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Sighhh... apparently they can't just report on a story from China without peppering it with statements about the US -- specifically about how this is a new salv

Sighhh... apparently they can't just report on a story from China without peppering it with statements about the US -- specifically about how this is a new salvo in some kind of healthcare war with the US. Sometimes stuff just happens when people do things. They're probably not pushing to advance healthcare just to fuck with the US. Some made-up headlines from world history written from this incredibly narcissistic viewpoint: Pharaoh to Build Great Pyramid, Challenging Structure-Building Dominance of Future Country "America" Scientist Marie Curie Discovers "Radioactivity" in Effort to Humiliate USA In Rare Reversal, Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" Better Than Similar American Art Works

hsljekskfh 9y ago
thanks for making your point with humor, it’s underused on hn. i agree with the sentiment too
car 9y ago
An outgrowth of American exceptionalism.
ixtli 9y ago
Not to say that they're by any means perfect, but I think what you've pointed out might help explain why many Americans i grew up around see the Chinese government as some sinister and inscrutable entity that is out to silently crush everyone. Also, you don't need to make up fake examples when you can look up anything in the past year about how they're making big strides towards reversing their smog problems and how that's somehow an attack on American industry. Even trump has made these claims ( https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/uDFmIDPzCo4znxgzKlT0_jgv4CqHkarUrQ005ED_HbclD4Ex32hmOHsAn95kbFc_WZMiOQ1BMlRj4Fu-vDLyOgnT3syuxfWFY8KxoEWpqd9gxcPzZnQUM8q76jkJzs7IQUNr_cUt https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/uDFmIDPzCo4znxgzKlT0_jgv4C... )
- specialist 9y ago
  Younger me was a news junkie. Iran hostage crisis, USSR was gonna nuke us, Japan was going to buy us, etc. Of course, I believed it all. Over time, I noticed shit just didn’t add up. And no one did a mea culpa. So I just stopped listening. I figure all ad supported news media is ghouls profiting from human misery, stoking fear and anxiety to keep people numb, allowing the real outrages to happen unnoticed. (eg Project Censored) I hope China continues to do well. Ditto everyone. We all do better when we all do better.
  - RealityVoid 9y ago
    That sounds a little bit like survivor bias to me. Nothing bad happened to the US, but in other countries shit went down in the last century, stuff that if you were not informed and aware about, might lead you to... for example go to school in the morning and realise you can't go back home since you're on the other side of a new border.
    - specialist 9y ago
      Been chewing on your reply. Plenty bad happened in North America. Project Censored is a good starting place, if you want to raise your blood pressure. I still seek news. Mostly from HN, Democracy Now, Vox, misc. It’s just that now I consciously block any source that I feel is more noise than signal.
  - dmos62 9y ago
    Noam Chomsky pointed out that, for the last century, US has been the most secure country, but its people are the most insecure.
  - ixtli 9y ago
    Yeah I see what you're talking about, though I would add that there's a whole sub culture in the news about pointing out bad takes from among the fourth estate. It all seems to depend on where you "hang out" so to speak.
blackrock 9y ago
This deserves a.. LOL

hsljekskfh 9y ago

thanks for making your point with humor, it’s underused on hn. i agree with the sentiment too

car 9y ago

An outgrowth of American exceptionalism.

ixtli 9y ago

Not to say that they're by any means perfect, but I think what you've pointed out might help explain why many Americans i grew up around see the Chinese government as some sinister and inscrutable entity that is out to silently crush everyone. Also, you don't need to make up fake examples when you can look up anything in the past year about how they're making big strides towards reversing their smog problems and how that's somehow an attack on American industry. Even trump has made these claims ( https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/uDFmIDPzCo4znxgzKlT0_jgv4CqHkarUrQ005ED_HbclD4Ex32hmOHsAn95kbFc_WZMiOQ1BMlRj4Fu-vDLyOgnT3syuxfWFY8KxoEWpqd9gxcPzZnQUM8q76jkJzs7IQUNr_cUt https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/uDFmIDPzCo4znxgzKlT0_jgv4C... )

specialist 9y ago
Younger me was a news junkie. Iran hostage crisis, USSR was gonna nuke us, Japan was going to buy us, etc. Of course, I believed it all. Over time, I noticed shit just didn’t add up. And no one did a mea culpa. So I just stopped listening. I figure all ad supported news media is ghouls profiting from human misery, stoking fear and anxiety to keep people numb, allowing the real outrages to happen unnoticed. (eg Project Censored) I hope China continues to do well. Ditto everyone. We all do better when we all do better.
- RealityVoid 9y ago
  That sounds a little bit like survivor bias to me. Nothing bad happened to the US, but in other countries shit went down in the last century, stuff that if you were not informed and aware about, might lead you to... for example go to school in the morning and realise you can't go back home since you're on the other side of a new border.
  - specialist 9y ago
    Been chewing on your reply. Plenty bad happened in North America. Project Censored is a good starting place, if you want to raise your blood pressure. I still seek news. Mostly from HN, Democracy Now, Vox, misc. It’s just that now I consciously block any source that I feel is more noise than signal.
- dmos62 9y ago
  Noam Chomsky pointed out that, for the last century, US has been the most secure country, but its people are the most insecure.
- ixtli 9y ago
  Yeah I see what you're talking about, though I would add that there's a whole sub culture in the news about pointing out bad takes from among the fourth estate. It all seems to depend on where you "hang out" so to speak.

blackrock 9y ago

This deserves a.. LOL