I admit I don’t know where the third poster is from, but I feel it’s a safe guess to say America; plus lots of folks back home feel this way anyway even if this person in particular isn’t American.

  • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    My redpill moment as a non-Chinese person was seeing 2017 reddit threads on the Hong Kong protests, where a policeman was against a horde of rioters, all throwing chairs and shit at him, and somehow the mayos of reddit managed to call it “police brutality”

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      Same! I saw the contrast between debunks on sino and narratives on CIA-controlled Reddit. I tried to tell people about it because I am a reality-based person but I just got downvoted and called a tankie despite not knowing what that was.