Chinese people on XHS being shocked and horrified by what's considered normal in the US is very indicative of this. They generally don't think about us at all. The average Chinese person that hasn't been to America probably thinks the standard of living must be high because it's such a "rich" country. It's amazing knowing that the US is doing anti-capitalist agitation by merely existing and being observed by normal people.
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Being such a shitheap other people have trouble believing just how dire things are
But FWIW its always vindicating that for the average human, this way of life is irrational.
Yeah most of them assumed that because we’re a rich country we have a high standard of living, worker protections, a good social safety net, etc. They are shocked to learn how bad it is. Some of them said they cried when they learned that poor people sell their plasma here to buy food. This one guy just keeps making videos about healthcare costs here like “$30,000 for normal hospital birth?!?! How do any Americans afford to have a baby?!?!”
Wait other countries you don't sell your plasma? What about eggs, sperm, blood, etc.? I think the only thing you can't sell are organs in the US and those all come from people who have already died. Or from family/friends.
Remember when China promoted the idea that USians should look into Fort Detrick, so in response the US military ran an anti-vaxx campaign in the Philippines?
So comically evil you might have trouble getting people to believe it
I can't believe that was 7 months ago. Feels like forever, but also yesterday.
Shows who has the more effective propaganda. Americans dismissed china’s claim and the Philippines ate up what the US was telling them.
Literally why the Great Firewall exists.
After 4 days on XHS, I am pretty much convinced that our own government might even be incentivizing the Chinese government to maintain the Great Firewall. Because they definitely do not want us talking to Chinese people. They’re all already telling us we need land reform. Like our gov must have known what could happen if we started talking to them directly.
Maybe, but I don't really think so. The US/CIA's consent manufacturing infrastructure is just absolutely massive and they have a lot of faith in it. They'd benefit far more from the wall coming down and having an unrestricted ability to pour misinformation into China than the off chance we're gonna suddenly have a mass class consciousness enlightenment situation. I mean it's not like xhs is new and there are plenty of countries that are far better off than us (even in Europe) that our ignorance and exceptionalism have kept us from acknowledging.
CIA's consent manufacturing infrastructure is just absolutely massive
They don't even need to do it themselves. Most of the time, it's Americans making shit up and passing it off as fact. When Americans can't find a source for something, they will invent one. You see this a lot with neo-nazis and incels where they can find evidence of a Jewish conspiracy, so they make sock puppet accounts pretending to be Jewish, then use those as proof. Examples of them getting caught:
I've also noticed they use AI slop to make fake pictures of whatever, then say "these images were trained on real images but (((they))) won't let you see them." Again, implying a Jewish conspiracy that scrubs the internet of racist images of Indians or black people or women for...reasons. This content then spreads among reactionaries and is disseminated through places like r*ddit, Facebook, 4chan, etc.
"Open source propaganda"
You’re not wrong, but also none of those countries are communist.
No, but there's Vietnam, Cuba. I mean, a significant chunk of Michael Moore's career was spent on trying to inform people about Cuba's healthcare system. The opportunities have been there. Again, XHS has been around for years. But under normal circumstances, the average person has their head too filled with exceptionalist lies and non-stop cultural brainwashing to even consider questioning the hegemonic culture. Don't get me wrong, I think this awesome, but realistically, it's probably a flash in the pan. Much like with Bernie or covid, we'll see some radicalization of a minority splinter off while the rest go back to their 
illusions. It's another small step forward of a long process. If there's anything that really does give me pause, and a bit of hope, is that this is happening amongst influencers. Like, except maybe soldiers, I couldn't ask for a better skilled group of folks to radicalize at this stage of the struggle than those intimately familiar with gaming the system to get information in front of eyeballs. 
Why? How does that even follow?
Optics. The Philippines was going to receive free COVID vaccines from China which would have shifted the country's opinion on China positively which threatens the US's attempt to alienate China from it's neighbours. So they ran a huge anti-vax campaign in the Philippines (not just Chinese vaccines, that would have been too obviously American propaganda) so people would think China is trying to poison them.
Anyway it has signal boosted anti-vax quackery in the Philippines and contributed to unnecessary premature deaths.
That's fucking evil.
Honestly I feel it's a bit of a problem, cops are all over the app now and people there are treating them like heroes who protect their community.
I told someone that American cops kill Americans every day and they said I must be exaggerating.
American cops?