Yup, that’s what I thought: you’re as propagandized as everyone else in the imperial core. Just as propagandized as I was 20 years ago.

It’s too late: I have drawn myself as a rational Chad and you as a hysterical Wojak.

Completely covering up the atrocities the government has caused.

Which atrocities were those?

You lived in rural China when? 25 years ago? I don’t think you’re aware of the pace of change that’s been happening.

They are farmers, some without basic electricity and plumbing. It’s completely third world

It was third world, thanks in part to a century of humiliation by the British empire, but everyone has plumbing, electricity, media, and communication now. There are some farmers using Chinese-made technology that already surpasses our own agricultural technology.

China’s Robot Tractors Are Replacing Farmers—Here’s How

http://archive.today/2026.03.11-144825/https://www.404media.co/flock-ice-surveillance-technology-reddit-ama/

They were and are, in spite of the US’ efforts to wreak havoc via Salafi Jihad terrorists.

We assassinated the president and covered it up so that we can more easily identify conspiracy theorists.

How is there any utility in being able to identify a few crackpots—only the ones who happen to crack their pot on this one particular event? How is Identifying crackpots of any use to the state?

We know all the same stuff that you know—because we used to be you—and a bunch of other stuff that you don’t know.

Yet somehow it is we who’re ignorant.

This propaganda supports their preconceptions, which came from a lifetime of similar propaganda. They’re not interested in investigating their unexamined priors.

Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing”

(AP) Associated Propaganda 🙄

That’s a strange choice of target, no? Maybe they attacked whatever was available that they already had an exploit for 🤷

Lastly, there is no chance in hell China’s literacy reached 97%, not will it as long as rural lifestyle continues with no need for it.

Whether you think they had need for it doesn’t matter. History shows that every socialist state has put enormous effort into universal literacy. This is not controversial; it’s a settled question among historians.

This isn’t my bailiwick, but I think Peter Dale Scott and Arron Good may have some of the best answers. I don’t pay much attention to the matter, but IIRC, James Angleton and the Dulles brothers very likely were involved. It helps to ask: who covered up what really happened?

Other than an accomplished sniper, I don’t know. I’m more interested in who had him killed.

waow.

Joss Whedon has seen the future, and the ’verse has a lot of Mandarin cussin’.

The saddest thing is how “enlightened” they feel in believing that there is no alternative, and that feeling further entrenches them in capitalist realism. Anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker, a naïve utopian.