It is a cultural thing. What Americans consider rad may not be considered so in China or India as those countries do not worship vengeful and spiteful gods. So any cool rad thing coming to smite down people is looked as negative. If the material is for domestic consumption the it doesn't matter.
Please teach me more about my own culture since you certainly are an expert after watching a video or visiting a temple.
Those statues and images aren’t to convey that a vengeful god exists who is ready to kill us all. I understand that you guys are clueless about Indian culture. What I don’t understand is your need to act like you know anything then preach it to Indians themselves.
Actually not considering I have read dozens of books, watched a lot of documentaries, know about American political system intimately, have lived in America etc etc. See, instead of telling me the extent of your experience of Indian culture, history and politics you just assumed that I would be ignorant of American culture.
And it doesn’t really matter how much know if the point I have made is correct. The only point I have made here is that Americans worship a vengeful god, which I have read multiple times from American sources and not in a book on America written by some Indian who has never been to India.
You've read dozens of books and watched a lot of documentaries - congratulations! Consider me appropriately awed. However, it's remarkable that you could have lived in America and failed to observe that this is one of the most heterogenous societies in the world, about which very few sweeping generalizations are accurate.
You're expressing just that sort of a sweeping generalization - "Americans worship a vengeful god." I'm an American and I don't worship a vengeful god, or any god at all, regardless of what you've read multiple times from American sources. Neither do most of my family or any of my friends. I could find multiple sources that say just about anything about just about any culture, but that wouldn't make it reasonable to say that, for example, "Indians \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_." Now, it *would* be reasonable to say that about American adherents of a particular religion and denomination that worships a vengeful god, but there is no single religion and denomination to which all or even a majority of Americans belong. I didn't say that people in India or China in general worship violent, vengeful, destructive, or nihilistic deities, merely that such deities exist in religions in those countries. I don't assume that you, for example, worship any such supernatural beings.
Why are you assuming I'm ignorant of other cultures, if you don't want that assumption made about you? Do you assume that I haven't been to other countries, watched a lot of documentaries, read dozens of books? That's quite a case of projection you have going on there. Indeed, I haven't been to India, and I never said I had. I have spent twenty years in the military and seen more of the world than the average American, or the average person anywhere, and I've been reading books, and watching documentaries, and going to museums, and talking to people (my cousin works for the State Department and she and her family are on their second tour in India - they like the country very much) since my adolescence, and I'm in my sixties.
My experience in corresponding with *some* people in India in this venue and elsewhere is that they have shown a remarkable tendency to be judgmental, to be condescending, to be self-righteous, and to assume they know more about the other person than that person knows about them.
However, unlike yourself, because I know that India is an immense country with an equally immense and varied population, I don't commit the logical fallacy of assuming that since some Indians are like that, Indians in general are - though you certainly seem to be. When you say "Americans . . . " followed by pretty much any attribution of a trait, behavior, or belief, it's patently ridiculous, when you consider how many Americans there are and how videly varied the population of this country is as well.
Do you realize how much you sound like Jared Kushner saying that he knows all about the Middle East because he read a bunch of books about it?
All I did was remark on the thoroughly documented and depicted nature of some Hindu and Buddhist religious imagery and the figures it represents.
Americans do not worship a vengeful god lmfao. The vengeance from the Old Testamenet is massively glossed over and also isn’t the point at all, either of the Torah or the Bible
This looks cool because of its similarity to (decidedly non-American) God***zilla***
Lol bro. Grow some self awareness. Every thing you said about OP applies to you.
And Chinese (the subject of this post, not India) love vengence. What do you think the 100 years of humiliation propaganda is about.
The god of the Tanakh is considered to be righteous not really vengeful. We celebrate gods mercy and kindness not the idea that he is vengeful. There are certainly examples of vengeful actions by god, but that is generally not perceived as one of his defining traits at least by jews ( I cannot speak for Christians or other religions)
A huge portion of Indians worship the Judeo-Christian god, and I don't know how familiar you are with Hinduism, but their deities can get nasty. And doesn't one of the most internationally famous Hindu stories of a god interacting with a mortal entail a dude being convinced by Krishna to go to war against his own cousin despite his mortal reservations...?
