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Xenophobia and Misinformation in New York Times



Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer.

Entire Front Page of New York Times Nonsense About “China Failing”.



The entire front page of the New York Times as of August 29, 2023 is about “China failing.” This is called projection.



“She Rose From Poverty as China Prospered. Then It Made Her Poor Again.” -New York Times Headline



The United States was prospering, at one point. Most people living in it today would say they miss how things were 20 years ago.



I’ve been personally wiped out by “recessions”, hyperinflation, and “enemy action” (the government, directly) and I don’t personally feel like I’ll ever truly recover. My country has abandoned me.



“Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action’.”

-Goldfinger (James Bond)


There’s also another one from a Sean Connery movie, which many suspect was an “unofficial James Bond”.



General Hummel (Ed Harris):
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson.



John Mason (Sean Connery):
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious,” according to Oscar Wilde.



*Hummel punches Mason*



John Mason:
Thank you for making my point.

-The Rock, 1996


“U.S. Commerce Secretary Meets With China’s Economic Czar Amid Tensions”



-NY Times Headline



America crumbles while it likes to pretend it can tell China what to do. I believe the British found themselves at this point in the 1980s when Margaret Thatcher traveled to China to tell them how they would be “extending the lease” on Hong Kong.



There was a point where the New York Times was a legitimate publication, hard-hitting, journalistic integrity, publishing even leaked US Government classified documents and standing up to authoritarians.



These days? It’s just CNN with a paywall. Also, a KrugmanBot3000. Very reliable for spitting out anti-Chinese propaganda.



I guess the government is still working on Liberty Prime.



All this “China failing, China failing, no trouble in America, no siree Bob!” stuff would go down easier except…



America is failed. Its own military recruits, young ones, die of drugs.



After a failed cover-up attempt by the US government, word got out that the US Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois has been having soldiers drop dead like flies due to fentanyl and other crap.



“Fentanyl takes lives at the Navy’s boot camp base”, reads the Yahoo! News article, from Navy Times.



Original article.



Archive.org Mirror.



Archive Today Mirror.



As America grapples with a fentanyl crisis, multiple junior sailors have died from the drug aboard the base that houses the Navy’s boot camp in recent years, and investigators have been probing efforts to smuggle drugs onto the installation, including through the U.S. mail system, since at least 2020, according to records obtained by Navy Times.



Two other sailors are facing criminal charges in connection to one of those deaths, records show.



[…]



Those substances include fentanyl, cocaine and the opioids hydrocodone and oxycodone, as well as the hallucinogen LSD, Xanax and THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana.



These incidents and sailor deaths, which the Navy has not publicized and which have not been reported before, raise questions about how young sailors have been able to use and distribute drugs there.

-Navy Times


This is obviously the stuff of the very robust America, not the very obviously “failing” ZOMGCOMMUNIST RED China. 😛



The media narrative of China’s situation is very much exaggerated, and our own dirty laundry is always either not talked about, or squirreled away with their henchmen at the modern New York Times and similar “mainstream” sources.



Look, people say the mass media in the US isn’t credible, because it isn’t. The people running these psyop campaigns made “fake news” a “Trumpism” so they can always have a red herring.



Most people in the US join the military because of lack of social mobility.



It’s that, a job at McDonalds (at least until they can work with IBM to automate the place, albeit IBM is so incompetent they haven’t had much luck so far), or prison.



The Republicans sued to stop Biden’s student loan forgiveness because they ADMIT that the GI Bill is one of the few reasons people go into the military.



When the only way to go to college free is to join a gang of war criminals, and perhaps be ordered to murder people and blow up their home, that’s certainly some country, isn’t it?



Who has China done this to? It wasn’t China that attacked Vietnam. It wasn’t China that invaded Iraq.



The fact that the American military is getting people to join up who are in their teenage years and already so done with everything they’re dabbling in hard drugs and killing themselves shows the state of rot going on.



Past generations had the world by the balls when they were 18.



Now it’s over before it begins thanks to crooks and liars having been in charge of America for so long.



Maybe old Bonehead Joe can have Kamala set up a commission to study this or something.



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