Thanks for the link, haven’t checked that channel in a while. This reminds me a lot of the attitude people have in my country towards immigrants from the Global South - they view them with benign curiosity more than anything. I do worry it will get worse in time, in no small part due to worsening material conditions and an overall reactionary population. But it’s a very different context compared to China

Thanks, this is informative. I guess this is just another case of westerners cherry-picking data and blowing it out of proportion, because from what you’re saying, this sounds just like what one would expect to find in online communities in any other country.

It’s a bit disappointing to see takes such as 留岛不留人 are common enough to have their own slogans that are known even to people outside the circles who don’t support this (anecdotal, but that Chinese émigré I mentioned in the post also referred to this slogan). For the Japan part, I’m not surprised - I’ve heard casual calls for genocide by people of some countries against other countries for far smaller historical offenses. Not surprised there’s so much animosity towards Japan, given all they’ve done and how they treat the issue to this day. Still a horrible take to call for genocide, obviously, but I’m not surprised that there is a niche of society thinking like this. I bet you can find nazi/genocide enthusiasts in any country

Sorry, yeah, I’m referring to bigotry, not anything institutionalized.

Indeed. I guess they must be getting him more views but I’m not sure how I feel about the type of audience it attracts, especially since his channel is not explicitly Marxist

Libs will read that quote and go “people’s democratic dictatorship?? Literally Orwellian doublethink war is peace omg 1984”.

For real, it’s such a vague retort that I just changed topics afterwards, because I didn’t even know where to start. Whose dictatorship over who? Why are you opposed to this? What does the opposite situation say about countries like the US and why is that good if this is bad?

It’s so ingrained in their mind they’ll always give a knee-jerk response like this so they don’t have to go through the pain of challenging their worldview (instead it seems they’d rather choose the pain of continually worsening exploitation and living standards)

Had to look that up, at first I thought it’s an actual thing rich people do, going to watch sharks in a tank lol. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit, given their fondness for horse races and unnecessary subjugation in general

Mentioned this to a liberal before, they said it’s proof China is a dictatorship 🤷🤷

The other day I saw a ukro-nazi in the wild. Wearing nazi-inspired apparel like we often see in the supposedly photoshopped images of Ukrainian nazis. Dude was many countries away from the frontline. Surreal to see them live here

How does that work, is it a public server? Do you have any resources on Ukraine there by anu chance? I’m interested to read more about it and have some links on hand to show to friends/family, but so far most of my knowledge comes from this instance and some media like Geopolitical Economy Report, not exactly lib-friendly

Yeah, right now theory is like once every 20 episodes

Yeah, for now. When it becomes acceptable and useful to the state, it won’t matter how dumb they are, as long as they are dangerous… I probably shouldn’t be so doomerish on this topic, this just gives these idiots power, but sometimes I can’t help it

This is an indicator to me that for whatever reason the empire sees pro-Russia left anti-imperialists as more of a threat than the pro-Palestine movement.

I always viewed this as “it’s way more difficult for the empire to justify what it does in Palestine than in Ukraine”. Primarily because of how many of these breadtube “leftists” like Vaush & friends rabidly support the US in Ukraine, but even they condemned Isn’treal as soon as October 7th happened.

I started going down the leftist pipeline a few months before they launched the podcast. When I heard about it, it seemed perfect for me - something to deprogram liberals and get into more complex topics as time goes on. Learned a lot at first, but after about 6 months or so I started viewing it as entertainment. And I’m not an avid theory reader or anything. They still discuss some interesting topics, but it’s really not radical at all and it has gotten to a point where it keeps baby leftists stuck at the start of the pipeline, instead of pushing them further

JT recently ditched all sponsors. Not sure about the other two guys, I would’ve thought that with the Deprogram’s success they wouldn’t need to rely as much on sponsors, but I don’t know much about how content creators make a living. Still, I really don’t get it why they’re so lib and silent on this topic

This is scary, not the first time I hear this. There were loads of nazi “memes” floating around 2015-2016 about “the upcoming race war”, and then it fizzled out after Trump’s inauguration. I thought even these turds realized that’s a pipe dream, but seems they’re set to make it happen. It’s insane and makes my blood boil to think these people exist

Hearing libs talk about how in China the internet is tightly controlled and heavily propagandized while uncritically believing all corporate news on how evil X, Y and Z foreign countries are and ignoring the fact that the western internet is dominated by a handful of US companies with revolving doors to the US state… now that’s something

Is there any source saying this is because of climate change?

I live in a nearby country and I also feel the weather has changed a lot in the last few years, but people and the mainstream media act like nothing happened, so I really want some confirmation this is being caused by climate change

Amazing, not one week since inauguration and he’s managed to do a 360 (two U-turns!!) on this