I was reading about China and fell down a Falun Gong rabbit hole, where I saw

Jennifer is a multi-talented individual who creates videos, writes stories, and offers insightful commentaries on current affairs and personal experiences. Over the past two decades, she has dedicated herself to exposing the lies and crimes of the Chinese Communist Party, as well as shedding light on the injustices faced by Falun Gong practitioners and other persecuted groups. Her articles have received numerous accolades in international essay competitions and have been published by prestigious outlets like The Diplomat as feature stories.

which says that some random Chinese lady now lives in Australia and gets paid to talk shit about her old government, and I thought

I can do that!

Then if you look at the founder of Falun Gong (who is just a run of the mill insane person (i) ), he works at the

global headquarters in Dragon Springs, a 173-hectare (427-acre) compound in Deerpark, New York, United States, near the residence of Li.

and I thought

I can do that!

I know most of the propagandists and compradors are NED or CIA funded and maintained, but like, did they have to send an application? How did they get that job? I’m asking because I talk shit about the fascist USA gov since 2002 AND I have 2 jobs, so I was thinking it would be better to streamline the whole process.

I might be projecting here, as I think the USA / White Empire is the only true imperial power on the planet, but if I’m not then tropical climate preferred- Cuba/Vietnam, thank you.

(i) source

Among them, Li has railed against what he called the wickedness of homosexuality, feminism and popular music while holding that he is a god-like figure who can levitate and walk through walls.

Li has also taught that sickness is a symptom of evil that can only be truly cured with meditation and devotion, and that aliens from undiscovered dimensions have invaded the minds and bodies of humans, bringing corruption and inventions such as computers and airplanes.

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    I would also like to know this. I’m a decent writer who’s read a lot of lib nonsense and knows how propaganda articles generally go, there’s not a lot of work out there I could consistently do, but writing this nonsense… yeah, any fool could do that, including me, and people apparently get paid to do it!

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      If you write about Korea you can just say literally anything, no one will ever call you out. Yeah I escaped the Evil Camp run by General Evil McCrimes, every day he made us write down the worst crimes we could think of and then he picked the worst one and did it to everyone who didn’t suggest it.

      Every Westerner: omg that’s so terrible we have to invade and stop General Evil McCrimes immediately!!!

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        But to do that, you have to plausibly be a defector, need the right appearance for that, lol.

        But yeah, those particular people are pretty obviously just being paid to lie with confidence.

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          Zenz made up a ton of shit and he doesn’t even speak Chinese. From what I recall they were just contacting academics and trying to see if they could get them to do a propaganda job. Look how they had to get an anthropologist (Zenz) to do it so it’s clear that all Chinese studies professors declined. I saw on the grayzone (forgot if website or video) a while back that UK professors were punished for not accepting propaganda jobs.

          Zenz has a tweet where he said he couldn’t find any dirt on China but then the US offered more money and it’s implied he just made shit up

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            Isn’t that just the most capitalist thing ever!? “I couldn’t find anything bad to say about this foreign country that’s true. But I was being paid to come up with something, so I made something up.”

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          Well, you could try getting arrested in the DPRK. There is at least one case where a tourist blatantly broke DPRK law and wrote their own little Gulag Archipelago about the ~year or two they spent in jail before their release was negotiated. I believe it was a pastor or someone who was trying to do religious agitation (there’ve been a couple of those)

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            trying to do religious agitation

            Ah, OK, so in other words, was trying to convince others of his ideas. And that got him thrown in jail. Sounds like a lovely country…

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              Missionaries should be banned from every country. I’m happy to criticize the DPRK where it’s called for (I regularly am quite vocal about certain criticisms), but this is very clearly not one of those times.

              No one put a gun to the heads of any of those fuckers and made them go pose as tourists to try to get converts, that’s something they chose to do, and chose to do in a country where they knew it was illegal. Why should the takeaway be that the DPRK is in the wrong here? Because we should expect them to turn a blind eye to the way that manufacturing Christian zealots has been used by the west as a cynical social wedge in the developing world for however long?

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      any fool could do that, including me

      lmao yea exactly, and with the US it’s so easy, you just write what actually happened and it’s like perfect propaganda

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        That’s the neat thing about anti imperialist propaganda, you don’t have to make up ridiculous nonsense, you can just… report the fucking news with a cynical tone. And it’ll be accurate if slightly sensationalist or exaggerated today, and bang on or understated decades from now. Most of the old Soviet posters criticizing America are still pretty poignant today…

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            Yep. Americans who talk of “liberty” and “freedom”, and the church men who screamed about the Godless Commies and turned the Cold War into a Crusade to get butts in pews every Sunday, were a bunch of hypocrites during the Cold War and they’re still hypocrites today.