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The US would never dream of trying to "shape the global information environment". Right guys ?
Gettin real sick of the forum sliding into "but America bad too" every time there's a post about China doing shady shit on here.
EDIT: Two days after making this comment I'm still getting replies from Chinese propaganda trolls lol. Making it easy to add to my block list I guess.
I mean, it's relevant to the article. It's not "but America" when "US" is the beginning of the headline... ?? 🤨
I'm not saying that the US State Dept report is false, but it also absolutely would not be the first time the state department has put out a false report. And they intentionally release reports - true or false - in a concerted effort to shape information and public opinion.
America absolutely spends countless taxpayer dollars on propaganda, and CNN, which is part of a multi-billion-dollar corporation that serves the interests of shareholders, advertisers, and lawmakers is absolutely part of that propaganda machine.
Again, not saying China is the good guy or that we should take their word here. But the US also isn't the good guy, and I think we should take State Dept. press releases with a grain of salt.
The comment you replied to was perfectly relevant and accurate, and was just someone making a quip about US propaganda efforts.
But apparently a Canadian knows better, so keep telling us about how US propaganda isn't relevant in world politics, thanks.
Bad propaganda troll
Cool.
I'm getting sick of idiots chastising China for what the US does.
Guess we both have to deal with it, huh?
But you don't get sick of the endless "China bad" articles, huh?
Lol endless? I maybe see a few posts a week about China while the majority of my feed is American politics and American tech ragebait articles. And I never see people like you on those posts saying "wEll wHaT aBoUt ChInA!!1!".
Probably because the American political articles are highly specific about American issues (e.g. abortion, debt ceiling, guns, etc). Meanwhile articles like these are all about bashing China for doing what the US does even harder.
No, china is endlessly bad. If you think otherwise youre dumb and should just move to a tofudreg highrise in china.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfside_condominium_collapse
"It's only bad when china does it." - you
It happened once somewhere else, so it's not a problem that its a real problem in china - you
I never said it wasn't a problem in China.
It's a problem anywhere it happens, that's where you and I diverge.
Hence my original point of: "It's only bad when China does it" -you
No, it's bad and a Chinathing because in China it is common enough to have it's own neologism.
It is common. It is widespread. It is being censored by the CCP.
The US doesnt ban articles talking about highrises collapsing because of corruption.
Does China ban articles about highrises collapsing?
Can you provide any source for this?
I was referring to the highrises collapsing at all. As in, their maintenance was allowed to slack off to the point the building collapsed... while people were in it.
https://madeinchinajournal.com/2018/05/17/be-grateful-to-the-party-how-to-behave-in-the-aftermath-of-a-disaster/
One of many sources for tofudreg censorship.
Hilarious. I joined lemmy because of the thousands of anti China posts all over reddit. So obviously state department influenced.
And I'm guessing you joined lemmy.world because hexbear kept getting defederated? Go back there
This is the kind of one-sided, idiotic comment that leads to stifling of actual discussion of geopolitical issues like this, where different perspectives are much needed in this hyper-radicalized landscape.
You are directly contributing to the kind of radicalism that you so despise, because you react to a comment based on emotion and pre-judgement, rather than actually thinking critically about what is being said and responding with helpful criticism or perspective. Fucking hypocrite, shame on you.
What is hexbear? I've seen it mentioned but nice try assuming about me. You made an ass out of yourself.
Haha I made an ass of myself? K
Yeah, you did.
That's what happens when you assume. I'm new here I don't know what hexbear is, I googled it and it's another instance? Sure I'll go check it out I guess
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When you can't come up with a coherent thought
The people are split on your comment... Have fun watching CNN uncritically.
It's absurd. The article is literally about US and Chinese propaganda, and a comment making a quip about US propaganda gets downvoted and called irrelevant.
Yuuup, nobody sipping propaganda here. And get called a tankie for wanting more rational thought and actual discussion than "China bad".
Pretty clear the bots from r/worldnews have set up shop here as well
Unfortunately those rats have set up base here too. If it's one thing the US is good at, it's at setting up bases everywhere.
Yeah I believe it. It's nice they can't ban me though. r/worldnews banned me seconds after I pointed out the top three articles of the day were from Radio Free Asia.
Of course not! America is democratic and free, see, it's written in this here Constitution so it must be true.