Some gems, top comment aside:

“Our glorious peacekeepers in Rwanda, their barbarous peacekeepers in Sudan”

A lot of cope, but some of the subsequent threads on one of the biggest subreddits with begrudgingly tolerable views towards China is…interesting.

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    18 days ago

    Same goes for [insert basically any country the USian/western empire is currently vilifying]. People will believe that the DPRK is executing people for listening to Kpop without even pausing to think about how ludicrous a notion that is. They’ve been conditioned to view the world through a cartoon lens of good and evil, and as the former CIA agent turned whistleblower John Stockwell phrased it, this was on purpose, that they portrayed things like the communists were “eating babies” level of evil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK1tfkESPVY (a playbook that doesn’t seem to have changed much over decades)