The conversations are amazing

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    5 months ago

    There’s a bunch of Chinese posts asking if the stuff about school shootings, fires, homelessness are exaggerated propaganda only to be told otherwise. It’s both hilarious and sad.

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      5 months ago

      People of the US and China are both unsure of what to believe about the other, because both are so propagandized lol

  • theneverfox@pawb.social
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    5 months ago

    If banning tik tok ends up galvanizing demand for healthcare reform I’m going to laugh my ass off

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      5 months ago

      Good comrades like Lady Izdihar are taking off in a big way, might help radicalize a lot of people towards Marxism even.

      • Alsephina@lemmy.mlOP
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        5 months ago

        Rednote’s algorithm seems very receptive to communist content, at least compared to what I’m used to. Hope it stays that way.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    It’s honestly very wholesome to see this kind of interaction. On top of cute moments like Chinese users telling the new US users that they are their “spies,” seeing a lot of blatant myth dispelling surrounding the PRC is great to help tear down the Red Scare.

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    5 months ago

    Circle jerking about China is as ridiculous as circle jerking about the US. We’ve been here before with US vs USSR, but this time everyone has a megaphone and an IQ that can be measured with a ruler.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      You keep on coping there little buddy. What’s happening is that regular people from both countries are now talking directly to each other, and finding out what life is actually like.

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        5 months ago

        Uhhh, not exactly regular people. From what I’ve seen from the Rednote, at least my feed is wealthy upper-middle or upper class, while the Americans are from low to middle class.

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      5 months ago

      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.

    • Weeby_Wabbit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      I imagine it could be if you were a minority or a political dissident.

      The fact that so many people went through sexual and gender self discovery on Tiktock, but such things are discouraged by the government in China says a lot that makes me uncomfortable.

      Not being able to openly criticise the government and its policies also doesn’t sit well with me.

      It’s not my government though, so that’s where my criticism ends. If that’s what the majority of people want, that’s just democracy by another avenue. So long as people are allowed to leave if they choose, then that’s fine.

      • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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        5 months ago

        China is responsible for most of the world’s reduction in poverty in the 30 years. If you exclude China, world poverty is increasing.