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Asian Boss planted deep blue YouTuber and pretended he was a 'man on the street'

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Re: Asian Boss planted deep blue YouTuber and pretended he was a 'man on the street'

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0) This surprisingly has nothing to do with chess engines or the US Democratic Party.

1) Documentary programs are almost always faked, in the sense that they present false continuity and false spontaneity. People often don't notice the manufactured aspect unless a subject they're intimately involved with is featured, and then it's immediately apparent.

Re: Asian Boss planted deep blue YouTuber and pretended he was a 'man on the street'

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Boom - all credibility lost - it’s just a scam, another CCP shill.

I actually watched this video the other day, and I remember this interviewee and I remember being surprised at how pro China the people of Taipei are.

Clearly Asian Boss has served its CCP masters well because I was convinced this was real and not fake CCP propaganda.

Re: Asian Boss planted deep blue YouTuber and pretended he was a 'man on the street'

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Fascinating to learn about the "Blue/Green" divide in Taiwanese attitudes to China. Does anyone know where the colors comes from?

Green is the color of the Democratic Progressive Party (currently in power, and the historical anti-KMT (read: anti-authoritarian) party)[0]. Green has thus become the color of the Taiwanese independence movement (i.e. not "Republic of China", but "Republic of Taiwan")

Blue is the color of the KMT (former dictator party)[1], whose logo is still the top-left quadrant of the flag of Taiwan[2]. Historically, this party has claimed to be the politically legitimate government of all of China (as the "Republic of China" rather than the "People's Republic of China"), but lately is effectively an arm of the Communist Party of China.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Green_Coalition#History

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Blue_Coalition

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Republic_of_China

Re: Asian Boss planted deep blue YouTuber and pretended he was a 'man on the street'

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Boom - all credibility lost - it’s just a scam, another CCP shill. I actually watched this video the other day, and I remember this interviewee and I remember being surprised at how pro China the people of Taipei are. Clearly Asian Boss has served its CCP masters well because I was convinced this was real and not fake CCP propaganda.

I remember watching it and thinking the opposite.

The article states that the guy was incredibly pro-KMT, which is about as anti-CCP as you can get. His perspective was interesting, but it is disappointing to find out he's a plant.

Re: Asian Boss planted deep blue YouTuber and pretended he was a 'man on the street'

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Vox Pops, they're awful when the media use it, but at least the vox pop is supposed to highlight the story rather than set the story.

Why anyone listens to it when some random youtube channel does is incomprehendable.

Ask 1000 people a simple question and you'll get 10 crazy answers. Show 9 crazy answers and 1 normal question and claim 90% of people are crazy.

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