Some people asking me about my Sri Lanka trip I mentioned in my livestream yesterday. I visited in 2010 on a trip to donate eyeglasses to some of the people in the poorer countryside areas. A lot of people came together to make this happen. One of my favourite memories. ImageImageImageImage
I don't talk about it much, but it came up in relation to religion. I met some of the most humble & kind Buddhists monks in the countryside who refuse any of our gifts. Religious power in the cities was a very different story though, something I'll talk about more in future vids. ImageImageImage
Off topic, one of my favourite new experiences in Sri Lanka was Wood Apple. Incredibly sour. I've only ever seen it in Sri Lanka. I loved it, but you can tell by my wife's face, she wasn't a fan. ImageImage
Second favourite charity event. My sister and I hired Russell Peters for a comedy charity night. We raised a couple thousand for Blossom Dayspring Home in Tamil Nadu India. When Russell showed up, my mom said "You look like my son" and he said "I look like THAT?!" 😂 ImageImageImage

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2 Nov
Albert Ettinger's Battleground TIBET.

Highlights and notes thread.

I'll slowly add to this over the next few weeks, so keep checking back. Image
Ettinger was driven to research This topic after recognizing his school lessons on Tibet were taught from a one-sided & manipulative Tibetan Exile point of view. Seeing the "Free Tibet" crowd protest China's human rights abuses by assaulting 2008 Olympic torch bearers added irony
This part was particularly interesting because when you see people tweet parts of Tibetan history that conflicts with their understanding of reality/lifetime of manipulation, this is exactly the reaction we've seen. Image
Read 25 tweets
25 Oct
Yes, absolutely. If any 10 year old child has grown up an environment where they believe they should be ready to sacrifice their life for a living spiritual leader like this, 100% I would without hesitation call this child abuse.
The Children of The Peoples Temple believed the same too.
If you wanna see what the 16 year old child in this tragic story looked like when he was 10 years old, look no further than the video of the 10 year old I posted in the first tweet. The world needs to stop romanticizing this cult immediately and demand the end of this child abuse
Read 6 tweets
25 Oct
When you look at the how Tibetans in India do mob-rule democracy from their recent "Take her beauty pageant crown away" campaign, it's important to remember the other values they also hope to export. Some were unfortunately radicalised by them, it's the point of their US funding
A friend born into the overseas Tibetan exile community came to China. He told me that many of these guys never even tried to get a Chinese visa & just assume they cant. However, they do undergo more detailed background checks because of this legitimate religious extremism issue
The US isn't funding friendly guerillas here. The US' true goals, motives & ethics are the same as always been. If ever they accomplish their mission, Tibet will look like any of the other countries the US destroyed, even the Dalail Lama's brother agrees

history.state.gov/historicaldocu… ImageImageImageImage
Read 4 tweets
22 Oct
Recommend this book @SameeraKhan. It's got a typical anti-China bias & even praises the White Helmets, but the systems it describes are 100% identical what you're experiencing. Seeing a professional paid troll farm in action on your timeline has been absolutely fascinating! Image
For anyone interested in seeing this troll farm in action, look at the replies to this tweet, look at their language, look at their follower counts and registration dates. You can almost pinpoint when their agency got their "Tibetan" cause contract signed

There are real people who get sucked into the narrative too, that's one of the main goals of these troll farms after all, to shift conversations and create momentum. This is one of my favorites, the EXACT same fake newspaper generator used, different levels of thought applied. Image
Read 19 tweets
28 Aug
Visited Tibet Sakya Middle School, the most interesting thing I learnt, other than Han students MUST also learn Tibetan here, is that these kids make hula hooping look way easier than it really is at 4300m.

#IntoTibet2020
Some awesome Tibetan music by one of the classes.
Another music class using guitar
Read 10 tweets
27 Aug
When you step back from your lifetime of indoctrination & think for yourself, if you begin to ask questions half as critical as this, watch the narratives you once believed in quickly crumble. Thats of course unless you deliberately refuse to as it's something you WANT to believe
ASPI has many staffers acting as activists online, and their military industrial complex backers have profited greatly from the anti-China rhetoric this year. For the rest of you who are volunteer cold war drum beating tools. Shame on you.

Whether you deliberately have a personal vendetta against China, or if you're a racist, or maybe you're simply legitimately ignorant, it's people like you who allow weak WMD-like stories to excuse killing millions of Muslims while pretending to care about them a few years later.
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