African Net Sponge

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Authentic African Exfoliating Sponge – This African bath sponge is made of soft nylon material. It creates a rich lather and gently removes impurities, helping you enjoy a refreshing and comfortable shower experience at home or while travelling.Friendly tip: Use the loofah as a whole, no need to tear it into strips. Updated Mesh Design for Better Cleansing – The body exfoliating pouf features a ...

I'm black so yes. And I use a wash cloth/African net sponge/Japanese scrub thing. Junk and ass get their own cloth for bathing or in situations where all I have is one, they get washed last.

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hi all! yesterday i got a leg and armpit wax. how long should i wait before using my african net sponge to wash myself? submitted by /u/ChemicalAcrobatic635 to r/HairRemoval [link] [comments]

about a year ago i bought an african net sponge from amazon. don't know if it's authentic or not, but it worked sorta well. i used to scrub pretty hard and it at least felt like it was clearing things up. but it started to smell bad/weird for some reason, even though i used to rinse it very well and hang it up on a hook so it airs after my shower, rather than scrunching up and leaving it on the side. i still use the african net sponge. now it doesn't smell as bad, but it also doesn't feel like it's scrubbing as well as it used to when i got it. note: i've never washed my african net sponge in the washing machine. it's always been by hand. also, i'm not very familiar with all this, so i consider myself a rookie! before getting the african net sponge, i'd always just used loofas. i recently started using something similar to this (i also still use my african net sponge, just not as often). i feel like my skin is kinda getting thoroughly scrubbed, and the sponge-thingy doesn't smell bad either. i'm just still wondering, what is the best thing to use to feel thoroughly scrubbed and clean? i ditched loofas a while ago, and i'm glad i did so. i'm also someone that has normal-oily skin on the oilier side, especially during the summer months as it's very humid where i stay. submitted by /u/JuneDare001 to r/hygiene [link] [comments]

Lol I was inspired by another post Anyways I have insane back build up. If I scratch my back and chest, gray eraser shaving like gunk collects under my nails. I shower daily. I’ve tried glycolic and salicylic acid to no avail. I’ve tried using bar soap to liquid soap. I’ve tried going periods without lotion and with. What’s worked for me so far is aggressively using Korean exfoliating mitts twice a week, but it’s super hard to reach my back. It’s not great for my skin but it’s the only thing that works. For those of you who have used both, are African net sponges abrasive enough to help get that gunk off my back? Or for those of you with the same struggle as me, did you ever find a solution? submitted by /u/feelingpissy to r/hygiene [link] [comments]

I suddenly have sensitive skin. I used men’s scents cause I liked the earthy woodsy smells. All good I could use any brand or scent same as lotion. Now I’m itchy. I bought some Dr Bronners and loved it and just bought a second bottle with a different scent. Found some sensitive skin lotion as well. Something popped up while I was searching and it was an African net sponge. I bought some as well. I usually use those nylon poofs but they’ve been coming apart a couple uses. Anyone use a net sponge are they better? submitted by /u/mjh8212 to r/hygiene [link] [comments]

Hi, I'm seeing lots of mentions here of an African net sponge. I want to be able to clean my back properly, and if this helps then I'd gladly try it out. Could anyone please elaborate on it a bit? What exactly is it, what is it made of, how do I get one? Thank you, and I would also appreciate tips on how to moisturize my back, considering I can't reach everywhere. submitted by /u/Haunted_Purpose to r/hygiene [link] [comments]

Hello! I’ve always used long washcloths in the shower and replaced them after every use. I typically use them in this order while showering: chest, arms, back, and legs. Then I use the bottom part of the washcloth for my feet, the middle for my butt, and the top for my intimate areas at the end, rinse again and hang it to dry before preparing it with other dirty washcloths for laundering. (I always use a new clean one for the next shower.) Recently, I had the idea to start experimenting with an African net sponge for exfoliation. I want to hang it in my room to dry afterward along with my bathrobes (unfortunately, I can’t hang it in the bathroom because there isn’t enough space). For those of you who don’t use washcloths, I’m a bit confused and have a question. If I come home after an intense gym session, sweaty and ready to shower, I wash my whole body—but I can’t imagine using the same African net sponge to also wash my feet and then reusing it the next day, even after rinsing it. The same goes for the butt and other intimate area. So how do you scrub those specific areas when you’re using something you plan to reuse? Maybe I could just use my hands and a gentle soap for my butt and other intimate areas (am I correct?), but I feel like my feet need exfoliation. submitted by /u/archerhush to r/hygiene [link] [comments]

I have decided to give African net sponge a shot. 1) where can i get an authentic one in the UK? 2) how often do you wash it and how? Is it like washcloths where you wash it after every wash (had wash presumably)? Thank youuu submitted by /u/wantspeacex to r/Skincare_Addiction [link] [comments]

To people from Europe. Where do you buy African Net Sponges? I wanted to buy on Amazon submitted by /u/lily98988 to r/hygiene [link] [comments]

