• CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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    1 day ago

    So basically, a similar thing to what happens in the United States happens in China, but in reverse, where the United States spins stuff or outright makes shit up about China and the American people take it hook, line, and sinker, whereas in China, they just tell their people straight-up about evil things the United States does without spin, but the people think "No, it can't be THAT bad, the government MUST be lying to us to make the United States look bad"?

    • godlessworm [comrade/them]
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      23 hours ago

      my impression after being on the app is that while america is constantly saying "evil china this, evil china that", china just straight up isn't thinking about us. what clued me into that was, i was watching a live where a chinese and american were talking. the chinese person said her first american movie she remembered watching was high school musical, and half jokingly asked if school was really like that here. the american informed her that no, schools here are generally unpleasant, and dangerous, and there's a huge risk of being shot in school. the chinese girl seemed actually shocked to hear about school shootings, like she had never heard that was happening here in her life. she straight up could not wrap her brain around it. that it happened, let alone that it's a common occurrence.

      meanwhile, we're all still hearing about the same knife attack that happened forever ago in china, that despite us hearing about, we also get told that the EVIL CEECEEPEECOMMUNIST CCP PARTY OF COMMUNIST CHINA covers it up.

      it's so blatantly obvious what's going on here. china has their own shit going on to worry about where as america has nothing good going on so we're constantly being told to "look over there at their problems"

      • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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        23 hours ago

        Saw a video on YouTube a while back of some South Koreans being shown footage of everyday neighborhoods in the US where gun fights broke out. They a) couldn't believe how poor the infrastructure was; and b) holy shit people get shot at in broad daylight?

        They were in complete disbelief how crime wasn't addressed by ending poverty. They immediately understood people rob or deal drugs to make money, which is why people were shooting at one another. They had assumed that Americans were all rich since it's a wealthy country.