I tried it a few times recently when I’ve been down in the trenches of shitposting and it is very funny to make them try to explain their argument to you as if you have no idea what they’re saying. It’s so easy to bait them into thinking they’re about to bring up this amazing dunk about how China banned Winnie the Pooh or whatever and win you over, and then you get to just tell them that’s not true because you just looked it up plus now it feels racist.

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[–] Egon@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

https://www.shanghaidisneyresort.com/en/attractions/adventures-winnie-pooh/

It's that one, I think. It's my favourite debunk of that silly story, because people will maintain that it isn't there, and then when confronted they'll scramble for an explanation that allows both to be true. They'll probably get aggressive and beliggerent and when they've stewed for a while you hit them with something like this https://www.quora.com/Is-it-still-forbidden-in-China-to-publish-Winnie-the-Pooh-and-compare-him-to-President-Xi-Or-can-you-publish-anything-critical-to-the-president
I used to use the Wikipedia article on the subject, but some lib has used a link to a BBC article to maintain the lie that it's censored on social media

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And you’re telling me they made a ride about this bear cartoon?

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yup

[–] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And you’re also telling me that China banned this same bear? Why do you have so many pictures of it then? And why would they make it into an amusement park ride? This doesn’t make any sense tbh

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago

sweat