The most powerful reddit post I ever saw before leaving that platform permanently was a massive post with citations detailing virtually every fictionalized aspect of Holodomor with links to sites for each claim.
At the bottom of the post, they put something like "Source: I lied. All of the links debunk this shit. Hopefully someone will accidentally use these in an argument and look dumb."
It got removed by admins at some point.
Americans don't realize how much of their internet experience is exclusively on American domains, owned by American media companies, and frequented almost entirely by Americans and Europeans. All others are the exception to the rule. White Americans in particular despise the idea of learning another language, so it's unlikely they ever have to suffer through interacting with another culture.
Do these people not realise you can just talk to a Chinese person about these things?
there’s a genre of posts by western college students who talk to Chinese international students. They ask them about social credit and Winnie the Pooh and other weird shit, and they’re flabbergasted when the Chinese student has no idea what the hell they’re on about lol
Sadly, most of them use that as "proof" of their brainwashing. They're "forced" to pretend to be ignorant to trick westerners.
xi jinping's grand plan is to trick redditors into thinking china is good
I was curious about whether or not China had light displays for Christmas. I looked up on YouTube. There were a few walk around videos showing off Christmas lights in Chinese cities. ~5,000 views. Between two of the results was a video titled something like China CANCELS Christmas with some kkkracka in a poor fitting suit sitting at his dining room table with an awful looking green screen behind him. 50,000 views and comments like "YES SIR THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US INFORMED SIR."
EDIT: the cancel video has 635K views now
Entirely anecdotal but when I was staying in China for a while the supermarket near me went absolutely all out for christmas, no place where I live in NA does that anymore. So if anything China is apart of the vanguard defending christmas or something.
Its ridiculous how much propaganda about China is obviously disproved from spending just a few hours there
A bunch of those views are bots from the government to juce the algorithm. I am reasonably sure of this.
The actual function of the great firewall isn't keeping Chinese posters in but keeping Facebook out
This is the most true aspect of it. The whole reason China now has it's all-in-one app is because of the firewall. It functions far better as a market monopolization tool than as a censorship tool.
But try telling that to a westoid that is ok with that site essentially having political leverage over the United States.
Even the poster making the rebuttal is a little wrong. My friends and family in Mainland China are aware of the firewall and almost never mention it, let alone joke about it all the time. To them it is just a mild inconvenience but nothing that they care to really challenge. VPN usage has also risen but it is not as commonplace as this person seems to think it is. Not that it matters because China has the infrastructure to create its own social media ecosystem that satisfies its people.
Americans watch 900 sponsorship ad reels about using ExpressVPN to watch Netflix shows that are exclusive to other regions and get confused when Chinese people also do similar things.
The Chinese may be restricted by default from browsing the western web, but westerners can freely browse the Chinese web with no special procedures. They could easily explore and understand what Chinese people do, especially with webpage translation features. But instead they opt for laziness and rely on telephone stories about China. This alone makes the US worse, just like everything else they boast about; they claim that Chinese are repressed and brainwashed and powerless, yet Americans do nothing with their democracy to punish traitors and billionaire abusers.
Americans, in their own words, CHOOSE to be stepped on and ignorant.
In the early 2000s I wandered into a random Chinese forum, I think it was called Kingjoke or something along those lines. I couldn't understand a word, but the vibes were truly immaculate.
Imagine how down bad you would need to be to break out of the great firewall just to hit US twitter. The shame I would feel
There's quite a few Chinese players on https://tetr.io/, a very active multiplayer (and single-player) community-made Tetris game
