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‘YouTube Influencers’ Revealed, Chinese Genocidaires Hardest Hit
You remember SerpentZA — he’s one of the two guys who used to ride around in China doing motorcycle’s-eye-view commentary from a long-term Westerner’s perspective. Then they and their wives got out while they still could. Great stuff. In this magnificent and short video, he absolutely flays the putrid meat from the sickly bones of yet another shill for the coming totalitarians.
YouTube Influencers, or Tikky-Toke, or Instapr0n, whatever the platform — “influencers” are paid lobbyists, paid spokesmen, paid shills who pretend not to be advertising, lobbying, propagandizing. I don’t mind advertising, and sales is an honorable well, a legal profession. This is not that.
SerpentZA details the minders/handlers, the internal press, and the external propaganda. The coverage is as compelling as it is short. He also draws a couple of parallels to other successful propaganda efforts. He is right that the Communist butchers in China are really “ham-fisted” about their supposed finesse of western opinion — Heaven knows our own propaganda is so good that we can hardly tell.
Here’s the AP trying their hand at it. Rabbit-hole, indeed:
Obama did not sign a law allowing propaganda in the U.S.
By ARIJETA LAJKA
August 27, 2019CLAIM: Former President Barack Obama signed a law in 2012 allowing government propaganda in the U.S., and making it “perfectly legal for the media to purposely lie to the American people.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. In 2013, Obama signed legislation that changed the U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, also known as the Smith-Mundt Act. The amendment made it possible for some materials created by the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the nation’s foreign broadcasting agency, to be disseminated in the U.S.
Strike “puppy”, insert “little dog.” Still a little clunky and obvious, but nobody’s perfect. The term you’ll be searching for shortly is “Smith-Mundt.”
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And here’s another look from SerpentZA’s partner in crime — some of the same analytical video is used, but mostly it’s a different angle on the same problem. This one focuses on how “white monkey” jobs have changed in China, as the CCP’s appetite for soul-less Western shills has grown:
America certainly puts out higher quality videos than China. That’s very good.
Thanks for sharing. Deeply chilling.