That propaganda is so addictive, but once you realize you are a victim your eyes will open.

Admitting you were fooled by your own country’s propaganda is not shameful. Denying it when you know better, is.

China is known just as much for their brutal censorship

"Is Known" is doing so much heavy lifting. How is Weibo any more censored than Reddit? How is Rednote any more filtered than Instagram? So exhausting to just hear the religious dogma of someone who has never visited, much less participated, on any of these platforms.

Every day I get an earful about how totalitarian and cloistered and miserable Chinese society is, in between police raiding Columbia University and cops BBQing BLM activists in their cars.

I very rarely will ever defend China bcz on the whole they are doing their own genocide, internet censorship, and instigating wars

Jesus fucking Christ. The average life expectancy of the average Tibetian was 35 years old when Qing Dynasty Tibet was incorporated into the modern Chinese state back in 1950. Now it's 72, thanks to the extensive modernizations and social reforms and the end of Tibetian slavery that came with reform. This is what we call a genocide.

Meanwhile, we've got no less than five different active famines - Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Gaza, and Haiti - happening under the Americans and their proxies. We have multi-billion dollar "humanitarian aid" contracts going to kill squads in Rafa. We're backing terrorist cell leaders in North Africa as replacements to decades-long established governments and fucking slavery rings operated by our allies in Syria and Libya

The absolute fucking gall to talk about Chinese foreign policy on these terms. I feel like I'm hearing an unapologetic American Confederate critique the Good Friday Agreement.