Is this African net sponge authentic or fake? I want to buy a legit, original one. Where can I buy a genuine African net sponge in India (Amazon, Etsy, or any trusted platform) submitted by /u/SuccessfulEnergy2062 to r/Skincare_Addiction [link] [comments]

Hi guys I’m looking to buy an African net sponge but unsure where to find one in Auckland. Don’t want to risk buying them online for it to end up temu quality, I want the real thing. Chur submitted by /u/Just_Web847 to r/auckland [link] [comments]

Feel free to ask any questions about this timeline If there are any mistakes/errors or inconsistencies with this post, please let me know in the comments. All feedback is good. The Republic of China in 2026, but something feels … familiar Prologue The Republic of China (ROC) stands as the global hegemon of the world. It spans a landmass of over 12 million square km and boasts the largest economy in the world with a nominal GDP of over $60 trillion, the largest population of over 1.8 billion, and the most powerful military in the world. The ROC was established after the 1911 Revolution, where the declining Qing dynasty was overthrown. Officially proclaimed on January 1st, 1912, by revolutionaries led by Sun Yat-sen - the ROC's first president, this new republic set about a decades-long transformation from the Sick Man of Asia to the world’s dominant superpower. The Nanjing Period in the 1920s and early 1930s, during which China experienced rapid economic/industrial growth and modernization under the guidance of President Sun Yat-Sen, and then his successor, Song Jiaoren. In the Pacific War, China’s war against Japan from 1937 to 1946 saw the largest and bloodiest land battles in human history (First and Second Battle of Shanghai, the Battle of Nanjing, and the Liberation of Beijing). Among the multinational coalition (led largely by China and the U.S.) against Japan, China played the most decisive role in defeating Japan, pushing them completely out of the mainland and liberating much of Southeast Asia, Korea, and Taiwan, thanks to its massive population and mass industrial production. It though came at a cost of almost 40 million Chinese lives. Following its victory, the Republic of China cemented itself as a major superpower, clashing with the United States and the German Empire for global influence. The Middle Kingdom saw a massive post-war economic boom, leading to them economically growing exponentially greater than other major nations did. By the late 1970s, China had surpassed the United States as the world’s largest economy. Since the collapse of the German Empire in 1991 which resulted in Germany being split into multiple states, followed by America’s “Lost Decade” of economic stagnation in the 2000s, China has enjoyed nearly unmatched influence. The Middle Kingdom can solely steer the global economy, especially the global supply chain due to its status as the world’s factory. China can also pursue foreign policy with near-impunity. They have enormous soft power as Chinese culture, Chinese products, and Chinese ideas (mostly from Sun Yat-Sen’s Three Principles of the People) attracted global appeal. The world is truly in Pax Sinica. However, by the mid-2010s, cracks began to appear in the Sinocentric world order as a resurgent United States, a rising India, rising nations in Africa, and an increasingly aggressive and revanchist Prussian Federation, which formed out of the ashes of the former German Empire and holds both the northern German lands and much of the Empire's old nuclear arsenal. The ROC’s status as the world factory is beginning to crumble, as many factory jobs (mostly those that don’t require skilled labor) are being outsourced to less developed nations like India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, and those in Africa. China is also seeing economic growth slowing down and a decline in living standards as wait times for the Chinese National Health Service (CNHS) continue to grow, housing, childcare, and college tuition costs skyrocketing while wages stagnate, and infrastructure and public services starting to deteriorate. Birthrates are also declining as a result. China is simultaneously also dealing with issues overseas with the Chinese military stuck in a seemly endless war in Turkmenistan following their invasion in 2001 in response to the 2001 terrorist attacks on the Shanghai Tower and National Revolutionary Army (NRA) headquarters in Beijing by Turkmen ultra-nationalists. The current president of China, Hu Jintao who is a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), has been criticized for not addressing those issues well and was lambasted for his technocratic attitude to those issues. Jintao, though, has made significant progress during his tenure, like steering recovery from the 2008 Great Recession with large stimulus packages, pioneering climate initiatives that curbed carbon emissions, reduced air pollution, and initiating large-scaled green infrastructure built-up, greatly expanding the CNHS to cover dental care, eye care, and disability care, legalizing gay marriage and the ability to identify with a gender different from the one assigned at birth, normalizing relationship with Communist Vietnam, and overseeing the death of Sergey Taganova, the leader of the largest radical Turkmen ultra-nationalist group and mastermind behind the 2001 terrorist attacks that were a retaliation to China’s heavy influence in Central Asia. Taganova was found hiding in Kazakhstan and was located and killed by NRA special forces. Rise of Chuan Jianguo and the 2016 election In 2015, amid this gathering storm, a controversial and polarizing businessman named Chuan Jianguo stunned the political establishment by announcing his candidacy for president of the Republic of China. A real estate magnate whose business empire spanned luxury skyscrapers and casinos from Shanghai to Hong Kong to Singapore, Jianguo had flirted with politics since the 1980s. He had been trying to enter the political sphere, but he had only made a breakthrough on this front in 2012, when he gave a fiery speech at a Kuomintang (KMT) convention about immigration and the ‘globalist elties’, which had become an increasingly polarising subject as tens of millions of people, mostly from South and Southeast Asia, had migrated to China since the 70s. This, however, didn’t translate to anything electorally yet, as immigration to China has been widely supported by both of China’s major political parties (CCP and KMT). For all his talk of being the man of the people and promises of “draining the swamp” of the corrupt elites, Chuan Jianguo is actually one of the closest friends of the elites, as he, behind closed doors, promised them he