As a Chinese person it’s actually really refreshing to not be inundated with western propaganda. Here’s some examples that come to mind:

The US quietly admitting the “Spy Balloon” did no spying several months and millions of dollars later.

People are actually moving into “ghost cities” as it pre-emptively neutralized a housing crisis before it began

China’s social credit system is actually extremely benign and fragmented while aiming to target businesses and businessmen, tracking bankruptcies, scams and reneged deals and so on.

But you’ll get people too propagandized to accept truth even if, for example, all the sources you provide are from reliable Western media

Huh, wonder who that’s for

The AI wasting hours of processing power having an internal struggle session re: outdoor cats before simply replying with “:pigpoopballs” on a platform that doesn’t have that emoji

Reminds me of Pierce Hawthorne’s dad in Community, he said something like “Swedish dogs, you’re tainted by race mixing with Laplanders. You’re practically Finnish!” Which meant absolutely nothing to me at the time the episode aired but now I realize is a callback to Ben Franklin era racism

“You mess with Michael Bay and you mess with America. I want you guys out of my country by tomorrow morning.”

“But this is Japan!”

“Every country in the world belongs to America”

Brb, double clicking ‘Netscape Navigator’ to go on ‘Ask Jeeves’ to look up what this “PewDiePie” is

KIROV REPORTING

PC towers that light up like a warehouse rave. I don’t need to signal to Rohan that my house calls for aid. It’s why I’ve stuck with a Fractal Design for the past 7 years.

The fancy light bullshit should be add-ons for people who want it, not baked in for everyone who don’t. And you just know they’re slapping a 200% premium on those shitty lights into the cost of the tower.

“But the bureaucracy isn’t the main obstacle in migration. What’s hard is to leave your home.”

So very close to getting the point.

If you’re a pro-Israel viewer, there’s one country you can vote for

If you’re an anti-Israel viewer, there’s like 25 countries you can vote for, they’re not organized to put their votes behind any particular country.

They don’t have ranked choice voting in a song contest.

And the “Room Temperature” room, which is located in Greendale.

Here in China we have 鸡精

The bus and metro passes are literally transferrable because they’re just a token not tied to any ID. Also they accept cash, and you can buy passes at a kiosk.

I have personally even purchased a metro ticket for another person because we were going somewhere together and they left theirs at home. Within the last 2 weeks.

You have been lied to. There are no WMDs in Iraq, MSG isn’t toxic, and Napoleon wasn’t short either, if you just blatantly swallow everything you see.

I live in China. You put ¥2 into the slot and you get on. You can be wearing a fully balaclava, a face mask, or nothing. No-ones running ID on you to make sure your magical score is high enough before you are allowed to get on. You can get a transit token so you can tap on if you’re cashless. They’re sold without ID checks, foreigners can get them without speaking a word of Mandarin.

You have been lied to and now you’re repeating those lies on the internet without even getting paid.

I literally live in China. The scores apply to businessmen and not the average citizen. China isn’t North Sentinel Island, you can literally come here.

When they reference Xi negatively they use Palpatine or some literary villain as a comparison. Using a yellow bear beloved by most of the world seems counter productive. Imagine if people compared Hitler to Charlie Chaplain due to likeness and not, say, Satan.

Not if they’re foreign enough

I don’t trust the “benevolent superhero” trope because realistically, you may get some Batmen, you’d get twice as many Banes and then a statistically small but present number of Jokers. That’s not even accounting for a Freeze style situation where someone is committing crimes to fund a relatively justifiable cause and your Ivy’s who are doing a net positive for the world but the methods are technically illegal.

Headlines from a Stavros Halkias X PAYDAY: The Heist crossover promotion.

“stopantisemitism”

This group is so antisemitic they snubbed Norm Finkelstein. Surely the author(s) of this list should be on this list for such an antisemitic act.