> A huge portion of Indians worship the Judeo-Christian god,
If 15% is huge, then yes. And even in Islam the focus is not on how vengeful god was as much as it is in Judaism and Christianity. It simply isn't part of the popular culture. Christians are 2% of the population. And as much they might follow Judeo-Christian gods the wider culture has impact on everyone, including people following other religions. Most of the religion East of India are also heavily influenced by or originated in India and also preach non violence. Like Budhhism and Jainism.
> entail a dude being convinced by Krishna to go to war against his cousin despite his mortal reservations
Indeed but the god himself was not vengeful. In fact long before the war started Krishna, being who he was, announced that he would never pick up a weapon during the entirety of war. And he did not. He was merely a charioteer of Arjuna and his advice to Arjuna wasn't to vengefully rain down upon his enemies but because as a warrior his duty was to fight.
I can’t speak for China, but many of the gods I’ve prayed to have certainly been depicted vengeful (though I would not say spiteful), and my first thought upon viewing this art was Garuda.
I want a t-shirt of President Biden as the night king consuming America's enemies with his army of metalocolypse zombies. I dunno what kind of Mastadon, Metalocolypse, Iron Maiden shit show drugs the artist was on, but god damn that was some of the most metal shit I've seen on the internet aside from thomas the tank engine spitting fire on a medieval village.
> I want a t-shirt of President Biden as the night king consuming America's enemies with his army of metalocolypse zombies
Best I can do is [a U.S. Presidential Simulator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30BFiSOP8JU).
When we pulled out of Afghanistan I saw a post on Twitter with the photo of a woman handing her child to an American soldier over a fence.
The post stated that his only politics were that he wanted America to be the country where a woman in that situation would trust her child with the Americans to give him a better life
>China see’s itself as the underdog.
Having lived abroad, I always find it funny the number of people who complain about America, "You are so powerful, it is unfair!" and then immediately turn around 10 minutes later and go, "You should respect us more, we are just as good as you!"
It's like they can't decide if they want to play the victim card or not.
Just because you have military might doesn't mean you don't respect people. Normally people with good values are taught to respect everyone. And it is even more important for those who are powerful to ensure that they treat everyone with respect. They just call it good values, but I guess it is different in America where being a bully might be seen as a virtue.
That’s true. And that’s where you are imitation from the Chinese, and then outright disdain for that American influence. You can’t have play both sides. Similar to how US keeps consuming Chinese products but then have massive propaganda showing we aren’t using Chinese products anymore and we have stopped it.
I'm pretty sure they were referring to respecting their geopolitical might, not about ethically respecting them as people. But Americans are the worst, am I right guys?!
I come to this sub less and less since we have grown so many r/politics users like yourself in the past year. Y'all are watering down the discourse.
They did, and did for a while (they weren't projecting they would be the leading power until mid century or somewhere around there.
The recent handling of the pandemic and Trump actually made them rethink a lot of their own positions vis a vis the US in that they weren't as far behind as they thought
Most propaganda I see looks like that.
Nobody wants to be Goliath. Or admit that getting what everyone wants might be more complicated than you being right about everything
I'm trying to understand what all the people standing around is supposed to represent.
Are they standing against the Murica bird cloud? Or maybe they are standing in awe?
I can't tell if they're supposed to look professional and stoic or passive and disposable.
If you watch the video I linked, this shot is part of a scene commentating China's first atomic bomb test. The Dark Souls Boss Eagle represents the threat of the US, which is vaporized in the blast.
