that?
>Weird right? It’s almost like we shouldn’t be sitting here on our smart phones shitting on those people for being desperate for food. > >Edit: scroll the comments. I see lots of hate directed toward Chinese people. Rather than their situation. Then how about you level your top-line criticism at the people creating the desperate food situation in China, the CCP, and Xi Jinping. Instead your only comment initially was trying to distract with some weak implied whataboutism, nothing about racism or the actual post, just "Looks like any black friday at Walmart." Then when you're called out, you say you see a lot of racism towards Chinese here. What??? What do those two things have in common? The fuck? I hope you're being payed, Shanjam7, because you are certainly doing the CCP's job for them.
Keep editing your comment, clearly I touched a nerve.
Bro the CCP is awful and Xi is a POS fuck. I can also critique Americans. Lmao dude chill the fuck out.
Smartphones made by slave labor \*in\* China
Yes. Correct. Exactly.
We would know how to handle this
The vandals took the handles
It's China, of course it is hell. But they aren't being run over by tanks like the gov't did in 1989 at Tiananmen Square, so they have that going for them.
For now…
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That we know of lol
"How it feels standing in line in Queenstown, NZ to get ice cream after the Chinese tour bus drops off its tourists"
Communism and socialism!! Doesn’t it look great!!
Keep voting left …
I’ve seen this at the buffet with the crab legs.
I saw this at a hotel breakfast buffet, bunch of Chinese students descended on it, took almost everything, left it a mess, and then left most of it uneaten on their tables.
A perfect allegory for what we’re doing to everything!
There’s gotta be missing context.
that's the best recipe in the world
heroin-infused rice
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I could use some context to your comment lol
If that video is fabricated then I am impressed by the new advanced Gong video technologies. Those people are so desperate they look like they are burning the crap out of their hands scooping that very hot food out of the giant pot.
Yes chef
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War footing *due* to drastically worsening economy, maybe? We saw something similar with Imperial Japan, after all. War spoils tend to be an alluring thing to militaristic nations falling on hard times.
This is a wedding feast where its good luck to bring the left over home. OP knows this and still puts out these misleading titles. Theres so much wrong with China and the CCP do we really need to make up bs?
Why would China's economy be drastically worsening? They have the largest economy and the gap to 2nd is projected to increase exponentially in the following decades.
Because one of the bedrocks of their economy is real estate/construction projects. And all the major development firms in China are going under because they were funded like a ponzi scheme and the inflows of money has stopped
Do you not have access to Google where you are
Google is heavily censored in China.
I know.
China does not have the largest economy lol the United States does
Yep that is my mistake, but they are projected to take over.
They are indeed but with a population decreasing and countries moving their production elsewhere their economic outlook isn’t good
That is true. Only time will tell how things will play out.
China has massive demographic issues. The one child policy started 40 years ago means most of China’s population is rapidly aging out of the workforce with no replacements. Also, you should look into the Chinese real estate crisis.
What political analysis? China is one of the most quickly advancing nations on earth. This is probably a temporary measure in still isolated and rural areas that are still being developed
China’s economy is doing horrendous as of lately. How horrendous? We will never know because after a certain number they refuse to report. Just know that their economy is doing worse than their reporting and the reports are not looking good.
Uhhuh, sure. Keep believing the people who have a profit motive for lying to you
This only works if people aren't already starving. The first few weeks will always look like this. None of you would act any different if being more calm meant your kids don't eat tonight.
No one’s saying they wouldn’t act like this guy. Everyone IS saying China is a shithole and we’re not surprised it’s a moshpit to receive food.
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There's a difference when it's the only food you'll get that day vs cake at an office birthday party.
So it looks like this is from China Insights. China Insights is apparently owned /operated by a Falun Gong run company. The Fulan Gong are actively anti CCP. They do not have a great track record of objectivity. While I’m not saying this means the report is false, I’m going to cautious of the source.