will cut taxes on the rich and big corporations, as well as mass deregulations and privatization of public services and state-owned companies. He also, for all his talk about immigration taking the jobs and driving down wages, had used almost exclusively cheap immigrant labor himself for his businesses. Chuan Jianguo's entry into the 2016 presidential race upended the political landscape, casting him as a bombastic outsider promising to "Make China Great Again" by draining the "corrupt swamp" of Nanjing’s/Beijing's elite bureaucrats and restoring the nation's unchallenged dominance. (The Republic of China has two capitals: Nanjing, where the president and Executive Yuan work, and Beijing, where the unicameral Legislative Yuan works) Jianguo's rhetoric often drew uncomfortable parallels to the militaristic firebrands of 1930s/40s Imperial Japan, like Hideki Tojo and Sadao Araki, whom critics invoked to decry his aggressive nationalism, militaristic and authoritarian rhetoric, and cult-of-personality style. Supporters dismissed these comparisons as smears from the establishment, hailing Jianguo as a necessary strong leader China needs to confront its growing challenges. Within the KMT, he steamrolled through a crowded primary field of establishment figures, clinching the nomination with fiery rallies that packed stadiums in cities like Xi’an and Changsha. On the CCP side, the primary pitted establishment favorite Li Keqiang, a technocratic moderate promising steady growth and incremental reforms, against the fiery left-wing populist Xi Jinping, an outspoken member of the Legislative Yuan from the Shaanxi province. Xi railed against the "billionaire oligarchs" and "corporate polluters," demanding universal basic income, free university tuition, raising the minimum wage, a wealth tax on the ultra-rich, stronger labor rights, and a "Green Leap Forward" to nationalize polluting companies and do mass construction of green infrastructure through a federal jobs guarantee. He also advocated for the end to the war in Turkmenistan and the shutdown of Iki Island, a Chinese-controlled island off the coast of Japan that hosts the notorious military prison camp that holds suspected terrorists and is known for its alleged human rights abuses. Xi also slammed the CCP establishment for abandoning its traditional working-class base and its original socialist ideas. His grassroots army of students, unionists, and urban millennials fueled his campaign as Xi held enormous rallies in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Chengdu, and other big cities. Yet the CCP machine, fearing his radicalism would alienate moderates, anointed Li Keqiang through smoke-filled backroom deals. Enraged, Xi's supporters bolted to third parties like the New Left Party and the Chinese Green Party. When the general election came between Jianguo and Li, the left's fracture proved fatal. Jianguo eked out a 46.1% plurality, with Li at 45.2% and leftist splinters siphoning 7.2% of the vote. Turnout also hit record lows in CCP strongholds like the Yangtze Delta (Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, etc.), Guangdong, and Sichuan’s twin megacities (Chongqing and Chengdu), as progressives sat out in protest. The traditional CCP provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan surprisingly flipped to the KMT. Chuan Jianguo's win shocked the world with the United States’ newly elected president, Bernie Sanders, warning that China is at risk of sliding into authoritarianism. Jianguo's victory was decried as a "stolen mandate" by opponents, triggering nationwide protests across China as well as legal challenges, but the courts upheld the results, ushering in an era of unprecedented turbulence. Chuan Jianguo’s presidency Chuan Jianguo's presidency was a whirlwind of disruption. He launched the construction of the "Great Southern Wall," a $200 billion fortress of surveillance drones and razor wire along the southern borders, vowing to halt the "flood of illegal migrants." Deportations surged, families torn apart in tear-jerking videos going viral on every Chinese social media platform. Trade wars also erupted with Jianguo slapping tariffs on U.S. soybeans and corn, Indian textiles, Brazilian meat, Ukrainian wheat, Korean electronics, Japanese fish, Russian lumber, and African minerals as he claims it is to protect Chinese jobs and “advance China to total self-sufficiency.” Domestically, Jianguo slashed corporate taxes for tycoons like himself, deregulated environmental rules to "unleash China’s land of abundance," and packed the Judicial Yuan with right wing loyalists who gutted labor and environmental protections. Jianguo also received major backlash in the summer of 2017 for his comments on a massive far-right rally in Xi'an, where ultranationalists waved banners decrying "foreign parasites" and chanted for a "pure Han revival,” which many claimed was praise and approval for them. In terms of foreign policy, Jianguo's promises of scaling down wars were not upheld, as he actually raised the number of troops in Turkmenistan and ordered a large-scale bombing campaign in Iran in response to alleged chemical weapons attacks on anti-government rebels. Jianguo also increased Chinese naval presence in the Tasman Sea to deter the People’s Republic of Australia, who had been preying on New Zealand, where the official government of the Australasian Confederation had fled to after losing the Australian Civil War to Jack Lang’s Labor Front in 1949. Chuan Jianguo also got into a beef with the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, over Japan’s development of nuclear weapons. Jianguo dubbed him "Rocket Man," lobbing schoolboy insults via both Twitter and in press conferences. Summit after summit between the two Asian nations in Singapore devolved into shouting matches, with Jianguo once storming out after he was served sashimi instead of Peking duck. Meanwhile, the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) sent 3 aircraft carrier groups just south of Sagami Bay (southwest of Tokyo) as a deterrent. For all the controversies and drama surrounding Chuan Jianguo, his administration was generally viewed as expected for a conservative administration, for better or worse. However, things would quickly get out of control at the beginning of 2020 when a virus originating from a wet market in Wuhan spread through the city in December 2019. By March of 2020, the virus, now named COVID-19, had spread not only in all of China but to the rest of the world and had infected over a million people. This resulted in the largest pandemic since the Spanish Flu. Jianguo was directly blamed for allowing the virus to spread out of control. It doesn’t help