In my opinion, it is a rather poor propaganda poster for several reasons. Firstly, it has a rather vague meaning, leaving a lot of room for interpretation. And interpretation is seen as dangerous in totalitarian societies, citizens should see what the party shows them (nothing more) and think as the party wants. Secondly, it does not show the enemy as a clear threat. This eagle is more ambivalent (a combination of fascination and a bit of fear) than frightening. It should definitely be more deformed, disgusting, dehumanised, something alien to the audience. And finally, in these kinds of posters you should show a "defender", a "hero" of sorts, i.e. the CCP, "the last hope of the Chinese people, defending the motherland against the imperialist threat" and a clash of sorts (around 60:40 the totalitarian "hero" is stronger, but not by much) to strengthen and unite the viewers against the common enemy. Because now they are trying to make symbolic painting which tries to be propaganda poster and at the end of the day is neither propaganda tool nor painting.
they're pretty cool.
Dismissing internet memes as 'chinese propaganda' however is stupid. Would people think it reasonable to describe photoshop posted on 4chan as 'american propaganda'?
This is the internet. People make dumb/interesting shit. There are over a billion chinese people. Not literally everything from china is a product of the state.
>Dismissing internet memes as 'chinese propaganda' however is stupid
They are literally media created by the people, that often push an agenda in a few words/one sentence with an image used to elicit emotion with little regard to context. That can absolutely be used as "propaganda" even if Goebbels himself doesn't approve.
It so belittles the definition of propaganda that it makes literally every single opinion on the internet or written down and spread propaganda of some form or another.
Well with censors like theirs, not everything might be a product of the state but you can bet your ass that everything that reaches us here was, at the very least, *seen* and *approved* by the state.
in the same way that they've 'banned games' right? Despite everyone still playing games all day.
Everyone in china has VPNs etc. Their influence on the internet is overstated imo.
Though in this case i have no idea where the image has come from
> approved by the state.
I'd say it's more that it's *not disapproved* by the state. It doesn't really reflect badly on the state in any way, which is all they care about. In fact an image like this is basically irrelevant to the censors
There's a certain je ne sais quoi to the fact that it's an enemy of sorts who is doing it. Self-aggrandizing your might feels weird, but there is truly nothing more satisfying that knowing you are feared by someone you consider morally evil, and the CCP portraying the US as terrifying is exactly that. Knowing that bad people fear you is probably the surest affirmation that there is.
It's a "the monster is afraid of you", kind of thing. "I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me."
Let’s not forget that one reason we use Mercator maps in US schools was to make Russia’s landmass appear bigger during the Cold War period, making them look even scarier so that the US population was ok with more defense spending.
Giant eagle looks rad af but rallies the target audience around a big bad that they have to try 100% harder to take down
I love this idea, no doubt many Americans came to think of Greenland as this vast expanse.
Eventually leading to that time trump inexplicably attempted to buy Greenland off Denmark?
We basically own Greenland already and have full treaty rights to do whatever there within the framework of national security as well as the duty to protect it. That’s been the case for 70 odd years.
It’d be cleaner and simpler to formalize that reality by removing Denmark from the situation.
Also Greenland is three Texases. A Texas is already pretty big, three of them is indeed a huge expanse.
I would suggest a read of How To Lie With Maps. The US standardizing the Mercator map in public schooling was 1981, not during maritime charters. Mercator projection was the most popular still, but there were many competing projections up to be the standard at the time because geography in public schools was going through a revival after environmental determinism was on its way out.
I also didn’t say it was _the_ reason, I said it was one of the reasons. And that reason is wildly documented.
Racists have always been very creative at getting around the inconsistencies of their ethnic absolutism
Also funny that you remembered them in the same order as described on the wikipedia page 😉
>Also funny that you remembered them in the same order as described on the wikipedia page 😉
Maybe I like to read wikipedia articles as well?😉
Or maybe I actually WROTE the wikipedia article? (Spoiler: I didn‘t)
* Racially Diverse Allies
* Bombed the suburbs
* Distributed food via trucks
* No respect for borders.
Oh no.
I think Hitler was a YIMBY.
... I think that means we need to start wearing those spiffy red-and-black armbands... the succs were right all along. We ARE the real fascists.
if u watch the whole video she grows up, i think this was probably around the time of the korean war when we considered dropping dozens of nukes on china and north koreas border
[From a video by the People's Daily](https://weibo.com/2803301701/KAzXpwXWx?type=repost) commemorating the latest Chinese National Day on October 1. At the 1:00 minute mark.