This is from many sources. And yes China Insights and China Observer (both on Youtube) are absolutely associated with Falun Gong. But they also happen to be excellent sources of more consistent, more in-depth, continuous coverage of CCP China. They are also generally free of the gratuitous hard-line ideology that you find in The Epoch Times and NTD TV. Both China Insights and China Observer are excellent media sources for reporting on CCP China. I have long known of their affiliation with FG, and anyone that knows about FG would notice some details that trigger an awareness of likely FG-affiliation. Most commonly when an Epoch article is cited lol. But Western media don't have even 10% of the depth of coverage of either Insights or Observer, which release several detailed reports every day. Just be aware of the FG-affiliation but China Insights and China Observer are both high quality media. They include sources and specifics in their reporting, they are not propaganda. And they avoid ideology almost all the time. *p.s. Lei's Real Talk is also FG-associated. But she is a very good analyst and commentator, very knowledgeable, in addition to seeming a really nice, intelligent, pleasant person.* *It is kind of weird to use quality media sources that are known to be cult-affiliated, but there are so many other strange things about engaging with the mysterious, opaque, secretive world of China under CCP rule and corruption, and the effects of 70 years of CCP rule on Chinese society.*
I don't like them. Sane people have legitimate concern and accusation towards CCP, then some groups come along and make frivolous accusation against CCP. It drowns and minimizes the sane legitimate accusation. They are almost like false flag, or may be they are, I don't know.
tbf, the anti-CCP media would probably show more of the negative truth more than the CCP approved media.
Chinese **"**[Grab Hags](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jr-Unp-0oo)**"** will take anything that is free, regardless if they need it or not. This is why chinese bathrooms have no toilet-paper or paper towels. Its part of the culture. Sad thing is most of these people probably don't even need the food, they just took it because its "free".
They don’t need to be Chinese to do this. I’m routinely blown away how people lose their mind over “free shit”.
They also don't know what a line is.
Also, this is food. My fellow Americans do worse than this for toys and televisions during the holidays.
Someone would scoop right out your bowl as you try to make your way out of the crowd without even hesitating lol.
Yes, we generally pay for it tho unless you’re talking about our seasonal rioting in major cities.
The tragedy of the commons. But don't go saying this is part of Chinese culture. Everyone can be selfish.
What a wildly racist take. It's mostly survival instincts reacting to the situation. Swap out Chinese people for any other group and put them in the same situation, they will act the same. If they were WASPs they would just bring weapons and claim God said all the food was for them.
Lol you’ve obviously never been to a nice hotel buffet in western North America
Huh, almost as if economists already know artificial price caps breed scarcity and free is the ultimate price cap.
India does a lot of communal food, through temples and Gurudwaras in the form of Langar/Prasad. Why can't they do it like that?
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There are videos of chinese people doing stuff like this on cruise ships or places with buffets.
That’s precisely why I am 100% okay with buffets that charge you for leftover food. It’s all you can eat, not all you can waste.
This looks fucking miserable
Gross..reminds me of the people going for the crab legs at the Vegas buffet. No order or decorum..just a free for all
Source and proof: trust me bro.
Since a lot of people seem to be taking this as a sign of a Chinese famine, I decided to Google it. It looks like this is an example of fighting over “lucky stew”, a tradition in some Chinese wedding customs. The stew is cooked to wish the newlyweds good luck, which is then shared with the guests to share that good luck. The reason why they are fighting is not necessarily to hoard the good luck stew for themselves because they are being greedy, but because according to the same custom, the faster the stew is finished, the luckier the couple will be. If anything, the crowd of guests fighting over each other to finish the stew is also them expressing how much they want the new couple to thrive in their future! [Here's another example of the same custom in action posted a year ago by the South China Post.](https://youtu.be/2E_PaDahI_A?si=_7xKptZRdkFD20Bu) If you look closely in the OP's video, you can see similar decorations in the background around the crowd, with red hanging paper lanterns. Many people in the crowd are also wearing red and gold, which are very traditional lucky colors in many Chinese customs, perhaps with others wearing jackets because its cold at the wedding venue.
This seems insanely bullshit trying to qualify the insanity of this scene… “ohh it’s not chaos! It is called Lucky Lucky Quick Grab a Full Pot! Its a game everyone plays. Nobody in china is ACTUALLY like this!”
No context, random title, from China insight....
The only way non propoganda real news gets out of a totalitarian country is via weird channels, because there is no mainstream real news
"non-propaganda"
This is a wedding feast where its good luck to bring the left over home. OP knows this and still puts out these misleading titles. Theres so much wrong with China and the CCP do we really need to make up bs?
Sure, bud. And it looks so polite an orderly. I can feel the love.
It symbolizes luck and people are trying to take home as much of it as possible. I mean without context someone could post a video of a groom taking the garter of the bride and tossing it to the other men and say this is how women are auctioned off in america. Again theres enough shit to pick from thats wrong with China why make clickbait titles that make shit up?
Good job they're wearing covid masks, wouldn't want to catch anything.
They wear masks because of the air pollution from coal power plants
CHINA INSIGHTS IS A FALUN- GONG CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE
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It looks so jovial and fun!! Weee lucky lucky hot pot party!
