> Callum, a 24-year-old Beijing resident, told CNN that questioning the Tang’s existence could be a way to rebel against established wisdom and a way for China’s young – faced with a slowing economy and greater competition for jobs and resources – to criticize authorities.

> “It is a way for people to attack the established authorities. It is almost like saying ‘those so-called experts are nothing special. They have all been misleading people. I am the one who understands the truth, and I have exposed them all.’”

China got it's own form of Qanon.

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refactor_master 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Historical revisionism, CCP :sakura: :starry_eyed:

Historical revisionism, random people :angry: :barf:

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fragmede 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

there's something comforting seeing that someone else on the other side of the planet from me has the same troubles.

http://V2ex.com

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AnimalMuppet 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Depends on how much you think people actually believe Qanon. This is "We're going to raise a middle finger to the authorities in a form that's hard for them to come down on us, but it's very deliberately against the authorities." Qanon may have been that, too, but my impression is that at least some people really believed it.

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kube-system 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That’s exactly the same as what is happening here. They’re ideas crazy enough that most people react with “you’re fucking with me, right?” And some people definitely are… but there’s always a cross section of people gullible enough to believe it wholeheartedly, and a large grey area in the middle of people who aren’t sure what to believe.

They say a lie can travel around the world while the truth is still lacing up its boots. Part of the reason these things are viral is because their ridiculous nature demands attention. And that attention alone is enough to generate influence.

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thataccount 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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AnimalMuppet 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What, specifically, did Fauci say that could be interpreted as "Covid isn't real"?

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thataccount 2 hours ago | parent [-]

This https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exposed-fauci-diary-shows-e... for starters.

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AnimalMuppet 2 hours ago | parent [-]

1. "Doesn't have the death rate I publicly stated" is very different from what you claimed.

2. At that time, information about Covid was changing somewhat rapidly. By the time he testified to Congress weeks later, he may well have had better information. (Look, I am very much not a Fauci apologist. But you need to do better than this at finding reasons to condemn him.)

	▲	thataccount an hour ago \| parent [-]
		1. Inflating death rates to claim something is a pandemic is not very different. It was at worst a "bad flu," which is what many Q posts were indicating. You don't need a lockdown for a "Bad flu". You also don't need masks. 2. You seem to think I need to do better than this, but if this were a trial what I have provided is sufficient to establish motive. The dude wanted to be famous, and didn't mind who died to get him there or what kind of lies he needed to tell to climb that mountain.