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Matt Knight
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Xi Jinping walking hand in hand with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon yesterday, continuing their years-long tradition.
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Matt Knight
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Xi Jinping walking hand in hand with Tajik President Emomali Rahmon yesterday, continuing their years-long tradition.
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Hermes strategygroup, Ltd.
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Fergus Ryan
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Whatās the deal with the New Yorker?
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Matt Knight
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Aiming typically at low information audiences: "If you hear anything about any place, mostly if it's negative, if you can travel to the place, check it out for yourself and make up your own mind." - English vlogger walking around an ethnic minority-themed attraction in Xinjiang.
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Matt Knight
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We can see a sort of second wave of PRC-friendly vlogging here. It seems led more by genuine travel vloggers rather than China-based pseudo influencers, and the very lazy pro-China content, inspired by the first wave, targets the youtube algorithm rather than any state media handlers.
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Fergus Ryan
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reskeet with a tweet you still think about
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Fergus Ryan
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All the more reason for him to quit now. Direct your anger at him
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Peter
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the latest Snowden leak: his brain from his ears
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Matt Knight
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The newer wave of vloggers, whose content doesn't appear to be guided in any way, speak much more readily about the highly visible surveillance and are happy to share narratives normalising authoritarianism because Youtube rewards them for doing so.
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Matt Knight
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It seems the whole 'I went to China' clickbait is quite a profitable travel vlogger grift these days, which in turn gets picked up by China state media and recycled within the Great Firewall.
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Matt Knight
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The irony of this clickbait China travel vlog: "Completely blown away all my preconceptions, I had very bad preconceptions of China." 10 seconds later... "I'd say, like, the police force and the presence of the police is a little but worrying but we haven't done anything wrong so..."
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Matt Knight
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me to youtubers: what specifically is cyberpunk about these districts? Youtubers: See those LEDs? šFor a few hours each evening they *change colours*ššš And over there, see those people?" Me: ...cyborgs? Youtubers: Asians š
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lokman tsui
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ever since i left hong kong, i have been trying to make sense of what happened, and what is happening, to us.
this is a first attempt to write something about it in public.
hongkonger.world/2024/07/02/b...
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Fergus Ryan
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I watched a video on X last night showing a man dancing with a group when another man suddenly stabbed him, seemingly fatally. Not the best thing to see before bed. My bad for scrolling Xitter late at night, I guess.
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Matt Novak
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I'm coconut-pilled. I'm harris-maxxing. I'm in my existing within the context era
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China Media Project
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In the wake of a tragic attack on a Japanese woman and her child in Suzhou, Chinese social media platforms have pledged to clear up rabid nationalism online.
But at the same time, PRC state media continue to pour fuel on the fire of anti-Japanese sentiment.
chinamediaproject.org/2024/07/02/c...
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Katie Mack
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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like
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Fergus Ryan
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you watched the debate, right?
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Amanda Marcotte
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In the wake of the "immunity" decision, the shocked press focused on how this hurts Jack Smith's case.
But it's much worse. The Supreme Court just blessed Trump's desire to be a dictator.
And they found a way to give that power only to Republicans.
www.salon.com/2024/07/02/t...
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Brendan Nyhan
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Official act. Immune.
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Eoin Higgins
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2/4/25
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Mike Masnick
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Um, which part of sleeping with an adult film actress and then paying her off to be quiet during your presidential election (both of which happened before you were President), and then falsifying the business records is an official presidential act? www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/n...
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Shelly Kraicer *Ceasefire Now*
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The Bidenās unconscionable support for Israelās genocidal attack on Gaza is of a piece with Bidenās insistence on sabotaging the resistance to Trumpism fascism. Failure to recognize and act against present evil; an inability to recognize whatās at stake and act.
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Fergus Ryan
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is this still the case?
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Fergus Ryan
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Fascinating read on Jackson Hinkle, the grifter behind "MAGA Communism" blending right-wing nationalism & far-left authoritarianism.
