The contradictions occurring between the West's response and reaction to COVID and the constant propaganda of saying how bad zero COVID China is VS suddenly pointing fingers at China for allowing cases to happen has to be doing something to anyone capable of an amount of recollection and critical thinking, right?
Like I cannot imagine people aren't seeing this bullshit
insert Parenti quote about how western propaganda during the cold war could turn any information about the soviet union into hostile evidence
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has to be doing something to anyone capable of an amount of recollection and critical thinking, right?
so maybe 2% of the population
This is assuming the person is not so completely beat down and exhausted from being worked to death that they don’t have time and energy to philosophize
China just doesn’t really trust the new mRNA tech tbh. They have their own mRNA vaccine that doesn’t get approve yet. But they approve paxlovid so China doesn’t accept western vaccine is BS. They just hesitant on the mRNA and the west vaccine generally more expensive
We are well past the stereotype that knowledge is a prerequisite for opinions
If you don't speak Chinese, then you can't report on things that occur in China and are reported by Chinese-speaking sources - you can only repeat what you've heard other people say with whatever vibes-based tweaks come to your head.
Of course, nat sec reporting is almost all vibes based, so that doesn't really matter to them.
I don't speak chinese and understand china
You don't speak chinese and don't understand china
We are actually the same, and should check our privilege
One of my friends talked to me about China recently, bringing up another friends very negative opinions of China, primarily the Uyghur situation. Its funny because they are completely non connected to the news cycle themselves and I did my best to tell them to just research zenz. I guess it relates bc I told them that the primary "researcher" behind this supposed genocide doesn't even speak Chinese and he literally just couldn't be fucked to look more into it.
The whole thing that sparked this Convo was him dating someone who lived in China previously and feeling like western media wasn't fair based on that interaction. Its hard guys. Somehow everyone knows to doubt the west in retrospect but can't take that idea and turn into scepticism about current western spread atrocities
and he literally just couldn’t be fucked to look more into it
but can’t take that idea and turn into scepticism about current western spread atrocities
It's because they don't want to confront the possibility that they are the "bad guys" exploiting the entire world for their own benefit, ESPECIALLY China since that'd mean the Chinese are the victims and still kicking their asses in everything despite that. Also
"Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style, they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits" Same source as above
More appropriate quote as a response actually. Same source
These are the people who attend Shen-Yun 3-4 times a year pretending that it's not a bunch of religious weirdos slowly walking across stage while free-to-use graphics are played on an overhead projector in order to Own The Communists while the Falun Gong is harvesting their data.
That's geomancy, i think geonomy is either that soil compass thing or a misspelling of Geromy
I have done the research and dirt is, indeed, a thing. We live in a disgusting world.
She’s claiming in the replies that she can in fact speak Chinese. Ngl, :doubt:, but that is her claim.
Some of these people are at most three years away from going full "It's not even a real language, it's just chicken-scratch and funny noises."
It would be funny to see them try that, what is the rationale when confronted with the fact Chinese goes back at least 5000 years. 99% of the people couldn't possible understand Middle English today and Modern English is only ~500 years old.
what is the rationale when confronted with the fact Chinese goes back at least 5000 years
Some combination of:
- "5000-year-old chicken scratch is still chicken scratch 🤣🤣🤣"
- "Listen, any eight-year-old Anglo can just about get the gist of Chaucer. If you can't, maybe you need to go back to school"
- "The purported ancientness of Chinese culture is a CCP hoax", possibly embellished by something like "Well, since Taiwan is the historic homeland of the Chinese people, and since none of the records originating on Taiwan are that old..."
its hard to compare the two. "Chinese" is more of a language family than a language, even within Mandarin there are many dialects. it wasnt until the 1900s when the Qing dynasty attempted to standardize an official "Chinese language". before then, someone from northern China and someone from southern China likely wouldnt be able to understand each other. i dont know any Chinese language btw, im just kinda amateurly interested in linguistics
The language/dialect divide doesn't actually exist in linguistics, which has long since moved on to calling things "varieties" instead. So, you have multiple varieties of Chinese just like you have multiple varieties of Arabic or multiple varieties of Romance.
Back off, buddy. I know how to pull of Chun-Li's Spinning Bird Kick so it's safe to say I'm very much in tune with all things China
"why are you always playing as Chun-Li, she's a girl" memories intensify :trans-undertale:
Reminds me of how I used to pick female characters in fighting games because they tended to be faster and more responsive, which was my jam. People gave me so much shit about it that I pick female characters in video games to this day out of stubbornness.
lol this brings me back to playing pc games with childhood friends and most of us made our characters women, like in literally every game you could customize ur character. most of us are trans now :cat-trans:
It seems @PLAOpsOSINT account has been deleted. Does anyone have more info?
All accounts with OSINT in the name should be viewed with suspicion. I have never seen one that isn't pro-imperialism behind the scenes, they purport to be "open source intelligence" but I am pretty sure a lot of these accounts are run by actual feds and are used for the distribution of propaganda content.
Thank you :deng-salute: I just wanted to check the account out and get more context to OPs screenshot
Probably thought they'd burned the account over this or something, it's pretty sus behaviour.
