The US is just a smol bean protecting its fragile liberal democracy from the bad, mean, no good authoritarian state from making our impressionable youth into Manchurian candidates.

It’s always double-speak with these people. Obviously this is for propagandizing us against China.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean, there’s a real issue.

Say you were china, or the EU, or any other country/bloc and basically your entire youth was addicted to Twitter, Facebook or whatever, and officially manipulatable by the US government…. And you got into a real conflict. Maybe even a hot war.

Wouldn’t you be worried about the US propagandizing your population?

I would.

The US government's solution is completely dysfunctional and not getting at the root of the issue because they are afraid of reducing the power projection of big tech, among other things. But the core issue doesn’t need to be trivialized.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Those hypotheticals are all well and good.

But you have to understand the scale of things and the history of things. Just as the US military-industrial complex dwarfs those of all other states, so does the US propaganda-intelligence complex. The Russiagate narrative itself was a psyop to manufacture our consent to censorship.

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 0 points 11 months ago

If you think social networks are meant to socialize and not getting in a real conflict, you end up with a kind of twist

[–] kaprap@leminal.space 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought it would be like tiktok but it's surprisingly different, it's pretty fun

[–] Sagittarii@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It seems to prefer new users' posts rather than already popular users interestingly enough, at least more so than other platforms

[–] kaprap@leminal.space 4 points 11 months ago

Yes, and it uses your IP to also find content to show, it suprises me how much Chinese people enjoy content about my country

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 13 points 11 months ago

China continues its strategy of just sitting back and letting the US fuck up.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"in an unexpected success for Chinese soft power"

China bad because checks notes of something we intentionally did to ourselves.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i envy the americans interacting w all the rednote people; i straight up starting following all of the same people i followed on tiktok and recreated tt for myself bt accident.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you able to make another account? A voip number maybe?

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i think that i just need to reach out beyond my bubble and it'll be tough due to all the mandarin all over the app.

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can change the app settings to English now if you update it. Should help

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

already turn it on; but it's not enough, but i'll learn mandarin eventually... assuming that my government doesn't ban rednote before then. lol

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

How long it will take for someone (not from China) to ruin it for everyone?

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I imagine the bastards on 4chan are already figuring something out

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago

Yup

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

There is already a federated option for this brain rod thingy