Swaying them to vote…for who? Remind me which US political party would align with Chinese interests. Are they staging a massive coup for the CPUSA?
Really the only thing that would make sense is some radlib that would strive to normalize relations in the name of pacifism or whatever or some libertarian who’d do the whole “free trade with anyone” shtick.
Neither has come to prominence nor is rising in popularity, at least to my knowledge as someone from overseas.
The dialogue in this next US election is gonna be really ugly for Asian-Americans.
For sure, lots of questioning loyalties and “you’re not a real American if you don’t vote X side”.
Wonder what new slur they’ll create for Asians similar to the one they created for Russians last year…
i don’t think that the question is about voting for x, your loyalties will be questioned based on your looks, so it’s going to be really bad for people of asian descent, even if u were born in the country or are there many generations. we seen this in world war 2, when japan attacked, the government made concentration camps for japonese people, even tho they had no involvement in the war or even any ties to japan
lol reminds me of that old reddit comment thread of some really pissed off white person going “eliminate all of those Asians”.
Another user from SEA: “Just the Chinese, the rest of us are good”
First guy: “NO, ALL OF YOU”
Wonder what new slur they’ll create for Asians similar to the one they created for Russians last year…
They might take a page out of /pol/ and call them soulless bugmen.
To Sway US Voters in which direction?
To the party that hates China (Blue) or the party that hates China (Red)?
The funniest part here is that these kinds of articles sowing mistrust in the electoral process are doing far more damage than China could ever hope to achieve. Both liberal and conservative media continue to fuel the idea that elections are rigged and that the other side is cheating to win. US is now at a point where large portions of the public think that elections are unfair and if their party doesn’t win that must be because the other side cheated or some foreign actor interfered in the elections.
Democracy is fundamentally a social contract that people choose to abide by. People have to believe that the system is fundamentally fair, and when their side loses then they have to accept that as a democratic choice. However, once the trust in the system is broken then there is no reason to respect election results. At that point people see the winner as an illegitimate tyrant that rules over them. The country ends up in a very volatile territory once the idea that the system is rigged starts to take hold.
Something that’s darkly amusing about that, living here, is that the election results are almost a 50/50 split every time on the national level, and sometimes even when one candidate has more than the other guy, the other guy wins anyway. So, even if everyone had faith in the system and that the numbers are accurate (which politicians do cheat, so they really aren’t), that still means that: a) roughly half the country is going to be against the winner and support any effort to undermine them, and b) even getting a majority doesn’t really mean much if the Electoral College can just support the other candidate.
But yeah, I just gotta keep voting Blue for that harm reduction they can’t deliver on, while living in a state that’s consistently 2/3 Republican in every election, and which passes laws that make it difficult to vote for anything else.
I’m not bitter in the slightest.
The fact that the system is very obviously broken from the perspective of a working class person is definitely a big factor. I think most people realize that US isn’t a genuine democracy, and this is one of the reasons there’s prevalent voter apathy. Deep down, people understand that this is all just a circus to make them feel that they have a voice.
I was bitter so I moved to a liberal city in an liberal state and now politics is interesting again. Lol
Americans love Bush now
Especially the Democrats, weirdly enough. When he was in power, they basically considered him a dumb redneck (who grew up in New England and went to Yale), and they were constantly bemoaning the fact that his stupidity and his rhetoric were alienating important American allies. Now Bush seems to have gone through a Marvel-esque redemption arc, and the east coast establishment simply loves him – he’s the grand old senior statesman of our time. Simply not being Donald Trump is apparently the bar we’ve established for wise statecraft.
Seeing the Starbucks-drinking libs go from “Bush is the worst president in the history of America,” and “He’s a right-wing extremist who needs to be assassinated” to “let’s applaud this loveable old man who made some mistakes, but was basically a welfare state leftist all along” has been pretty surreal.
It’s the ingeneous sit back and let the US slowly destroy itself strategy that seems to be working out pretty well.
“The report provided limited examples of the recent activity and did not explain in detail how researchers attributed the posts to China.”
Everytime
source: their ass
What interest would they have in swaying voters between 2 different wings of the same imperialist party that both want the destruction of the PRC lol
