China bad China bad China bad China bad China bad China bad

Top tier quote: "US international peacekeeping forces" lmao

But at least he talks about how the US permanently needs some enemy.

  • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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    2 years ago

    Yeah I saw this got posted while at work and was like “hmmmm, this is going to be bad isn’t it”. I was hoping he’d at least pull a “well China bad but the US is guilty of most of the shit they criticize China for”, but I’m now guessing that doesn’t happen. May skip this one.

    Edit: okay so cuz I'm a pain piggy I decided to try and give it a watch, I'm only like five minutes in but I will say that...

    Top tier quote: “US international peacekeeping forces” lmao

    This quote is taken out of context FYI, I says it before showing a video clip of John Cena speaking in Chinese, the joke being that the WWE are the US's best ambassadors. Call him out for his Lib takes but let's not be dishonest here people.

    Edit Edit: Okay I'm like a 2/3of the way through, and this video is a weird ass mix of :LIB: :brainworms: and some genuinely good takes. Like he spends a solid 10 minutes calling out the US's hypocrisy, even saying that it's bullshit to call the belt road "colonialism" while referring to all the shit the US does as "economic development" and calling out how the US hacked Huawia to spy on Cuba and Iran, and the way we talk about Chinese military bases abroad vs US bases, and how the media didn't talk about the US backed coup in Bolivia. But then there's the obvious bad fucking takes.

    Edit Edit Edit: okay he has some pretty fucking awful takes at the tail end. IDK, there's maybe some good arguments here that are framed in a way that could be convincing to liberals to soften their view on how "EVIL!" China is, but he undoes most of it with brainworm takes about human rights abuses. I feel like if I could edit out about ten minutes of this video I would have had a more positive reception of it.

      • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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        2 years ago

        He explicitly compares China’s actions in Xinjiang to Nazi racial policies

        Okay to be more specific, he said that the Chinese anti-terrorism program in Xinjiang was partially based off the US's war on terror, which I believe is actually somewhat true, China did hire some US advisors in crafting their anti-terror programs, and then compared this to how the Nazis took inspiration from the US's genocide of ingenious people. Which I guess... is kinda comparing China too the Nazis by comparing them to the US and then comparing the US to the Nazis, but there's a few steps in that process.

      • reddit [any,they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I mean, he does also explicitly point out other examples of how the US does all the shit it claims China is evil for. But yeah that was a huge :yikes: