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[@DerekTheAntony]

I have an odd obsession with corn. I love it in all its forms. For the corn I adorn. So the Hags we will bag, seriously though leave the corn out of this guys....this is getting corny.

[@billybob8461]

thank you for the update, you stay awsome too. collab with NKFRZ, have him on a pod cast. that would be dope. (Your dads channel is amazing, I enjoy how videos, he’s a natural at story telling)

[@theboringchannel2027]

It's actually called GLEENING. Fairly common practice in many countries around the world, including the US. Often the field is sold to a "crew" that gets to cleanup what is left after harvest.

[@samholdsworth420]

Will grab bags grab my weiner if I tell them it's free? Lmao

[@samholdsworth420]

​@@HonorableBeniah-Awhenever Winston talks it tickles me.

[@TrangleC]

My German grandma and aunts would often tell me stories about how hard life was after the war, how people would eat tree bark and cook soup out of wallpaper for the nutrients in the glue. It created a generation of very frugal people who can't throw food away. You will often see old Germans who do stuff like cut out spots of mold from bread and eat the rest, instead of throwing away the whole loaf or slice and stuff like that. They never developed this kind of grab hag behavior though. They usually are super polite and generous and would never take something that doesn't belong to them. My point being that hunger and deprivation alone do not explain such behavior.

[@reekinronald6776]

They had a strong spiritual grounding.

[@tonnuminat]

In east germany you'll find people like this. My family runs a gym and it's always old people stealing toilet paper and paper towels like the grab hags in the video. Maybe a relic of socialism in the GDR?

[@dakiesalamander5221]

No. But what it explains is that communists eradicated everything spiritual that they could. Whole chinese culture was warped and eroded to just superficial thungs under the communist party. Mao Ce-tung started it, with his 5-years plans, The Great Leap Forward, etc... And why? Because it was a threat to CCP, still is, read something about how they persecute people following Falun Gong and other such practices, because it could allow people unite against CCP and their elite. And that is what CCP fears the most. So the slowly evolving morals and support structures were destroyed, leaving only... this. Pure pragmatism, selfishness and overall no love thy neighbor.

[@jamieevans3666]

its because of german culture

[@raeldri5867]

Communist does that to a person's brain

[@mainstay.]

For a Society and culture that puts such a lot of emphasis on 'Face' and not losing it, they certainly do a lot of shameful things, that anyone in the West would be extremely embarrassed by.

[@diegobrito7905]

Hahahaha, true, maybe that is compensation.

[@sciencehau5]

Worrying about losing face is for rich people

[@d3w3yd3c1m4l]

That's because they do no share Western values as they're seeing with the Hamas marchers.

[@Scootz_]

It's an interesting juxtaposition, the values to the real world behavior

[@globalisteverywhere3578]

Japan

[@DennisBLee]

This even happened at my local supermarket in the US. I live in an area with many mainland Chinese immigrants. I'm Taiwanese so I speak mandarin and could recognize the accents of the people involved as mainlanders. My local market was having a 4 for $1 special on Corn and I walked into the market to find to my horror throngs of people fighting over the corn, filling their baskets and shucking it on the spot, and leaving a carpet of corn husks on the floor. Corn. The most abundant crop in the US. I don't get it but it must be some kind of mental illness caused by growing up under Maoism.

[@warrmalaski8570]

A lot of people in the us shuck the corn in store. But most are also courteous enough to place the husks in a provided bin.

[@branbrentpatrick9780]

Ccp is really evil,poor common citizens

[@YiLunMusk]

I lost my sympathy for those species

[@MrJacobst]

@@warrmalaski8570I live in Indiana and have never heard of this

[@warrmalaski8570]

@@MrJacobst It happens all the time in MI.

[@antivaxxnugs7859]

I feel like it's more than just living during that era. They will stack their plates with food and only eat 10% of it, instead of sharing it around sparingly so EVERYONE gets something. They dont seem to be grateful for what they have now

[@XdvFf-fx9mu]

Because the government there recommends doing bad things. People who do bad things can give gifts to the government as much as they can get.

[@DontMessWithCaesar]

Reminds me of when I worked at a homeless shelter. Handing things out like socks, food, toilet paper was a nightmare because there was always someone that would grab an entire family pack and walk away so nobody else could have it. Then you'd go down the street and find the whole pack in the garbage with only one or two pieces taken out. It happened every single time. You can't even understand the thought process of some of these people.

[@BoboMcBooboy]

​@@DontMessWithCaesarlet's be real tho, you just made that last part up... You MAYBE actually went down the street and checked the dumpsters and garbages for those family pack remains a handful of times? Being generous??

[@masterlordclaw]

As a farmer if this would be attempted in the US a lot of people would die. Edit: Wow this blew up. Notice that I said that a lot of people would die, not just trespassers/pillagers. There seem to be some very odd idea about farmer in China compared to the USA. Base opinion, there is no time within the last 100 years I would ever prefer to be a Chinese farmer rather than a US one.

[@SupHapCak]

Rightfully so. I am tired of being nice to people who see niceness as weakness and who take advantage of others: I had a dream that told me I was right to be militant.

[@gavinpowell4607]

It just wouldn't be attempted. It's not a custom in America to collect the leftovers from a harvest, that is something that only impoverished rural areas practice.

[@mcbumped]

It also may be because about 600k US farmers are subsidized by the government (socialism) and results in lower food prices

[@none4126]

​@@notme1345Naiive comment. Violence is the only language that some people understand. When those people come for you, your thinking will be different.

[@whysix3417]

Exactly.

[@wavemaker2077]

The Philippines had been guarding the coral reefs in the part of the South China Sea that it controls. Corals are everywhere and thriving. But soon after China decided to grab other islands that it doesn't own, even those corals were not spared. The whole coral reef was harvested leaving nothing.

[@reece5863]

Filipinos are too nice so they always end up getting bullied.

[@stephenhensley5631]

F..king THIEVES !

[@eizendragon5141]

Sad that those arseholes did to our economic waters 😢

[@atticusseverus]

Now imagine the condition those areas of the ocean would be in if no one challenged china's BS demands that they own it all? There wouldn't be anything there and the water very likely would be so polluted no one could or would try going through it on boats.

[@Grogueman]

Watch out. After they are done with exterminating every animal on planet, they are gonna come for non-Han humans.

[@pfg_pedals]

China is dismissing these complaints and suggesting that this is merely their plan to put all the unemployed to work picking crops for themselves.

[@yoroida]

In Singapore there is a well-known trait called 'kiasu' which means "always be the first" or "to never lose out". Since the majority of Singaporeans are of Chinese descent, I can now understand where that trait came about.

[@XdvFf-fx9mu]

Singapore is actually also a dictatorship, but they see further than China. For example, when you are at a table where everyone is grabbing food, you will not grab the food with your hands, but remember the entire scene with your eyes. From the details of this picture you can pretty much analyze some of the strengths and weaknesses of each one and then exploit them. The price is to open a table for them to grab every time. They are happy and you are happier than they are. If there is a fight, China will definitely lose to Singapore.

[@willp.8120]

This is not surprising considering that the Chinese wont even help people who have collapsed on the streets.