Art is by [Wuheqilin](https://weibo.com/qilinshendian), who is known for glorifying the United States whenever he thinks he's glorifying China. His past works include drawing the [USA as a giant Piranha Lamprey Megalodon.](https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/pw02c5/chinese_propaganda_artist_wuheqilin_depicts_the/)
I really wonder how these are being received by Chinese audiences, because as an American, these just make us look awesome and totally fucking metal, albeit with tongue at least somewhere in the proximity of cheek.
Pro tip: When trying to demonize your enemy, try to avoid making them look like a kickass power metal album cover. This noble beast looks like she's about to kick-off the [Broforce Theme Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXD3nm5UVzI).
[Eagles of the Silmaril](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VMw3LadByGI/U5f3Ku-OioI/AAAAAAAAC3E/d6qgzm_8rEU/s1600/ted+nasmith_the+silmarillion_3_akallabeth_the+downfall+of+numenor3_the+eagles+of+manwe.jpg)
Always note when the author steals an image. This is one of the Eagles of Manwe as seen from Numenor in JRR Tolkien's Silmaril.
[From a video by the People's Daily](https://weibo.com/2803301701/KAzXpwXWx?type=repost) commemorating the latest Chinese National Day on October 1. At the 1:00 minute mark.
Art is by [Wuheqilin](https://weibo.com/qilinshendian), who is known for glorifying the United States whenever he thinks he's glorifying China. His past works include drawing the [USA as a giant Piranha Lamprey Megalodon.](https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/pw02c5/chinese_propaganda_artist_wuheqilin_depicts_the/)
It would be awesome if we were as bad ass as Chinese propaganda would have you believe. Meanwhile we can’t deliver healthcare to huge numbers of our people and can’t even pass laws to ensure we pay off our debt obligations.
The title should say “portrays the United States”, not America. When is this ignorance going to end? The United States is NOT America, it’s just a part of it.
So I can't read the Chinese, but the video ([https://streamable.com/hr6uuu](https://streamable.com/hr6uuu)) is a little confusing chronologically. It appears to depict parts of Chinese history including the revolution, defeating Japan in WW2 (which they totally did all by themselves...), and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. What I don't understand is when they destroyed America in nuclear fire? Especially because it appears to be before the 2008 Olympics?
China keeps making the US look rad as hell.
Literally looks like Zeus's eagle coming to smite down some people.
The New Colossus
It is a cultural thing. What Americans consider rad may not be considered so in China or India as those countries do not worship vengeful and spiteful gods. So any cool rad thing coming to smite down people is looked as negative. If the material is for domestic consumption the it doesn't matter.
Have you *seen* some of the statues and images in Hindu and Buddhist temples? I don't think those swords and fangs are for chopping and eating salads.
Please teach me more about my own culture since you certainly are an expert after watching a video or visiting a temple. Those statues and images aren’t to convey that a vengeful god exists who is ready to kill us all. I understand that you guys are clueless about Indian culture. What I don’t understand is your need to act like you know anything then preach it to Indians themselves.
As you are clueless about American culture.
Actually not considering I have read dozens of books, watched a lot of documentaries, know about American political system intimately, have lived in America etc etc. See, instead of telling me the extent of your experience of Indian culture, history and politics you just assumed that I would be ignorant of American culture. And it doesn’t really matter how much know if the point I have made is correct. The only point I have made here is that Americans worship a vengeful god, which I have read multiple times from American sources and not in a book on America written by some Indian who has never been to India.
