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[–] Sagittarii@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (9 children)

There's a bunch of Chinese posts asking if the stuff about school shootings, fires, homelessness are exaggerated propaganda only to be told otherwise. It's both hilarious and sad.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

It's honestly very wholesome to see this kind of interaction. On top of cute moments like Chinese users telling the new US users that they are their "spies," seeing a lot of blatant myth dispelling surrounding the PRC is great to help tear down the Red Scare.

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 0 points 1 month ago (13 children)

Lol people actually believed that social credit score bullshit?

[–] InquisitiveApathy@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, people genuinely believe that the social credit exists.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 0 points 1 month ago (11 children)

In America we call it the credit score...

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[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But... social credit literally is real... There are government legislations on this. It is not a conspiracy theory.

On the other hand Western media definitely has exaggerated and demonized it a lot. The social credit is basically your credit score, but it is more expansive and uses information some might see as encroaching on their personal privacy and freedoms.

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[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

American here, yes. To be fair I don't think about China a lot.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just goes to show you how deeply permeating the Red Scare is. Reminds me of that "exploding helmets" story that was obviously bogus but peddled as though it was true.

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[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Try to keep in mind that is far from the only thing you've been lied to about. Not just about China either. The US propaganda machine is massive, and far reaching.

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[–] Pollux@leminal.space 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

They really need to add a translation feature though. It's getting a bit annoying running everything through a translate app, for both english and chinese speakers I imagine.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Perhaps it will get added, but it's important to note that this is a Chinese app for Chinese users, the English influx was an accident.

Still, China's overall geopolitical strategy is to trade and be friendly with literally anyone who will do the same, so I imagine a translation feature may come.

[–] Pollux@leminal.space 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're defnitely seizing the sudden opportunity to cater to a global audience though, Rednote ads are everywhere right now.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Makes sense, it's free money and publicity.

[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 0 points 1 month ago

We wouldn't need a translation feature if cxiuj lernis Esperanton, just sayin'

(I mean, we would, but)

[–] Xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It should be in the next update they already announced it

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago
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[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If you called Chinese president Winnie the Pooh, then you probably wouldn't receive medical care at all or wouldn't receive a loan.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's usually westerners that love to depict the Chinese president as a yellow bear in a deragatory manner.

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It must be so easy being an anti-communist, you can just make to whatever unfounded bullshit you like and expect people to believe you

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[–] RubicTopaz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't think most Chinese people are racist crackers like you anyway

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (14 children)

imagine making social media so bad your own citizens actively procure your biggest rival's networks.

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[–] Idreamofcheesy@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (24 children)

I didn't think child labor still existed in China, just harsh labor conditions and low pay.

China's government's strict control of the media did, however, lead to me not questioning the social credit score thing.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Purchasing power is rising dramatically, labor conditions as well.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 month ago (10 children)

996 sounds like amazing labour conditions

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Believe it or not, present in the US and other Western Countries as well. Working hours for Chinese citizens are on par with developed countries while doing far more industrial production. Propaganda generally works by taking a kernal of truth and exaggerating its scope or minimizing it, not normally by outright lying.

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[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Same.

Not hard to believe when there's camps for uyghurs.

Happy to be wrong.

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If banning tik tok ends up galvanizing demand for healthcare reform I'm going to laugh my ass off

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Good comrades like Lady Izdihar are taking off in a big way, might help radicalize a lot of people towards Marxism even.

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[–] Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

what's with the rise of chinese shills lately?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What counts as a "shill?" Approval in leftist spaces of the PRC is rising overall, which makes sense given that they are a Socialist country, but in the broader western landscape Red Scare propaganda is still dominant.

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