that Jianguo initially downplayed the virus, even calling it a hoax one time. His government’s lackluster response to the outbreak, including delays on lockdown orders, resulted in hospitals all over China being overwhelmed. Jianguo was seen as responsible for the world going into lockdown and for the deaths of millions of people, including over 9 million in China. The 2020 election The 2020 election approached as a referendum on Chuan Jianguo’s presidency. The CCP, in a move to get the “most electable” candidate to get Jianguo out of office, turned to an old relic: former president Jiang Zemin, the man who had steered China through the golden era of Pax Sinica from 1988 to 2000. At 94, Zemin was a grandfatherly icon, beloved for his charisma and folksy aphorisms. His improbable comeback was sparked by Jianguo's comments on the far-right rallygoers in Xi'an. Zemin thundered from retirement, stating that his decision to run is to “restore the soul of China.” Many people ridiculed the move, citing Zemin’s age, but Zemin and his supporters insisted that he is the only person who can bring competence back to Nanjing. Zemin even promised to serve only one term and claimed he would be the “bridge candidate” to usher in the new generation of leaders. However, the real reason was colder. The CCP elders feared the ever-growing popularity of Xi Jinping and the progressive populist movement that is becoming more and more likely to topple the old CCP establishment. Jiang Zemin, being the only CCP figure to be polled significantly more popular than Xi, was seen by the elders as the only firewall against Xi’s momentous movement, hence the move to nominate him despite his age. Zemin would be paired with the mayor of Beijing, Chen Jining. Jiang Zemin's 2020 campaign was a masterclass in nostalgia warfare. Zemin constantly referenced the “golden era” under his presidency in the 1990s and compared his past presidency to Jianguo’s current as an example of competence vs chaos. It also helps that due to the COVID lockdowns, Zemin rarely appeared in public, giving pre-recorded speeches from his basement. Meanwhile, his campaign team flooded TikTok, Bilibili, RedNote, Weibo, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter with nostalgia videos of China during Zemin’s previous tenure and old speeches and interviews of Zemin, showing his old charisma. With mail-in voting surging amid quarantines, Zemin crushed Jianguo in a 57%–42% landslide, recapturing the traditional CCP provinces Jianguo won in 2016 and flipping KMT stronghold provinces of Liaoning and Hunan on waves of youth turnout and persuasion of middle-class urbanites. Exit polls cited "competence over chaos" as the reason for Zemin’s victory. Fury erupted among Jianguo’s base. Convinced that the election was “stolen,” fueled by fabricated videos of "midnight ballot dumps", tens of thousands of Jianguo loyalists stormed the Great Hall of the People in Beijing when the Legislative Yuan was in the middle of certifying the election results. Clad in blue pro-Jianguo caps and waving "Stop the Steal" banners, they smashed windows with flagpoles, vandalized rooms and hallways, chanted for martial law, and even entered the evacuated Great Auditorium, where they created a huge mess there. Beijing police fired tear gas as six died in the melee: a rioter beaten by batons, another one shot by riot police, an officer stabbed in the chaos, and three more crushed in the stampede. Live broadcasts on the riot scarred all over the Republic of China, with Chuan Jianguo slow-walking condemnation before posting a video finally asking the rioters to be peaceful, but also simultaneously repeating his false claim that the election was stolen. Over 1,000 arrests followed, but the spectacle radicalized far-right fringes, galvanizing radical groups like the "Blue Shirts Society" that plagued the countryside. Despite the riot, the Legislative Yuan was able to complete the certification of the 2020 election results, and Jiang Zemin would be inaugurated as the oldest president ever in history. Jiang Zemin's presidency As Zemin began his second tenure as president, he passed an $8 trillion pandemic relief package which included direct checks to individuals, free testing and vaccinations nationwide, and a warp-speed vaccine rollout that inoculated 90% of the country by mid-2021. Zemin also fully nationalized ventilator, mask, and vaccine production under emergency powers. Economically, he eased tariffs on allies like Burma, Thailand, and Korea but hiked them on European and American EVs to protect Chinese production. Zemin reversed most of Chuan Jianguo’s tax cuts and restored environmental regulations and labor protections that were cut by Jianguo. Zemin also passed a $6.5 trillion infrastructure bill and a $7 trillion environmental bill that boosted the construction of nuclear power plants and solar/wind farms, sped up the development of “sponge cities”, and gave China’s massive high-speed rail system a much-needed upgrade. Yet Jiang Zemin’s boldest move was ending the Turkmenistan War after two decades of quagmire that swallowed over 8,000 Chinese lives and trillions of dollars and propped up a puppet regime in Ashgabat amid endless insurgencies. In a somber address in Nanjing, Zemin announced the withdrawal of the 15,000 Chinese troops, stating it is finally time to end China’s “endless war” and redirect the funds to domestic needs as China has already completed its goal of eliminating Sergey Taganova and reduced his terrorist group to only tiny fringes. However, as soon as the Chinese military pulled out, the puppet goverment in Turkmenistan quickly collapsed and the nationalist insurgents easily took over the country. This ignited a huge backlash: hawkish KMT legislators and media pundits decried it as "surrender to terrorists," while veterans marched on Tiananmen Square, calling Zemin’s move a betrayal. At the same time, inflation resulting from broken supply chains caused by the COVID pandemic ravaged the globe, including China. All of this resulted in Zemin’s approval rating falling to under 45% by the end of 2021. On February 24, 2022, the Prussian Federation launched an invasion of the Republic of Bavaria, calling it a “special military operation.” Prussia is ruled under a fascist dictatorship led by the United Germany Party, which gained popularity and then power during the post-Empire hardships during the late 1990s. Under the current leader, Alice Weidel, the Prussian Federation has been calling for the reunification of Germany, with Bavaria being its first target. Zemin threw Nanjing’s weight behind Bavaria, citing Sun Yat-Sen’s anti-imperialist stance and China’s past war against Japanese imperialism. He