House Passes $1.6 Billion To Deliver Anti-China Propaganda Overseas
House Passes $1.6 Billion To Deliver Anti-China Propaganda Overseas
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/5649906
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-war-2669160202/
Nice to see your hard earned tax dollars are going towards such a fabulous cause. Meanwhile I've heard it said that Chinese and Russian bots exploit divisions in the Western world by talking about things like poverty, homelessness, gun violence, racism and sexism. Well maybe you should start doing something about those issues to stop them being used as fuel for alleged foreign propaganda efforts hmmm?
Billions to waste on spreading lies and meanwhile most Americans can't even afford a home
Pathetic country
Countries should pull a Brazil and ban American social media platforms
Well, the down side is that Brazil banned X and now is using Bluesky instead of Mastodon
All they did was ban X, not all American social media
HoW aRe YoU gOiNg To PaY fOr iT?!This legislation authorizes more than $1.6 billion for the State Department and USAID over the next five years to, among other purposes, subsidize media and civil society sources around the world that counter Chinese “malign influence” globally.
Our free and independent press vs their vile election meddlers
USAID? I thought they delivered food
The USA must be destroyed at all costs. It is a threat to world peace
Those countries are about to find out why we don't have healthcare
The one consolation is knowing that with usual levels of neoliberal efficiency, that the 1.6 billion won't even be applied correctly.
Sure, but propaganda is still the one imperial arm that works really good, just look at Ukraine war.
And they have an advantage in that they own the biggest global media production and distribution houses. They can just pay some Hollywood producer a few million to insert some anti-China lines or propaganda in random movies or TV shows and it goes global just like that (though it's usually a bit more complex and would involve wining and dining various people via think-tanks paid to to do this and sharing talking points with them). And China has no real power to push back on that outside its borders and given its foreign policy of non-interference they couldn't if they wanted to without doing a dramatic change there.
Compare to the US reaction if China tried shopping around a TV series or show that had some minor anti-US and pro-China sentiment? US and aligned media across Asia would light up screaming about it being China propaganda, about how it has to be censored, about how weak any given country will be if they allow it to be shown and stirring up a shit-storm over it. So the US is definitely able to actually make use of their dollars here and get good value. China by comparison can spend as much as they want on shoving propaganda into products, the US will handily get a large chunk of it censored or subject to boycott.
People need make no mistake. This will go to think-tanks who will produce slander which is picked up by western and non-western news and ran near verbatim as stories. They will create chains of citations and credibility in academia and in the NGO world about China being up to no good. This will filter into western and non-western media, public consciousness, etc. It will likely end up nearly as complete as the propaganda about the USSR was for Americans and the western world. Just like indoctrinated Americans who can go to the DPRK and see what they want to see instead of the reality, even travel will not dispel this for many and at that point the task is simply to make it impossible to challenge their narrative, for any westerner who speaks truth to be cast as mad, as a bot, as a propagandist, as indoctrinated by China, as fooled by potemkin villages, as gullible, naive fools.
And that's just the west, their real goal is to propagandize to Africans, to people in Asia, to potential partners of China, to undermine the material goods Chinese projects do with suspicion, lies, and fantasy about what it's all /really/ about to create space for the US to drive a wedge and to operate, to create terrorists and coups with some amount of popular support to remove China-friendly governments and replace them with US friendly puppets. Such is the problem of short human lives. Though the older generations may remember and know of what the colonizers did, the young may buy the "that was the old us but we've changed" routine the US has so perfected. And without class consciousness this can work.
Probably will go to some dudes expensive watch purchase followed by a "documentary" about "China economy having a meltdown" made on Windows movie Maker
didn't the US government just unseal documents alleging (maybe proving?) that some conservative grifters were receiving funds from Russia's government? What are the odds they "leaked" that info a week before passing a bill that allows them to do the exact same thing abroad? lmfao. death to america
Do you have the source on this?
I've been saying this for years, since 2015 at least. If foreign misinformation campaigns can work by picking at the scabs maybe it would be better to address the valid concerns and conditions they are critiquing? There was no
KGBFSB agent meeting with Hillary and saying "You vill not be campaign in the Mee-shee-gan, da?" She fucked that up on her own.If some giant magma monster was rampaging through the Midwest and China pointed that out and then some farmer shows up with with the charred remains of his corn and kids you can't tell him he is swallowing "Chinese propaganda" when he demands to do something about the goddamn monster.
It’s going to go from “all taxation is theft” to “us poors should feel proud to subsidize the rich, porky needs that money more than us!”
I <3 deepthroating the imperial boomerang.
That $1.6bn could be used for more direct theft, shows you how much of a threat China is to Capital’s extraction and what they feel they have to do to combat it.
We gotta find some way to grift this money istg
Bit idea: we get government subsidies to move all the hexbears out of the US and into China to film anti-Chinese martial arts action films except we secretly make them anti-Wisconsin martial arts action films.
Better deliver some hospitals instead lol
We'll get the american version of yogthos, who post pics of McDonalds all day or something lol
I can already tell which countries are more likely to fall for the propaganda they’ll be putting out.
