#China Jinping

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Health Insurance CEO slander/Assassin glazing, Take II/Part 2

[batboyblog]

I fundamentally disagree with your take that any future/ongoing users of TikTok are supporting or enabling trump.

We don’t use TikTok or any other social platform because of the CEO. We use social media because of the communities we form and love.

Obviously trump wants it back because it helped his election campaign, but that doesn’t negate every positive collective action or community that formed on the app. Everything good also has bad, because as the saying goes, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. We can try to be good, but we can’t only support ethical companies.

Also, what about international users? I’m Australian, and trump impacts Australian politics directly and indirectly, but does me using TikTok support him? It’s still an independent company.

Given the ban was done by congress, not the executive, I have every reason to believe that a Harris/democrat office would also make efforts to stop the ban. It’s easy political points.

I'm gonna try to be nice, which given my mood today, the impending Trumpalypse and the hostage release today have me in a bad mood.

Sooooo I have to reject the idea that helping re-elect Trump could ever be balanced out by any other "good", if such good even exists, that any app, person, or organization does.

before anyone jumps in to smugly tell me they're not an American so Trump being the American President doesn't matter, I'll remind you, we all live on the same planet. One thats getting warmer? in case you hadn't noticed. 2024 was the first year on record to breach the 1.5 degree warming mark that is very bad news. President Biden passed the biggest climate action bill that any government anywhere on earth ever ever has passed. Trump has pledged to repeal that law, and also hold back all the money in it not already spent.

as you can see under Biden we're on goal through 2030, and then more and different policies would be needed to get us where we need to go, which Biden team in the dying days of his administration has set not that Trump will follow through.

so point being helping re-elect Trump might have doomed the planet so idk about anything "good" TikTok could possibly do to make up for being Responsible or the single biggest climate disaster in human history.

any ways, as a Jew when I think of TikTok I think antisemitism

"Jewish teens say life on TikTok comes with anti-Semitism" 2020

"Sliding Through: Spreading Antisemitism on TikTok by Exploiting Moderation Gaps" 2023

"How fast does TikTok send users down the antisemitic rabbit hole?" 2024

being on the internet right now as a Jewish person is fucking wild, buck wild, seeing people in their teens and 20s say NAZI, old school, 1940s Nazi shit on-line, in videos with their faces, it is everywhere and TikTok is some of the worst of it.

on top of which TikTok is spoon feeding massive amount of disinformation to users all the time, from mental health, to Covid Vaccines, to conspiracy theories that are effecting the real world. And studies show its actively hurting teens, pushing them toward self harm

speaking of Australia, its very clear that China is REALLY interested in influencing your country seeking to shift Australian public opinion against Taiwan and in favor of China, as well as push the country toward a more isolationist view. Also they're using data from not just TikTok but other apps to track people, and actively kidnap Chinese nationals in Australia who offend Xi's government. That's a wider problem than just TikTok of course, but it's super fucking scary.

So sorry the app you like is getting the axe in the US? I guess? but short form video in and of itself might be bad for your health. Apps like TikTok don't allow you to do what I've done here, offer links and data to back up what I'm saying so fact checking and accountability is basically 0. Finally there's a lot of evidence that TikTok has put its finger on the scale to push propaganda for Trump, for Xi and generally destabilize the world.

finally, what community? watching videos fed to you by a computer isn't a connection, its certainly not a conversation.

oh also "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" is not some magical spell, it doesn't do away with the need to do good in the world, its meant to say don't let perfect be the enemy of good, whats the least bad option, nothing is flawless, but that doesn't mean going on to the app who's parting message to America was "big good daddy Trump gonna come save us" like fuck man thats bad

[eltristan]

For those wondering why the death of the 1st Amendment in America, the US TikTok ban, has not resulted in a surge here on Tumblr...

Our beloved Tumblr is banned in China.

Most TikTok users already tried Tumblr and didn't like it. (Look at how short their attention span is!)

Tumblr isn't great for 杀猪盘 or "pig butchering scam" -- hell, the Gaza scammers we do have can barely make a living off your broke-ass asses!