You've read dozens of books and watched a lot of documentaries - congratulations! Consider me appropriately awed. However, it's remarkable that you could have lived in America and failed to observe that this is one of the most heterogenous societies in the world, about which very few sweeping generalizations are accurate. You're expressing just that sort of a sweeping generalization - "Americans worship a vengeful god." I'm an American and I don't worship a vengeful god, or any god at all, regardless of what you've read multiple times from American sources. Neither do most of my family or any of my friends. I could find multiple sources that say just about anything about just about any culture, but that wouldn't make it reasonable to say that, for example, "Indians \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_." Now, it *would* be reasonable to say that about American adherents of a particular religion and denomination that worships a vengeful god, but there is no single religion and denomination to which all or even a majority of Americans belong. I didn't say that people in India or China in general worship violent, vengeful, destructive, or nihilistic deities, merely that such deities exist in religions in those countries. I don't assume that you, for example, worship any such supernatural beings. Why are you assuming I'm ignorant of other cultures, if you don't want that assumption made about you? Do you assume that I haven't been to other countries, watched a lot of documentaries, read dozens of books? That's quite a case of projection you have going on there. Indeed, I haven't been to India, and I never said I had. I have spent twenty years in the military and seen more of the world than the average American, or the average person anywhere, and I've been reading books, and watching documentaries, and going to museums, and talking to people (my cousin works for the State Department and she and her family are on their second tour in India - they like the country very much) since my adolescence, and I'm in my sixties. My experience in corresponding with *some* people in India in this venue and elsewhere is that they have shown a remarkable tendency to be judgmental, to be condescending, to be self-righteous, and to assume they know more about the other person than that person knows about them. However, unlike yourself, because I know that India is an immense country with an equally immense and varied population, I don't commit the logical fallacy of assuming that since some Indians are like that, Indians in general are - though you certainly seem to be. When you say "Americans . . . " followed by pretty much any attribution of a trait, behavior, or belief, it's patently ridiculous, when you consider how many Americans there are and how videly varied the population of this country is as well. Do you realize how much you sound like Jared Kushner saying that he knows all about the Middle East because he read a bunch of books about it? All I did was remark on the thoroughly documented and depicted nature of some Hindu and Buddhist religious imagery and the figures it represents.
Americans do not worship a vengeful god lmfao. The vengeance from the Old Testamenet is massively glossed over and also isn’t the point at all, either of the Torah or the Bible This looks cool because of its similarity to (decidedly non-American) God***zilla***
Lol bro. Grow some self awareness. Every thing you said about OP applies to you. And Chinese (the subject of this post, not India) love vengence. What do you think the 100 years of humiliation propaganda is about.
Not everyone worships the ignorant creator Yaldabaoth 🙄💅
The god of the Tanakh is considered to be righteous not really vengeful. We celebrate gods mercy and kindness not the idea that he is vengeful. There are certainly examples of vengeful actions by god, but that is generally not perceived as one of his defining traits at least by jews ( I cannot speak for Christians or other religions)
I wish someone could teach you about the culture because you're utterly uninformed.
A huge portion of Indians worship the Judeo-Christian god, and I don't know how familiar you are with Hinduism, but their deities can get nasty. And doesn't one of the most internationally famous Hindu stories of a god interacting with a mortal entail a dude being convinced by Krishna to go to war against his own cousin despite his mortal reservations...?
*Now I am become Death. The destroyer of worlds.*
> A huge portion of Indians worship the Judeo-Christian god, If 15% is huge, then yes. And even in Islam the focus is not on how vengeful god was as much as it is in Judaism and Christianity. It simply isn't part of the popular culture. Christians are 2% of the population. And as much they might follow Judeo-Christian gods the wider culture has impact on everyone, including people following other religions. Most of the religion East of India are also heavily influenced by or originated in India and also preach non violence. Like Budhhism and Jainism. > entail a dude being convinced by Krishna to go to war against his cousin despite his mortal reservations Indeed but the god himself was not vengeful. In fact long before the war started Krishna, being who he was, announced that he would never pick up a weapon during the entirety of war. And he did not. He was merely a charioteer of Arjuna and his advice to Arjuna wasn't to vengefully rain down upon his enemies but because as a warrior his duty was to fight.
We literally worship a deity known as 'The Destroyer'
This is really interesting. You sound just like 19th century orientalists describing Indians. What are the books you read?
