Sphere

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[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

no one ever explains the inside jokes on hexbear lol

Not true, we totally do, you just have to ask! The emote is Matt Christman. He's a leftist podcaster, much like the hosts of the podcast this site is centered around: Citations Needed citations-needed

Christman is one of the hosts of a different podcast, one this site has never been associated with in any way, called Chapo Trap House.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What I see is a lot of cope

You said there weren't 1.3 billion people in China who supported the PRC. Harvard says you were wrong. We're not talking about the minutiae of Chinese governance here, we're talking about foreign policy.

PS: If you dig into the numbers (page 3 of the report, aka page 6 in the PDF), 70% of people are fairly or very satisfied with their township governments, so don't be taken in by the Harvard cope--it really is bullshit.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (13 children)

lol try again

In 2016, the last year the survey was conducted, 95.5 percent of respondents were either “relatively satisfied” or “highly satisfied” with Beijing.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 38 points 2 years ago

I wish I knew, but it's hard to get a visa, so I'm stuck in my shithole country (United States).

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 57 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your day-to-day life...on the massive globally interconnected computer network shared by everyone worldwide who has the means to connect to it? You didn't expect to see an opinion held by well over 1 billion people on that network, ever?

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Hate to break it to you, but even the US state department recognizes that there's no such country as Taiwan. Please call it by its correct name, "Chinese Taipei," so people know what you're talking about.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago (7 children)

what-the-hell

You thought no Chinese people supported the One China Policy? Seriously?

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Taiwan? I think you mean Chinese Taipei.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 52 points 2 years ago (9 children)

So...you thought sharing a common language precluded having differing opinions? That's kinda astonishing, ngl

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

I blocked the memes comm on lemmy.ml and that did wonders for my experience; blocking certain comms can make a huge difference if you don't want to go as far as switching to Local but can't stand shit like garbage-tier Reddit memes.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I gotta hand it to @VolatileExhaustPipe@lemmygrad.ml for doing that sleuthing, or I'd never have found it myself.

[–] Sphere@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

~~I think we're used to having good mods whose decisions aren't worth questioning; this was often not the case on the subreddit, though.~~

Never mind, I just re-read their comment--this supposedly happened here on Hexbear. Bullshit, there's zero chance it happened the way they said.

Further edit: holy shit he's talking about this post, just a tiny bit of contextual info left out lmao

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