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Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter

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Imagine living somewhere like China and not liking it. It would be hellish, you couldn’t even talk about it without a police visit or your boss passing trouble along to you. A giant human spirit grinder

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Americans are allowed to say anything, because it doesn't matter. In the end all you can do is to choose between two largely identical parties.

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Imagine living somewhere like China and not liking it. It would be hellish, you couldn’t even talk about it without a police visit or your boss passing trouble along to you. A giant human spirit grinder

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My Chinese colleague was randomly walking by a protest in his city recently.

He didn’t even know there was a protest nearby until he was ‘visited’ all day by police and had to sing the praises of the ccp.

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"EVERYONE IS BRAINWASHED EXCEPT OF US BLESSED AMERICANS" F15 flyover bombing of some random civilians cool individualism that was build on exploitation of the planet and the 90% of the world KEK, sustainable, mate. China workd. I lived there for years and people were happier than here in Germany. I am just sooooooo sick and tired of those anti-China sentiment here in HN. EVERY SINGLE TIME a china article is posted, y…

i envy 996 in Shangai with the freedom to die from food poisoning ever other day while keeping my head down in name of "social armony".

Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait to HN? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account. We're trying for a different sort of forum here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Imagine living somewhere like China and not liking it. It would be hellish, you couldn’t even talk about it without a police visit or your boss passing trouble along to you. A giant human spirit grinder

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Please stop posting this sort of generic flamewar dross to HN. I realize you mean well, but you do this so often that I've started to wince when I see your username.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28793135 (Oct 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28226812 (Aug 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27280089 (May 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25994722 (Feb 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25994701 (Feb 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25709648 (Jan 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25585980 (Dec 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25389847 (Dec 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22629858 (March 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22263891 (Feb 2020)

This is seriously not cool. If you keep ignoring the intended use of this site, we're not going to have any choice left but to ban you, much as I don't want to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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What compelled you to make such a wildly uninformed and bigoted comment?

People get the government they deserve. If Chinese society, in the 21 century, is still elevating monarchs to engage in genocide and totalitarianism, I’m not persuaded that it’s bigotry to conclude the society is not something to be admired. YMMV.

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“as long as my shit city in germany is planning a 10km subway line for 15 years already … while china is builing the best infrastructure in the world, i will prefer the chinese system.” And people wonder how Hitler came to power in Germany.

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The air gets better because they shut down the pm2.5 sensors:)

China is turning on more coal plants and sacrificing their lungs to build gadgets for the world.

It’s sad in a way.

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Before you use this as an excuse to accuse the commenter you disagree with as being a Wumao, note that China's propaganda strategy serves to distract rather than directly engage, as they would rather minimize engagement. It's the same principle of "don't feed the trolls." Here's a Harvard paper that covers this topic more in depth, though it's about domestic propaganda: https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/50c…

Being a Chinese citizen right now means:

- You cannot travel abroad (no passport for average citizens, except for those that study/work abroad)

- You cannot go beyond China's intranet

- You cannot transfer money out of country legally, pretty soon can't invest in other countries's stocks

- You cannot watch Spiderman, BTS, squid games, porn and many many more things legally

- You have very little rights as LGBT

- You have to work 9-9-6. Which is why many citizens are lying flat

- You are constantly watched, monitored, "invited" to police station for tea, banned for posts that contain any words that are on the growing banned list

- You should not get rich (1/3 of billionaires have died or disappeared)

- You have little recourse as a woman who is abused by men in power

- You are constantly subjugated to random mass testing

- Oh and there's the yearly flood + crashing economy + crashing real estate + aging workforce + factory jobs leaving + dictatorship

终究怀揣的不安,是愈来愈近的丧钟声

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Doesn't the US broadcast regime change propaganda into the country via Radio Free Asia / Radio Free Liberty etc?

> Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about…?") is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy, which attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving the argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

It’s not a logical fallacy. It’s rhetorical tactic.

Whataboutism is often used to generalize the subject, which isn’t a fallacy.

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Don't be soft, the USA is way, way more complicated than simply "British roots". All that throwing off the shackles of imperial rule is sort of true but mostly bollocks (that's how you invite a major DV frenzy!) Presumably the portrait of George W that is on the note is from post revolution ie mid 1770s otherwise there is a depiction of a British citizen on rather a lot of greenbacks.

> Presumably the portrait of George W that is on the note is from post revolution ie mid 1770s It is from 1796.

Ahh, so from the terrorist/traitor part of his life 8)

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People get the government they deserve. If Chinese society, in the 21 century, is still elevating monarchs to engage in genocide and totalitarianism, I’m not persuaded that it’s bigotry to conclude the society is not something to be admired. YMMV.

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Is this comment supposed to be some kind of threat? It seems wildly out of place for HN.
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