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“nothing has actually happened but we are obligated to make it look like things have happened in order to steer more opinions in the direction of that thing happening”

:join-us-zelensky-meme-feat-binladen-saddam-gaddafi-and-noriega:

feels like thedeprogram sub hoovered up all the gzd people who missed the lifeboat

should have just called him names to begin with, this was one of the most pathetic interactions i’ve had online in recent memory

although i guess it’s possible he’s like 11 and can’t really come up with anything else

you expressed confusion with my use of the english language and so i have adjusted my communication style to suit your apparent needs. if you feel this somehow reflects poorly on your personal character it is no fault of mine.

the entire point of me linking the time article was to point out that it was cognitive laziness (and likely bad faith) on your part to invoke a third party ‘bias checker’ (that in all likelihood is itself biased) as some impartial mediator of reality. typically, the next logical step to take here would be to engage with the points of the articles in question and judge their merits through consensus based on verifiable fact, but it seems you got lost somewhere along the way and now you appear to be resisting attempts to shepherd you back on topic.

notice how i didn’t prepend that post with a brief summary of rhetorical techniques like i said i would? that’s because i didn’t use any. ditto this post.

ground effect drones!

now that the shoe is on the other foot, they’ll start calling them ‘dorsally oriented slatted armor’ or some shit instead of cope cages

could have just acknowledged it was a decent idea to begin with

sorry, i thought native english speakers would be more familiar with the concept of hyperbole. i will take the time to write a brief summary of relevant semantic techniques used in subsequent posts to help out the more rhetorically challenged members of our community.

they seem to counter it by saying a western country did the same/worse, which isn’t wrong but doesn’t address the point?

western countries are typically higher in every respect on the HDI and yet they often have the same/worse problems as a less developed communist country. then people from said western country flock to criticize the communist country for said problems and offer only token acknowledgement of these problems in their own country. when called out on this, they reveal a superficial understanding of how the problem manifests itself in either country and withdraw to rhetorical redoubts of ‘criticism is never unhelpful’ and ‘i also criticize my own country (but i criticize the communist one a lot more)’.

do you see how this might come across as frustrating or hypocritical?

time ran the exact same article, what is your point?

i did this and the guy complained that he couldnt read chinese. cant win with these people

bruh the prigo coup was the most alive i’ve been since grade school summer vacations, you can’t take this from me

istg i saw lowkey at a yemeni restaurant last year having lunch with his family

he looked extremely tired and had huge bags under his eyes, maybe it was the kids or maybe i’m just racist and can’t tell brown people apart

i don’t even know if lowkey has kids

i can’t believe i spent like a fucking week going through ‘adam smith in beijing’ for the third time and then federation happens and it’s literally just a deluge of npc quality ‘china bad’ brainworms. what a waste of time

coming out of the hyperbolic time chamber and it’s not even season 1 krillin, it’s an endless, neatly arrayed, single file line of yamchas

to be fair, i had to spend a lot of time actually reading things before i could back my arguments up with something other than news article headlines. literacy and application thereof tends to be a luxury for a lot of people these days.

i fucking know where this comment came from and i hate it

you realize that the uptick in frequency of these ‘provocations’ only started in response to the pelosi visit? the incident that had a considerable portion of the entire chinese population howling for the cpc to shoot down the plane and engulf the world in nuclear fire? this is the cpc’s way of appeasing its very large and very rabid nationalist constituency (who are very disappointed that they have not died in a nuclear armageddon, btw) and it is a meme on the chinese internet that despite all of its rhetoric, this pathetic level of ‘not touching you’ fuckery is somehow the lowest that the cpc is willing to stoop to when faced with a de jure violation of its sovereignty.

entity with the time, resources to try to sway public opinion

why would any foreign political entity waste its valuable english proficient resources on astroturfing an online backwater filled with politically illiterate nobodies? peak liberal solipsism