Two major incidents just happened, the country is in total chaos, Xi'an and Anhui both struck on the same day, it's a complete mess! What can 300,000 buy? You'll only feel despair after hearing this! Qi Qi Ba Ba TALK 'Wake-Up Call 825' 20261110
This episode reports on two sudden incidents that occurred on November 9: an indiscriminate attack in Anhui that left multiple people injured, and an incident in Xi'an where an individual drove an excavator to ram a government service center. At the same time, the program provides an in-depth analysis and response to the severe employment situation faced by ordinary people, the social phenomenon of paying 300,000 yuan to buy a job in Shanxi, and the workplace trap of "are you working hard enough?"
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Hello everyone, welcome to Qiqi Baba, I am Qiqi. Uh, let's talk about two sudden major events first, we will discuss them together because they both happened on November 9, which is truly outrageous. First, the latest incident, which occurred on the evening of November 9 around 6 o'clock, was an indiscriminate attack in Anhui.
[Video clip] Still there.
[Video clip] Oh my god! Oh, what is that? My god, that's a lunatic!
[Video clip] That that.
[Video clip] Seventy thousand. Damn! Oh, how big is this person? This big.
[Video clip] I'm ready, I'm ready.
[Video clip] Fuck! People like this should die! Everyone should beat them! Fuck!
[Video clip] Look at that little flower.
[Video clip] Look, child, adult, where is the adult? How did the child fall? Child, head, three stabs, it's here, the ambulance is here, it's here, the ambulance is here.
[Video clip] This name.
[Video clip] Let our outsider live there. Fuck! These lunatics should be controlled! Oh, look at how anxious he is, hurry.
The suspect was hog-tied and dragged into a police car, and then several injured people were carried out on stretchers; the scene can be seen to be very chaotic. The official announcement has already been released, stating that four people were injured and are currently undergoing emergency treatment. However, the announcement did not specify whether they were lightly or seriously injured. Under these circumstances, based on the habits of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government, there is a high probability that they are in critical condition or have already died; otherwise, the CCP would definitely have written that they were "lightly injured" or that there was "no danger to life." If they didn't write it, it is highly likely that a very serious situation has already occurred.
It's knife attacks again, and random attacks again. Just this year alone, the number of random attack incidents—including not just knife attacks but also vehicle rammings, etc.—that have been leaked and known inside and outside the Great Firewall has already exceeded one hundred in China. Not to mention those that couldn't be reported at all and that we have no way of knowing about. In fact, many were suppressed and not reported in the first instance, so we remain unaware of them. These incidents of social retaliation have become more and more frequent. I really find it hard to imagine that, especially under the intensity of their information blockade, there could still be over one hundred incidents in a single year.
Then it is very hard to imagine, trying to infer, how many such incidents actually happen across mainland China in a single year. And furthermore, incidents like this—random attacks on people—cannot be covered up no matter how high the stability maintenance (weiwen) budget is; you simply cannot stop individuals from carrying out random attacks. Obviously, ordinary Chinese people truly cannot survive anymore. Can friends understand this? Different people exhibit entirely different responses when faced with a situation where survival is impossible. Some might choose to accept their fate and submit to this cruel destiny; others think to themselves, I am going to drag a few scapegoats down with me to the grave, and so they carry out these random attacks. Under such circumstances, as random attacks increase, by working backward from this probability, we can understand the sheer magnitude to which the number of people who cannot get by has surged. However, regarding the choice to display one's emotions to society in this manner, some swing their blades at innocent people—crowds who are fundamentally victims just like them. Others choose to direct their grievances at the actual perpetrators. This brings us to the second major breaking event that occurred today, also on November 9, in Xi'an, where a person drove an excavator crashing into the local government's administrative service center and began tearing it apart completely.
[Video Clip] Unwilling to wait for you, how does the yellow dust slowly arrive? Everyone has their own rhythm, if you can't get it, let it go.
[Video Clip] Everything is for the best. Refreshing and eye-opening.
[Video Clip] How does the wind and sand slowly arrive? When the sun goes down, the moon climbs up, clouds will reform and flowers will bloom, good luck will always wait for you. How does the wind and sand slowly arrive? The dance of everyone's own rhythm. Wow! They've really gone mad! This person looks genuinely crazy on the surface.