[@gregthebaritone]

Do you know the story behind this? This is because there is a scam in China where people fake collapse, and then accuse the first person who comes to help them of having caused it. Now, nobody will help anyone.

[@JerBuster77]

They wont help because if you touch them, the victim in question can demand money from the person helping and the govt will support the victim. That's why no one helps fallen citizens.

[@poppers7317]

Because it usually is a scam.

[@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368]

No excuse. It’s a culture of cowardice.

[@geraldokafor8255]

​@@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 you don't know

[@savagesavant4964]

The Red Guard were horrible as youths & just as bad now.

[@davidjacobs8558]

in communism, nothing belong to you, and nothing belong to them. there is no theft, when nobody owns anything.

[@iao69]

Yet none of those Bastards ever fought the Japanese. Rightful government of China resides in Taiwan. Taiwan should still be sitting on the Security Council in the UN not the Mafia CCP who never fought the Japanese.

[@JesusisKing0777]

🖕 Communism 🙏🙏🇺🇸

[@mikelbrenn111]

Sad but true, they are brainwashed beyond repair.

[@lainiwakura1776]

@@SUPERPOWERCHINA_ Shut up wumao and stop yelling, or do you think capslock is cruise control for cool?

[@gigicrown1823]

Went to holiday in Canada, during morning breakfast buffet there was a group of Chinese tourists. Couldn’t tell you where the food disappeared. They’re at another level!

[@Reishadowen]

It's truly shocking that such an authoritarian regime that makes people disappear for even thinking about protesting, would just allow blatant theft of goods like this.

[@BlazRa]

This is the Karen class of the population basically well to do older women But apparently over there they're not interested in talking to managers they just want to steal

[@markrouse2416]

This video is for the most part pure BS

[@Tamachii12]

Because they don't give a flying fuck, authorities are as corrupt as the population.

[@aucklandnewzealand2023]

They are not protesting against party, so their actions are legal

[@ethulwulf5351]

US have people doing this in Walmarts and stuff and they’re not allowed to stop thieves, is US authoritarian? Kinda…now that I think about it.

[@rebeccacarter1914]

This is what happens when you destroy morals and decency, concern for others.

[@riotguards]

Socialism, not even once.

[@xcqematic1]

Happens here in the US with certain demographics as well

[@Musiclover4822]

​@@riotguardsThat is not socialism though. But hey you are probably American so knowing the difference is a far fetch.

[@patrickt49]

"For forty centuries they clung with intense determination to the values they saw. Now we see those aims of forty centuries of the world's oldest civilization reap nothing but agony in the success of their persistence." - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend (Former US Consul who lived in 1930s China) "Their own records, throwing light on their characteristics back to the remote obscurities of forty centuries ago, force the melancholy conclusion that they were no different then. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend "To what extent the Chinese at large are what they are because of their inner racial spirit, and to what extent they are so because of long-continued hardships of environment, we cannot accurately measure. The two forces merge indistinguishably, and we can observe only the force of the combination. In the matter of environment, many centuries have passed in China since the average individual there had any significant control over his lot in life. When he emerges to existence, it is not to look upon choices, but to face forward along lines of narrow necessity, along a slim furrow of possible survival kept open by his family ancestors through the thicket of competing humanity. Into this he steps and toils until he dies. There is no escape, no means of reaching a status of relative comfort and security, whatever the effort. Experience teaches him that moderately intensive effort means perhaps enough to keep alive, less means starvation, and more futility. The principle applying to physical endeavors applies likewise to moral endeavors. Moderate goodness keeps him out of jail, a less amount risks penalties, and a greater amount sacrifices needlessly much that the might otherwise enjoy. The Chinese thus becomes the most coolly calculating materialist the world has ever known. He lives skeptically immune to moral enthusiasms, having long ago arrived at an opportune materialism whither some of our own gospel ministers tell us we are now rapidly drifting. " - "Ways that are dark: The Truth About China" by Ralph Townsend

[@fj8264]

@@riotguards more like: brainwashing and full on blast propaganda, not even once. Doesn't matter the system doing it. If you educate your people to be less than decent beings because you overall lack morals, you get scenes like this. Even in Europe, the US or elsewhere "civilized".

[@Mehwhatevr]

It doesn’t make me lose faith in humanity. It makes me lose faith in China

[@annimack1591]

🙄

[@g_rr_tt]

yeah because chinese people aren't human!

[@aufoslab]

it's complicated..

[@qwertyzxcv123]

You have faith in China??? Wow!

[@wisdomli9225]

it is truly complicated. if mao zedong was more open to other ideas people wouldn’t starve to death in the millions. this behavior was caused by mass starvation and instability caused by mao

[@isaymymind1727]

This reminds me of South Africa. When a truck carrying beer or bread..or any commodity breaks down next to a township... the grab babjans pop up.

[@MichaelMiller-op8fe]

My grandfather went through the Great Depression here in America and he was very careful with food, never talked about it but I saw it all the time. He was very quiet but you could tell it molded the rest of his life in a way I hope I never have to experience.

[@downandout992]

Having a severe lack of food when you are a youth really does affect your adult behavior in strange ways. My father grew up poor, and as a result he always hoarded his money, even though he owned several rental homes, and had a good-paying job he would buy all his clothes at yard sales. And also for some reason, he would never buy any food. ( I only lived with my father, my mother lived in a different state.) Consequently, as an adult I have always hoarded food. I can't even explain why I do it. It's just that there's this "need" for me to have my kitchen cabinets and refrigerators always filled to the brim with food. I know I can't eat it all, and I end up throwing quite a bit of it away, or feeding the out-of-date meat products to my dog.

[@tapabratasardar5268]

As an Indian , I can conform that our elders faced disastrous famines and poverty . in 50s after the independence my grandma told me that there were literally walking skeletons on the streets of Calcutta . but they never developed such grab hag behavior . we respect food and also care about others and it is inherent in our culture and upbringing . some serious social denting has happened in china

[@gavinpowell4607]

According to a survey on mills in India, 60% of the employees were under the age of 18 when they started working. These kids are particularly vulnerable to being compelled to work in sweatshops because they are caught in the cycle of poverty. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones at others my friend.

[@thearpox7873]

@@gavinpowell4607 This isn't even the same dimension of bad. A sweatshop is honest labor for a poor society. It's not acting like a locust swarm.

[@Zenithx622]

@@gavinpowell4607 then dont throw any :P

[@PeteQuad]

​@@gavinpowell4607one thing has nothing to do with the other. The point is, this grab behavior is cultural, and not the fault of poverty. Saying another culture has something else wrong does not excuse your own sins.

[@goodolmemory]

Imagine it's a bunch of 20 year old kids from the hood going after merchandise.

[@audiogek]

It's amazing that after all these years you're still able to surprise me with China's craziness.

[@JohnoyG]

F,ing nutcases

[@centurione6489]

It's the same in large US cities where democrats rule.

[@manchen3536]

As a HongKongese, I can only say you still have no idea how china crazy is even you watched his movies for 3 years. China Chinese’s craziness is unbelievable

[@JohnoyG]

@@manchen3536 As an Australian I can say they all have a mental health issues

[@Lexterrific]

​@@manchen3536HongKongese? First time to see this word. HK separating in China?