Let it be known:

*ahem*

Henceforth: my blog shall be crapping out queued posts for "Jan 19 anniversary of US TikTok ban day to all who celibrate" long after I'm dead and well into the next millennium...

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

China and Africa: Mutual assistance to defeat imperialism

By John Parker

“Over the past 65 years, China and Africa have forged unbreakable fraternity in our struggle against imperialism and colonialism, and embarked on a distinct path of cooperation in our journey toward development and revitalization. Together, we have written a splendid chapter of mutual assistance.” 

– Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the People’s Republic of China

That message was delivered at the Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). These powerful words against colonialism and imperialism were said in 2021, during a time when the COVID-19 pandemic especially affected Africa — a continent victim that has endured colonialism and imperialism, as well as the struggle for access to vaccine production. 

While the U.S. and Europe put profits before the needs of the victims of colonialism and imperialism, President Xi chose to put those words of solidarity into action.

[affairsmastery]

The US and China continue their tit-for-tat trade battle as 10% tariffs hit Chinese imports. In response, China has filed a WTO complaint and is set to impose a 15% tax on US coal, LNG, and cars starting Monday.

Meanwhile, signs suggest China is open to talks. Donald Trump, doubling down, signed an executive order for a sovereign wealth fund and hinted at using tariff revenue to acquire TikTok. China fired back, adding American firms like Calvin Klein to its "unreliable entities" list, while launching an antitrust probe into Google.

[relaxedstyles]

[elbiotipo]

Imagínate que el mandatario de un país te cierre el orto por Twitter. yo me mato.

[readandwriteclub]

Trump and Elon bought by CHINA before taking OFFICE?!?

[justbeingnamaste]

Once able to lay credible claim to the title ‘America’s most beautiful city’, since the pandemic it has degenerated into the poster child of American inner-city degradation, with iconic neighborhoods like the Tenderloin and South of Market swamped by the tented encampments of the homeless and the attendant rampant drug use, shootings, stabbings, ubiquitous street filth and general lawlessness, while city authorities and police have looked the other way.

Suddenly the squalor has gone – at least for now.

Streets and sidewalks were steam-cleaned, public spaces tarted up, police patrols multiplied. Public defecation ceased, needles no longer littered the streets. Legal impediments previously cited as a block to doing any of this mysteriously evaporated, like San Francisco fog when a strong sun comes up.

There is something hugely comical about all this, something distinctly third world for a city – for a country – which is meant to be one of the most sophisticated, prosperous, and high-tech on the globe.

For decades squalid capitals in developing nations carted off the poor and gave their street fronts a fresh lick of paint before visiting US presidents and other world leaders cast their eyes on them. The communist bloc was a dab hand at doing the same before the Berlin Wall came down in 1989. And now San Francisco has joined their ranks.

Comical. But also pathetic.

"NO GROUP IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAS DONE WORSE JOB RUNNING THIS COUNTRY THAN THE NEO-LIBERALS CURRENTLY IN CHARGE. THEY'RE VICIOUS, THEY'RE INTOLERANT, & THEY ARE UTTERLY CORRUPT. BUT, ABOVE  ALL, THEY'RE INCOMPETENT."

~ Tucker Carlson

[dandelionsprout42]

TikTok begins raising eyebrows in the West for its ties to Xi Jinping's ridiculous mangling of the PRC version of the Internet.

Influencers jump to Rednote instead, a service so unapologetically tied to it that it has the word "Red" in its title.

If this means that newssites will begin writing about humans' "Rednote trends", I'm going to scream non-stop for hours. In a very bad way.

[kouhaiofcolor]

From TikTok to Xiaohongshu? A “Little Red Book” social media app??? ………..There’s…… there’s no fucking way y’all are this stupid. 😨There’s no fucking way y’all are this passively dense about things right in your faces. There’s no fucking way y’all read this little and know apparently zilch about history.

….yeah Gen Z and a lot of millennials are pretty fucked. Mainly bc such abysmal powers and representatives that control this planet can demonstratively get us to do, invest in and spend money on just about anything in this country. I fear for us. Genuinely. Our futures specifically. How was this so important?? How did TikTok come to matter this much to y’all? How do y’all live so so soooo chronically, perpetually, irreversibly online these days?