Friends might find it magical, how can a service center look so luxurious and imposing, right? Yes, every single government agency inside the wall is high-end like this. It is not just government buildings; as long as it is related to the government, what can you see? It is all marble, made very solemn, and the overall state is that even if this might be an impoverished county or an impoverished village, you can rest assured that government agencies will always give you that tall and magnificent feeling. There is absolutely no way you would fail to recognize it and say, "Hey, is this a government agency? Hey, is this a service center?" It will never give you that impression; you can spot it at a single glance. Ah, the best building in the local area belongs to the government. Well, up until now, we still do not know the motive of the person who drove the excavator to dig up this service center, nor do we know about their subsequent handling. But I think there is a high probability we will never find out, because as long as they are taken away, the only outcome is utter disappearance; basically, no further news will ever come out. Even if it spreads, it will only be allegedly or via rumors. Because no matter how great your grievances are, as long as you are under the rule of the Communist Party, to put it bluntly, you simply have to swallow it.
[Video Clip - Fresh Graduate] In my last video I said that spending 300,000 in Shanxi can only buy you a job with a monthly salary of 3,000.
[Video Clip - Fresh Graduate] Then that is.
[Video Clip · Recent Graduate] Someone left a comment under the video, and I want to respond to it. He said I'm thirty years old, and graduating—well, at least he's talking about me—and doing poorly is my own problem. Returning to Shanxi was the path I chose myself, so I should have anticipated all the outcomes in advance. I have no right to blame reality, shouldn't complain about society, and shouldn't make sarcastic remarks about reality. He also said ordinary people without a background or family lineage just need to work harder and endure more hardship than those around them; even if they can't achieve great wealth and high status, they will definitely not end up in such a desperate state as waiting tables or doing telemarketing. I have indeed done both of these things. I won't go into detail about my hardships; talking about it too much seems like I'm demanding a debt be paid. I just want to say one thing: other people's efforts have an upper limit. Your individual effort cannot defeat the environment. Although this sounds unpleasant, I know—I believed in hard work for seven or eight years before I dared to say this. What does this mean? Let me break it down: hard work can only determine how well you do in this position, but it cannot determine whether this position exists in the first place. This position is opened by someone else. Whether the factory opens, whether the industry is hiring, and whether there is this job opening in this place—does it have anything to do with how hard you try? No matter how capable a person is, they cannot carve out a path where there originally was none. I have no grudge against hard work; if I didn't work hard, I guess I wouldn't even earn this thousand-odd yuan. What I'm talking about is something else: hard work can move you from last place to third-to-last place, but it probably won't move you to the top. Finally, then comes my own business. Two sentences about 2024: I was waiting tables at a high frequency, ten hours a day, and then I did it for eight or nine months. This year should also be 2024 when I did telemarketing and hotel operations, which is actually just being a middleman, making eighty phone calls a day. They promised a base salary of 2200, but when I left, they gave me 1000. What he said would definitely not happen—I experienced every single one of those things. Seeing this, someone will definitely say, "Then why didn't you go find a better one?" There is an even more direct sentence: "It's the path you chose yourself, who are you complaining about?" I admit this sentence, I can pay the price for my own choice, but why on earth can't I say that this path itself is very difficult to walk? Going up to find a better one, I've also been there; is it that I didn't want to go up? It's that you can't touch that step upward at all; you can't scroll to it on recruitment software, it's not in local chat groups, and the jobs you can find are just waiting tables, shop assistants, nursery workers, supermarket stockers, and things like that. It's not that they don't exist, it's just that these are the only things available. I also took the civil service exam four times, and not once did I make it to the interview, and that position was one picked out of a thousand people. Under that video of mine, there were over three thousand comments, and people in the same situation as me weren't just one or two. Some came back from Hangzhou and spent three months unable to find a job; some finished their studies in Beijing or Shanghai, came back to the city, and spent a year with nothing settled; some came back and watched kids at a kindergarten for 1,300 yuan a month; some stood firm outside, came back to Shanxi to stay for a year and a half, and then left again—there are extremely many of them. If one or two people are doing poorly, you can call it a personal problem, but when tens of thousands of people are piled together doing poorly, can it all be attributed to them not working hard enough?
