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Just an endless slew of clickbait "China bad" headlines all the time. Really makes you wonder about if there is some sort of systemic problem with western media.
It is called propaganda
Be careful, saying something like that might get you called a wumao
me casually just responding to NAFOids that I get paid 50CNY an hour to :anti-cracker-aktion:
If you want to see consent being manufactured, go into the Telegraph and click through to the journalist's ~~post history~~ article history
It's going to be hilarious in a year or so when we'll have LLM bots churning these types of articles out even at respected news outlets, and all critics of this narrative will still get smeared as being bots themselves
Authoritarian countries tend to be criticised in liberal western democracies, you know, because of all of the authoritarianism.
Everyone is a little bit authoritarian. It's the intent and end result that gives it meaning. You don't see France being criticised these days do you despite their citizenry being vocal about their regime's mismanagement. We've even seemingly had a Western media blackout effectively on it for the past month (they've had riots/protests).
When was the last time France massacred protestors by using tanks to turn them into red paste?
When was the last time France rounded up its citzens based on ethbicity and religion and put them into reeducation camps?
Western media blackout? Maybe in your bubble mate, though I tend to follow these things deliberately so I'm not best placed to say. Western media is a joke regardless - owned and controlled by a few wealthy and powerful individuals, who sadly almost all hold similar politics beliefs.
Name one country that's not authoritarian
How much control do you really have over a government that only has two parties? FPTP is a failure. It leaves government without accountability, pisses on the principle of equal representation, and shifts power towards the few areas that may actually flip.
If you lose this federal election, so what? Eventually, people will get angry enough at the current ruling party to flip.
If you vote, so what? Unless you're in a swing state, your vote might as well not exist for the presidential election.
What about representation in the house? Well, again, your vote doesn't really matter unless you're in a swing district (which tends to be suburban). If you're urban (liberal) or rural (conservative), you might as well not vote either.
Lol all states are bad. "China" as a concept can barely represent the true diversity of the people living in that across and around that huge chunk of land, as much as "USA" can barely represent each individual there.
Of course it’s hexbears again, fucking cancer
All he did was make a comment you are already whining
Stop whining mate.
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No selfawareness
Thank you for your valuable comment
Thank YOU for your waste of oxygen.
deep breaths, you've got this
Uh oh someone sounds upset
Stop you're scaring him!
All these reaction images make you seem mentally deranged.
Back in the short bus, come on.
taking the opportunity to make fun of disabled kids isnt it
No, just him.
Why?
You must appreciate that the huge gifs come across as very childish?
They're probably just emojis on their end. Tis a bug.
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Upsetti?
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Better hexbars than you.
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