[@Jimbogf]

We have an old blue berry farm that turned into a county park. Back in the day anybody can come in and pick their fill. Nowadays immigrants come in large groups and pick them all clean. No more Sunday berry picking.

[@lepain0278]

How sad, when I pick berries I’m always sure to leave some for others or the wildlife to have

[@LEV1ATHYN]

I honestly can't imagine how corrupted your soul would have to be to steal a stranger's crops instead of buying your own corn.

[@brendano4196]

Like Winston said, a lot of these people are survivors of Mao's policies. Policies that were so bad, sometimes intentionally so that people were reduced to surviving any way they could, I don't think there's enough people in the West who talk about just how badly he screwed up that country in two decades of rule.

[@lewissparinlitz4192]

What if it's illegal for you to buy food? What if you can't get food because of your social score? What if it's illegal for you to grow food in your own yard? Imagine the psychological damage done to people who were forced to starve to death.

[@LEV1ATHYN]

@@lewissparinlitz4192 You've been reading too many weird blogs my guy. If you think people "can't buy food because of their social credit score" is the reason they're stealing their neighbor's corn, I don't know what to say.

[@susugam3004]

@@lewissparinlitz4192 eat more propaganda brother. you're nuts.

[@pointkr734]

​@lewissparinlitz4192 oh no😮

[@octopiinthesky44]

Looks like a zombie attack, horrific for the farmers

[@leighz1962]

The govt is going to steal the harvested food for themselves so can't really blame the other 1+ billion..

[@kchannel5317]

Just the people seizing the means of production bro.

[@PolishBehemoth]

the fruits of socialism

[@olekklos8670]

same thoughts about this people, what a shame...

[@QwertyoUip]

Combine harvesters are pretty good against zombies.

[@sammencia7945]

It is impossible to describe China to anyone who has not lived there several years. It is like describing the culture from another solar system.

[@wraithrunner2355]

And this is exactly why nobody takes China serious as a global superpower LOL😂😂

[@raymaharaj4502]

I went to a Chinese lady's house to buy something for an online marketplace ad and I noticed as soon as I walked in that they had a cockroach infestation, I informed her that the bug crawling up her front foyer wall was a German cockroach. You know what she said? She said "yeah but that's okay because the COCKROACHES only eat poo so they actually help to keep her bathroom clean....... AAAARGH!!!!!! Uhhhh yeah NO THANKS I'll just go buy the item I wanted brand new from Walmart so I can make sure I don't take any of your cockroach "maids" away from your cockroach nest. I was wondering to myself how much poo does she have exactly in her bathroom that she is relying on cockroaches to help her eat it all up?????? Again, AAAAARGH!!!!!!!

[@user-zp7jp1vk2i]

that's almost my story: I was asked to help a workmates mother/sister move and I knew the apt. address: no the news for being infested. I walked in and every square yard on the walls and ceilings had something crawling on it. But in some humid, low pressure areas of the world there are 100's of species on non-flying cockroach.

[@fireskycam9889]

Probably too stingy to pay for the water to flush the toilet.

[@metarugia3981]

I personally witnessed "grab-hags" while on a tour in china a few years ago. We booked a river cruise going through the city of Shanghai that also included a buffet dinner. There were a few foreigners on this cruise but the majority of the tour group were local chinese. As the waiters and waitresses brought out the food and placed them on the tables all was quiet and everyone sat at their seats. But once the tour guide announced it was time for us to eat, all hell broke loose!😲 We were like, WTF?🤨 The local chinese tourists bolted out of their seats and scrambled to plate as much food as possible before returning to their seats. Being more civilized, of course all the foreign tourists were gobsmacked, bewildered and couldn't believe what we were seeing.🤨 It was like a free-for-all for every man, woman and child! By the time they finished, there was no food left on the tables and we were in disbelief. And so we had to wait until they brought out more food. The tour guide was also disgusted and gave them a mouthful, but we had no idea what she was saying. She was so embarrassed and apologised about their behavior. I've never gone back to china after that trip.

[@marlan5470]

Moral of the story is Don't Do Buffet in China.

[@metarugia3981]

@@marlan5470 Even better is to not step foot in that country.

[@jan22150]

@@marlan5470 don't let the Chinese tourist go on a buffet in an American Chinese restaurant.

[@genuinejustin6269]

I wouldn't go to China even if someone paid for an all expenses covered trip!

[@metarugia3981]

@@genuinejustin6269 Wise decision my friend.

[@alphawolf4983]

This is worse than getting raided by locusts.

[@Ryan91487]

What's the difference?

[@mairiconnell6282]

They are locusts.

[@lazerrhino]

​@@Ryan91487 gulls eat locusts, they don't eat grab hags

[@yahyathegameenjoyer]

​@@SUPERPOWERCHINA_ Bing chilling

[@coandageorge1488]

Human locusts😂😂😂😂

[@fdorsey]

Happens here too, my friend calls them the "croak sackers" . They stop a car on the side of the road and fill a sack. Not out of hunger but simply to get something for nada.

[@hifive5067]

This is surreal and if I havent watched most of your other videos, I would had doubts about this being true. Im from Eastern Europe and my grandparents and parents lived under times with very scarce amount of food, relying on molding bread, but there were never fights over it, in fact they would stick together and help each other to survive. It is concerning to see how China is unable to battle such critical internal struggles, but have claim to be a global power.

[@zigmondbonez9411]

I recently saw a clip of these elderly Chinese woman getting ready to harvest the crop of some medicinal herb, when whatever harvesting machine she had broke down, so she went to grab a bunch of workers to do it manually and when she got back to the field, it was a huge mob of these grab-hags, the farmer just fell to the ground sobbing, it was apparently going to be the equivalent of a 200k crop. At first I thought it must be a hunger pandemic but I guess it's just remnants of Mao's generation being pos. It's a shame because farmers are the backbone of any country, this will just cause farmers to look for other means of employment if they're able to find it, since the alternative is having your crop stolen

[@mafiawaffle1386]

Mao actively worked against the farmer, since owning land or profiting from nature was seen as a function of greedy capitalism. Look up his orders to kill the sparrows--he convinced an entire generation that they were hungry because sparrows were eating all the grains, when in reality, sparrows were eating the locust. when the locust had no predators, they ate all the crops and it made starvation worse. and who did the people blame, the farmer of course.

[@zigmondbonez9411]

@@mafiawaffle1386 wow that's wild, I didn't know that. I'll have to read about that, it's as interesting as it is messed up

[@WhiteWolfos]

​@@zigmondbonez9411 hence the bird memes in China. Rare to see birds

[@user-yq5he3rg8o]

Wrong. As a Chinese, I want to say that this has nothing to do with Mao Zedong. This is the accumulation of history. They have not yet realized how the times have changed.

[@zigmondbonez9411]

@@WhiteWolfos are the bird memes about the lack of birds, a dig at mao or all of the above? I tried looking up the bird memes but cldnt find any, but im also unable to read Chinese so even if i did, itd be lost on me lol

[@TDK2K]

You don't even see this kind of behavior in the poorest countries in the world, that are poorer than China.