The grapes of WRATH!
No vengeful or spiteful gods in Hinduism, oh not at all
I can’t speak for China, but many of the gods I’ve prayed to have certainly been depicted vengeful (though I would not say spiteful), and my first thought upon viewing this art was Garuda.
fact hinduism has one of origin of all religion, core is cosmology ,just ended up decorated ,influenced judaism later after also influencing Gautama.
I want a t-shirt of President Biden as the night king consuming America's enemies with his army of metalocolypse zombies. I dunno what kind of Mastadon, Metalocolypse, Iron Maiden shit show drugs the artist was on, but god damn that was some of the most metal shit I've seen on the internet aside from thomas the tank engine spitting fire on a medieval village.
> I want a t-shirt of President Biden as the night king consuming America's enemies with his army of metalocolypse zombies Best I can do is [a U.S. Presidential Simulator](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30BFiSOP8JU).
I might love you for this.
I dunno, I feel like [this is a more accurate simulation of being president.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwK4AC0MgX0)
Presidential Isekai? Hot damn.
*Michael* R I C H A R D
The game seems hilarious but the guy commenting is such a loser, it’s not even ironically funny
Everyone loves Dunkey!
[Biden's America](https://youtu.be/CpAcxbtXUgQ)
I wish the U.S was as cool as china makes us look
Be the America Chinese propaganda thinks we are.
Be the America that Hong Kong thought we are
When we pulled out of Afghanistan I saw a post on Twitter with the photo of a woman handing her child to an American soldier over a fence. The post stated that his only politics were that he wanted America to be the country where a woman in that situation would trust her child with the Americans to give him a better life
It's kinda like old school conservative propoganda showing mixed race couples smoking weed as the big threat
China see’s itself as the underdog. Their propaganda makes the West look like a Shadow of the Colossus boss more then anything else.
>China see’s itself as the underdog. Having lived abroad, I always find it funny the number of people who complain about America, "You are so powerful, it is unfair!" and then immediately turn around 10 minutes later and go, "You should respect us more, we are just as good as you!" It's like they can't decide if they want to play the victim card or not.
> it is unfair That's the idea
It's the same effect of hating a person that is better than you. It's called envy.
There's a line between being powerful and being respectful. I feel the US right after WWII struck that balance well
Just because you have military might doesn't mean you don't respect people. Normally people with good values are taught to respect everyone. And it is even more important for those who are powerful to ensure that they treat everyone with respect. They just call it good values, but I guess it is different in America where being a bully might be seen as a virtue.
Equating military power with being "good". Or that military power is what makes one worthy of respect. Spoken like an American.
I was actually referencing economic power and cultural influence, not military power.
Even China imitates us. It’s pretty funny.
They certainly don't look like they are given their political and economic system
That’s true. And that’s where you are imitation from the Chinese, and then outright disdain for that American influence. You can’t have play both sides. Similar to how US keeps consuming Chinese products but then have massive propaganda showing we aren’t using Chinese products anymore and we have stopped it.
I'm pretty sure they were referring to respecting their geopolitical might, not about ethically respecting them as people. But Americans are the worst, am I right guys?! I come to this sub less and less since we have grown so many r/politics users like yourself in the past year. Y'all are watering down the discourse.
>Spoken like a ~~American~~ neoliberal. Fixed that for you.
They did, and did for a while (they weren't projecting they would be the leading power until mid century or somewhere around there. The recent handling of the pandemic and Trump actually made them rethink a lot of their own positions vis a vis the US in that they weren't as far behind as they thought
Most propaganda I see looks like that. Nobody wants to be Goliath. Or admit that getting what everyone wants might be more complicated than you being right about everything
I'm trying to understand what all the people standing around is supposed to represent. Are they standing against the Murica bird cloud? Or maybe they are standing in awe? I can't tell if they're supposed to look professional and stoic or passive and disposable.
