• Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      4 years ago

      love to call chinese people who post CPC positive content loyal social media footsoldiers.

            • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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              4 years ago

              Basically it means like "50 cent" or something and its an accusation that China has like warehouses of people that are paid 50 cents per post to defend the CPC, liberals love to throw it out against anyone and everyone.

              • ColonelKernel [comrade/them]
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                4 years ago

                Ah yeah, I just googled it. But they certainly exist. I mean, the US, Russia, Israel, India... they all have very robust propaganda networks all over social media, China's definitely got their feet in the pool as well.

    • RedDawn [he/him]
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      edit-2
      4 years ago

      What do you want them to do lol, it’s not like they haven’t invited people to come see what’s happening in Xinjiang for themselves.

      • LibsEatPoop2 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        That's what I wanna do. I wanna go to Xinjiang (and so many other places in China!)

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      disseminated by our loyal social media foot soldiers.

      Getting called this by Western Leftists and "50 Centers" by the Chuds is the true centrism.

    • grym [she/her, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Disgusting fucking comment. I'm sorry, what the hell?

      Imagine recording yourself with a little statement you prepared before because you've been made aware of the disgusting and dangerous propaganda that's being said about you and your region, and someone who's supposed to be your fucking "ally" in the west shits a comment calling you a "social media foot soldier".

      "Professionally cut films", i'm sorry, I guess those videos aren't poor enough, are they supposed to be recorded on an old camcorder with parenti-level audio and a shaky-cam effect for them to be "authentic"?

      Did you not notice recently the meme-spree a lot of chinese social media went on about the BBC, making BBC joke videos, parodies, etc.. in response to the shitty propaganda the BBC was putting out? So the whole social media thing people participated in was all a fucking chinese state op then, is fucking everything a chinese state op?

      How do people not realize the auto-justification of this "chinese state is a terrifying totalitarian entity that can control and do literally everything" narrative? You can literally show chinese people say or do anything and it will be interpreted as the fucking chinese state somehow being behind it.

      Nothing that can be said or shown will ever be good enough, it doesn't matter how, when and by who, it's a lie, they're lying, it's the chinese state, people are afraid of speaking out. It doesn't matter that this playlist of videos is literally just different youtube accounts, none of them are recorded in the same way or with the same hardware, they don't have a common "script", and they all seem to be in response to specific statements by pompeo and even have an accompanying hashtag that normal social media users would interact with and make videos about, you know like in US or everywhere else.

      It's fucking tiring.