I’m not skeptical per se. I’ve just been propagandized so fucking much—I grew up watching those propagandocumentaries on the National Geographic Channel about the DPRK, etc., fr that was what I watched instead of cartoons lol.

Pretend I’m a lib who you’re trying to convince, or something. In addition to calming this feeling in my gut like something isn’t making sense, I want to be able to make this argument, myself.

  • Teekeeus [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    A simple fact to remember is that China’s government has overwhelming public support according to a western source (IIRC it was a harvard study or something) while the “democracies” of the “international community” consistently have government administrations with absolutely dismal approval ratings