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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Adrian Zenz doesn't speak Chinese, has never been to Xinjiang, and is literally a US government employee.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

He's also himself a (Christian) religious extremist, and thinks that God himself needs China destroyed and that he's the vessel for doing that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

"Worthy to Escape: Why All Believers Will Not Be Raptured Before the Tribulation", now available for $25

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He speaks Mandarin Chinese fluently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That tweet is ambiguous. The characters in the picture and video are blurry, so it could well be that he's just having a hard time making out the characters.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (15 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Commenting for algorithm so lemmygrad sees it

:D

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Consider my comment as well lemmygrad!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

and... my... my axe...? right? fellow younglings?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

come on, don't make crass jokes like that, you're better than this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

LMAO Zenz moment.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

OP, are you brave enough to open this reddit AMA and read comments? It might just explode your mind, beware!

https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hwi7ub/i_am_sophie_richardson_china_director_at_human/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

R*ddit users were so different just ~~a year ago~~ two years ago (guess np means it's cached)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No just means voting and commenting is disabled. AFAIK, Reddit has no internal cache. Save everything of interest from there on a site like archive.org

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, the Wayback Machine is very useful.

Apparently np means that the subr*ddit can use a custom CSS stylesheet, so I guess it might be changing the date...?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

so I guess it might be changing the date…?

What does 'changing the date' mean? It's not archived or anything, no, it's live. Like AgreeableLandscape said, it "just means voting and commenting is disabled", and it was never updated from https://old.reddit.com/ format.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It means just that -- the np.reddit.com link shows "1 year ago", as opposed to reddit.com's "2 years ago". As you said, apparently this is because it's based on old.reddit.com.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, my guess is it's rounding up to a year differently on the two front-ends. As you can see, their front-pages you posted are identical posts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that makes sense

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

whoa, we've got an anti-Wayback Machine guy here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I read some parts very bravely, nothing exploded. Seems I just have more capacity than you could even imagine.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What you are saying in this entire thread is completely and utterly contradicted by everything going on in that CIA AMA, did you notice?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

one injustice does not justify the other

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

One injustice in this case casts serious doubt that the other injustice happened.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

What is the other injustice?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

BBC BS/propaganda aside (and yes I too think that's the case), the page design itself is HORRIBLE. I don't want your stupid progressive web app animations, just give me a normal looking article FFS.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

lmao better than my school

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

All the west can do is lie

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It isn't called "Empire of Lies" without any reason

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