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[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 months ago

All my "China experts", gone all-my-apes-gone

[–] [email protected] 65 points 5 months ago (1 children)

huh weird, I thought the reasons why Chyna is wrong were self-evident!

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, in fact, It is difficult and time-consuming to do the work that proves Beijing is lying. Sort of like if Beijing weren't lying and it was hard work to convince everyone that China is pure evil and even considering anything they had to say was a dangerous thought contagion.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not too different from the liberal myth that people are inherently selfish, so we have to have a capitalist police state, sorry.

Socialism can never be left uncontested by bourgeois states because it would prove that, given the opportunity, humans can cooperate. The tendency of children to share, to selflessly give to others, would be understood as natural and not an aberration that has to be corrected.

The bourgeoisie wins if people are alienated and distrust one another.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Even if you can't base a government around socialism because of "human nature" or whatever (just arguing on their behalf here) it still proves that capitalism doesn't have to be a totalizing socially dominant ideology for society to exist and we aren't in some kind of eternal man-against-man forever war.

Like even if the cooperative model falls apart at scale and you need firmer hierarchies and shit when organizing millions of people the success of state socialist programs like China proves that that the entire society doesn't have to brutally compete to force social darwinist bullshit to succeed.

It turns out you don't need petty small business tyrants to have a fuckin grocery store.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Does this mean I won't have to hear about fucking Shen Yun anymore?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately they are a cult amd cults tend to be pretty resilient

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If the US cuts off funding to them they'll probably stop the travelling show though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

inshallah. fucking hate that shit coming through my junkmail

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I unironically actually want to watch Shen Yun—for ironic purposes, of course.

I just don't want to give them any money.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I've got it on good authority that it's got pretty effects and choreography but still somehow boring.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

do nothing

win

Lmao, it's just that easy folks

some-controversy

[–] [email protected] 57 points 5 months ago

At least they can quietly slink away this way, instead of everyone realizing that now that people are able to easily and directly interact with Chinese people, and even privately speak with them in DMs, that the idea of "China Watcher" as a a profession is totally asinine.

Bethany, Zenz and the rest of that whole disgusting crew were going to have a much tougher time pushing propaganda going forward anyway.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

RIP anti-tankie propaganists. Here's hoping there's a mutual aid fund for special agents.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago

lol post after post of immaculate self ownage

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago

China needs an entire ecosystem of propagandists to "uncover flaws"

Meanwhile America openly drone strikes weddings and brags about their failure to overthrow Venezuela. Like what are you even talking about Bethany

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not on that social media site but please tell me she is getting roasted in the comments.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

She gets relentlessly clowned on in the comments. che-smile

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

American exceptionalism strikes again. We don't need an NGO industrial complex to prove that the American governance model is deeply flawed, it's self evident.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago

guys we have to take this seriously, if we stop being racist we're gonna forget what democracy is

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago

wait, so "you are a shill paid by the CCP" was just projection?!?! astronaut-1

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago

lol, get a real job loser lukashenko-tired

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Realistically, how long does it take for this to make any international change? After decades of propaganda, it will take a while for the brain worms to be sorted out.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Watch public opinion polling, major swings (sans a major event) take around 5-7 years. Contradictions are sharpening right now so that is probably going to be shorter and more volatile.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Don't worry, we'll continue to get our steady diet of brain worms in the empire.

But our friends on XHS won't keep getting stories about the president shutting down the power grid to save a bird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Anecdotally Reddit was very leftist right after the election, almost as if someone had turned the bots off. Normally it takes a long time to change public opinion, but I think this system is so fragile it withers within months.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago

Oh shit they cut our funding scared /j

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago

"CCP falling in 50 days" youtube channels falling in 50 days

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

oh no, looks like cubehead pavlou's dad was right and you'll have to go get a real fucking job lmao

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Lmao these fucking dorks believe their own lies. Incredible.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Bet they are popping up everywhere now

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

I believe it. Do you have any idea how much it costs to employ interpreters and translators for these China experts who don't speak Chinese?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

probably being privatized? but nonetheless good to see them panic or at least worry

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Privatized to some guy using chat GPT and the AI video maker

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Crap, I'm about to lose my job of typing different spellings of "Tianenmen Square" into Baidu and observing the results all day.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

"Without being paid to lie, it's hard for me to keep telling you how much the CPC is lying."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

if your ecosystem requires constant resource injection to remain sustainable you don't have an ecosystem, you have a factory farm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I wonder if this will make reddit useable. Probably not, but I wonder if user activity drops

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

At the risk of being destroyed, I thought Mao was in favour of a democracy composed of the revolutionaries classes. Why did democracy never develop?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Democracy did develop. The entire People's Congress is a system of democracy.

Any citizen without a criminal conviction can join the party (akin to registering to vote), then party members elect a representative for the grassroots/village level. Those representatives then elect people for the district/county, and those representatives then elect someone to the city/provincial level, who elect someone for the National People's Congress. The President is then chosen by the National People's Congress. No-one moves up without the support of their peers, and no-one gets to the top without demonstrating a lifetime of competence. No one gets into the system without being elected by the people, and no-one moves up in the system without being elected by their peers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do the higher ups still have a local area they need to maintain? Like are there still some people voting for them directly?

I've looked around but I can't find good info on the Chinese system, because of all the china watchers writing bs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

As far as I know, once you move up someone fills in your previous position. If you go from being in charge of, say, the city of Zhengzhou to the entire province of Henan, in a way you are still maintaining the city Zhengzhou in a way.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

"Destroyed" lmao you make it sound so cool. You're good though, nothing wrong with asking questions in good faith don't worry for nothing

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