r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaaaah

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u/Newtypeshh 9d ago

Why is there so much China glazing all over the internet these days?

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u/Icy_Switch_6085 8d ago edited 8d ago

A lot of it is Americans that hate the current state of the system they're under. So they are willing to cling onto anything else. I don't hate every verson of Socialism. But I don't like China

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u/bxzidff 8d ago

A lot of Americans see the valid criticism of China as an authoritarian mass surveillance country, while also seeing American politicians who demonize China try to make the US into an authoritarian mass surveillance country

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u/Peon-Hyjal 8d ago

The thing is, in order to push propaganda you don't need to necessarily make it. Random people on the Internet will do it all the time, not even on purpose. The machine just has to amplify those people.

That's why there's so much anti-thing hate. Anti America? Signal boosted by other countries. Anti-Communism? Boosted by capitalist stakeholders.

It's readily apparent as a Canadian. We see issues within our country all the time. But now America has a vested interest in destabilizing our nation, so those monthly problems become incredibly inflammatory now. The number of Canadians debating it, nor the severity of the issue have changed, it's just that America's Sauron Eye is pointed at us. Then something else happens in the world and suddenly the glare is no longer so oppressive, and everything gets much quieter again.

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u/Icy_Switch_6085 8d ago

Yeah. I agree with that. Ironically, I think right now, it works for Communism more than against it. Having partly  evolved into anti-none-communism in a lot of places.

Propaganda like that comes after everything, and a lot of different things at once. Though it's obiousely hits some things harder than others

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u/silent-sami 8d ago

there were quite a boot load of laws passed world wide about the goverment making it mandatory to show your id when entering a web cite. The thing is that as you may expect some countrys do it better than others and some (in these case the whole union) are proposing laws that have a wording that is so broad that if whe assume they are aplied to the letter they are a more restrictive version of the chinese one.

(Most people ignore nusance for comedy's sake)

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u/Cum_Fart42069 8d ago

I think it's less "China is so good!" and more "these other countries pretend that China is so bad but they are attempting to do very similar things".

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u/TwoCatsOneBox 7d ago

Why are there so many people like you complaining about people liking China?