sent over $50 billion of aid to Bavaria, including Type 98 anti-tank rocket launchers, J-10 fighter jets, and cyber tools to jam Berlin's propaganda nets. Meanwhile, both Chinese and American aircraft carriers patrolled the North Sea in an act of deterrence. Zemin declared in an address in Munich during a diplomatic visit to Bavaria, “China stands in solidarity with Bavaria! China stands in solidarity against Weidel’s aggression!", earning roars from crowds waving ROC flags. Return of Chuan Jianguo To absolutely no one’s surprise, age had caught up with the elder statesman, now pushing 97. By 2023, Zemin's once-commanding baritone faltered; he shuffled at G20 summits looking completely lost and mangled names in pressers. Despite that, Zemin announced that he will run for reelection, walking back his earlier promises of serving only one term. Whispers of decline grew to a roar after the 2024 debate in Qingdao, a nationally televised clash with a resurgent Chuan Jianguo, who had roared back to relevance calling Zemin a weak and frail leader and insisting that only he himself can bring inflation down. Zemin, seated to accommodate his frailty, rambled through opening statements, confusing Jianguo's past trade war with the Opium Wars, trailing off mid-sentence about "the principles... uh, the three... something.", and claiming that “We .. we beat CNHS!” Jianguo pounced, mocking Zemin's decay, calling him “Sleepy Zemin” and demanding new strong leadership. Clips went viral on Bilibili, with # ZeminZzz trending for weeks. Polls cratered overnight; the CCP, fearing electoral suicide, forced Zemin to withdraw from the race. In a presser, Zemin rasped, "It’s time to pass the torch, the people need fresh fire." He endorsed his VP, Chen Jining, now reshuffled as the presidential nominee. To balance his technocratic image from being Beijing's former mayor, known for his exceptional urban planning but his optics seen as too elitist, Chen Jining tapped Huang Qiang, the popular governor of the Sichuan province, as his running mate. Qiang, a rising star in the CCP's progressive wing, had transformed Sichuan into a model of progressive socialist governance during his decade in office. Under Qiang's leadership, Sichuan became a beacon of social equity. He enacted universal free meals for children, the disabled, and the elderly in public cafeterias and schools, provide access to free college, universities, and trade schools with housing and food provided, raised the provincial minimum wage by 25%, championed landmark workers' rights reforms, including expanding paid family/sick leave and union protections for gig economy laborers in the sprawling e-commerce sector, vastly expanded public transit, and launched an ambitious "Housing for All" initiative that built over 5 million affordable public housing units in Chongqing and Chendgu each and capped rents which resulted in the two megacites, unlike the other major Chinese cities, experiencing rent deflation. Despite the CCP being regenergized with their new nominees, it was pretty clear Zemin’s departure came too late. Chuan Jianguo, rebranded as the "Comeback Kid," hammered Chen Jining as a "puppet of the walking dead" and continuously slammed the CCP’s handling of inflation and the wars overseas. The 2024 vote was razor-close; Jianguo eked out 50.1% to Wang's 49.3%, retaking all the provinces Zemin flipped in 2020. After the election, former presidential candidate Xi Jinping set out a statement on social media stating that the CCP’s abandonment of the working class has resulted in their defeat and the return of Jianguo. Chuan Jianguo’s second presidency With Chuan Jianguo’s return to office, the new administration would immediately set its eyes on decapitating the Chinese bureaucracy as well as trying to purge the CNHS. He teamed up billionaire Jack Ma, who helped Jianguo in his bid to return to Nanjing by buying TikTok and retooling the algorithm to spread right wing propaganda, to create a "government efficiency” department with a stated goal to cut wasteful spending, but is really meant to privatize government services and state-owned companies as well as purging members within the Chinese bureaucracy that aren’t loyal to Jianguo. Chuan Jianguo also cut government departments that are tasked to regulate big corporations, defend labor rights, and provide consumer protection. Jianguo and the KMT-controlled Legislative Yuan also drafted bills that would cut the CNHS and pension system, which were met with immense backlash, even from KMT voters. Jianguo also pardoned rioters who were imprisoned for the 2021 Beijing riot, whom he had previously referred to them as "patriots" and "warriors." This was also met with huge backlash. Jianguo also did a bunch of weird and unnecessary side stuff, like renaming the Sea of Japan to the “North China Sea” and the Ministry of National Defense to the “Ministry of War”. In a public meeting in the Presidential Palace in Nanjing with Bavarian President Markus Söder in front of the media, things quickly got heated with Jianguo accusing Söder of “gambling with another Great War" and insisting that Bavaria must quickly negotiate peace with Prussia, with Bavarian territory still under Prussian occupation. Meanwhile, Chinese Vice President Han Kuo-yu scolded Söder for not saying thank you to the Chinese and complained to him for not wearing a suit. After the meeting, Jianguo reduced the aid to Bavaria, which left the Bavarian frontlines scrambling. Luckily, other countries like the Russian Republic and the United States, reaffirming their commitment to stop Prussian aggression, filled in the gap by doubling the amount of aid they’ve been sending to Bavaria, including shipments of T-90 and M1 Abrams tanks. That quabble with Söder was merely a prelude to Chuan Jianguo's most unhinged foreign policy outbursts. Jianguo complained about the Chinese trade deficit with Russia, specifically regarding oil exports, natural gas, and lumber, calling the deficit a "subsidy". He threatened to impose massive tariffs to eliminate the trade deficit and then later suggested that Russia being annexed by China would make things a lot easier. Jianguo’s supporters and later Jianguo himself began posting AI-generated pictures on social media of Russia being annexed by China and argued how Russian territory was once part of China during the years of the Tang and Yuan Dynasties. While Russian officials initially dismissed the whole thing as jokes, they began to take them seriously as threats against Russian sovereignty as Jianguo and members of his cabinet began talking about how they can take over Russia. Russian Prime Minister Alexei Navalny fired back at Jianguo, stating that Russia is a fully