[@TheShahkulu]

I have some family who come from Bangladesh, a very poor country yet I've never seen the poor do anything close to this. If there's something being handed out for free they'll form a line and wait and thank the person in charge.

[@manitoumimi]

Just wait until hungry people see this video. People won’t die being polite if they find a way to eat.

[@TheShahkulu]

​@@manitoumimithe thing is, these people aren't starving. These are your average citizens taking what they want just because they can.

[@merix2741]

Funny thing is it reminds me of those american BLM marches when they loot and destroy shit. :D

[@manitoumimi]

@@TheShahkulu If you say so.

[@raymaharaj4502]

Then they wonder why 1 ear of corn cost 3 fucking bucks. "Ho-ree SHYT, the fawm stear OWww MA-neeeee!!!!!"

[@acid0philus]

My stepdad used to tell me about the waves of people who would hit military installations in Viet Nam, looking for food. They'd leave everything unable to be used in their pursuit of finding food. Old tactic from way back when, but, also highly effective.

[@LeoPard-HQ]

Human locusts in a cornfield, they descended upon fields, leaving behind a trail of empty corn husks, as if a tornado of appetites had swept through. 😱

[@ruvanefriebus-cv6td]

Communists

[@DerJuvens]

I was thinking the same, lol!

[@parnamsaini4751]

Like hotel kitchens are raided..

[@MarcLuscher]

I'd take the threat from China more seriously if they were threatening to send "Grab Hags" into Taiwan

[@SaintSaint]

I think the concern isn't the threat of grab hags, but creating a government that supports this behavior.

[@Grogueman]

They are already depleting fishes in the ocean.

[@5anjuro]

Quite common behavior among the elderly Chinese tourists, especially on cheap bus tours.

[@bignerd3783]

They just steal the whole island and move it back to mainland china lmfao

[@buntalObuntal]

Imagine if the two million Chinese armies are trained jaggery. No missiles, warheads, no weapons, they can't be taken as combatants. In a month time Taiwan & the Philippines would be left in starvation!

[@anthonyburke5656]

I recall reading of peasants being executed in Stalinist USSR, for the crime of stealing individual heads of wheat from their own fields (so that the regime then couldn’t steal them when harvested). This was after Stalin sent about 6,000,000 “Kulaks” to Siberia and thereby gutted Russian grain growing and caused a famine over 10 years (because no one other than the Kulaks knew how to grow as well).

[@bucurilie-lo4jf]

It is cultural for them. We see them in US. I was in Costco behind a Chinese guy who brought at the cashier a plate of Oranges built up like a pyramid. I am talking about a presented cartoon who hods a dozen who he added up in top. When the cashier asks where you found this, he replays in the produce island. I told the guy that I witnessed him building up on top. Pissed up he fallow me in the parking lot till I told him I'll kick his ass.

[@Sansrage.]

That fact that an army of thieves can storm someone’s land and take their livelihood without repercussions is just sad. They should all be ashamed of themselves.

[@LadyPenelope]

Like SerpentZA said, the entire country is on the take. Looting on every level.

[@Sansrage.]

@@LadyPenelope exactly. The CCP caused this problem a long time ago, and they have no plans on ever fixing it because the biggest thieves are In the government.

[@charleswhite758]

I don't think Chinese have feelings of shame, it's a very different society

[@LadyPenelope]

@@charleswhite758 I think it's fair to say I have more than enough embarrassment for all of us...for them.

[@goer3148]

just scraps tho right

[@RJFP67]

Can you imagine how bad it will get when things get more scarce ?

[@chocolatesquirrel2002]

they will probably become canibals, im not even joking

[@jodyswallow1008]

Frightening thought.

[@jadedandbitter]

​@@chocolatesquirrel2002they have before. Three times at least in documented history, in 1876-1879, 1906-1907, and 1959-1961. All three times had instances of human cannibalism.

[@Arkantos117]

People like to think that the earth isn't overpopulated but we're pretty close to civilisational collapse, it would only take one really bad year. There are very few food stockpiles around, our civilisations are living on the food equivalent of paycheque to paycheque. If a solar storm caused trucks to stop bringing food into cities for a month millions would die due to the way modern food distribution is.

[@joe9743]

​@Arkantos117 if you compare the amount of land humans use vs how big the earth is this this simply isn't true. From a resource standpoint we also waste far more than use also

[@izzycurer1260]

A while back, I started listening to people read supposedly true paranormal stories on yt whenever I would do my chores around the house, and after a while, none of that scared me anymore. Then I started watching things like this, and it weirdly gives me the same sort of feelings that I used to get from listening to horror. Idk why, but this channel creeps me out. I love it and hate it at the same time. I feel sorry for those people. It seems so dystopian.

[@BlazRa]

If you don't show Fear to the Paranormal sometimes they give you rewards don't grovel like a slave worshiping them or yell at them like some sort of priest.

[@Sukharno2121]

Human nature is scarier than most ghosts. If you hear some of the police stories that don't get to the evening news you would have trouble sleeping.

[@amariev226]

Same feeling here.

[@jesusbernal9025]

A few years ago in my hometown in Mexico a chinese restaurant became a novelty for a while, until the neighbors noticing all the 'hood's dogs and cats were disapearing.....

[@mysticxjuice6612]

That's horrifying 😧

[@SynthoidSounds]

Your observation of "grab haggery" on a mass scale, as a cultural behavior policy is 100% spot on, as per plundering the oceans, toxic industrial practices, vast consumption and waste of resources. All societies have some aspects of this inherent in their culture, but China seems unique in the extremes it will go to for immediate myopic gain, no matter how damaging the consequences.

[@stephenhensley5631]

AMEN, and so well put.

[@khiem1939]

Having lived in Asia for decades to include China, I can confirm that many Chinese are little more than "semi humans"!

[@jayrl8833]

That is so true

[@susugam3004]

you just perfectly described the profit motive

[@view1st]

Great Britain during the industrial revolution. Ditto the USA. Ditto France, Germany....

[@XXXX-yc6wv]

I went to a wedding in Vietnam, which tend to be rather short affairs that happen during the day, a short ceremony, followed by lunch and of course boozing. The food was all laid out on a buffet table, and during the ceremony - before the meal had even started - the countryside cousins all pulled out massive shopping bags and started loading food into them to take home. The bride was understandably mortified and spent her entire wedding going around apologizing to everybody for their behavior.

[@user-eh3zv1ex5o]

Hillbillies. They're everywhere.

[@trashman8080]

I mean I live in the countryside and while "lấy phần" happens, it does not get that bad. Wonder where this happened

[@slappy8941]

I photographed a few Asian weddings in America, and the older people were horribly rude and greedy.

[@sweetla4750]

@@slappy8941not surprising,considering they were filmed catching pigeons for dinner

[@moneypenny5436]

The new food banks in Canada.

[@Gaumukh]

My grandmother suffered through partition of India in 1947 and endured refugees camps and no food for days. She never scooped down to this level. She raised 8 children with good values. I never saw her act like this. She was very careful about finances and wasting of food; however, I never saw her act like people in the video.

