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    It is not uncommon for western “experts” to know jack shit about what they’re formally an expert in. They will know just enough to keep the machines running and do the paperwork. If they are experts in a field without that many machines or that much paperwork they can be completely amateurs and nobody will bat an eyelid.

    It is not just geopolitically charged fields, like China experts, it is also much less contentious fields without the same pressure to reach politically charged conclusions. Western academia seems to have a profound disdain for learning beyond immediate economic utility. For instance, I recently learned that the leading researcher on Buddhism at a major Danish university doesn’t speak Sanskrit, doesn’t speak Chinese and doesn’t speak Tibetan. They learned a little Japanese once but have long forgotten it. They are brought on mainstream media and treated as an expert.

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      One of the things that initially made me curious to learn actual information about Korea was how people can say whatever blatantly made up bullshit they want to about the country, and other people will just nods their heads and agree.

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      Literally, I was reading one of the philosophy of ethics professors from Harvard talk about ethics in general and when they got into Marxism and Marxists (as a representative of a form of consequentialist ethics, which it isn’t really) and they literally stated something that was specifically the opposite of dialectical materialist ethical theory, of which the majority comes from the Anti-Durhing by Engels, as the Marxist’s view of ethics, without actually citing any individual Marxist, or even Marx himself, while all other views had specific nuanced views defined by individual thinkers of the theory. And this person is supposed to be a leading scholar of virtue ethics. Ayn Rand was literally taken more seriously as an academic source

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        Do you know how to cook food that people want to eat? Do you know how to do it without products of animal origin? Congratulations, you are much more qualified at what you do than these experts.

        The equivalent would be to declare that grass-fed beef is vegan and trying to cook a steak in a coffee maker.

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    Honestly the saddest part of this is people being so detached from industrial labor and construction that they can’t even recognize a safety harness in use, when that should be obvious. Of course there’s also the utterly invented idea of mass executions and general sinophobia, but these people are cooked in general.

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    Even putting the sign aside I have to wonder what definition of “mass” includes 4 people out of a population of 1.4 billion.

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    Fun fact: You only have around 15 minutes hanging in a harness without extra loops for leg support before your blood circulation is cut off and you die

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      I had to get an arteriogram once, and they used the right femoral artery for engress. After they were done, they stuck me on a hospital bed with a weight on the incision, and they said don’t move or you’ll die. It doesn’t matter that you’re in a hospital; we won’t be able to save you fast enough.

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    Obviously the claims are complete bullshit and it doesn’t actually matter.

    But I feel like they probably could have made it look a little less like a public hanging. Not for any geopolitical sake, but just like “hey doesn’t this look kinda like a gallows?” “yeah that’s a little morbid, we should change the design”.

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    Yeah all those hard hats and construction gear clamoring for an execution. Critical thinking is cooked. Absolutely cooked

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    Most Westerners don’t realize they can go to China themselves, also the reason none of the countless Chinese people that live in the west talk about the trauma from experiencing these atrocities is because they never happened.

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      if you look at the image it explains that it’s a safety harness demonstration… the whole joke is taking the piss out of a slackjaw propagandist

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      The Gordon Chung post is almost certainly fake–if you check the Wayback Machine for the tweet you’ll see it was just a screenshot. Not only did I fail to turn up the original tweet from Chung, someone else mentioned contemporaneously in the replies to the tweet in the OP that they couldn’t find it.

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    This is even dumber than when they censored a picture of the red wine bottles that were smashed on the floor and pretended it’s a mass execution of Uyghurs or whatever lmao.

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    the idea that the ebil cpc workers would hang thwir colleagues in hi vis is sending me