Americans in the comments: I get 2 holidays a year
The delightful irony is that late last year, Chinese students started doing a big bicycle ride from Zhengzhou to Kaifeng for dumplings. Too many young folks together gets Chinese officials nervous so the authorities shut it down.
So, master of your own time if the party approves of how you spend said time.
Can tell you right now that routinely in my city (in America) car drivers lose their shit at cyclists doing critical mass type things. The motive you suggested may exist and it may all have been a pretext, but it's not unexpected when it comes to roadways. They don't allow cyclists on the highways around me at least.
Sure, but that was in the Good Place, where the local government was simply empowering the will of the people, which is completely different from what happened in Bad Place, where the central authoritarian regime imposed its will on the people. So there’s really no comparison.
Hah perhaps, unless you've got kids
Oh those nice gay men found a two person bike. Good for them.
Still a slave to time on weekends. Gotta do all the shit I don’t have time to do during the work week.
Is that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei?
pretty sure that it is!
bonus:
Life is not just about the immediate struggles, but also about poetry and distant horizons.
I think there might be some subversive ambiguity or double-meanings in there:
工作日的我，是时间的奴隶；
休息日的我，是时间的主人。
my workdays, I'm time slave;
my rest days, I'm time owner.
Is that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei? Lol
Yes. Even funnier, Liu Bei is missing.
The more you look, the worse it gets.
2 holidays a year? Must not be working class. I got enough time to write this message only after 5 years of service.