[@SanityDrop]

Koreans also suffered wars and exploitation for last couple of centuries. People had to fill their empty stomach with alternative crops and wild veggies rather than rice in early springs, even in 70s and 80s. Yet this phenomenon is pretty rare. Really funny cause if you think of it us and Chinese are both from close (Confucious) culture that values public "face"

[@RG-iw7py]

Commies culture is narcissistic and people with NPD are ready to destroy whole world when they loose control over others. They may kill whole family if wife wants to divorce them. I hope to see Korea united. What was done to your nation is horrible. I've seen uniting families from south and north. It was heart breaking, mother seeing son after 50 years, life lived apart, people all the time holding hands and crying because they know they can't talk. Same type of people did it to children in UK & Ireland. Children were given papers they are orphans and sent to work in Australia, Canada. Parents were told their child died. After 50 years 5,000 families were reunited.

[@misplaced7858]

And they killed all the sparrows for "stealing food"! This behavior is worse than a few sparrows.

[@paperburn]

and that was what started the famine's, no birds to eat the bugs, no pesticides to kill the bugs, nearly total crop loss for years until the bird population returned

[@robals744]

... and still to this day they celebrate Mao who dreamed up this nightmare.@@paperburn

[@ElizabethMBoyd]

​@@SUPERPOWERCHINA_meant to be ironic I guess given your profile photo

[@terywetherlow7970]

They were forced to kill and eat the sparrows.

[@paperburn]

Read about the four pest campaign nobody was eating sparrow at first,@@terywetherlow7970

[@Pan472]

Greece during WWII was devastated by famine. Almost 700.000 people, or almost 20% of the population at that time, died from hunger. Yet, the generation that survived it aren't grabhags. They are just really, really frugal. They're always telling the younger generations: "My child, don't waste this or that, it's edible, it's your strength". They aren't grabbing anything out of your hands though. In fact, they will feed you if you're in need. Hunger does not excuse subhuman behaviour. Period.

[@e13kid]

A luxury worldview.

[@konradkozio8623]

You were never truly hungry i guess, live in your delusional view of world @pan472

[@dumdummcstupid2414]

Difference in culture. Western morality doesn't like thieving nor hoarding, because both can mean that you are directly or indirectly forcing someone else to suffer for the sake your own comfort. We find value in self-sacrifice for the sake of others *(Such as giving food away when you have little TO give away.)* because not only is it the "right" thing to do, but because there is a certain level of expectation that comes with it. The expectation that it will come back to you one day if you ever find yourself in need. The CCCP's China has none of these qualities. Social trust is insanely low *(Because the government incentivizes selling peers out.)* , conventional morality is discouraged and they have an entire generation of older people who never grew out of the whiny schoolkid phase of their lives. Of course they're stealing and hoarding, they know they can get away with it and they have no expectation of a social reward for not doing so, meaning from their perspective it would be stupid to NOT steal and stockpile.

[@El-Diablo-Blanco]

Lol, only won't happen here because farmers are Armed... and likely not Democrat voters... and likely will blame Democrat voters... I know I will...

[@steeevo0136]

​@@konradkozio8623 《-------- 50 cents deposited to your account comrade Wumao

[@MrEye4get]

I've seen the same behavior by Chinese tourists at hotel breakfast or lunch buffets in Thailand. They will full up plates and pile food up on the table. Then they walk away with 1/2 the food uneaten.

[@FringeMast3r]

That’s insane!! They’re like human locusts chewing up EVERYTHING in their paths!!

[@DailyCorvid]

I live right next door to a person like this. My amazon drivers are instructed to park down the road and never leave my door until I have retrieved the package by hand. AND I LIVE IN ENGLAND!! That is how far these thieves have spread out.

[@Fatusbeergutus]

Is this person next door Chinese

[@nyarlat2609]

​@@Fatusbeergutuscould be a durka durka as well

[@amitabha546]

Feel sorry and sad for the farmers all their labour is for nothing.

[@dachuckbuck669]

Labor? All they do is drive their planters and harvesters over there, and then lose .2% of their crop to degenerates. Farming ain’t like the states over there where you got 1000 business men trying to take advantage of you and your potato field, they arguably got it it better honestly.

[@blankblank9070]

That’s communism

[@Mehwhatevr]

@@blankblank9070no, that’s barbarism Edit: I can’t believe I have to explain this. I’m just one upping the original comment. Please stop trying to argue with me, I have no interest in trying to defend communism.

[@FizzleWick1]

⁠@@Mehwhatevrlol that’s is literally communism. But yes you’re right in a way, communism is barbarism

[@user-gx6yr1kj1i]

@@Mehwhatevr what do you think started the barbarism?

[@subarulenz1470]

In Vietnam, there are quotes from the ancestors: "A piece of food is a piece of shame" to remind us of reserving food for others, "even when you broke, you still need to keep your dignity", and "healthy leaves cover teared leaves, teared leaves cover tattered leaves" to reminds us of helping each other in society, rich people help poor people. poor people help broke people.

[@PhucLe-um8jm]

Wibu nhưng 10đ đạo đức respect+

[@subarulenz1470]

@@PhucLe-um8jm =))))

[@janisserga4851]

It's so reminds me USSR (Soviet Russian Republics),... I'm from Latvia (Baltic countries), born in late 70's, grown in 80's, Soviet Union broke in early 90's,... It's already around 30 years ago since Soviet Union collapse but I still so can understand those people, on your video, it's so feels close to me🤦🤦,... now I live in UK for more then 10 years, thanks God, and it's just makes me mad imagine what could happen if USSR would not collapse by looking on China now 🤦 ... And those "Soviet" countries so worried me, I would like help them people, open them eyes... And now, as Russia is on News table, China so reminds me Russia 🤦... Thanks for your videos, great job 👍

[@midimusicforever]

I feel for the Chinese farmers.

[@strategicviewpoint6672]

Yeah well the agricultural production of China is going to go down. After all why plant crops when the human locusts are going to steal most of it?

[@jerrytang3146]

Oh, they will get back at you in some other but similar ways.

[@fugawiaus]

This is communism…… the farmers don’t own the produce. It’s owned by the state.

[@furerorban9324]

I feel for the Chinese farmers.@@jerrytang3146

[@MoeSlislack]

i feel sorry for the starving poor ass people.

[@thebubbacontinuum2645]

My wife and I had to visit HK this summer. I was pleasantly surprised. Great food. Nice people. But in private, we were told how terrified everyone is now that the CCP is taking over. One of our guides said everyone was trying to leave. She was hoping to move to Canada permanently. When we walked by a building belonging to the CCP, she stopped the conversation until we passed. It will be sad to see the CCP utterly ruin a gem of Western influence.