sovereign and independent nation. He then imposed retaliatory tariffs on China. Navalny's standing up to Jianguo would be the main reason why his party, the Liberal Democratic Party, completely turned thier political fortunes around after polling poorly early in the year. They would win the federal election later that year. Russia would not be the only nation whose sovereignty is being threatened. Singapore was also targeted by Jianguo who claimed the city-state is naturally part of China due to its population being over 75% ethnic Chinese. This resulted in mass anti-China protests in Singapore and the Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong threatening to expel Chinese naval ports in Singapore. Chuan Jianguo’s popularity had fallen to under 40% by the summer of 2025. The backlash against government cuts, Jianguo's installation of far-right figures into government positions, trade wars, inflation not going down, rising cost of living, increasing youth unemployment, deranged foreign policy, cruel practices by immigration enforcements, and many moves by Jianguo that are deemed authoritarian, such as sending NRA troops into major cities ran by CCP mayors to “stop the rampant CCP-ignored crime” and cracking down on media outlets have expressed criticism of him, have brought the country to a boiling point. On October 18, 2025, mass demonstrations, labeled as the “No Emperors" Protests, occurred in every city in China. Around 100 million people showed up in rallies all over China to protest against Jianguo’s presidency. 2 million alone showed up in Beijing, 1 million in Hong Kong, and another 2.2 million in Shanghai. This was the largest protest in Chinese history, probably in the history of the world. Rise of Chen-Wei in Guangdong In the throbbing heart of the Republic of China, where the Pearl River Delta unfurls like a jade dragon in the Guangdong province, lies Zhusanjiao. The Pearl of the Orient, the Unyielding Metropolis, the urban colossus that devours horizons. What began as separate cities: Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macau, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Zhuhai, and Huizhou, had fused into one gigantic megalopolis by the early 2000s. The population boomed and land-hungry development erased the borders. By 2002, the ROC's central planners made the decision to merge all these cities into Zhusanjiao, a single municipal behemoth with a population of over 135 million people as of 2025. Each former city became a borough, akin to New York City's patchwork: Guangzhou as the cultural and trading core, Shenzhen as the tech hub, Hong Kong as the financial center, and so on. It was the world's densest urban hive, a labyrinth where maglev trains whisked commuters from Foshan's factories to Zhuhai's shipyards in under 20 minutes, and where the air hummed with Cantonese dialects and the distant roar of the South China Sea. Yet beneath the gloss, inequality festered: rents had soared 300% since 2010, childcare had become unaffordable for young adults, factory dorms housed workers in sweat-soaked bunks, and the Zhusanjiao Metro, once the envy of the globe, now choked on tens of millions of daily commuters, its lines delayed by corporate sabotage and underfunding. Into this cauldron stepped Chen-Wei, a 32-year-old firebrand legislator in Guangdong's Provincial Assembly representing the Guicheng Subdistrict of Foshan. Born to a seamstress and a steelworker in Foshan's Nanhai district, Chen-Wei grew up watching his area get polluted from unchecked industrialization. Attending Sun Yat-sen University on a scholarship in Guangzhou, Wei began his radicalisation. There, he immersed himself in lectures on the Three Principles of the People and the readings of Karl Marx from university libraries. He would later organize student strikes against tuition hikes in 2012. Elected to the Assembly in 2020 as a CCP insurgent—defeating a KMT dynasty politician by 12 points on a platform of economic justice, Chen-Wei became the squeaky wheel of the CCP’s left flank in Guangdong politics. His viral Bilibili videos excoriated how corporate greed led to inflated food prices, and he spearheaded a 2023 bill mandating 50 weeks of paid family leave for workers, which passed by one vote. Nicknamed "The Red Rebel" by admirers and "Red Menace" by pro-KMT talk radio, Chen-Wei embodied Xi Jinping thought: a populist warrior for the dispossessed, unafraid to quote Sun Yat-sen alongside Engels and Marx in the same breath. On October 23rd, 2024, Chen-Wei announced his bid for the 2025 Zhusanjiao mayoral race in the rainy street markets of Foshan on a platform of freezing the rent, delivering universal childcare, city-run grocery stores, making busses fast and free, improving the Zhusanjiao Metro, raising the minimum wage, stronger worker’s rights, curbing corporate greed, taxing the billionaires, and building large amounts of affordable housing via zoning reforms. He would face the former disgraced governor of Guangdong, Liang Weihao, who resigned in 2021 over sexual assault scandals. Weihao is attempting to make a political comeback by running for Zhusanjiao mayor on a promise of fixing the city by restoring law and order, bringing business back to the city, and stopping "political extremism." The mayoral race started out with Weihao as the heavy favorite due to his name recognition but Wei would quickly become a frontrunner thanks to his viral videos on various social media platforms explaining his policies and exposing Weihao’s corruption history as well as a massive canvassing army that would eventually reach over 950,000 volunteers who would knock on a total of over 25 million doors. Those volunteers were made up of mostly young people who had borne the brunt of the increasing cost of living and high rents in Zhusanjiao. After a dazzling performance in the mayoral race debate, Chen-Wei surged ahead in the polls and became a national news sensation. Wei would further popularize himself in a speech in front of a massive crowd in the “No Emperors” protest in Shenzhen, promising to fight the Jianguo administration head-on and “Jianguo-proof” the city. On election day on November 4th, 2025, what many thought would be a nail-biter ended up being a landslide victory for Chen-Wei, who won 66% of the vote while Weihao only got 31% despite having spent billions of dollars that he received from billionaire megadonors. This was driven by an enormous surge in youth turnout who voted almost exclusively for Wei. In his victory speech, Wei proclaimed that “Zhusanjiao is not for sale!” and that the megacity will be a city for all, not just for the wealthy few. submitted by /u/Frosty_Aioli3585 to r/imaginarymaps [link] [comments]