These officials ain’t playing these dumbass games for no reason y’all come oooooon. Just use your fucking heads, I beg 🫣 Do y’all even have a sense of self or self control to not just blindly consume and engage with any and everything? Do y’all know who Xi Jinping even is?? When I say you whiny, clueless, consuming idiots went and installed an inevitably shady “Huawei spyware” app on your phones like it’s totally fine — wheeeeeew!

Lemme just sit back and watch, cus I’m baffled. 😨

[gotohellfuckingyankees]

Chinese  President Xi Jinping: Palestine  needs to be recognised as an independent state to resolve the conflict in the Middle East

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"Boldy go against the tide." Mao Zedong

[changetheprophecy81]

Bro I can't with these posts tht go 'trump has only been elected for 48 hours and world leaders are already doing xyz'. Most of them are either taken completely out of context, are outright false, or are said in a way that makes it soo clear that these ppl don't understand the nuances of geopolitics.

I can't comment on America's internal politics coz I'm not an American, but i can assure ppl tht geopolitics is more complex than 'trump is in power now so everything is solved because he's so powerful.' All of us should keep our eyes open and be incredibly vigilant; while this holds true for every president, (imo) some of his stances are very questionable and he's known to be unpredictable

While I do think that Trump will obviously be taken more seriously and strike a more powerful image than the guy who couldn't string a sentence together, this sort of blind hero worship for a politician, especially in a time like this is ill advised, to put it lightly. Also sorry, but it's so clear that these ppl haven't done their reading and know nothing about international politics as most of these posts reflect the 'America vs the bad guys' mentality, which btw, is what makes the rest of the world roll their eyes at America - sorry but ur belief in ur country's moral superiority under the guise of patriotism is considered laughable by most of the other countries. There's renewed room for talks and possible negotiations given that Trump's approach is very different from Biden's, yes, but y r these ppl acting like other formidable forces like putin, Xi jinping and hamas will immediately bend to an American president's whims? So fucking stupid lmao

[glitchxs]

I think Harris could've won with this slogan

I ❤️ my 🇨🇳 spy

[tomorrowusa]

In the old Soviet Union, if you disagreed with the government, you could get put into a psychiatric hospital. The government thinking was: If you don't like communism then you must be crazy.

Something similar has been going on in Communist China.

When Zhang Junjie was 17 he decided to protest outside his university about rules made by China's government. Within days he had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital and treated for schizophrenia. Junjie is one of dozens of people identified by the BBC who were hospitalised after protesting or complaining to the authorities. Many people we spoke to were given anti-psychotic drugs, and in some cases electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), without their consent. While there have been reports for decades that hospitalisation is used in China as a way of detaining dissenting citizens without involving the courts, a leading Chinese lawyer has told the BBC that the issue - which legislation sought to resolve - has recently seen a resurgence. Junjie says he was restrained and beaten by hospital staff before being forced to take medication. His ordeal began in 2022, after he protested against China's harsh lockdown policies. He says his professors spotted him after just five minutes and contacted his father, who took him back to the family home. He says his father called the police, and the next day - on his 18th birthday - two men drove him to what they claimed was a Covid test centre, but was actually a hospital. "The doctors told me I had a very serious mental disease… Then they tied me to a bed. The nurses and doctors repeatedly told me, because of my views on the party and the government, then I must be mentally ill. It was terrifying," he told the BBC World Service. He was there for 12 days. Junjie believes his father felt forced to hand him over to the authorities because he worked for the local government.

Junjie is just one of the people the BBC spoke with. His is not an isolated instance.

You can watch the entire documentary about China's misuse of psychiatric facilities to punish dissenters here.

Because they make so many of our consumer goods, people in the West forget that China is a brutal totalitarian state. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the country's only legal political entity. In effect, the CCP is the government.

Under dictator Xi Jinping, the government is committing genocide against the Uighurs, repressing free speech in Hong Kong, and is helping Russia with its war of aggression in Ukraine. Add to this Xi's military provocations against the Philippines and threatening rhetoric aimed at Taiwan and we see an out of control autocrat with imperialistic ambitions.