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This is a large part of my frustration. I'm in Aussieland and everyone here is like mad brain wormed about "red" china.
People who are entirely willing to be like: "yeah so the Australian state is pretty shit, kinda a lapdog to the usa, democracy is mostly notional, the foundation of australia legally is fraudulent and we need treaty and truthtelling. Still there are some good things, the government provides some OK systems, society is quite safe and peaceful. We need to acknowledge the good to legitimise criticisms of the bad"
Will melt down if you're like "so the chinese people are actually relatively happy with their government, much more than we are here, and the enormous improvement in standard of living clearly indicates that something is going well for the proles over yonder. Why do you think we only ever hear about the bad? Why do you think there is such a misalignment between how we think people should think of the government and how they do?"
Fuck me for trying to understand the world I guess.
Propagandized minds are hard to break through to for sure.