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

[-] wurzelgummidge@lemmy.ml 79 points 4 months ago

Global Times, a major Chinese propaganda tabloid,

The Daily Mail, 🤣

[-] Viri4thus@feddit.org 13 points 4 months ago

Pots and kettles eh 🤣

[-] radon12445@lemm.ee 44 points 4 months ago

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

[-] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago

water is wet

[-] coolusername@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago

where's the lie

[-] cavemeat@beehaw.org 9 points 4 months ago

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....

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

America's response

[-] Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 29 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago

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

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] wurzelgummidge@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

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/

[+] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world -11 points 4 months ago

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

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

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

[+] timewarp@lemmy.world -18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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?

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Are the Democrats in the room with us right now?

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago

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

[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

can you show me where the Democrats touched you.

[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

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

[-] HorreC@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

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).

[-] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

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

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

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

[-] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago

THE DEMOCRATS, THEY WERE UPVOTING

[-] Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

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.

[+] maniel@sopuli.xyz -20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And you are lynching Negroes Not that I'm suggesting they're wrong or I'm defending Trump

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 months ago

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

[-] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago

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

[-] B0rax@feddit.org 14 points 4 months ago

Whataboutism

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Two things can be true.

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