The conversations are amazing

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    7 days ago

    imagine making social media so bad your own citizens actively procure your biggest rival’s networks.

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      I think there’s a simple desire to move to pastures new. “Use Instagrmam or Youtube Shorts or Snapchat” No, we’ve been there and done that.

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      Imagine allowing citizens to be so free that they can go to your biggest rival’s social media to read narratives favouring them, get influenced by rival propaganda, and then shit you on your percieved weak points.

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        Imagine allowing citizens to be so free that they can go to your biggest rival’s social media

        So free that they they banned TikTok and only haven’t banned RedNote with it because they overestimated the strength of their anti-China propaganda.

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        Perceived weak points, huh? So the brutal genocide of Gaza is just a little whoopsie that we should.move past? Fuck no. This isn’t weakness or a mistake, this is America pulling off the mask, and anyone making excuses for it this late in the game is close enough to a fascist as makes no difference.

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          Patritoism?
          I suppose it is easy to be patriotic to a state which hides even publicly known events from its plebs.

          Try to get opinion of the Chinese on RedNote about Uyguirs and Teinman Square. I’ll wait.

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            Tiananmen square is one of the most popular places in China, it’d be like saying Times square in new york city. You’re referring to what they call the june 4th incident, and you can absolutely talk about it on chinese social media.

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              That’s actually a cool website. Thanks.
              EDIT : Apparently linked by the other commenter, but your work. Thanks.

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            Lol, that’s the worst attempts at spelling Tienanmen Square and Uyghurs I’ve seen yet, and I’ve seen a lot.

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            dont the uyghur thing get proven false time and time again?

            videos and photos inevitably leak of shit like this but theres nothing credible to support a genocide happening in china… why do people believe this?

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            What’s a “secret” are not those events, but the garbage that propagandized Westerners believe about those events.

            So you’re right, the “genocide” is a “secret,” and the “massacre” is a “secret.”

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        How does the US ban on TikTok thatbmakes people switch to rednote now fit this description?