Pleasant Politics

Proof yet again that it's only events that affect the entire herd, like this one, that provoke actual change.

Also how much are Chinese getting paid comparatively. I'd rather see what % of each sides income goes to various things. If $1 is 50% of your income and $7 is 5% of the US side's... Like I can move to a nice place in Mexico and live like Elon or Bezos does here....doesn't mean Mexico has its shit together and a higher quality of life.

Agitprop? On my Lemmy?

As a Brit its hard to tell sometimes when posts are just Americans complaining or if they really are being screwed over. We don't really grow corn like America does, for bulk cheap veg I guess we have potatoes. Spent £0.68/KG on them when I walked to Aldi the other day. Our minimum wage is £11.44/hour and rising to £12.21 in April.

They miquoted the TikTok, it's prices per kg

I don't love being spied on and shit but that's a pretty basic requirement. You can probs just call people on the app.

"Corn is $7/lb in America" is either propaganda or a joke from Arrested Development

The best kind of propaganda is simply a perspective on the truth.

Back when Drudge Report and Brietbart were a huge hit online, the sites would have subcommunities that were entirely "Black Crime" and "Radical Islamism". They got flooded with videos, screenshots, testimonials, news reports, publicly available statistics - anything to reinforce the base claim that black and Muslim people were inherently dangerous to be around. You'll find lots of communities like that today on Reddit and 4chan and Twitter and in the back corners of your Joe Rogan Fan Community message boards, too.

People who come out of these media ecosystems are primed to be reflexively angry and terrified. They've been filling their brains with data point after data point - plenty of which are technically accurate - cementing the justification for their racist attitudes.

Now you're seeing something of the reverse on sites like Rednote. Endless iterations of data from Americans signaling that we are all miserable and impoverished and horribly abused by state administrators. What's that going to do to the brains of the people who consume it?

Do I find the flood of users from TikTok to Rednote extremely funny? Yes, absolutely.

Do I think its indicative of an ideological sea change in a country that's gradually closing the door on any kind of subversive or radical sentiment? Not particularly, no.

People who just want to watch TikTok dances and re-cut Family Guy shorts aren't going to win a death struggle against the owners of the biggest treat machines. Rats fleeing a sinking ship are not agents of revolutionary change.

Cultural exchange is the death of fascism. Once you realize that people everywhere are just... people, the whole "othering" construct that props up nationalism falls apart.

It's "aisle", not "Isle".

The “aisle” refers to the space which divides the majority side from the minority on the House and Senate floor.

Insane to me as a European.

I had a surgery on my nose done, to improve breathing at night. Was fully covered by my health insurance no questions asked, and according to their statement less than 2000€ incl a night in hospital. Only thing I had to pay was like 10€ or so to the hospital.

Can't imagine what that would have cost in the US of A. I'd probably still be struggling with breathing.

I don't really think that's the point necessarily, just more evidence that our country is garbage generally.

RedNote is an app similar to Tiktok but actually owned by the Chinese Government.

What is even more crazy is that it's not really even localized and most of the app is in Mandarin.

My initial comment is completely incorrect. I apologize for spreading misinformation.

As other commenters pointed out, RedNote is a private company operating in mainland China and is not owned by the government.

Literally anyone America can consider an adversary can be banned. I sure love my free market!