With what happened in Hong Kong recently I imagine it can’t be too effective in the short term, but at the same time the slow trickle of disinformation and whataboutism and bots online preaching their BS can have a way of radicalizing and turning people.
And it’s not like the US’ trackrecord doesnt make it easy to show examples of us doing wrong around the world.
One of the more dangerous forms of disinformation has been the attempt to normalize the chinese government as just another valid form of government by pointing at the bad things done by western administrations over the last century.
But China is not a normal country, even when compared to colonial-era nations. It is one of the most fascist nations on earth and is at the forefront of the technological imprisonment of the human race. To me, the CCP is a vision of what something like the Nazi party would be if instead of trying to take over the world they’d mostly stuck within their borders, flirting with the line of geopolitically acceptable behavior, and utterly crushed any hope of change or resistance to their rule within their population.
The west has it’s sordid history, but what China represents is far worse.
He compares democracy in Hong Kong and the USA by looking at who nominates who eventually rules.
The people in China are terrible, and the people in USA are terrible. The vast majority of them are greedy, omnicidal, mass-extinction causing monsters. One is worse than the other, but both are so amazingly terrible that we should be boycotting both, and all the other dictatorships and oligarchies.
With what happened in Hong Kong recently I imagine it can’t be too effective in the short term, but at the same time the slow trickle of disinformation and whataboutism and bots online preaching their BS can have a way of radicalizing and turning people.
And it’s not like the US’ trackrecord doesnt make it easy to show examples of us doing wrong around the world.
One of the more dangerous forms of disinformation has been the attempt to normalize the chinese government as just another valid form of government by pointing at the bad things done by western administrations over the last century.
But China is not a normal country, even when compared to colonial-era nations. It is one of the most fascist nations on earth and is at the forefront of the technological imprisonment of the human race. To me, the CCP is a vision of what something like the Nazi party would be if instead of trying to take over the world they’d mostly stuck within their borders, flirting with the line of geopolitically acceptable behavior, and utterly crushed any hope of change or resistance to their rule within their population.
The west has it’s sordid history, but what China represents is far worse.
Yes, very good points.
I highly recommend watching Larry Lessig’s “Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here’s how we fix it” speech from 2015.
He compares democracy in Hong Kong and the USA by looking at who nominates who eventually rules.
The people in China are terrible, and the people in USA are terrible. The vast majority of them are greedy, omnicidal, mass-extinction causing monsters. One is worse than the other, but both are so amazingly terrible that we should be boycotting both, and all the other dictatorships and oligarchies.