Grand rising/day/evening, comrades! I’m about to be busy, so in the before-hectic time I opened Lemmy to see the following posts immediately, and thought perchance they may serve your entertainment needs:
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-moldova-voting-elections-candidates-west-kremlin/
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yp9w5kyw7o
May everyone have the loveliest of days/evenings, or at least not all-around horrible! With love from a westoid. 🫶
One academic involved in sensitive research stopped teaching after experiencing harassment from a visiting scholar from China, who whispered “we’re watching you” in one case and interrogated the academic about their personal history at another event.
Gonna say up front I could be wrong but I find this kind of absurd.
Liberal academics are the most spineless people ever. I’ve been handcuffed and thrown into a police car before when doing things the west didnt like, and that didnt stop me from doing it more. Someone whispers in your ear and you quit your job? Even if this was true. It’s pathetic.
You are only saying this because a sneaky Chinese hasn’t snuck up to you and whispered “we are watching you” in your ear just as you were about to blow the lid off the biggest scandal of your life.
You are only saying this because a sneaky Chinese hasn’t snuck up to you and whispered “we are watching you” in your ear
Actually, depending on how they say it, i’m almost thinking i might enjoy that experience a bit too much, if you know what i mean…
The way you phrased that reminded me of how british people refer to chinese* takeout as “A chinese” and now im imaging a box of takeout sneaking up on someone and whispering that in their ear.
*It’s not actually chinese takeout because its britain so like all food there its basically slop. But thats what they call it.
it’s insufferable sometimes how easy it is to scare the shit out of these professional-managerial types. i might do that just to mess with them
If you do, say “they’re watching you” instead because it absolves you of involvement.
that’s how you get committed
Yep, that’s why I said entertainment!
Western media is equally pathetic and disgusting. Using animals as a way to post anti china propaganda is off the charts stupid.
Yes it is, funny in a sad, sick kind of way. That was within a half hour of hitting “regular” Lemmy, this morning. I’m not sure if Western media is getting worse, “regular” Lemmy is getting worse, or if I’m just scrolling with a more skeptical eye. It just smacked me full in the face, first thing and sleepy, this morning.
They’re preparibg for war with china so they will likely start dehumanizing campaigns against them.
Ramp them up, from my perspective.
I’m not following. I dont think dehumanization is a good idea at all. Did I miss something?
I’m saying they’re not preparing for war with dehumanizing rhetoric, rather they’re preparing with escalation. Apologies for ambiguity.
Oh! Now I see it. Thanks for clarifying. :)
No worries, I was tired and didn’t realize how awful it came across until you inquired. I’m really sorry about that.
May everyone have the loveliest of days
BBC finds electrocuted, drowned and starved cats in online torture groups
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Yes but they say the trend originated in China. Could be true, could be false.
I’m 99% sure it is a CIA recruiting scheme.
I’m pretty sure it was false, at least. I’m pretty wiped out after my day and not making the connection. Unless you mean the CIA set up the websites that appear to be Chinese?
The claim it has a Chinese origin is just asserted with next to no evidence.
They say that they tricked a major ring leader into a video call and he ended up being Japanese. If a major player in the community is a Japanese man why are they insisting it started in China?
Running an online community costs money. The CIA is the most likely to have an interest in keeping a rollodex of psychopaths.
Ah yes, thanks for pointing out the obvious in my face. Like recruiting people with learning disabilities or mental health conditions to daesh, then arresting them (which makes me wonder how these cases aren’t dismissed as entrapment).
And imagine having not just a list of psychopaths but also evidence of them doing horrific things to use as black mail. Not that a psychopath that kills kittens isn’t going to jump at the chance to hurt people for a CIA pay cheque.
It speaks very clearly to the psycopathy of US policy and a cargo shipload of government apparatus people.
The the equivalent of people making jokes about Chinese food being made from street cats. Meanwhile we have actual videos of Isn’treal and USA soldiers laughing as they throw kittens off a cliff.
Drowning, electrocuting and starving cats
😡😡😡😡
Drowning, electrocuting and starving billions of cows, pigs and chickens
🥰🥰🥰 Hmmm bacon tho 🥓🥓🥓
I hear that loud and clear! 🫡
