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>Make a video about disaffected military enlistees go viral on an app filled with impressionable young teens and it’ll discourage them enlisting in the future

How dare they try and counteract the billions of dollars the US military has spent making sure everyone "supports the troops" and convincing teens enlisting is a heroic act.

Basically every complaint I hear about Tik Took is that it opens a path to oppose the omnipresent US propaganda. While I'd prefer getting rid of the propaganda wholesale, I don't understand the strong objection to a Chinese source while showing no concern for the US source.

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> How dare they try and counteract (...)

It seems you misspelled "ingerence" with a lot of words.

Even for the absurdly autistic anti-US enthusiasts among us, no one in their right mind sides with the Chinese regime on anything at all, specially human rights.

If the Chinese regime has you in their crosshairs, which I remind you is right now engaged in a massive ethnic cleansing campaign, you better believe they do not have your best interests in mind at all.

Why not? Just because they're a hypocrite doesn't mean they're wrong.

If we applied that logic to the US we'd ignore everything they have to say about camps in Xinjiang (which Chinese nationals with views that are a mirror image of yours usually do).

> Why not? Just because they're a hypocrite doesn't mean they're wrong.

They are wrong. It boggles the mind how anyone refused to understand this. Talk about cutting the nose to spite the face.

> we applied that logic to the US (...)

Putting the blatant whataboutism aside, if you were trying to be honest then you'd be complaining that no one had the right to meddle in anyone else's affairs.

But no, to you having a totalitarian and extensively oppressive regime like the Chinese one, which I remind you is right now executing a blatant ethnic cleansing campaign that would impress Nazi germany, is somehow awesome because it's sabotaging the US?

>If the Chinese regime has you in their crosshairs, which I remind you is right now engaged in a massive ethnic cleansing campaign

Their target are a people very similar to the Afghanis, which the US has spent twenty years killing far more of then the current Chinese body count. Those Chinese cross hairs don't seem much worse than the US ones.

>you better believe they do not have your best interests in mind at all.

Neither does the US propaganda machine, encouraging me to enlist is far more dangerous to me personally.

You don't understand why propaganda from an authoritarian system with a vested interest in the decline of the US is bad?

I think the point was that propaganda from the military industrial complex with a vested interest in eternal war is also bad for the US.

There are other channels for expressing that opinion. We don’t need a newsfeed from the CCP in the hands of every other teenager in the country.

We don't need every teenager exposed to countless hours of propaganda glorifying war and demonizing foreigners either but nobody is pushing for the banning of TV and movies.

Let us talk when China's TikTok equivalent allows similar content by PLA members inside China.

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