Are we really out here trying to pretend that Americans don’t hold ignorant backwards views about China? That everything they post online about it must be directly paid for by the US government?
This “everything like this must be a bot” is some real liberal posting. Do better, folks.
?? I hope you didn’t think I was aiming that at you
I was just (trying to) riff and agree with you that they don’t need to be paid, this was a funny image I saw that I thought was pointed at the same thing but I guess it wasn’t clear
okay, sorry, in my mind it comes off like “hey American, why are you doing all this without getting paid?” but I could see how it could be read other ways.
Well the government wastes money on fruitless tasks all the time. But also they will be using it to reinforce the ignorant nonsense people already believe. Propaganda works best when it plays on preconceived notions. You can’t just spend a billion dollars to convince people the average Chinese person has four arms and expect it to work. Additionally, I find it funny sometimes how much we leftists think anything that reinforces western ignorance must be by bots or whatever. It’s a very liberal take. We have to start recognizing that westerners on average can be extremely ignorant all on their own.
(engaging)
My fellow Americans will do this sort of shit for free I assure you.
Are we really out here trying to pretend that Americans don’t hold ignorant backwards views about China? That everything they post online about it must be directly paid for by the US government?
This “everything like this must be a bot” is some real liberal posting. Do better, folks.
?? I hope you didn’t think I was aiming that at you
I was just (trying to) riff and agree with you that they don’t need to be paid, this was a funny image I saw that I thought was pointed at the same thing but I guess it wasn’t clear
Honestly, I could not tell.
okay, sorry, in my mind it comes off like “hey American, why are you doing all this without getting paid?” but I could see how it could be read other ways.
If that were the case, the government wouldn’t be dumping money into it
Well the government wastes money on fruitless tasks all the time. But also they will be using it to reinforce the ignorant nonsense people already believe. Propaganda works best when it plays on preconceived notions. You can’t just spend a billion dollars to convince people the average Chinese person has four arms and expect it to work. Additionally, I find it funny sometimes how much we leftists think anything that reinforces western ignorance must be by bots or whatever. It’s a very liberal take. We have to start recognizing that westerners on average can be extremely ignorant all on their own.