That part about you being an idiot is the only part you're wrong about 🤗

I do rather enjoy the "Drowning in their own sin" metaphor

I mean, I've checked out a few English language Chinese news programs out of curiosity. Not really anything vitriolic I've seen, if anything they all seem a bit more chill and relaxed and maybe even a bit boring. It's obvious that some of it is propaganda but they don't really bother to hide it behind this facade of "NO SPIN" and "TOTALLY RELIABLE" or controlled oppositional pushback that American corporate news (aka propaganda) feels the need to project.

Yeah, that's almost as bad as Zuckerberg and the US having that info

DeSantis

Let us imagine, if you would, a less incompetent Trump

The ruling class are all fucking vampires, sustaining themselves off the blood of the youth, the naïve, and the innocent. As long as they have people to feed on they'll live damn near forever.

~~I’m sure that western media will handle this news in a completely rational, reasonable, and non-inflammatory way.~~

I’m sure that western media will cover this (~~outside of Reuters, actually surprised that they did~~ Edit: nope, they didn't, Aljazeera according to OP. Shouldn't have given them the benefit of the doubt)

Brain apples lead to brain worms

You don't mess around with Jim

And then... And then they called me a lib and everyone pointed and laughed at me!

I love this comment section

That might become an unfortunate but inevitable result of any English-language site that's large enough, since by the numbers Americans make up a plurality (and possibly a majority) of the English-speaking world. It might be that the only counter to that is moderation and local site culture.