I’m just curious if the “fun countries” will “let me right in” because of my profile picture?
i mean, should a meme that’s not exceedingly political but pokes slight fun of a political figure increase the chances of you getting into a given country, when its on your phone?
on the other hand it would be kind of funny if having pictures of bald eagles and us flags and pro trump memes on your phone made la migra care more about the immigrants they are deporting.
I’m not going to some authoritarian shithole that thinks they need to see my phone.
i mean, should a meme that’s not exceedingly political but pokes slight fun of a political figure increase the chances of you getting into a given country, when its on your phone?
No, it’s a double edged sword, it is.
on the other hand it would be kind of funny if having pictures of bald eagles and us flags and pro trump memes on your phone made la migra care more about the immigrants they are deporting.
Again, no. I only have so much room on my phone for corny-ass-mostly-lazy-spoiled-shits; mainly cats.
Again, no. I only have so much room on my phone for corny-ass-mostly-lazy-spoiled-shits; mainly cats.
Catland immigration policies are pretty clear you get full citizenship.
Yeah, I’d be fine with it… but honestly Cats take the hardest advantages from me out of any species I’ve come across.
I do like them very much, though. I’ll consider it.
it’s a massive fucking lie anyway; anyone who’s been to china can tell you they have winnie the pooh merch in every fuckin’ shop. winnie the pooh is very popular there.
You just can’t make memes about Xi using Pooh on social media I guess.
Out of curiosity, is there any Chinese source that says that? Or are we just operating off memes we have seen?
I feel like the Taiwanese air force wouldn’t bother with these unofficial patches if there weren’t at least some truth to it.
A punch in the face for Xi caricature: Taiwan air force badge goes viral
Taiwanese are rushing to buy patches being worn by their air force pilots that depict a Formosan black bear punching Winnie the Pooh - representing China’s President Xi Jinping - as a defiant symbol of the island’s resistance to Chinese war games.
Yeah armies are well known to be fact driven and not doing propaganda /s
Do the Taiwanese not also like dank memes?
I feel like the Taiwanese air force wouldn’t bother with these unofficial patches if there weren’t at least some truth to it.
I don’t see the logic in this sentence. What makes those soldiers a more reliable source than you or me? Taiwanese people read memes too.
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Gets asked for a Chinese source, posts Reuters
I lived in china for 4 years and Winnie has Def never been outlawed. Chinese censorship is much more sophisticated than “hey, that’s illegal.” There’s not a list of pictures or memes or phrases that if you’re caught with you’ll get a visit from the police. No no no. There are hundreds of thousands of people monitoring social media for the latest “subversive” trends. When a new trend develops that content is blacklisted and just not allowed to be spread. You’ll send your friend a picture and it never shows up on their phone. There’s no indication on your end that it didn’t send or they didn’t get it. You can have this content on your phone, the CCP doesn’t care. They care about it spreading. And you’ll never get in trouble for trying to spread it because the system doesn’t allow it to spread.
That happens to me on YouTube; the only way I can talk to some people is on rednote.
That’s actually kinda cool in a techno dyatopian kinda way.
I was going to say horrifying.
Yeah it is horrifying but it is a cool concept. Ofc you’ll know something is off when your friend doesn’t respond to what you sent them.
definitely beats having fascism spread around unchecked (and even encouraged) like us tech companies.
Should openly fascist people be allowed to vote in your opinion? Just curious what peoples’ take on this is.
Should openly fascist people be allowed to vote [for government] in your opinion?
Why should they? As in, materially, how does society benefit from that? How does the democratic decision-making tool become more useful from it? I consider democracy to be a decision-making process, so I don’t care for vague idealistic assertions like “every adult should have the right to vote” unless there’s a benefit from it. And allowing an explicitly anti-liberal, anti-democratic, bad-faith opportunist (and fascism is explicitly and openly all of those) to vote is harmful to the democratic process and increases the odds of it making a bad decision.
Openly fascist people should not be allowed to draw breath.
No, reactionaries should be rehabilitated to the best of society’s capabilities. Participation in society isn’t sacred, the purpose of democracy is to deliver the best results for the most amount of people. Reactionaries that wish to expel and murder minority groups should be treated as any other violent criminal, through rehabilitation if possible.
it should not be allowed to be represented in a truly democratic election in the first place. acting fascists should be criminalized.
its the paradox of tolerance: we need everyone to have a baseline level of respect for each other for society to work harmoniously. fascism singles out defenseless groups to blame for their problems, breaking this harmony. and so it distracts its followers from the real causes and people they should be looking into.
The guy’s a braindead pedant. He’s not here to have a discussion, he’s here to feel superior.
please relax my dude
I wasn’t talking to you here. You’re dismissed.
