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Steve Berman's avatar

Good examples. The CCP benefits when otherwise normal people go off the deep end. Much easier to dismiss the actual horrors when people are promoting extreme fiction.

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Sohan Dsouza's avatar

This @Songpinganq account has also been boosting Western ethnonationalist content. I'll bet its not really a Chinese-origin user, or is at least someone grifting off the Western reactionary ecosystem in the vein of @stillgray.

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Dain Fitzgerald's avatar

So yea that yin yang fish thing originated in Taiwan but has apparently been banned for some time

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Ned Teach's avatar

The way China's Social Credit system is discussed by the western commentariat is so divorced from the actual reality of the SC system, as it operates at the moment, that you have to then consider what else they are completely clueless about.

Patrick Winn's 'Hello, Shadowlands,' among pieces on Burmese Narco-Militias and Phillipine abortion pills, has an interesting chapter on the Vietnamese dog-meat (and dog-kidnapping) business.

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Ben Sixsmith's avatar

Not that we have abattoirs, that we have factory farms. You won't find disagreement from me that theirs are substantially worse. The difference here is that we can do something about ours.

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