[@furerorban9324]

My Chinese wife had just given birth. My Chinese son was merely a few days old. My Chinese wife took My Chinese son to a Chinese promotion at some Chinese mall where they were selling some kind of Chinese product. They started handing out free boxes of tissues to the Chinese crowd. Someone Chinese jumped up on stage and went for the boxes. Suddenly, the entire Chinese crowd rushed the Chinese stage. My Chinese wife was at the front of the stage and said she was nearly crushed in the Chinese chaos and luckily protected my Chinese son from Chinese harm and got out of there. If I had been there, there would have been a lot of cracked skulls because I don't take that kind of Chinese bullshit. These Chinese people were the worst part of my experience in China. They were EVERYWHERE. If you let these filthy grab hags anywhere near a buffet, you can say goodbye to all the food. They would pile on their plates, not even eat 20% and leave it all on the tables when they left. You had no chance getting seafood like crab legs in a buffet there it was insane how they acted around anything 'free'. Chinese...

[@snuggyxiii7642]

Agreed

[@kevinarmstrong6957]

No ! Do not come to Canada .

[@Jet-ij9zc]

Canada's getting fucked in part because so many people are trying to move there. And the Canadian government straight up lie to them. Theres far more people coming in than Canada is able to produce housing

[@peaceofficer01]

Didn't the CCP take over several decades ago?

[@gggfff685]

Keep up the good work Winston!

[@dayros2023]

As a European i find it so weird to see old people steal. And, how profitable it can be to steal a bit of grain from a field?

[@Tommo020788]

Imagine putting everything you have and own into farming a crop, just so you can survive the next year, only to have a bunch of freaking goblins take everything you worked for, away.

[@MrDibara]

GS: *"Did you say goblins?"*

[@ys1876]

No love for their fellow people. The government teaching them how to behave, lie cheat and steal then lie lie lie some more

[@shamusmcwright2640]

During the great depression, my great grandpa would sit out on the porch at night with his shotgun to protect their garden and if anyone tried to steal his produce he would shoot it into the air as a warning. Fortunately he never had to fire it more than into the air.

[@Box545x39]

@@shamusmcwright2640 Another reason the 2nd Amendment being slowly stripped in America has to be priority number 1 to stop and reverse. They'd love to see America become another communist hell hole.

[@Tommo020788]

@@MrDibara 😅😅 it's the most accurate description I could come up with for those people lol

[@wayneaclarke6781]

It's shocking to think there is no form of self control and looking out for your neighbors. No respect for public or private property.

[@AltaMirage]

Those are the fruits of communism.

[@RighteousnessWillPrevail]

Again,, thank you for what you do.

[@klartext2225]

I slowly begin to understand... the Chinese bureaucracy with establishing this kind of social credit system - where you are collecting minus points for smaller and bigger misdemeanors... with punishments when a certain number is reached. They have to keep some folks at bay! Seems like a rather desperate, futile attempt, seeing those pictures. Thank you very much for showing your videos! I learned very much here in the last 6 months.

[@neshwhat702]

I was thinking the exact same thing. They need a system like that to control the mass population.

[@lovetodaylisa3967]

Disgusting. There will be no food for anyone if this keeps up

[@bounceday]

Its human parasitism. Reminds me of the NAT Geo thing about robber birds

[@terywetherlow7970]

@love: Bingo,that's the plan. Scarcity makes a compliant populace.

[@funkymonkeyman1000]

It’s on purpose like their last famine blame can all be traced back to their incompetent government

[@Urbicide]

Look at all of the mysterious fires completely destroying food processing plants in the US during the past couple of years. These fires are intense & seem to just magically appear out of nowhere. I saw today that Tyson Foods is closing down a plant in Jacksonville, FLA, in January, putting over 200 people out of work. The Biden administration is allowing, & even encouraging, the illegal migration of economic migrants into the country. Millions have come, & our food infrastructure is already steadily shrinking by design. Most people are totally oblivious to what is happening right in front of our faces, & will nothing to prepare.When there is no food, human decency will disappear along with it.

[@lanthanumlanthanium6373]

@@terywetherlow7970 That is absolutely not true. If you take away what people need to survive, you will get absolute chaos. This has happened in the past and it also happened in venezuela when maduro took over.

[@danthreepwood2760]

The corn thiefs are locally known as the ''Raiders Of The Lost Corn''.

[@leighz1962]

They don't do time travel in China so this is probably their copycat version of Back to the Future, called Back to the Fields.

[@eh6971]

Catchers of the rye.

[@pizzapozz7733]

Random corner of youtube. Hilarious stuff guys

[@Koogz406]

Haha

[@cronoscrypto7296]

Movie hitting nationwide 2024

[@chastheplayer8367]

Imagine when the fish run out..lol

[@mottie85]

You’ve made some very good points here. Best Of SZA!

[@TheTicain]

That really look like the beginning of the end... If the population is hungry, the fall come soon after.

[@dariusq8894]

They are hungry, but in this instance it's more about unchecked greed. They're taking just because it is there, not necessarily because they need it.

[@reekinronald6776]

I doubt they are hungry. It's the fear, that once more, society will collapse into starvation, It's hoarding and probably much of what they grab goes bad and is tossed.

[@gideonmele1556]

@@reekinronald6776with the downturn in their economy they are probably returning to Mao time tactics, when even the CCP is saying there is a dip in its own economics you know it’s bad

[@gregthebaritone]

It's also part of a society not taught to respect others, and a society taught that you have the right to take away from others the fruits of their labor, because apparently it is yours to take.

[@getrekt2160]

Here's a quick story about my experience there. My Chinese wife had just given birth. My son was merely a few weeks old. She took him to an outdoor promotion at some shopping mall where they were selling some kind of beauty product. They started handing out free boxes of tissues to the crowd. Someone jumped up on stage and went for the boxes. Suddenly, the entire crowd rushed the stage. My wife was at the front of the stage and said she was nearly crushed in the chaos and luckily protected my son from harm and got out of there. If I had been there, there would have been a lot of cracked skulls because I don't take that kind of bullshit. These people were the worst part of my experience in China. They were EVERYWHERE. If you let these filthy grab hags anywhere near a buffet, you can say goodbye to all the food. They would pile on their plates, not even eat 20% and leave it all on the tables when they left. You had no chance getting seafood like crab legs in a buffet there it was insane how they acted around anything 'free'.

[@khiem1939]

True, I have SEEN some great FIGHTS at breakfast time in some hotels in China, that's why we NEVER eat in hotels, just drink our coffee which we bring outselves and watch the ANIMALS fight over the SLOP! Have some great videos we have taken over the years of the "Great Chinese Food Fights"!

[@redtobertshateshandles]

My daughter attended a K Pop event here in Australia. She's a tall strong young woman and said the crush was so bad that she had to lift a small Asian girl to safety.

[@Labyrinth6000]

Why don’t they end “free samples” knowing full well this would happen?

[@paintfatpurple7394]

@@Labyrinth6000an amazing thought

[@danch10]

Kpop is korean not chinese?@@redtobertshateshandles

[@edwarda.]

Grab-hags seem to still be in survival mode even though Mao's era ended.

[@yamamaghey]

"It's not your crops it's OUR crops"

[@freedomismine4696]

This is disgusting ‼️‼️‼️ poor farmers What if all the farmers stop farming...no food for the whole nation

[@craigwhite5703]

The corn was already harvested in what I saw. The grab hags were just gathering sticks (wtf?).

