Western propagandists be like

Mf too young to remember when the fucking pens in banks were chained to the tables

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In China knives are considered deadly weapons if carried/brandished in public. Same in Japan and probably Korea.

I once took a kitchen knife to get sharpened in Japan and the shop told me that it was extremely important for me to wrap the knife up in a towel and then tie string around the whole thing tightly so that it can't come loose. If the cops found me carrying an improperly secured knife, the could charge me with carrying a weapon in public.

But of course, China is uniquely dystopian, Cee Cee Pee oppression, etc etc.

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- This reminds me of a video that went viral on Twitter of a woman dual wielding butcher knives in China and the cops were able to apprehend her without lethal force. They used a long stick thing to lasso her leg while other officers used these plastic bins to subdue her without causing harm to her or themselves. Of course, the person who posted the video was crying about state oppression but thankfully many people came through to discuss how they handled the situation much better than western cops who would’ve beaten her to death had they not riddled her with bullets first.
  
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- I know this isn’t what you said but I just imagined you flying all the way to Japan from somewhere in NA for the express purpose of having a knife sharpened and it amused me. Sorry, I’ll get back to lurking.
  
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- Lol or the UK: Judge says kitchen knives should have blunt tips
  
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- CW violence
  
  Wasn’t there a spate of public stabbings/attacks In the 90’s/early 2000’s by Islamic fundamentalists? This is probably partially in response to that
  
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Mf too young to remember when the fucking pens in banks were chained to the tables

Wdym, in Poland they still are (not everywhere).

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when my local stores here in the UK have QR codes in them showing their websites I'm going to start complaining about the tyrannical British regime that forced them at gunpoint to put it in the window

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reports police can quickly scan to learn everything about the establishment and its connections

I can literally do that right now without being a cop lol

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Xi Jinping and Chairman Mao were making Uyghur genocide in the closet and I saw one of rhe baby Uyghurs they were genociding and the baby looked at me.

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And the baby said, "this is way worse than abu ghraib, which actually wasn't that bad"

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Say the line, Parenti.

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Parenti quote

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- The quote
  
  In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.
  
  -- Michael Parenti, Blackshirts And Reds
  
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most honest china bad reporter

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Unironically, usually they never correct their false statements.

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I briefly looked her up and first thing was some article about how she was living in Shanghai and everything was dystopian. I couldn't actually read it because it was behind a paywall (I also wouldn't have read it if it was free).

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It drives me up the wall that cracker pieces of shit like that sit on their ass and whine about imaginary oppression in Shanghai. She's probably pissed that she can't scream at brown people about how much better the West is, and thinks her words are worth their weight in gold. If she thinks its so miserable, let me take her residency in Shanghai.

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- A huge portion of the west thinks that living a good life is just buying things. The best things in life are free (like being part of the Lemmygrad community).
  
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- The "expat" community in Shanghai is so incredibly dogshit its not even funny. Entitled assholes who get mad when Chinese people don't bend over backwards even more than they already do. When I read all those "boo hoo woe is me, I'm leaving Shanghai" articles during COVID I thought that I'd be a real improvement for the city.
  
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- Because you get paid to write about it, presumably. She may also be insincere.
  
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- Classic yank
  
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Western propaganda is just really lazy, nowadays. No doubt that it's a symptom of neoliberalism-induced brain rot.

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They don't have to try hard. Their audience is xenophobic to begin with. It's like dunking on a 5ft basketball hoop.

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That's the worst part for me. This stuff is so damn easy to disprove, yet people eat it up. It's both a lack of ability to think critically and an unwillingness to. It sucks. I just don't know how people live. I've seen how my liberal friends live, they'll work then go home and watch tv. They just consume, consume, consume, and they're utterly miserable despite filling their homes with plastic junk.

And yet, they are totally hostile to the idea that this isn't a healthy way to live, because this is the "default" in our society. So they have to continue to be miserable, moving from distraction to distraction and keeping their brain switched off as long as possible. Yet the idea that this doesn't have to be the only way fills them with anger and frustration, probably because they don't want to feel like they've "wasted their life" so instead they will guarantee they waste their life by being yet another mindless consumer liberal.

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W... Why would you apologise for that?

Not just because you disagree with the politics of it; people freely showed Julio 26 flags to say they were anti-Cuban-Communist shamelessly. Who is going "I disagree with this AND ALSO I am aware enough of the Internationale as the song to complain about it"?

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They were admitting the video didn’t match the narrative they were claiming

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Imagine some guy who claims to be an expert in America but doesn't speak a word of English and keeps calling the parties "Party of the Republic" and "Democracy Party".

That's what your average China Watcher is.

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