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decades of US propaganda undone in just a few days of Americans interacting with Chinese netizens on Xiaohongshu
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Exactly, while Americans are discovering that much of what their government said about China was false, the Chinese are realizing that conditions in the US are as bad, or worse, than their own government said.
Just saw this on Twitter lol
Mass shootings in the US get way less coverage in China because it gets to a point where people start dismissing it as propaganda. Big ones make the news for a while, but most of them get touched on briefly and the news moves on.
Like, surely, after your 3rd mass shooting in a decade, the government would step in and do something about it, right?
"We've had 15 mass shootings in 2025 so far"
"You mean in the 2020's, right?"
"Nope"
Time taken for 15 most recent mass shootings in Australia: 20 years
Time taken for 15 most recent mass shootings in USA: 14 days
One would think!
I'm like 50:50 as to whether news out of China specifically just short-circuits a populaces brain that cannot even imagine anymore that the people like a government. I mean you look at like global north numbers and it peaks at, what, 30% or so? Removed from everything else I get the feeling the idea that you could like a government has died
Reminds me of a saying from the SSRs after '91: "Everything they told us about communism was a lie, and everything they told us about capitalism was true."
Except, you know, Chinese people seem to really like their communist party
Yeah, CPC thankfully managed to avoid the pitfalls of KPRF.