Obligatory: https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/tiananmenreadinglist
I also did my own research on this awhile back, and what I found was:
Again, this is what I arrived at, but feel free to chime in if any of this is wildly wrong.
Not sure if I made it clear enough, but I meant it became more obvious once the war started going badly and the weapons of mass destruction had not turned up.
Much thanks for the info/advice! Also, that bot sounds super useful.
Did the Star Trek instance defed or something? I remember seeing their posts at first but haven’t seen them recently.
I’m also still wishing there were more hobbyist instances/communities to interact with, since this has always been a little lacking.
Maybe sometime last week I noticed nearly every political post had at least one long thread of Hexbear users that do nothing but repeat CCP talking points while waving anyway anything even remotely reliable as Western propaganda.
Just curious, are you old enough to remember the media role in the run up to the Iraq War? The US media spread outright lies on behalf of the military industrial complex, to a degree that made it obvious to anyone watching once things started to go south after the war was well underway. It may not be quite as obvious these days as it was back then, but that kind of media manipulation is still very common. These days, you also have direct social media manipulation on top of that. In my opinion, it’s a terrible idea to accept the media narrative at face value, and you should at least consider other arguments and try to dig into the evidence a little more yourself instead of just saying someone is a shill. I think you’ll start finding the reality might be different than what you were initially led to believe.
Also on the topic of media manipulation, here is a GREAT video that everyone imo should watch: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2BO83Ig-E8E
don’t talk to me until I’ve had my abortion
EDIT: I wonder what the TIME TO FUCK THE PUMPKINS mug is all about.
How often does a square-shaped thought roll uphill in a room full of echoes?
I got an amazing website you should check out: http://brick4.com/
It’s mostly in Chinese so you’ll need to autotranslate but you can get lego sets at a fraction of the cost of the “real” ones.
This is also a great resource for affordable bootlegos (see what I did there): https://www.reddit.com/r/lepin/comments/lqdiar/the_starter_guide/
“Sky High Zone” is where I wanna be right now
I must confess that I may not have been entirely serious when I talked about characters from My Little Pony analyzing conflict through a Marxist lens.
Ah, ok. In that case I should clarify that while she wasn’t officially the show creator, I do think a lot of the writing and jokes are similar between the two.
I thought she was a writer for that as well though?
This is all you need to know about the subject matter:
It was originally written by the same person who wrote Powerpuff Girls and a lot of the humor is similar in the sense that it appeals to both kids and older viewers.
Does that mean you got horsefemmed?
People’s response to this show (good, bad, or indifferent) warped how the internet talks about fandom and online culture.
On a positive note, though, I think it was also legitimately a gateway to questioning gender norms for a lot of people.
Thanks for posting this. This is another great case that illustrates how western media manipulation happens.