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[–] AlephNull@hexbear.net 52 points 4 months ago (2 children)

they're inscrutable I tell you

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 54 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Xi has written several books about what it is he wishes to do and you can just go to China but yeah secretive ahhhhhhhhh that's me yelling

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

China: this is what we are going to do

China: does the thing they just said they were going to do

China "watchers": no one could have predicted this

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That wily bastard has done it again. I thought for sure I'd catch him in a lie this time! Truly a mastermind

[–] REgon@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Real Blackadder 4 Field Marshal Haig vibes

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago

Westerners portray China's censorship as if it is to keep the Chinese people from knowing about certain topics, which would be laughable to any Chinese citizen.

It is quite obvious the goal of censorship is reinforce the notion that casually posting about politically sensitive topics on shitposting forums, internet image boards, and other mediums easily influenced & maligned by adversaries will result in your post being removed.

China clearly gives no fucks if all the exact same people had these exact same conversations offline as the US can't deploy 100k LibGPT color revolution bots on the ground in Chongqing.

The whole point is to avoid letting the West set the narrative. They don't need their narrative to be the only narrative. They just need to prevent the West from injecting theirs.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

one of the most secretive countries in the world

Granted their media isn't totally available in English, but what do they mean? I can ask a Chinese netizen whatever I want.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Over 1 billion people are all keeping secrets from you. They know you go online and ask them questions, so they all agreed to tell you lies as a bit.

They don't do this to anyone except you and this journalist, specifically.

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

There is a super anti-China lib in my family that acts like they know all about the place because they read the mainstream media and went there for a week on business twenty years ago. They legit think that the walk-around China videos on YouTube I showed them are all coordinated Chinese state government propaganda.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Their perfidious sheep-like netizens, our free-thinking truth telling internet users.