Re:Information operations directed at Hong Kong
by jazzyjackson on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:40PM
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I respect your measured approach to evidence gathering, and growing up I resented G.W. Bush with his "You're with us or you're with the terrorists", but the more I see my peers sit on the sidelines waiting for truth to reveal itself the more I think you have to decide what you believe even with limited evidence.
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Re:Information operations directed at Hong Kong
by jessaustin on Monday August 19, 2019 @05:24PM
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The key is memory. In the moment, it isn't necessarily obvious that the Chinese Communist Party is misleading us any more than their opponents are. However, we have observed the Chinese Communist Party for decades, so we know that it is highly likely for them to lie, murder, intimidate, etc. That helps us evaluate what we're seeing at any particular time.
Eventually this sort of media analysis becomes a sort of clairvoyance. Intelligent news consumers responded to June's "Gulf of Oman" incident with questions about the "Gulf of Tonkin". Earlier, we had also questioned the official narrative about gas attacks in Syria. Now it's clear that was all bullshit too. [0] Unkillable zombie authoritarian organizations who have lied in specific ways for specific reasons before, will lie in those same ways for those same reasons again and again.
[0] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-04/eminent-american-s...