The idea that China would actually censor that shit carries with it the prior requirement that the Winnie the Pooh shit was seen as an authentic challenge to CPC power.
And THAT is the tier of mental gymnastics that I refuse to participate in. Jesus Christ, western libs. Four years of trying to meme Trump out of office might have acquainted them with real power dynamics vs fucking covfefe. Look at how the state dept. responded to covfefe: crickets. Look at how they responded by BLM: fucking truncheons. Libs need to get the fuck over themselves. Goddamn. Sorry this shit touched a nerve lmao.
i hear presinald Trunt banned the communist sports mascot Gritty because he represented a threat to the regime
:thinkin-lenin:
This reminds me of those tiktoks and shit of Russians getting interviewed over Ukraine and saying shit like "yo fuck Putin" in the same sentence as "my parents run a bakery on this street." Western media and schooling tells me folks get unpersoned for doing shit like this. What's the deal?
From my understanding, if you have not or do not have a role in governance, or are not actively protesting the government, you can pretty much say what you want. Activists are pretty much barred from government, where, much like in the U.S. those that do get through are heavily coopted.
However, until recently they were honestly more relaxed than the U.S. is. Like the shit Pussy Riot did would have landed them on a sex offenders registry in the U.S. whereas they just went to jail for a couple of years in Russia. Putin is a bad and corrupt oligarch, and yet still America manages to be more repressive because it has so much money to throw at it's systems of repression.
tl;dr: Russia is less shitty than America because they've only had a couple decades to build systems of mass suppression instead of hundreds of years
I think it has more to do with the amount of extraneous capital they have to throw around than time, as most of the real surveillance state apparatus was built in the U.S. post 9/11, but the lack of continuous government in Russia probably didn't help them in that particular endeavor.
So where would be a good place to read about the context and story behind the whole Xi = Winnie the Pooh thing that isn't a bunch of western libs going on about the repression of :freeze-peach: ?
this is the perfect way to say it. Some white people aren't racist, but any group of white people deffo is
Thanks the the thorough explanation. This is the kind of context I had been wondering about.
The best place I've seen that took a technical look at it was a Financial Times piece (I think) where they pointed out that Pooh wasn't actually banned. They then look at the trending post numbers on some Chinese social media site and show the claim for banning made the Pooh images go viral as people proved that it wasn't banned. But then in a massive case of cognitive dissonance, after explicitly showing that the meme was in fact popular for a number of days with a massive number of posts, they claim that the drop off in posts after like 3 days (when the internet usually gets bored with stuff) was because of banning... even though there was still a higher number of Pooh posts than before the viral event. Just like 80% less than at its peak. It looked like any other epidemic line graph after the initial run through the population.
It's just a chinese internet meme. As far as I understand it goes literally no deeper than "haha he looks kinda like winnie the pooh"
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FvsHksV4Gup4p0VPPXMIKygR8utt.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
its a picture of obama and xi and someone posted it next to a picture of tigger and pooh in the same positions, thats the whole thing, it jumps straight to "xi cee pee banned pooh" afterwards
not clear whether she is comparing Putin to Christopher Robin, or to Piglet
