One side doing bad things doesn’t make another side doing bad things ok. Democracy isn’t perfect but it is better than the rest of the systems. Money in politics sours the pot.

tiktok is no exception, today all major content sources are rottenly biased.

like anyone relying on msm or /r/worldnews will think israel is fighting for survival against an ultra-advance alien invasion rather than genociding unarmed starving population with missiles, drones and snipers.

shouldn’t it be priority then to cleanup the deadly rot at home than pointing fingers on scratched paint on the other side of globe.
china isn’t doing or funding a mass murder like us (again)

we are going to be spitted on everytime we talk about democracy and human rights when we fund and bodyguard the most murderous parasites on earth.

and what democracy when more than 70% of voters think israel should have been stopped years ago.

TikTok is the cause in other parts of the world at least. It has been washing the brains of friends and family for many years now. It‘s odd how the most apolitical people suddenly drop pro Chinese talking points at a gathering.

But what‘s worse is how it radicalizes young adults and teenagers and pushes them to the far right. Dictatorship suddenly becomes freedom and democracy becomes a prison to them. It‘s well documented how much anti-democratic content the platform is pushing aggressively and that‘s extremely beneficial for China.

I expect it‘s no different in Taiwan.

I'm impressed by how many narratives you're able to tie me to out of the blue. And just for the record my parents are from Iran so take your "Europeans and people of European descent" bla bla narrative somewhere else. Geopolitics is filled with nefarious actors and calling out any of them is never a problem. You're a problem.

All I‘m saying is that said lab was one of the largest ones in the world to research SarS at that time and if my memory serves me right was only one of three in the world to research the type of SarS that could infect humans. Cave bats knowing to carry it naturally don‘t live anywhere near that region either (a detail most people probably never even considered). That makes the whole food stall theory doubtful with this giant lab next door.

Mix that with how the local and then national Chinese government have mismanaged the outbreak every step of the way (I still remember the terrifying headlines from late 2019 of warning doctors that vanished and fleeing international journalists vividly, so don‘t tell me that didn‘t happen) and it looks a whole lot like a classic lab leak combined with no action to contain it because then you would have to admit something went wrong. Because yes, lab leaks do happen from time to time but they‘re usually contained, but there are no signs containment was ever a priority in Wuhan apart from blocking national flights (international flights still went in and out though. The government didn‘t even issue a warning. Gotta keep the trade flowing I guess.).

It‘s also extremely valuable to actually listen to virologists word for word because what they have said many times is that Covid-19 just doesn‘t look like a virus you would make in a lab, implying it would be reckless to do research on something like that. That‘s the sole reason they disprove of the lab theory. They blindly trust their Chinese colleagues to work as vigilant and exemplary as they do when the timeline points to the opposite.

I doubt we will ever see any proof of a lab leak because Chinese officials have swept that lab and the records squeaky clean before they allowed any foreign investigation of the site. The lab leak theory is by far the most plausible one and believe me when I say it will happen again because those corrupt structures are still intact.

This is how I expect China to actually absorb Taiwan.

The only legitimate reason they want it at this point is the chip manufacturies, and those are rigged with self destruct explosives in case of a losing war.

But use propaganda and bribes to get the country to join willingly, and that extremely valuable financial and scientific infrastructure remains safe.

Tik Tok seriously is a fucking cancer.

Capitalism is fucking cancer. TikTok is a tool that uses algorithms to manipulate public perception. Trump had interest in this app, not because it was telling the truth, but you can tell it to tell a certain truth. We pretty much don't have any education anymore. It's just training for conformity to work at your McWagey job.

Frequent Guardian readers more likely to agree with anti-China narratives, study finds.

It's so jover. Not even "reputable" news outlets know what correlation is anymore

That’s not the right analogy here. The better analogy would be something like:

Your scary mafia-related neighbor shows up with a document saying your house belongs to his land. You said no way, you have connections with someone important that assured you your house is yours only and they’ll help you with another mafia if they want to invade your house. The whole neighborhood gets scared of an upcoming bloodbath that might drag everyone into it.

But now your son says he actually agrees that your house belongs to your neighbor, and he’s likely waiting until you’re old enough to possibly give it up to him.