Neo retweeted
啊说起这个，没有农奴解放的话，就我家的情况推算，我肯定是当地藏族土司军阀的女奴一名，十一二岁开始生育，二三十岁因生育而死，被凌虐死，为保护主人的财产被狼咬死，常年体力劳动劳损而死，作为祭祀用品而死，感染草原鼠疫炭疽而死。。。
感谢共产党感谢全国人民，让我有机会看弱智法语贴文。
Neo retweeted
I disagree. You're holding China to crazy standards no one even thinks of applying to the West if we're being objective.
The West ends people's contracts every day for criticizing Israel and other relatively flimsy things, and that's never called a “generational blunder”
Like this particular standard is literally non existent for the west and I’m surprised as to why you are even trying to apply it critically to China, what power are you even trying to keep in check? Citizens expressing discomfort?
Let’s start from what exactly is this China's blunder?
Especially given the fact that it wasn't some dictatorial order from CPC or XI that made him lose those sponsorships, but Chinese citizens disliking Mbappé's response; an athlete with major Chinese brand deals, about a revered Chinese figure.
Chinese citizens expressed discomfort with how Mbappé handled the question, so his sponsors, unwilling to lose money from Chinese investors, promptly and rightly withdrew sponsorships. Is that the generational PR blunder? A contract clause for this was surely already in place.
Plus this move will surely earn China more international respect and show it's no longer that poor, helpless country that is always the butt of stupid jokes, propaganda, or smears campaigns that ignore actual Chinese citizens perspectives and feelings.
I mean this is a world power that rose to its status without exploiting and subjugating entire civilizations like the West did and still does. Both the Chinese and the figures who enabled this rise deserve respect on the international stage, period.
I defend China all day on my page, but this Mbappé dictator meme incident will go down in history as China's biggest PR blunder of all time.
Mbappé never explicitly called Mao Zedong a dictator. The meme was birthed on the internet, and I can bet my ass that Mbappé does not even know who Mao Zedong is, let alone his significance to the Communist revolution in China. He simply assumed the person they superimposed his face onto was a dictator, hence the phrase "Chinese dictator."
To those of us on the Left who are doubling down to defend China's reaction as justified: please stop it, it is embarrassing. China committed a massive PR blunder here, and there are no two ways about it.
Neo retweeted
Знаете, наблюдая за всеми этими твиттерскими войнами времён второго Вавилона, я заметил, что больше всего выёбываются и учат всех, как надо жить, жители тех стран, на территории которых стоят американские военные базы.
Neo retweeted
Die Ironie dahinter ist lustig.
Deutsche: In China herrscht Zensur!
Auch:
Deutsche werden auf der amerikanischen Plattform durch Deutsche Gesetze zensiert. 🤣
Neo retweeted
德国人对自己战争罪行的反省仅限于对于犹太人的反省，他们并不真的为自己做下的暴行感到羞耻，他们跪下磕头仅仅是因为美国和以色列踩在他们头把他们当狗。
Neo retweeted
Your Orwellian picture of China reminds me of a conversation at the gym today.
My trainer asked if I'd heard about Mbappé. I asked if he knew what Mbappé actually said.
“Of course. Saw it on foreign websites.”
We both laughed. I gave my blunt verdict: “This guy clearly isn't cut out to make money in China. His political instincts are terrible.”
My trainer laughed. “What a dumbass. Why should Chinese brands keep paying him anyway?” Then he told me to get back on the assisted pull-up machine for another set.
Here's what you're missing. Chinese people are curious. They can find things out. And they understand a very simple rule, You can't eat someone's rice while smashing their pot.
It's common sense in everyday relationships, and it applies to business and even relations between countries.
Mbappé learned that lesson the expensive way. I suspect more people will provide us with similar entertainment.
No Orwell required.
Excerpts:
"What struck me about the whole episode, however, is the world slowly taking shape as China rises to become America’s peer power.
This is China’s world: prosperous and dazzling, yet despotic, bleak, paranoid, and rife with unintentional black humour.
Consider the central absurdity of this saga. Chinese netizens are expressing outrage online against Mbappé, yet, for the life of them, vast numbers do not actually know what the footballer said to trigger their fury.
The Chinese Communist Party ostensibly wants the public to know that Mbappé has apologised, but it cannot bring itself to reveal that the French captain “insulted” the ‘Great Leader Chairman Mao’.
Chinese citizens have simply been told that Mbappé disrespected China and has since repented—with no further details provided.
You might ask: how on earth are people expressing outrage when they are not even allowed to know what caused the outrage in the first place?
Remember Orwell? The Party has declared that Mbappé offended Chinese sensibilities. That is enough. Citizens on the mainland behind the Great Firewall do not need to know the specifics. The Party merely requires them to send a message to the wider world that “no one may eat China’s rice while smashing China’s pot”.