If that was the only thing they censored then I don’t think as many people would mind
i don’t think most people actually living in china mind it very much at all.
“Only those who agree are allowed to be heard, but trust me bro, everyone agrees”
no, i personally think its fascists specifically that shouldn’t be heard, and even then most can change their minds away from it. most of the rest can be reasoned with, talked to and compromised with.
When they find out the extent of the censorship they mind very much. But that’s the problem, the censorship is so deep and so good that the vast majority of the Chinese never find out how extensive it is, because it’s not just your WeChat, it’s ALL MEDIA. The Chinese don’t have access to over 90% of the internet, so they never find out what’s out there or know what information they’re missing.
And you’re just trading one dystopian nightmare for another. Saying one is better than the other is like saying having a foot cut off is better than losing a kidney. There is nuance, they’re both bad.
the censorship is so deep and so good that the vast majority of the Chinese never find out how extensive it is, because it’s not just your WeChat, it’s ALL MEDIA.
Have you considered it’s actually the other way around?
The problem is the censorship is so deep and so good that the vast majority of westerners never find out how extensive it is, because it’s not just your nazi.world, it’s ALL MEDIA.
Yes. But like I said, I lived there for years. True, the western media gets a lot of things wrong. But china is heavily censored, there’s no way around that reality.
they never find out what’s out there or know what information they’re missing
its literally really common in china for people to use VPNs to get around the blocks.
i suggest you read some leftist theory despite the propaganda your country does to make you hate it, you don’t seem to know you are missing it dearly in the US.
i suggest you read some leftist theory despite the propaganda your country does to make you hate it
Dude. They literally started the first comment with “I lived in China for 4 years”. When you start trying to “um actually” people with years of first-hand experience, it might be time to reflect on your own biases
Buddy, I lived there for years. My sources are the hundreds of Chinese people I spoke to in their native tongue for years. Not the propaganda from my country. True, SOME Chinese people have VPNs. Most do not.
And I think the more poignant question is this. Why do they need a VPN to access the wider internet in the first place?
You don’t think they mind the censorship or what do you mean
yes
I mean could be, most people aren’t French and just take most stuff even if it’s not great
Seems more like Huxley than Orwell.
They get you with inconvenience instead of brute force.
stop talking about novels like they’re historical studies or facts
Getting too close to comfort for you?
no, it’s a novel, it’s a work of fiction, not a piece of theory or history that you can quote, the ending and the world is entirely built by the writer, there’s no study it’s literally arguments made up by the writer based on no sources or research, anyone can write a dystopian story, I could write a dystopian story and quote it right now, it’s not argument, it’s stupid.
You know, in my novel of people who quote novels ending up as nazis, you do resemble it a lot.
/\ as valid as using a novel like 1984 or animal farm or whatever else as an argument
1984 and Brave New World are allegories based on real life social observations and events. So, yes, they are based on history. They are famous for a reason. It is just that you find it too close to comfort.
my 3 sentence novel is also based on observing you.
Yes, anyone right of you is a Nazi.
How original. Pulitzer prize winning.
It’s not history, but it’s certainly theory. The study it’s based on is through observations of reality. When comparing something to one of these books, we’re testing their observations by comparing them to reality. Incidentally, it gets brought up a lot when an event, occurrence, or vector in society begins to resemble these books too closely.
Your hyperbole of people quoting books all being nazis, on the other hand, is very easily disproven.
Aren’t they though, at this point?
go back to reddit.
Can’t they use stuff like signal or simplex to communicate. How they going to decrypt the msg and the app simple x is open source. Until they are not seeing what app you have in the system it should not be a problem
Those apps are blocked. Your apps have to be unencrypted to be distributed in China. If you can get a VPN that works you can use them.
The many faces of JD Vance
It’s always projection. Even if they’re not literally doing the thing that they accuse their opponent of doing yet, the fact that they’re making the accusation reveals their intention.
Ah shit, this means they’re gonna do everything they made up about Xinjiang (if they’re not doing it already at the alligator place)
I’m literally in a Chinese hostel right now with a Winnie the pooh mattress.
You fool, the CCP thought police unit are going to backtrace your photo and execute the hostel owner and their entire bloodline now!!!
Lmao imagine the Chinese equivalent to Epstein is getting photos of people with Winnie the Pooh contraband and using that to keep them in line
Funny meme but it’s worth noting that he wasn’t denied entry to the US for the meme. It was because they found messages between him and his drug dealer.
Trump loves dictators and is trying to emulate them.
No one was ever deported/denied entry to China because they had a Winnie the Pooh image on their phone.