[@thetest8777]

​@SUPERPOWERCHINA_ so u just say the same sh!t right in every section

[@paulmentzer7658]

@@craigwhite5703 It is called "Gleanng" and the RIGHT of the poor in ancient Israel and many other societies.

[@jussayinmipeece1069]

they were NOT technically stealing. They were collecting corn that was about to be ploughed under. What they took had absolutely no impact on the farmers harvest nor his bottom line. This is the Chinese equivalent of American restaurants throwing out perfectly good food and then stopping hungry people from taking it from the dumpster.

[@craigwhite5703]

Yes, I'm familiar. But they are all running up together and swarming the field. 1) Were they being held back and all of the sudden they were all let in? 2) why the misleading title about corn thievery by serpentza??@@paulmentzer7658

[@Batchelli]

It's about respect for people's property. I live in the countryside, we got fields of fresh veggies. You could grab carrots and onions straight from the ground. But people don't, it's not decent.

[@2226robin]

Thanks you to show us the true Mainland China.

[@hubreydavid7864]

That's a annual event after harvesting. As you can see that it's only the corn on the ground that the machines missed. Waste not want not.

[@alexxC37]

The people taking the corn from farms aren’t “grab hags.” Lets call them what they are- thieves. They are stealing someone elses hard work. You can be thrown in jail for wearing something the government doesn’t like or for holding up blank pieces of paper. But stealing? Totally ok? It’s crazy. I hate the people that force stores to close here too because they just brazenly walk in and steal until the stores no longer find it profitable to stay in that area.

[@michasosnowski5918]

If you look closely, they are picking leftovers after harvester picked up the corn. Usually it is left there for animals and birds. It is still shocking that people go for it, but its not stealing as the author would want you to believe.

[@annimack1591]

@@michasosnowski5918 I sincerely doubt any of these people actually looked at the video and really "saw" what was happening. They're so busy being Winston's sycophants anything more would be beyond them. He loves painting a grim picture of China and its people when there are good and bad in every race and country.

[@FAD4LIFE94]

Yeah grab-hags are people who grab free stuff

[@ABadGamble]

Why are the farmers yelling for them to leave then? 🤡

[@michasosnowski5918]

@@ABadGamble To not kill them by combine harvester?

[@coocookachoo2806]

Sad, humanity is crumbling, in the west we call the grab hags looters.

[@GuidoDeBres-kg2bx]

And thats why theres no walmarts in chicago lol

[@SirBitingBen]

@@GuidoDeBres-kg2bx And why target and Walgreen's shit dwn their locations in San Fransisco

[@amillionworms]

Don't confuse humanity with Chinese. There's a clear difference.

[@djbis]

I attribute all of it to a society that continues to become more distant from Jesus Christ. It's not hard to live in harmony with each other as long as we carry inside the understanding of the scripture and what Jesus represents. Those who understand this truth get what I'm saying... It pains me to see how superficial we all have become. We worship money, status, crazy beauty standards and obsess with the most meaningless petty things around us, totally forgetting about the true value of life, and those around us. We are rotting from the inside out and it's starting to show. But don't doubt that we can still change ✝️ 📖 ✝️

[@zephyr8072]

Yes humanity is crumbling by doing what we’ve always done.

[@d.d2179]

Very good job. Thanks.

[@bikkiikun]

Basically a Black Friday Crowd

[@peetsnort]

I was a photographer in cape town when the new government came into power. When covering a conference with food buffet dinner the new ministers used to bring big tuppaware containers and just go at it without shame. I left south Africa in 97. The writing was on the wall

[@midassnap9028]

They don't have enough working age people to support the elderly population. It's going to get a lot worse.

[@happilyham6769]

This is going to be a problem for many countries in the coming years.

[@xyl4123]

Same in japan but i think its the culture!!

[@lorddeathofmurdermountain76]

​@@xyl4123it's not as bad in Japan as it is in China however unlike China Japan is actually taking a proactive approach their birthrates are rising slowly.

[@urbanurchin5930]

......open up a Soylent Green processing plant !

[@jasonm949]

Neither does the US.

[@thejohn6614]

When i was growing up my best friend's mother was from the Philippines. She would go out to farms and collect bags of produce. I remember she had 2 of the old school paper grocery bags filled with almonds or something like that I never understood if she was stealing it or they told her that she could. She was also obsessed with bingo.

[@morat795]

No wonder why buffet all you can eat restaurants across Europe don’t want any Chinese so called tourists in their establishments.

[@Vicorcivius]

Wow they are literally behaving exactly like locusts. Shocked I am not.

[@richarddevenezia8186]

I thought the Locust will eat each other

[@bjrnerikholster1058]

@@richarddevenezia8186 Human cannibalism isn't a unknown trait. Who says they won't, when they get hungry enough?

[@lordnazar6382]

@@richarddevenezia8186 They might not eat eachother in the literal sense. But they will quite literally run over eachother, and fight eachother for it.

[@dougsmith5690]

I wonder how much longer before farmers stop planting crops

[@sroberts605]

I have to add that it's a very old tradition in Britain (and most likely everywhere), for people to glean the fields for leftovers after harvest. Is that what's being objected to here?

[@battleon81]

I can understand them abusing free stuff, but this is just flat-out theft. Considering how overbearing their government and law enforcement can be on other issues, why aren't they getting arrested here? I can't see any benefit in officials letting random people swarm crop fields whenever they feel like it.

[@terywetherlow7970]

Consider what theft Government commits.

[@YokeSiewHan-kt2ci]

In the video, it would be more complete if we were given the opportunity to see words or conversations among the so called "grab hags". Then we can conclude if this a case of theft or not.

[@WN_Byers]

@YokeSiewHan-kt2ci uh no. Actions indicate behavior.

[@skybot9998]

Is there a food shortage in china?

[@amirulnadzla8328]

Watched a video a while back, the farmer explained the police are just the thiefs relative so nothing could be done anyways since the police will just release then

[@GirdsHerStrength]

What a horrible society.

[@LeoGuda]

Every socialist (communist) society is terrible.

[@nightsparrow8305]

Yes it is, just remember their family members in other countries during covid , going out buying all the PPE and mailing it to China...

[@hammothw4814]

you're only seeing the negative side of things. most things there are amazing, the people, and cities.

[@KatsuraKotonohaKuroki]

Well said.

[@gibbletronic5139]

Their government was founded by low bandits. It's no surprise that nothing has changed.

[@brianroberts815]

When the people are forced to act like this just to get a meal, the government should be held accountable for Crimes Against Humanity.

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[@Bazrad68]

I have come across these ‘grab hags’ while on holiday in south east Asia (Thailand and Cambodia). I didn’t know what they were called but they seem to be ignorant of how to act in public on bus, boat or excursion tours. They don’t seem to be able to queue for anything (including at airports) and treat food provided for the entire tour group like a trolley dash. I hate doing any type of activity with them. My impression was that they had a superiority complex and the rest of us were less than…but then I didn’t really understand the reality of living in China. What a horrible way of living that the CCP has created.

[@GeorgeZaharia]

its not sense of superiority... is lack of awarness of others around them, zero shame, zero awarness that the world doesnt revolve around them. its how some people are... its not the war that makes this its not famine, is just bad manners on how people that cant afford 1 child, births 10 ... and let them be ... so u get a generation 2 or 3 of this type of people.

