Are you aware the channel you’re recommending is blacklisted China?

Way to prove my point. Lol

Yeah? Do a quick search on how to overthrow the government. Can’t do that in China.

You don’t need to use social media to access the internet.

How many times must I write the difference between corporate controlled platforms and governmentally controlled internet?

There is a difference between a corporation manipulating their own service and a government controlling the entire internet for the nation.

No one is forcing you to use US corporate social media. Everyone needs internet access.

Again, you change the disagreement when you’re being disproven. You can’t support the claim that it’s ‘overwhelmingly’ Westerners, which is the point I challenged.

Go ahead a re-read this thread rather than wasting both of our time changing your point to continue a needless debate.

So you don’t like that your point was disproven and are now comparing corporate manipulation of their own services to governmental control of the entire internet?

Get real.

Do you know the difference between the internet and the World Wide Web?

Accessing the dark web is illegal in China, for example. They reduced access to the internet to government regulated websites, who must apply and be approved by the Chinese government to be accessible within the Great Firewall.

https://www.goclickchina.com/insights/the-complete-guide-to-the-great-firewall-of-china-gfoc/

You evaded the question with semantics. Is one meme ‘overwhelmingly’ more than a nation of Philippinos?

So all of the nations with a free and open internet are pushing propaganda, and we should just take firewalled nation of oppressively regulated speech at their word.

I missed that. Thanks. So does that meme from the west outweigh Xi’s entire Philippino welcoming and barrage of memes, prompting the banning of the word Pooh in Chinese media, justify your claim that it’s overwhelmingly Westerners?

To be clear, it is overwhelmingly Westerners that wish to depict a Chinese man as a yellow bear.

Really? Because all sources that I can find trace the origin to Xi’s visit to the Philippines back in 2017.

http://hongkongfp.com/2018/11/20/filipinos-flood-social-media-winnie-pooh-memes-xi-jinping-visits-manila/

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2018/11/21/2003704655

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/11/21/1870392/winning-pooh-images-flood-social-media-xi-jinping-arrives

I have some sources on the child and slave labor, if that helps.

https://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/genocide-of-the-uyghurs-in-western-china/china-tibet-and-the-uyghurs

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/02/01/china-carmakers-implicated-uyghur-forced-labor

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/nz0g306v8c/china-tainted-cotton

This last one is ‘Western propaganda’ but is very helpful in identifying the types of products to avoid. It’s near impossible in the US, unless you make your own textiles/clothes or only buy second-hand.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods-print

And how are we supposed to fix this if the next generation is godless? We need to display the Ten Commandments in schools to protect our future.

My archnemesis is Captain Hammer! Captain Hammer, corporate tool!

Great point and excellent movie. Come to think of it, it was very common through the 80’s. The Sandlot, The Goonies, The Lost Boys…any Cory movies lol

Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade” features a 13-year-old playing a 13-year-old. He said he wanted to capture the natural awkwardness and self-consciousness that we all experienced at that age.

Who cares? Trump’s ‘peace deal’ will be trying to convince Zelenskyy that he should relinquish eastern Ukraine to end the war.

It’s up to the UK and the EU to support them now. I’m sorry. Many of my countrymen are the fucking worst.

Putin loves his centralized media. Lol

Good luck criticizing a user’s choice of platform hoping to get them to leave. I’m just happy to see one less corporate platform.

“You really shouldn’t jump rope on the train tracks. It’s not safe.”

“What’s not safe about jumping rope? Everybody jump’s rope.”

“It’s not jumping rope that’s the problem, it’s the train tracks.”

“I think I’m smart enough to know if a train is coming. It’s not like the train is coming for me specifically. I’m not that important. I don’t have anything valuable enough for the train to take from me anyw-“ splat

Avoiding the Monday feel is one of the two benefits of a dynamic schedule. The other is running errands, like going to the laundromat or doing grocery shopping, on a weekday.