In case people couldn’t tell: Singapore is not China
Doesn’t matter, I know that if someone uses the word “slams” in a headline, it’s not worth reading
Slam!
Here comes the slam from south of Siam!
He’s on fire!
Everybody get up, it’s time to slam now
Dunk!
Literally the article is from the South China Morning Post…
But how stupid do you have to be to think that just because the man was born in another country, that he can’t be running a company that is backdooring for the Chinese?
We’ve know for some time that TikTok is a Chinese data-mine. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/tech/tiktok-data-china/index.html
When your opponent has the right argument, the only way to combat them is to pick apart the most inconsequential tidbits and extrapolate/misrepresent them.
It wasn’t the right argument is the issue. Like only the last thing he ever said was directly saying CPC.
Like if thats what we wanted to find out we clearly got the wrong person to ask it.
The US doesn’t recognize Singapore as sovereign? Membership in the CPC is conditional on being a Chinese citizen.
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I thought I was going crazy, but no this exact guy had almost this exact same conversation with almost the exact same people back in March of last year.
He’s not ignorant, he’s a demagogue performing for his ignorant base.
I hate this. We already have problems with the local government constantly painting any attempt at progressivism as a western import etc. This is just going to add fuel to the flame.
This wasn’t just ignorance, this was willful ignorance.
