I guess you didn’t edit your reply to me either?

With the edits your post comes across a lot less like astroturfing. I’m not sure that skepticism of the intent of anonymous users on social media is “trouble with listening skills” or cause for offense - we should all be aware malicious players want to influence us in different ways.

Suggesting that the CCP is open to letting lesbians live their life seems pretty surreal after what happened to Naomi Wu. It’s shocking how quickly the dust settled on that.

Though to anyone trying to encourage discontent to westerners with socially liberal beliefs, it’s a pretty helpful narrative to push.

This is" true" for a (tiny) subset of the Australian population. I know that I straight up sacrificed my 20s to an engineering degree and fifo job and now, at 35 I have comparable material wealth to my dad when he was my age (who was a sheet metal worker in a major city). But even still, the tiny population who did what I did will never get another run at what should’ve been the best 15 years of their life.

I’m unconvinced that my decision was better than the ones my (much poorer) friends who now have families made…