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Why on Earth are you calling them “propaganda” videos, when China was trying to downplay the pandemic at the time? See, this is one big reason we’re collective
by slver 5y ago
Why on Earth are you calling them “propaganda” videos, when China was trying to downplay the pandemic at the time?
See, this is one big reason we’re collectively dumb. Everyone and their big conspiracy theories.
- alvah 5y agoThere hasn't been a single case reported in the West, of anyone dying instantly in the street of COVID-19. Ergo, videos filmed within China, allowed by the authorities to be viewed outside China, purporting to show this scenario, are the very definition of propaganda.
- slver 5y agoWe also saw videos of sick people left to die in Chinese hospitals from their own phone recordings. Is that also propaganda? And no, a video of something that isn’t what we thought it is, is not the definition of propaganda. Propaganda has a goal. This video doesn’t match a single goal China has. If it does name it.
- alvah 5y agoI will politely decline your invitation to name any way the CCP has benefited from the last 14 months of havoc in the West. Feel free to carry on shilling for them.
- dang 5y agoAccusing others like this is not allowed on HN, and we ban accounts that do it, so please don't. "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=true&page=0&query=by:dang%20astroturf https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
- dang 5y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into flamewar. You escalated more than once in this thread. We're trying to go the opposite direction here! https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html