Guancha Syndicate's efforts to cultivate him are clearāI wouldn't be surprised if they're running his Weibo account.
chinamediaproject.or...
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David Kaye
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is torture an official act? are war crimes? both are criminal under U.S. law. what happens to presidential command responsibility? also, if POTUS is immune from prosecution, there is no complementarity. the court has made it easier for the ICC to pursue cases ag american presidents.
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Fergus Ryan
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Itās to get him to resign before his brain melts out of his ears
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Fergus Ryan
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Of course she was. Would be a bad look to be sinking the knife in immediately. She does need to make a move soon though
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Zach Dorfman
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Burner phones and laptops only if youāre visiting China, and thatās non-negotiable
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Fergus Ryan
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It never occurred to me that there would actually be games on iPad that are worth playing. Iāve seen too many ads on YouTube for crappy ones I guess
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa
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Revealed: the tech entrepreneur behind a pro-Israel hate network www.theguardian.com/world/articl... Article is based on research by @whiterosesociety.bsky.social
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David_j_roth
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Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.
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Patrick Stokes
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BIDEN: We finally beat Medicare IMPARTIAL OBSERVER: Mmm-hmm, yes, this man is clearly too prepared.
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Fergus Ryan
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The New Yorker's David Remnick on the need for Biden to recognize the demands of the moment & make a selfless decision for the greater good.
It's refreshing to see there are some sane voices amid all the gaslighting & wishful thinking out there.
www.newyorker.com/ne...
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Fergus Ryan
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the US has one of, if not the most antiquated system of democracy on the planet. Americans need to get past their sense of exceptionalism and realise that they might actually learn something from other countries.
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Fergus Ryan
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Remember this?
www.politico.com/new...
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Fergus Ryan
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Please link us to footage of this.
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Fergus Ryan
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Is there video footage of his brain failing on the debate stage?
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Amanda Marcotte
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"The time is past" is wrong for one reason: Biden told us he was capable of this. People voted for him because they believed this. They now feel he lied to them. That he betrayed them. And so something has to be done.
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Amanda Marcotte
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Remember how outraged we all were when Trump claimed his inauguration crowd was huge, when it was obviously not? His argument was "don't believe your lying eyes." Yeah, Democrats have to be better than that or people will have a reason to say "eh, they're all the same."
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Amanda Marcotte
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The people spraying gaslight around and denying the evidence of our eyes and ears think they're helping. They are making it worse. They are confirming that we're being gaslit.
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Amanda Marcotte
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The whole "he's the only one who can do this" excuse doesn't fly in the face of the fact that he couldn't speak in complete sentences in a debate. People aren't nuts to say, "Oh surely, there are plenty of people who are better at this."
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Amanda Marcotte
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You and I, of course, are super smart and plugged in and know that the threat Trump poses is very serious. But for the low info people who are skeptical, they're looking for signals from leaders that show they also are scared. Biden's decline suggests they don't take this seriously. At all.
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Amanda Marcotte
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Ultimately, I think Biden's campaign is trapped by a paradox if he continues. On one hand, Democrats are arguing that the fate of democracy is on the line. On the other, Biden can't take that threat seriously enough to let it get in the way his lifelong dream of being president.
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Matt Novak
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Donāt worry folks, they got this
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Fergus Ryan
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It seems to be the general sentiment here that all that happened the other night was that Biden āstutteredā. Thatās delusional
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Fergus Ryan
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If Biden gave that performance as an Australian political leader heād already have been put out to pasture.
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Matt Novak
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The problem, as always, is that the U.S. system is uniquely bad among wealthy democracies.
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Fergus Ryan
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Top post on Bluesky. Youāre all delusional.
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Matt Knight
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šØš³State media published an opinion piece endorsing far right party leader Farage for the UK elections. Key point: "If, once elected, Farage and his colleagues can advocate an end to NATOās provocations and expansionism sufficiently loudly, it may give the warmongers pause for thought."
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