It was a joke, Putin, being a fascist, wouldn't support queer people, even in enemy countries. Your friend being nb and buying into that conspiracy is very silly.
It is and they have a lot of progress to make. Nobody thinks any socialist project is a utopia.
In any case, you don't understand how the idea of paying less than a thousand dollars for a month long hospital stay is mindboggling to Americans. Like that's "You're declaring bankruptcy" expensive here.
And no one owns a home at all in China, it’s all leased.
Only in the cities, rural land is owned outright, but I think they have to jump through some hoops to be able to sell rural land.
In cities, it's a 70 year lease, and the owner has first right to renew. If you don't own the property by that logic, then you don't own property in any place that has property taxes.
Anyone who is angry they can't whip out queerphobia when they're annoyed at someone who uses neopronouns doesn't understand why it's not OK to say racist shit about Clarance Thomas, misogynistic shit about JK Rowling, or transphobic shit about Keffals.
Just a huge red flag that respecting other people's humanity is contingent on benefiting them.
One of the disappointments of rednote was learning how many Chinese people bought his "genius engineer progressing humanity" PR horseshit. But they seemed much more understanding when they learned how he treats his kids.
That is true, there's a lot of stuff that is obviously against the rules, but a lot of the users on my FYP are longtime chinese users with older posts of similar content.
No I'm not, you've been misunderstanding me from the start.
Tiktok does not amplify views that make the US look bad, it demotes them. That demonstrates that china is not using tiktok to influence Americans because they would want the opposite.
Instead they do exactly what any media subservient to the state department does.
Amplifying shows of division in a country promotes the view that said country is flawed and weak, in this case along racial lines. China has plenty to gain by showing that.
Exactly! So demoting those videos suggests that China is not using the algorithm to promote anti-american views.
That seems entirely speculative. There are plenty of other reasons to hire them. Can you provide evidence for your claim?
No, CIA agents don't go around saying they're working for media companies to disseminate propaganda, and media companies don't broadcast that they take extra care to make sure their coverage lines up with the state department's narratives.
If it’s being done in a manner that promotes Chinese narratives while demoting American narratives
Spicy in this case means protests, police misbehavior, stuff the US wouldn't want amplified. The big waves of censorship came in 2020 and 2022. You can search news articles from the time with lots of people wondering why they're no longer getting that content in their FYPs and content creators getting <1/10th of the views. FB and reddit do the same thing.
I don’t really see why not demoting BLM videos is not in the CCP’s interest; videos that make America seem racist seems entirely in the interest of an Anti-American country.
Amplifying the videos that show America's response to antiracist movements would make America look like the racist country it is. Demoting them conceals that.
I also don’t see why hiring former American intelligence operatives demonstrates a pro-American stance, as their motivations for doing so could be to learn about American intelligence-gathering methods while promoting Chinese interests.
CIA agents living in America who disseminate intelligence-gathering methods while promoting Chinese interests get charged with treason.
They were hired to help identify and amplify US state department narratives, same reason CNN and Fox hires them.
lmao there's a difference between using violence to remove the capitalist class from power and using violence to genocide minorities.