MelancholicMechanicus
Thought Criminal
Has anyone else noticed that? Reddit is absolutely infested with them, any default sub has the same NPC hot takes, the comment sections on Wuhan Flu articles and posts have similar homogeneous responses. Any criticism of the CCP, their response and the trustworthiness of China get's flooded with down votes and negative comments, sometimes even spurring minute old accounts to jump in and insult you. The mainstream media have been odly dismissive of China, happy to parrot their "official numbers" and ignore how they are still on lock down despite that or how the flux of news from the ground there has all but vanished amidst a massive tightening of the Great Firewall.
Twitter is even worse. China's own diplomats and public officials are attacking people and politicans from other countries who bring up points like that. Spreading a theory that actually it was LE EBIL USA that was the start of the pandemic and poor China is a victim! And of course the number of twitter bots and servitors who keep jumping on to defend China and stir shit on the US side of the coin is there too.
Hell, even fucking SpaceBattles seems to be full of this! I got a blanket ban on all COVID-19 related threads after losing my patience over someone unironically saying that the CCP would not be able to censor WeChat (a Tencent app) to hide news. A thread where 2 of the staff were and one was defending China, and another showed up within minutes of me declaring I was giving up and leaving to ban me. Not from that thread, but from ALL Covid-19 discussion.
Am I going insane or has China's propaganda power really gotten this far? Have people really forgotten Hong Kong and the Uighurs and the whistle blower they killed and all that already? Am I going insane or has the CCP just figured how to manipulate the average internet normie that well? Am I just seeing shill where there are none?
Twitter is even worse. China's own diplomats and public officials are attacking people and politicans from other countries who bring up points like that. Spreading a theory that actually it was LE EBIL USA that was the start of the pandemic and poor China is a victim! And of course the number of twitter bots and servitors who keep jumping on to defend China and stir shit on the US side of the coin is there too.
Hell, even fucking SpaceBattles seems to be full of this! I got a blanket ban on all COVID-19 related threads after losing my patience over someone unironically saying that the CCP would not be able to censor WeChat (a Tencent app) to hide news. A thread where 2 of the staff were and one was defending China, and another showed up within minutes of me declaring I was giving up and leaving to ban me. Not from that thread, but from ALL Covid-19 discussion.
Am I going insane or has China's propaganda power really gotten this far? Have people really forgotten Hong Kong and the Uighurs and the whistle blower they killed and all that already? Am I going insane or has the CCP just figured how to manipulate the average internet normie that well? Am I just seeing shill where there are none?
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