Who would have ever expected this behavior from someone called “his holiness”
Real “what the fuck” hours
The "Things China was Correct About" counter clicks up again by 1.
:mao-shining:
Too bad the counter keeps counting up so fast I can barely tell how many times this has happened now.
Reddit was having a real normal one about this yesterday.
Just about everyone was calling it a China Deepfake.
This confirms in my mind the point of the deepfake buzz was to prime the West to excuse real videos as fake.
Surprising that an 89 year old CIA employee is this much of a load bearing figure in the liberal ego that they have to revert their brain chemistry to that of superstitious medieval villagers to defend him. It can't be that he's just old and losing it or a little creepy, it has to be sorcery from the perfidious orient.
Just about everyone was calling it a China Deepfake.
I just scanned through the one on r/news for as long as I could tolerate and I couldn't find any comments that said that
Not the latest report, those are confirming it. The reports are based on things which were published online prior, which were derided as fake.
Try this one: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/12gk3lw/dalai_lama_faces_backlash_over_viral_video_of_him ctrl+f “fake”.
The reports from yesterday, not today.
Because I’m a masochist I read world news comments
Lol yeah the last week of deepfake propaganda as if these so called journalists never heard of photoshop before. But you know, Trump. Photos that were released well before Trump was actually arrested.
Libs were already photoshopping Trump in prison stuff when they were impeaching him for .... not arming Nazis in Ukraine, although he tore up all the safeguards and treaties that kept the peace since we were casually detonating 5 Megaton+ nukes as a flex.
Oh shit. Then the algorithm media just has to be good enough to plant doubt. It doesn't have to advance to replace anything, it just has to make people disengage.
Just wait until we get to the "actually it's good to french kiss children" phase and :reddit-logo: brings back r/jailbait to "epicly own Winnie the Pooh."
“His holiness often teases people he meets in an innocent and playful way, even in public and before cameras. He regrets the incident.”
Real Jimmy Savile hours.
Love how they decided to throw in the "even in public and before cameras" part. Implying that this is an even more regular occurence in private.
His PR has grown lazy from having the US prop em up for so long.
I mean the didnt the theocracy libs wanted to restore enslaved and skinned children
gotta get out ahead of the more serious abuse allegations!
"ah yes you see as we said earlier when this happened in public, it's very normal for the dalai lama to blah blah blah" :stalin-gun-1:
what the shit.
i haven't read any of his books or studies, but i've seen Spotlight a bunch of times. every time some religious-pedo phenomenon surfaces, i keep coming back to something they had Richard Sipe say in a phone interview, about how the celibacy requirement creates a "culture of secrecy" as somewhere around half of monks/priests and nuns are regularly having sex (mostly with other adults). as in, the celibacy/secrecy aspect isn't necessary causal, but it creates an environment where predatory abuse can fester.
and, i say this as someone who has gotten comfort from certain translations of buddhist texts and as someone who doesn't fuck a lot, it has never really sat well with me how enchanted westerners (or others) are with self-abnegation. for example, i know a lot of people who are "blown away" by Jiddu Krishnamurti and how he was "too enlightened" for romantic/interpersonal relationships. i read books of his and, even at the height of my obsession with metaphysical philosophy, i found him like mostly full of shit... or basically hinging his cleverness on pedantry/rhetorical play. and the whole thing where he was alone all his life... like maybe it's not because he was "too enlightened".... maybe he was just a loner, disinterested in people, or had an attachment disorder from being raised oddly.
anyway, not sure where i was going with this or why, but the dalai lama is a certified freak.
Having a culture that demonizes normal sexual interaction, fetishizes chastity and pressures people into becoming weird sexless creeps actually just fosters sexual abuse :shocked-pikachu:
There's something in the western imagination about being a loner that gives a person certain wisdom. While that's maybe true that solitude can give a person a certain sense of themselves, it's typically not healthy to be isolated and without relationships.
This is a really neat criticism of cultures of enforced celibacy, and the use of social isolation or ostracization as a form of "punitive reform"; which you will immediately abandon the second anyone actually asks you to do anything about it, because you are in fact all as individualistic & freedom-brained as any other lib or chud when it comes to questions of how people should actually relate to eachother in a society.
Feudal Tibet had institutionalized pederasty as part of its monastic social structure, who knows to what extent the Dalai Lama experienced or participated in this though.
can't believe the feudal master who used to have children taken to his mountain stronghold turned out to be a creep
In fairness he was also basically kidnapped and crowned forever king of a basically medieval state at the age of 5. Not defending his actions, but he's basically always been a political pawn sheepdogged into whatever PR campaign the American state wants like Emperor PuYi in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.
yeah I think being kidnapped and put in charge of a country at 5 probably made him weirder
it is also interesting to note that the Choice of reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is not really an arbitrary thing with the Previous Dalai Lama pointing at a direction and the first kid they find is the reincarnation.
There is a thing called the golden urn that is basically a voting system by different lama groups with different interest or even the Qing dynasty that can be used to ''guide the Dalai Lama's reincarnation''. This is why there are periods where the young Dalai Lamas mysteriously passed away via poison.
This is also the reason why there is a Dalai Lama reincarnation crisis when the current one will eventually die. the Chinese government and the current Dalai Lama apparently are ok with one child but the pro independent group chose their own one that they said is legitimate
I didn't know about the golden urn but I always found it weird growing up how otherwise rational Americans took the whole reincarnation thing at face value as an apolitical supernatural process lol.
what 7 years to Tibet does to a MF
you know the rational liberals are just doing noble savage trope on people from foreign countries because they got rid of the noble savages on their own land
Also that movie is fucking hilarious especially how they portrayed Mao like some asshole who didn't respect local custom or something. Opponents of Mao would always refer him as some snakes that knows how to pull a show which is not something shown in the movie.
Henry Puyi wasn't kidnapped into it. He volunteered for the job. He was a weak man who just went with whatever anyone told him to do. He ended up as a street sweeper outside his old house, the Forbidden City.
He was crowned son of heaven at the age of two and watched the ancient social order backing that title crumble at the age of 5. I feel more sympathy for him than I do for someone like the Tsar of Russia because experiencing that definitely made him into a pathologically weak person who went where he was told. I think it was good to let him live out his life and I hope he found some fulfillment tending the gardens near his old palace.
https://www.amazon.ca/Struggle-Modern-Tibet-Autobiography-Tsering/dp/0765605090 ''This captivating autobiography by a Tibetan educator and former political prisoner is full of twists and turns. Born in 1929 in a Tibetan village, Tsering developed a strong dislike of his country's theocratic ruling elite. As a 13-year-old member of the Dalai Lama's personal dance troupe, he was frequently whipped or beaten by teachers for minor infractions. A heterosexual, he escaped by becoming a drombo, or homosexual passive partner and sex-toy, for a well-connected monk. ''
btw this book is quoted by Parenti on his article about feudal Tibet
Damn I can't believe the Chinese Communists made him do this.
The Wikipedia article of "Serfdom in Tibet controversy" is wild, it list lots of human right abuses, and then they put random western dudes saying the CPC is bad and they lie a lot, but anyway here are more well documented human right abuses in Tibet, but did you know the communist lie a lot? lol
Serfdom isn’t “controversial”. It’s objectively wrong. Just because some anti communist freaks love Theocratic regimes doesn’t make it “controversial”
Who could have ever thought that having an infallible central figure with divinely assigned authority could lead to bad things?
I remember the reddit thread was very bot like in the comments "chinese ai lie deepfake"
Chinese AI is so advanced it gaslit the real Dalai Lama into apologizing
