It is somewhat organic though, like the US did seed a lot of the propaganda initially, but like most of the West's propaganda it's self-fuelling now. It used to be that people kept to within the lines of the propaganda, now people just invent whatever the fuck they want and the scarier it sounds, the more real it could possibly be - and if you push back, well, you're just a red fash tankie SeeSeePee shill
Like I've seen people just whip out the most asinine shit about China clear out of thin air, and not from terminally online users either. I know someone who's otherwise fully disconnected from politics and online discourse but truly believes that China is building back doors into consumer cleaning robots so that they can map out someone's house and, if they ever speak ill of China, break in and kidnap them to disappear them. He doesn't even mean like dissidents living here, he straight up thinks China will disappear random Canadians for speaking ill of Xi around their Roomba
Well the government wastes money on fruitless tasks all the time. But also they will be using it to reinforce the ignorant nonsense people already believe. Propaganda works best when it plays on preconceived notions. You can't just spend a billion dollars to convince people the average Chinese person has four arms and expect it to work. Additionally, I find it funny sometimes how much we leftists think anything that reinforces western ignorance must be by bots or whatever. It's a very liberal take. We have to start recognizing that westerners on average can be extremely ignorant all on their own.
Are we really out here trying to pretend that Americans don't hold ignorant backwards views about China? That everything they post online about it must be directly paid for by the US government?
This "everything like this must be a bot" is some real liberal posting. Do better, folks.
?? I hope you didn't think I was aiming that at you
I was just (trying to) riff and agree with you that they don't need to be paid, this was a funny image I saw that I thought was pointed at the same thing but I guess it wasn't clear
okay, sorry, in my mind it comes off like "hey American, why are you doing all this without getting paid?" but I could see how it could be read other ways.
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The US just alotted $1.5 billion to anti Chinese propaganda, so I'm not so sure about that
It is somewhat organic though, like the US did seed a lot of the propaganda initially, but like most of the West's propaganda it's self-fuelling now. It used to be that people kept to within the lines of the propaganda, now people just invent whatever the fuck they want and the scarier it sounds, the more real it could possibly be - and if you push back, well, you're just a red fash tankie SeeSeePee shill
Like I've seen people just whip out the most asinine shit about China clear out of thin air, and not from terminally online
users either. I know someone who's otherwise fully disconnected from politics and online discourse but truly believes that China is building back doors into consumer cleaning robots so that they can map out someone's house and, if they ever speak ill of China, break in and kidnap them to disappear them. He doesn't even mean like dissidents living here, he straight up thinks China will disappear random Canadians for speaking ill of Xi around their Roomba
Agreed, 1.6 billion does some wonders
My fellow Americans will do this sort of shit for free I assure you.
If that were the case, the government wouldn't be dumping money into it
Well the government wastes money on fruitless tasks all the time. But also they will be using it to reinforce the ignorant nonsense people already believe. Propaganda works best when it plays on preconceived notions. You can't just spend a billion dollars to convince people the average Chinese person has four arms and expect it to work. Additionally, I find it funny sometimes how much we leftists think anything that reinforces western ignorance must be by bots or whatever. It's a very liberal take. We have to start recognizing that westerners on average can be extremely ignorant all on their own.
Are we really out here trying to pretend that Americans don't hold ignorant backwards views about China? That everything they post online about it must be directly paid for by the US government?
This "everything like this must be a bot" is some real liberal posting. Do better, folks.
?? I hope you didn't think I was aiming that at you
I was just (trying to) riff and agree with you that they don't need to be paid, this was a funny image I saw that I thought was pointed at the same thing but I guess it wasn't clear
Honestly, I could not tell.
okay, sorry, in my mind it comes off like "hey American, why are you doing all this without getting paid?" but I could see how it could be read other ways.