So I just received my african net sponge and looks like I received a fake one, the real one is supposed to have knots (as shown in the second picture) . Has anyone used this one and seen results? I’m going to use it and will update in a while. submitted by /u/la_miya to r/Skincare_Addiction [link] [comments]

Hello! I started using an African net sponge on my body 6 months ago and my skin has never looked better in my LIFE! I need the equivalent of this for my face. Any recommendations? Or is this safe to use on my face? Or should I get a separate one? submitted by /u/itisalwaysworkingout to r/Blackskincare [link] [comments]

i’ve never in my life owned a loofah and never will since hearing about how unhygienic it is (yuck). my replacement has been the turkish kessa glove, something i’ve used since i was maybe eight or nine years old, maybe even earlier than that. but recently i came across an african net sponge and heard about its cleanliness. as someone who’d prefer not to clean myself with something dirty and rub bacteria back on my skin, i wonder which is best; a kessa glove or an african net sponge, for exfoliation and cleaning? which lasts the longest and is more hygienic? for more information, i don’t wash my kessa glove often. i sometimes boil it in vinegar, but not too often. submitted by /u/SouthCharacter43 to r/Skincare_Addiction [link] [comments]

Been running into the same problem most of the “African net sponges” on Amazon have bad reviews saying they’re fake, way too soft, fall apart quickly, or don’t have the proper texture/knots. I stumbled across africannetsponge and was wondering if anyone here has ordered from them before. Curious if it’s actually authentic and durable like the real ones from Ghana/Nigeria. Anyone know if it holds up? Would love to hear your experience before I take the plunge. submitted by /u/Gordum96 to r/Blackskincare [link] [comments]

