I sail the high seas of the Lemmyverse, posting snarky + Lefty comments

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Cake day: May 7th, 2023
  • subversive_dev@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•It's even infecting the wider lemmy network!English
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    3 days ago

    I’m a little confused because the comic only has two panels? Additionally, in the second panel the character’s eyes are still round not any other shape - I don’t see squinting at all? (If you were trying to draw a head that small with eyes that were squinting, you would use angled lines, not circles)

    In any case, I believe the interpretation of the comic intended by the creator is: “Panel one represents what Western liberals say about China. Panel 2 represents the media environment they swim in”

  • subversive_dev@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.ml•It's even infecting the wider lemmy network!English
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    4 days ago

    The meme assumes the Western context. We don’t trust the US government because of the centuries of violence and exploitation. We had to go looking for that information because it is minimized and buried at every turn by the compliant national media.

    On the other hand, the supposed abuses of the Chinese government are loudly broadcast at every turn. You’ll find if you go looking outside of Western sanctioned sources that all of those criticisms are absurd fabrications.

    Therefore, someone in the western context who says they don’t trust the US or China is trusting the US media for information about China but not about the US itself. Does that help?