[@farangthony]

Yeah as someone who lives in Thailand I can tell you those are all Chinese tourists. We get 5 million of them every year even now after covid (got over 10 million before it). Any tourist activity you take part in there will be Chinese tourists stealing all the freebies no matter what it is and throwing their trash absolutely everywhere with zero respect to their surroundings. They steal fruit off people´s garden trees too, even while on holiday. Not talking a few low hanging ones either, they´re filling an entire plastic bag with every mango they can see.

[@wavemaker2077]

In China, they were raised to compete against each other. They have to outdo each other if they want to be successful. If you are slow, nothing will be left to you. That is what is happening here. Hopefully, the younger generation will not be like this.

[@user-nt7os5cg7j]

where exactly? you dont see that kind of bullshit in Bangkok

[@Bazrad68]

@@user-nt7os5cg7j There are more locations to visit in Thailand than Bangkok. I saw grab hags in places like Koh Samui, Koh Tao and Koh Chang for example during boat tours, at tourists spots and wherever food during tours was served…I guess I shouldn’t believe my lying eyes LOL

[@encryptlakegames5328]

They legitimately were stealing cardboard. Like bro just go out back of a box store.

[@leighz1962]

"Is that bails of cardboard..?" Yup, definitely 3000 years ahead of the world.

[@encryptlakegames5328]

@@leighz1962 well yea when you look at their cgi it is. 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@patrickt49]

They're gonna sell it. So anything they can get their grubby hands on they will take and figure it out later.

[@wiikends]

I witnessed a elderly chinese on a chinese celebration grab the lettuce from street after a dancing dragon was done with it. Also in america when it comes to tipping they usually ask for a high amount even if the service wasnt good & many american chinese food restaurants the interior is quite outdated. Even in america most elderly are similar to mainlader ones

[@jeremyrapley1585]

I've seen this done by Chinese when a sale is on at a store. Sad

[@khukri_wielderxxx1962]

Growing up, only crows and deer would steal our corn

[@ppumpkin3282]

Cow corn?

[@Studeb]

That's not stealing, humans are stealing their land and food, they are taking it back.

[@brentharrington9235]

@@charliesmith_ it's edible. Not ideal, but certainly not inedible.

[@TheDiner50]

That is most likely not true. There are many stories of people stopping and picking corn illegally from some farmer. But the important part being that it would only be 1-3 corns depending on how many was going to get to taste it. And most importantly foreign people that happen to stumble onto corn fields being as strange as snow for some. It would be something done illegally but hopefully as a one off experience. Like people living in corn country better not be stealing corn every harvest. I think a very wide spread thing across the world is apple theviefs. But like there is no place on earth you can truly avoid theft being a thing. Corn being taken from a farmer I mean that is a thing that happens. But whatever insanity happening in China? That is....

[@wutntarnation]

@@TheDiner50 I live in yakima wa. And there are hundreds of huge orchards here of many varieties of fruit. After harvest there are tons of fruit left on trees and many farmers will allow you to glean as long as you cause no damage. There is so much fruit that I feed my herd of 30 pigs almost entirely on cull fruit. I feed around 7000 pounds a week.

[@Zeped-ru3qh]

I come from rural China, and I recently graduated. The situation shown in the video is frequently reported in China, and I have witnessed similar scenes in my own village, although not with as many people as in the video. The main reason is that elderly people in rural areas often lack a source of income, relying only on relatively low government subsidies and financial support from their children. Additionally, the elderly in rural areas have a lot of free time, which can lead them to engage in unusual activities. The societal values of respecting the elderly and caring for the young, combined with a sense of community, often result in collective actions. Individual harm caused by one person is considered minimal, and in the eyes of some elderly individuals, they may not even perceive their actions as crimes. This makes the cost of committing such crimes low, as it's not feasible for the police to apprehend every individual involved in stealing crops. At most, they might receive a verbal warning. However, the elderly may not be responsive to such measures. Some elderly individuals, even when their children are very affluent, engage in activities such as collecting bottles. I have encountered families that earn more than $200,000 annually, and yet the elderly members of such families still go out to collect bottles. In the words of the elderly, it's like 'keeping busy is better than being idle. In China, the proportion of elderly individuals seeking small advantages is much higher compared to middle-aged and young people. They may even engage in perplexing behaviors, such as elderly people who collect recyclables pouring out someone else's partially filled beverage to take the bottle without waiting. In public transportation, they might demand that young people give up their seats, and if refused, some might resort to verbal abuse or even physical confrontation. There are instances where elderly individuals take away iron construction materials from others and sell them as scrap. This has led Chinese youth to nickname such elderly individuals as "lao bi deng." There's a saying that it's not elderly getting worse, it is bad people growing old.

[@paolinopaperino8926]

That's what happens when you allow Majin Bu and his minions to stay in power. Ever thought about a nice old-fashioned revolution?

[@WiseOwl_1408]

What terrible cope

[@marcalvarez4890]

Thank you for the useful information. I appreciate you taking the time to explain the reality of what's happening here and why.

[@Zeped-ru3qh]

@@paolinopaperino8926 Although the government made some wrong decisions and was quite radical, things have generally changed for the better. Before 2008, there were still many thieves and robbers in China, and many people were reluctant to buy new clothes. After 15 years, China is really a safe place. The economy has also grown a lot. And I'm not pessimistic about population decline. Because now Chinese teenagers are more compassionate, more individual and more diligent.

[@paolinopaperino8926]

@@Zeped-ru3qh So they're more and more like docile sheeps, uh? Oh well, guess everyone is the maker of his own fate. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Dude-Smellmyhelmet]

Where i live, after a corn harvest, there will be unharvested corn visible everywhere and the farmers dont bother with collecting it. We've always gone behind the combines to get ears of dry corn for chicken food, bird hunt bait, etc. The corn grown here is for animal fodder and not great for cooking.

[@DilAbadyi]

I can confirm this, my phone was stole in Guangzhou, China in 10 July,i called police but no camera to see that thief, who pulled out my SIM card, no location

[@mavor101]

This is what you get when you develop your society around passive-aggressive behavior, cheating, and ignoring one's fellow citizens when they are in need.

[@billpetersen298]

A timely topic. Just the other day, driving past the “sky train” station, in Vancouver. My Chinese born wife said, “when I came here, transit payment, was on the honour system” “Now it isn’t, did we do that”? She wasn’t born, under Mao. But her parents were. So you get another generation, that is angry, and messed up. Many chinese families, are still very fractured.

[@nyarlat2609]

That's a big problem with the unchecked immigration. People come in who lack the same societal standard to have an honor system. Enough of them, and the norms change. Much the same as stores in ghetto neighborhoods locking up products or shutting down entirely after a couple years of rampant crime in blue cities.

[@georgemelton1061]

Looks like San Francisco as well!

[@yellowice0]

This is absolutely disgusting, stuff like this marks the beginning of the end, cheating the system to out right breaking the system to just stealing crops when those can't afford to lose them and those stealing can't afford not to steal and not get caught