[Video Clip · Recent Graduate] Someone will say again, "That's your matter in Shanxi." Then let me tell you something that has nothing to do with Shanxi. Li Bai, as everyone knows, what he wanted to do most in his entire life was actually to be an official. In his twenties, he left Sichuan, submitted articles everywhere and looked for people to recommend him, and it wasn't until he was in his forties that he finally got the post of Hanlin imperial scholar, which was just writing poems to accompany the emperor. In just over two years, he was driven out. Later, he backed the wrong person, was exiled, and on his way met a general amnesty before returning. When he died, he didn't have much money around him. Regarding talent, throughout the Tang dynasty, there were probably very few people who could surpass him. But he couldn't even secure a proper position; the saying "effort has an upper limit" also held true in the Tang dynasty. Didn't he also write those sour poems expressing his unfulfilled ambitions? I used to think that those who do poorly just didn't work hard enough. Later, I went to Taiyuan and spent 25,000 yuan to learn programming, then entered an automation company in Guangdong and worked there for two and a half years, before being laid off in 2023. Then my mother underwent heart surgery twice, so I stayed home to take care of her for a year. Then this year, working the night shift really wrecked my health. I feel like it's not that I didn't try hard; after trying hard, it seems that door wasn't opened for me.
[Video Clip · Fresh Graduates] Let's stop here. I want to give you something useful, otherwise this is just another video preaching道理. If you are trying to decide whether to leave or stay, don't listen to anyone's advice, and don't ask yourself if you really want to leave—you won't get an answer that way. Count to three. First, search for the job you want on recruitment apps in the place you are currently staying. See how many companies are hiring; if it's fewer than three, then it's not your problem. Count again: how much money can you save in a year working here? If you can't save anything, you can leave. Another count: if something happens to you one day, who can provide a safety net? If your family can support you, then staying is definitely not a loss. If you have no one, and you stay there, you are relying on luck. Once you finish counting these three things, you will know what to do. There is one more thing to say to those who urge you to come back: if you really hope I come back, don't just persuade me; help me ask if there are any job openings where you are. That one sentence is more effective than ten sentences of persuasion. One more thing must be said: self-reflection is not wrong, but if you take all the blame on yourself, you will break yourself. I have done that, and in the end, I doubted if this was even the right path. I doubted that there was something wrong with me as a person. The most harmful thing right now is that universal phrase: 'You aren't working hard enough.' Low salary is because I'm not working hard enough; no good job is because I lack ability; no way out is because my mindset is wrong. The choices of ordinary people are always products of their environment; it's not a multiple-choice question where you can do whatever you want, and it's not that once you choose a path, you have infinite paths ahead. I accept that I am ordinary, but I do not accept everyone using a flippant 'You aren't working hard enough' to negate all my efforts. What I'm saying isn't to encourage people to 'lie flat,' but to tell you not to internalize the struggle too much and not to blame yourself. Many regrets, much mediocrity, and many dead ends are truly not all your fault. I'm not advising everyone not to return; it depends on the person. I think if you have a house here, don't have to worry about your elderly parents, and aren't looking to make a lot of money, then returning to your hometown is quite good—life is slower, and you can eat at home in the evening. For those whose families don't have these conditions, returning is just changing locations, right? This must be said upfront, otherwise, the advice is in vain. If you have heard that 'come back' talk and are tired of it, just forward this video to the person who keeps urging you to return regardless of your family's situation. No need to argue with them; just let them listen to this video.
Actually, this is a huge trap. The overall atmosphere created makes Chinese people feel that if they don't work, they are finished. And well, it is indeed a bit 'finished.' If you have no job and no income, the problem is that the level of panic they want to create may exceed what people should naturally feel. This leads not only to new graduates failing to find jobs within a year or two and falling into extreme anxiety, but their parents also falling into the same state. Under these circumstances, middle-aged parents who still have some savings—can you say they won't fall for it? Exactly. That is to say, they want to spend money to pull strings locally to find a job for their child, but they haven't done the math: the money you spend might not be earned back in ten years, or even twenty years. It's not even as much as the money you invested, not to mention that the child might be working desperately and exhausted every day for those ten or twenty years. Most importantly, this doesn't even account for inflation or similar factors. So, inside the Great Firewall, there are many parents paying for their children to go to work because the income from the job alone cannot support them. Many people have turned this into skits, which resonate with many, and everyone laughs. But I think it's because this is the only way it can be published inside the Great Firewall. We only need to think about why so many people resonate with it, and we will know that this is not funny at all; it is a tremendous, immense pain. In other words, the goal of the CCP is to squeeze every generation dry. Perhaps one generation did get rich due to the Reform and Opening-up, but the savings of this generation will not escape the CCP's exploitation.
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