the quality of china discussion on here is.. bad.
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the quality of china discussion on here is.. bad.
i feel like i can post something that is a big deal to me about geopolitics and someone will respond with like, i dunno, that they don't like chinese food
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the foreign policy wonks obviously did not move over here. which is fine, they were annoying.
but it's also annoying to have zero real insights into some big parts of the world
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Is there a good quality discussion of China anywhere in the anglosphere?
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Carrie Shanafeltreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte I didn't fully realize until I spent time in China and made friends there just how propagandized most US people are to respond instantly to all mentions of China with racist shit about food or filth or jankiness. I knew it was there, but suddenly, it came into full color every time, and it's constant, and so reflexive that when you tell people to fucking quit it, they barely realize they said anything.
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@buermann twitter was better in some ways because the people who spoke chinese and worked on this stuff for a living were all there. not to say they were right about anything, but it was there and better than here.
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@skinnylatte
If it makes you feel any better, I really enjoy your posts and your thoughts on things! -
@noah thanks
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@skinnylatte The fact that there's been almost no discussion of the cataclysmic flooding & infrastructure destruction in China this summer, even among climate heads, shows how ignorant we are.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Nazani last edited by [email protected]
@Nazani I stopped using the climate hashtags here after I saw that many people who were criticizing COP20 (rightly) were also doing it to criticize ‘the camel fu*kers*
I don’t feel like there’s more room for discussion about the rest of the world here on many topics
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@davidho does sometimes post here but I think a lot of the climate scientists prefer more familiar surroundings.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Carrie Shanafelt last edited by
@carrideen ahaha I feel like Americans should know that Chinese disinfo AND reality really, has been so effective that many people in Asia now think of the U.S. as unsafe, to the point of it’s a war zone, AND dirty and filthy and bad trains and pee on train stations
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@Homebrewandhacking @Nazani @davidho it’s a topic I want to engage in more, but I haven’t had a good experience with this topic on here so I just stick to my safe ones
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@Homebrewandhacking @carrideen the best disinfo has some reality