friendship ended with tiktok
xiaohongshu is my friend now
LaughingLion
joined 5 years ago
ABOUT TIME
A Leonard Peltier protest in Boston was my first interaction with political action at around the age of 14. I was on a family trip and protestors walked by banging drums and chanting and someone smiled and handed me a flyer. It had Leonard on it. It was around '96 or so. This started me on a path to look into protesting, Indigenous struggles in America, leftist politics, and the lot.
Let this be a lesson to anyone, even the simple act of smiling at a kid and handing him a leaflet about your issue can ripple through time and have an effect. You never know who's heart you will touch.
Honestly, I could not tell.
In my city a few years ago white supremacists marched through the streets without a permit. Then an hour later we had a permitted protest for black rights and an end to police brutality. A comrade of mine stepped off the sidewalk with one foot. The cops beat her so badly she was hospitalized for a week.
This was in the Tampa Bay area, not some backwoods town in Mississippi.
"ad"? the election was finished months ago
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.
My fellow Americans will do this sort of shit for free I assure you.
It's going to suck to see them do this and then get inducted into the democratic party in 20 years.
They more or less have. I don't think they plan to resume services until they are given some sort of guarantee. If they are left in limbo for 90 days they will likely just be down for the entire time until they are told this law is repealed or something.
In the meantime all those western investors can eat shit.
A lot of discussions about the TS incident gets bogged in what happened and what didn't happen and so on. But I think something a lot of communists and socialists (even on this site) need to focus on is why the Chinese government "censors" the incident.
The fact is the Chinese government is pretty open about what happened. They talk about the people who were killed surrounding the square, both students/protestors and security forces. What they don't like is the western propaganda surrounding the incident and the lies surrounding it that have arisen organically from that propaganda in the west. See, in China you are not permitted to lie to the public about other people, the government, history, companies, and so on. And they are sensitive to certain topics because they are such common lies used to defame China. They will not stand for the defamation especially on platforms they control and nor should they.
Think of it like this, whenever China is doing well or something is going on with China, oop, here we go: pictures of the square and the student protestors or tank-guy/bag-man. When Shinzo Abe was offed by the doohickey, were there posts on Reddit about Nanjing? When Germany sent tanks to Ukraine do we see images on /r/pics about Dachau? No, of course not. Only China and Iran get this treatment.
Some ill-intentioned westerners will go on Xiaohongshu and post about TS and get banned and decry that they were censored, oh no! "I ran into my neighbor's house and shit on the living room floor and he kicked me out! I'm being oppressed!" China does not want these people stinking up the place. Most Americans in these spaces don't want these people stinking up the place. Instead they are sent packing back to their house, western social media, where the floor is already covered in shit so they can pretend like they are privileged to sit in it and enjoy the smell.
I'm not even here to claim this is a psy-op because it does not need to be, this lashing out at China whenever they are experiencing growth and openness is likely purely organic. I think there is a deep sadness in the heart of the west - at the unnecessary struggle daily life can be for the average person. This is doubly true for Americans. We have already seen how emotional people are getting to see how well the Chinese are doing on average. The lament that life doesn't have to be so hard. The realization they have been lied to. It is jarring to the psyche to have a fundamental element of your worldview reversed overnight. There is almost a grieving process at all the potential you lost by believing and living the lie. Sadness is a stage, as is anger. For most westerners they never move past denial.
my favorite accounts are the ones that are just promoting the minority ethnicites and other stuff like historical outfits and shit