• brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca
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    3 hours ago

    This but unironically? lol the US is bad. do china next!

    But I think most MLs would assume everyone already knows this and would instead want to argue about whether the bad things china does are actually “imperialist,” technically.

    IDK maybe this is an accurate depiction of some kind of rabid sinophile…I haven’t had the joy of meeting any.

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      2 hours ago

      lol the US is bad. do china next!

      That’s sort of the joke. The OG Tienanmen Square copypasta was supposed to be something you’d post under a pro-China guy, listing all the Chinese atrocities in a mix of English and Mandarin, supposedly in order to get the person in trouble because everything in it was a banned word or phrase under Chinese internet laws.

      MLs would assume everyone already knows this

      Some of them are pretty deep cuts. I don’t know too many people who could tell you about Ax Handle Saturday or the Columbine Mine massacre

      Also, some of it is very obviously padding. Scott Warren is the keyboardist from Dio. Jade Helm was a conspiracy theory propagated by Texas Republicans. 21 Savage is a British Rapper. Net Neutrality is a liberal regulatory policy about ISPs not favoring backbone internet speeds for bigger customers.

      But if you go to the original copypasta, you see a bunch of the same mixed in banal gibberish. Subsequent iterations get even more obscure and deranged.