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28 Sep, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Nathan Ruser from ASPI doesn't even know how basic grocery shopping works in China!

Great example of sheer ignorance passing itself off as expertise, quoted everywhere uncritically.

h/t @ae_alna Image
I think these four pictures really capture the core reality of the process we are witnessing

VOX founder preaching unification over hatred, regime change toadies gushing about reaching targets, main beneficiaries, expected outcomes

This thread on The Economist's David Rennie, originally a simple petty taunt, uncovered that his whole family history is basically a microcosm of imperial aggression against China!
This thread, also against The Economist, reveals how anti-China sentiment is used to suppress domestic demands for ecological development in the West, burying good examples with twisted narratives
A single in-depth investigation is more insightful than a thousand low-effort snipes.

And when it comes to unpacking things carefully, @moghilemear13 is one of the best.
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2 Dec
The first post in this thread was good, but this is idiotic.

The creator of Chernobyl is a turboliberal Russiagator. The production company went on to produce another piece of goofy anti-GDR propaganda.

How can you call this trash "thought-provoking"? lmao
It's baffling how there's so many people gushing over that abject piece of trash show.

HBO illustrated "Lying Bad" by lying a whole bunch about its subject matter. And people think it's poignant and masterful.

@SincerityCity really breaks it down:
jacobinmag.com/2019/07/cherno…
Not even joking: it's a specifically, overtly, specialized anti-communist media production company, and white "leftists" insist that it's all one big misunderstanding, that it's actually US self-critique.

I fucking hate it so much lmao.
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2 Dec
Our schooling system is weird because alongside basic functional skills like math and writing, it's ~10 years (K-12), of pseudo-history and pseudo-politics propaganda, such as "Thanksgiving Pilgrims" and "USA D-Day won WW2" and "How Our Democracy Works (And Why It's The Best!)".
And yet, in spite of adults "hating school" and "being too tired to read a history book after work", many are weirdly very defensive of all the stuff they were forced to chug and regurgitate back then.
So we have situation of extreme, almost traumatized, hostility to the concept of learning or reading history; coupled with fierce attachment to the outcomes of the process!
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27 Nov
If anyone wants to know why this "libertarian socialist" position is completely worthless and entirely sustained by the CIA's anti-communist propaganda programs, hmu
big figures in "libertarian socialism" (and all of its other names like "anarcho communism" and "democratic socialism" and whatnot) include Orwell, who was a rapist snitch cop:
there's also Noam Chomsky, who doesn't understand Marx, thought there was no torture at Guantanamo Bay, thinks the NYT is the best paper in the world, the USA is the best country in the world, and told everyone to vote for Bloomberg
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26 Nov
it's a garbage joke

mocking progressive Latin Americans who use latin(x/@e) (I'm Peruvian and gender neutral language is on every leftist publication from over there), by using a sinophobic slur

garbage white joke for garbage white "leftist" edgelords
example:
more example:
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21 Oct
>No one is talking about reducing anything

there are tons and tons of very high-profile people, very explicitly arguing for various forms of class reductionism
Glenn Greenwald and Angela Nagle, to name two
Angela Nagle was very prominently featured on the likes of ChapoTrapHouse and CurrentAffairs. She argues for abandoning "identity politics" to appeal to the platonic racist white construction worker, attacking immigrants, queer people, etc.
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15 Oct
in my initial investigation of China/Xinjiang, I debunked a bunch of nonsense, but merely advised skepticism

I've since interacted with Bunin, ASPI, anthropologists like Brophy and Grose, Bethany Allen, ETIM, and so many other pushers

they have *nothing* but WMD-tier "proof"
The academics do nothing but repeatedly insist that "they know the language" and "they have a contact".

One *Professor* wanted me to talk to a dude who goes on deranged tirades about 8 million people in camps.

Journals like ChuangCN wax poetic while admitting they have nothing. ImageImageImageImage
The guy from "Xinjiang Victims Database" is some dropout looking for redemptive glory who openly admits his project has zero quality control.
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