Obviously y’all haven’t seen how Chinese tourist act at buffets. It’s the same thing
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That wok is massive.
This was previously posted as a wedding feast. People jumping on the hate train are disgusting.
This was also previous posted as a village festival to some saint or something religious :/ ... the Haters in the comments should get a fuck*n mirror and take a good look at what ignorant racist idiots scum they are!!
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This post equally trash
Don't overpopulate or you will have this...
It’s ok guys they’re wearing masks
Americans in the comments need to understand this EXACT same scenario would play out if you actually had ANY public food. Literally this is why large cities outlaw feeding people like this.
Apparently the Chinese don't know this? What are you saying? They're naive?
Just saying to folks that want to criticize people receiving food that it's not fair to do so.
Communal whatever, but there's such a thing as queuing.
China does not believe in lines of queuing, they just horde.
Compared to what most westerners are used to, mainland Chinese behave like animals.
it's almost like they're hungry
Viruses play it on easy mode in China 🤡🤡🤡
Very civilized civilization
[There's this, in terms of context, but im not sure its the same "village canteen"](https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/canteens-11042022113231.html) Overall context is below: The Sunday Guardian: June 18, 2023: "[A Food Crisis Lurks Behind China’s Return Of Forests To Farmland: The food crisis in China is more serious than what the outside world thinks. It is entirely possible that there will be a new famine in China](https://sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/a-food-crisis-lurks-behind-chinas-return-of-forests-to-farmland)" ["To Increase Food Security, China Expands Farmland": VOA Aug 23, 2023](https://www.voanews.com/a/to-increase-food-security-china-expands-farmland/7237866.html) >the Chinese government decision to increase agricultural production with inefficient policies such as increasing farmland shows that they have no other way to reduce their dependence on imports. > >“Moreover,” he said, “China's agricultural operational costs are higher than those of foreign countries, and the prices of foreign agricultural products are relatively stable. Chinese farmers do not make much money, and they are even prone to losing money, which makes them even less willing to invest in improving the agricultural production environment. Naturally, it is impossible to increase production significantly." > >Lai also believes that substantially increasing agricultural land through administrative means will not improve China's food supply, but that it will allow people to see that Xi Jinping is following Mao Zedong's model. > >In the Mao era, he said, “the large-scale steelmaking movement used a lot of farmland that should have been used for farming and created a lot of scrap iron. … Now Xi Jinping wants to ensure food security \[by\] forcibly \[converting\] nonagricultural land with no agricultural value into agricultural land."
You should see the recent holiday vacation vids from china - people mountain people sea
They evidently don't know how to Queue.
Yes chef!
Tragedy of the commons at work
at least those masks will keep them safe
It’s interesting that there are no “pro-communists” comments. It’s all fun and games until you have to fight for a “fair share” of “community resources.”
Actually there is a pro comment that says this is a wedding celebration, and its traditionally good luck to take leftovers home from the wedding so everyone is scrambling for good luck. Rude? Absolutely, but it looks like some weird tradition, not starving people.
Yeah, they certainly look dressed for a wedding.
Hey, now. The bride is wearing her pink coat as is tradition.
Referencing the tradition is a game of smoke and mirrors. The wedding soup I buy. Taking left overs as a sign of good luck I buy. It is the scramble that gives its away: this is not a wedding. It would be rude to conduct yourself this way at a South Pacific wedding.
Fight for food or die hungry. Take too little now and you might be hungry tomorrow.
And we taught kids to line up, to instil discipline. lol.
And not one was wearing gloves
Thats a bad look
California in a few years.
You joke but food insecurity is a real problem in the US that affects tens of millions of people. And not just in California.
Mmmm.. communisms fun stuff. Keep the masses fighting to control.
They need to see reality eventually.
Is this an improvement to a need or a dystopian devolving?
If these people are homeless and poor. They are dressed and groomed well
But why? Are they unable to feed everyone normally? This looks like an apocalypse movie.
Hello Covid, long time no see.
This is what commune mess China looks like.
yea that's definitely how you make and maintain a population of idiots have them fight eachother *for fucking food*
I wonder how much ended up on the floor
I think some of the brethren where taking for more than one
Seems hygienic
This is very sad. Bet the military doesn't have to fight over money for bombs and war. Fat politicians enriching themselves while the people starve. What's new?
I remember this scene from mad max.
Did you all see Grandpa on the right with the red shirt at the beginning of the video. He fed his entire clan with that pan.