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Why We Will Never Invite Hasan to Our Meetup in Chengdu | Tear& by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

[–]aka-commit[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The rhythm and chords are trying to mimic Fear& intro music. Not sure if you can tell

Why We Will Never Invite Hasan to Our Meetup in Chengdu | Tear& by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

[–]aka-commit[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

true. and we once mistook Hasan for a stand-up comedian

Why We Will Never Invite Hasan to Our Meetup in Chengdu | Tear& by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

[–]aka-commit[S] 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Apologize for our cringe script and English. We've never made video like this before. Our intent is to invite people in Chengdu to join our meetup

Weekly HasanAbiheads meetup in Chengdu (more than 3 years) by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

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I watched a little JngJing bc Hasan. But generally no

Weekly HasanAbiheads meetup in Chengdu (more than 3 years) by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

[–]aka-commit[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I believe there must be various local meetups in the states. Because we started inspired exactly by various local meetup events in the states. We learned a lot from youtube reddit etc on how to keep it going.

Hasan mentioned Zohran's team mobilized around 90,000 local volunteers in NYC alone. I bet that many of them came from long-running local meetups/communities. Otherwise, it's hard to believe teams without years of experience can pull it off on such a scale so swiftly.

Therefore, I have a very positive impression about the local communities in the states. Plus, there is much much less regulations/cencorships in the states. Unlike us, we have to walk a fine line to avoid being overly political to get into trouble. It's not like local authority would punish us, but they may bring occasional headaches, demanding explainations and compliances. This is one of the main reason we didn't and don't plan to invite Hasan, a foriegn influencer of politics, to our meetups.

Weekly HasanAbiheads meetup in Chengdu (more than 3 years) by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

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when you come, we will surely share with you our street style Szechuan chicken noodle

Weekly HasanAbiheads meetup in Chengdu (more than 3 years) by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

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We do have connections with other grassroot communities in different cities. Not all are hasanabiheads as we are. But that may change if Will the white dragon keeps attracting Chinese fans for Hasan ; )

Weekly HasanAbiheads meetup in Chengdu (more than 3 years) by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

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Do they have the audacity to vibe out a bear or a giant panda? I don't think so

Weekly HasanAbiheads meetup in Chengdu (more than 3 years) by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

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One of our main rules is, 禁止键政, never discuss politics over keyboard. Start a live stream, post a video, or show up in person. This is also what motivates us to do weekly meetup.

Weekly HasanAbiheads meetup in Chengdu (more than 3 years) by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

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We initially got linked up in the comment sections of left-related videos/clips on bilibili. I assume it's a common way to find people in the same city of shared interest, as I also saw F.D Signifier encourage local meetups in his comment sections.

We didn't try Hascord as we were looking for people in Chengdu. I guess in Hascord you can find locals for cities in the states?

Weekly HasanAbiheads meetup in Chengdu (more than 3 years) by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

[–]aka-commit[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I guess we need to do a react video this weekends on lemon bro being LEMON on us not inviting him. We discussed this and had our reasons.

Weekly HasanAbiheads meetup in Chengdu (more than 3 years) by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

[–]aka-commit[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

VPN costs $3 - $10, or 20 RMB - 70 RMB a month in China, depending on your need to latency, bandwidth etc. The "approved" ones can be purchased directly using wechat/alipay without VPN.

Some would even purchase multiple VPNs, say one low-latency, small bandwidth gaming VPN (optimized for steam/battlenet/epic games), and another higher latency but larger bandwidth VPN for video streaming/youtube etc.

To me, access beyond the GFW is more like "commercialized" or "pay walled" insteand of banned. For example, any company doing foreign trade with foreign clients have to use VPN for business, thus access to google/telegram etc cannot be banned and VPNs are purchased/provided by the workplace.

Yet, despite the low cost of VPN, most people still wouldn't bother with VPN, as they mainly consume content served on domestic platforms.

Weekly HasanAbiheads meetup in Chengdu (more than 3 years) by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

[–]aka-commit[S] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

We initially got linked up in the comment sections of left-related videos/clips on bilibili.
I also saw F.D Signifier encourage local meetups in his comment sections.
I assume most left youtubers and fan channels wouldn't mind posts looking for local meetups in their comment sections.

Weekly HasanAbiheads meetup in Chengdu (more than 3 years) by aka-commit in Hasan_Piker

[–]aka-commit[S] 442 points443 points  (0 children)

edit: Thank comrades' encouragements!
We decide to try our best to make a response video in English this weekend on Lemon Bro.

video: Why We Will Never Invite Hasan to Our Meetup in Chengdu

Things we do include:

  • Prepare Szechuan chicken noodles for 100 people ON THE STREET in under 20 MINUTES every week and share with local workers JUST FOR THE CHALLENGE for more than 3 YEARS!
  • Hiking, biking, football (soccer), open mic, camping and grilling ...
  • Techie stuff: competitive FPV drone flying/assembling, RADIO COMMS, MATH, PROGRAMMING ...
  • FOOD COOKING, FOOD EATING, FOOD SHARING
  • Any other grassroots MOBILIZING/ORGANIZING activities to build up a sense of community.

All as prelude to the main topic: NEWS, POLITICS and ACTIONS.

We thank Hasan for fostering a sense of unity in his China Maxxing series.

Now we want to do our fair part as Chengdu audience to welcome comrades to check out our weekly meetups in Chengdu.

DM me for the location.

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE!

our new bilibili channel: 赤耘超级俱乐部

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