On May 19, I wanted to buy African scrub nets because I'd heard how great they are but wanted an authentic one. I found a site that looked legit, claimed to have authentic nets supporting African merchants, so I bought two net sponges for $19.99. Got an order confirmation and everything, and a notice to check Shopify app to track shipping. Except it wouldn't track the order. I figured it's because it was overseas. Now it's been a month and still nothing, no package, no tracking, and no response to the emails I sent to their "Contact Us." Now I see that not much comes up when you google "glownetic" so I'm sure their reviews are fake, and also there's another site called "getglownetic.com." Scam submitted by /u/PeriwinkleDurian to r/Scams [link] [comments]

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Hi all, I currently use cheap African net sponge (nylon) for showering after coming from a long time plastic loofah ball user. These are great as they lather excellent, can be easily washed, they exfoliate and are very portable. I have also tried natural loofah, sea sponge, Rami mit & hemp back scrubber+mit along the way. The problem is that the African net being nylon isn't exactly an eco choice, shredding microplastics every time I shower, it also starts off rough and great for exfoliating, but this disipates so needs to be replaced many times a year. I see adverts for Japanese wash cloths (goshi, salux, sima), but again these are plastic. I found with the natural solutions that they absorbed alot of product so bodysoap was being wasted, especially the sea sponge and Rami mit. Natural loofah gets mouldy quickly. Best was the hemp back scrubber + mit, good exfoliating and consumed less product, but bulky and heavy. Does anyone have any other recommendations, or is the best bet to give the hemp another go and try to learn to love it? submitted by /u/ozwin2 to r/ZeroWaste [link] [comments]

hello! i was really happy w/ my african net sponge when i first got it, but it’s been about a month now and it doesn’t seem to retain water the way it once did. the result is that it doesn’t spread soap around my body very easily anymore. i boiled it when i first got it and was really ecstatic thinking i finally solved the loofah crisis. did i just get a bad batch? help appreciated! submitted by /u/miraclemaven to r/hygiene [link] [comments]

Self explanatory. I’ve always been a washcloth user. Use once and throw it in the hamper. To me based on my upbringing this makes sense—to re use the next day (without running thru the washing machine) means spreading yucky germs all over the body when you’re trying to get clean. Here and on tiktok people rave about the net sponge. And it looks great and makes sense! But the re using is what’s confusing me. How do you clean your butt with it then use it again the next day to clean the rest of your body again? Am I missing something submitted by /u/cantstopme0w to r/hygiene [link] [comments]

African net sponges have been a popular topic of my TikTok for the last few months and honestly I’m not sure all the claims are true. After researching it looks like most African net sponges are made from nylon, but so are bath poufs. How can one nylon be better at exfoliating than another? On TikTok people also claim that African net sponges can last for up to two years which is way longer than the other types of bath sponges (bath poufs are 3-4 weeks and plastic loofahs are 8 weeks). These products are using the same materials so why are people saying one needs to be replaced every few weeks while the other only needs to be replaced every two years? Sources: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/loofahs-can-double-as-bacterial-breeding-grounds https://thediasporacollective.com/blogs/discover/african-net-sponge-uses-care-instructions#:~:text=The%20African%20net%20sponge%20can,your%20loofah%20and%2For%20washcloth! submitted by /u/Valuable-Bird7026 to r/StyleTheorists [link] [comments]

Sooo let me start off with my shower regimen. I have a face/neck scrub. A loofah for my body, and a wash cloth that gets changed daily for the intimate parts. Watching tik tok I come upon an African net sponge it’s supposed to be more hygienic and better for your skin. I got it yesterday and I decided to use it this morning. I have to say I loved it. It made me feel clean I was able to wash it after and let it air dry. The exfoliating properties is great. Now this is where I fucked up and Im sure you get it by now. I use the end with the tag on my butt crack/hole. One swipe. One fucking swipe and I said nope. And changed to the wash cloth for that part. I work on my feet all day (12 hours) with my ass chafed. Each cheek rubbing against each other creating friction. My body responds by sweating and I feel like something slimmy was coming out my butthole to compensate the friction and pain my exfoliating extravaganza created. I know every one has different methods of cleansing oneself. Some stick with a bar soap. No cloth. No separate cloth. Some just goes in and let water run down. Whatever your case may be if you ever want to exfoliate your ass with an African Net Sponge. Dont. TL;DR I exfoliated my asshole and ass crack and my ass chafed for 12 hours straight. submitted by /u/notagoofygooberyeah to r/tifu [link] [comments]