Chinese state newspaper claims the US is a 'failed state' ruled by a 'racist president' as it rips into Donald Trump — Article from 2020

Thank you for taking your valuable time away from sniffing glue to write this insightful comment.

When the audience/readership has no effective way of fact-checking what is said then they can (and do) just make it up to suit their narrative. Anything that contradicts the narrative is an "unreliable source."

https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/

Very frequently propaganda relies on a single kernal of truth, and then changing the quantity, quality, or both of said truth. All it needs is *some* level of justification, then it can be molded like clay into whatever you need it to say.

Fair enough. Gotta think about this a little more I guess.

That's actually not true, with respect to altering the truth. Usually the quantity or quality of a single truth is heavily distorted, or outright fabricated. See Iraq's WMD that never matetialized.

Yeah, and?

Equal condemnation for unequal things just ends up being support for the status quo, though.

Whataboutism

Of course, "one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone", I'm not a fan of US but also not a fan of PRC

Yeah not literally, I didn't mean to praise the US in any way, I'm just recalling a historical example of one not-so-ideal country criticizing another not-so-ideal country

Also

Not that I'm suggesting they're wrong

Part might be key to understand what I meant

That's not what you wrote, though?

That's what I wrote, but I forgot it's lemmy.ml

Ok, I wouldn't expect you to be honest about it anyway.

I didn't even remotely suggested anything like this

Would be more fallacious if they weren't actually lynching black people tbh

I like that liberals have decided that criticizing the USA is inherently fallacious.

Whataboutism

Two things can be true.

Pots and kettles eh 🤣

I am with you on this, but that was all a presidential action, and while no one was trying to stop it (maybe a small group under bernie) it was all signed off by him (and now the other him). I could be wrong I knew there was many votes on the house floor for Ukraine funding but I dont recall the same for isreal (not that they dont get a HUGE cut of the american budget as it is).

Yeah, it is right here under this rubble in Gaza.

can you show me where the Democrats touched you.

Are the Democrats in the room with us right now?

Do you think Democrats and Leftists are the same group of people? Where are the Democrats here?

China states that eating food reduces symptoms of starvation

WELL I GUESS AS A DEMOCRAT I MUST ABSTAIN FROM ALL FOOD TO PROVE THEM WRONG

Careful that this giant strawman of yours doesn't catch on fire.

THE DEMOCRATS, THEY WERE UPVOTING

Too stupid to understand the difference between criticism and hate. You're one of those idiots that thinks any criticism of America is hate instead of the desire for a more perfect union.

>Global Times, a major Chinese propaganda tabloid,

The Daily Mail, 🤣

Why use the word "claim" for something that's painfully and obviously true? 🤔

water is wet

Context: global times is not a "newspaper". It's Chinese nationalist English media. Their proper state run media is much more formal and reserved. For example look at Xinhua.

where's the lie

America's response

NGL, I had already learned of collapse and how cooked we were back then, but I thought it was exaggerated and that we had some time to go before things really started to pick up....

Global Times is not China. It’s one news source so statements made by Global Times, especially in the editorials aren’t inherently statements made my China. They are run by individuals who sent the articles in. To claim that China made this statement is ridiculous and would be akin to saying that the US made a statement on something because of a single article NPR ran or that the UK made a statement because of a single article run by the BBC.

Propaganda about the enemy usually doesn’t require altering the truth much. Propaganda about the own state of affairs is a completely different story.

The fucked up CCP fails to remember when Putin's Sock Puppet said, "Xi is great and we love each other."

So Democrats hate on China, but also rely on them why it suites their messaging? Earlier today Democrats were just upvoting something saying that Elon Musk has close ties with China which is an authoritarian dictatorship. If Democrats were consistent, wouldn't this mean that authoritarians don't like Donald Trump?

And you are lynching Negroes

Not that I'm suggesting they're wrong or I'm defending Trump