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It is comically evil that Western media has people specializing in making socialist countries look scary (lemmy.ml)
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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This kind of thing has been a theme for a while. Lots of western reporting on China uses tricks to distort things. This sort of thing isn't artsy or accidental. It's very much intentional https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202102/1215710.shtml

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay, but how does that fit in with the other 12 photos?

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

The other photos also look pretty negative to me as well, just not as egregious. For example, these photos evoke a sense of some kind of a glum police state, which is what most westerners believe China to be incidentally:

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago

It reminds me all those shitty fake blue colored eyes that you can see in tons of cheap netflix series