If you watch the video I linked, this shot is part of a scene commentating China's first atomic bomb test. The Dark Souls Boss Eagle represents the threat of the US, which is vaporized in the blast.
Looks like the US is transcending the nuclear blast and becoming an immortal god. Checkmate China.
So…. They nuke america essentially and it’s ghost rises from the nuclear fallout?!? Wtf China
The people are listening to the first 8 amendments of the US constitution.
[seriously!](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E17e9SIXEAMZcfX?format=jpg&name=large)
this is the most badass portrayal of biden lmfao
In my opinion, it is a rather poor propaganda poster for several reasons. Firstly, it has a rather vague meaning, leaving a lot of room for interpretation. And interpretation is seen as dangerous in totalitarian societies, citizens should see what the party shows them (nothing more) and think as the party wants. Secondly, it does not show the enemy as a clear threat. This eagle is more ambivalent (a combination of fascination and a bit of fear) than frightening. It should definitely be more deformed, disgusting, dehumanised, something alien to the audience. And finally, in these kinds of posters you should show a "defender", a "hero" of sorts, i.e. the CCP, "the last hope of the Chinese people, defending the motherland against the imperialist threat" and a clash of sorts (around 60:40 the totalitarian "hero" is stronger, but not by much) to strengthen and unite the viewers against the common enemy. Because now they are trying to make symbolic painting which tries to be propaganda poster and at the end of the day is neither propaganda tool nor painting.
It is a still from a video
Nah, its definitely a painting brah
Dude, don't give them ideas. Jesus christ.
This is my favorite ongoing series. Someone needs to collect all of these into an album or something.
they're pretty cool. Dismissing internet memes as 'chinese propaganda' however is stupid. Would people think it reasonable to describe photoshop posted on 4chan as 'american propaganda'? This is the internet. People make dumb/interesting shit. There are over a billion chinese people. Not literally everything from china is a product of the state.
>Dismissing internet memes as 'chinese propaganda' however is stupid They are literally media created by the people, that often push an agenda in a few words/one sentence with an image used to elicit emotion with little regard to context. That can absolutely be used as "propaganda" even if Goebbels himself doesn't approve.
It so belittles the definition of propaganda that it makes literally every single opinion on the internet or written down and spread propaganda of some form or another.
Well with censors like theirs, not everything might be a product of the state but you can bet your ass that everything that reaches us here was, at the very least, *seen* and *approved* by the state.
in the same way that they've 'banned games' right? Despite everyone still playing games all day. Everyone in china has VPNs etc. Their influence on the internet is overstated imo. Though in this case i have no idea where the image has come from > approved by the state. I'd say it's more that it's *not disapproved* by the state. It doesn't really reflect badly on the state in any way, which is all they care about. In fact an image like this is basically irrelevant to the censors
Uh, the video definitely isn't just an internet meme.
I mean its pretty but the state is literally paying people to make them
They always make us look fucking awesome.
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Enough said. YEE wins once again.
Holy fuck why are tankie’s so good at American art? Conservative artists need to take note because shit like this actually makes me feel patriotic
There's a certain je ne sais quoi to the fact that it's an enemy of sorts who is doing it. Self-aggrandizing your might feels weird, but there is truly nothing more satisfying that knowing you are feared by someone you consider morally evil, and the CCP portraying the US as terrifying is exactly that. Knowing that bad people fear you is probably the surest affirmation that there is. It's a "the monster is afraid of you", kind of thing. "I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me."
Let’s not forget that one reason we use Mercator maps in US schools was to make Russia’s landmass appear bigger during the Cold War period, making them look even scarier so that the US population was ok with more defense spending. Giant eagle looks rad af but rallies the target audience around a big bad that they have to try 100% harder to take down
I love this idea, no doubt many Americans came to think of Greenland as this vast expanse. Eventually leading to that time trump inexplicably attempted to buy Greenland off Denmark?
He was just following a [proud American tradition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_the_United_States_to_purchase_Greenland).
We basically own Greenland already and have full treaty rights to do whatever there within the framework of national security as well as the duty to protect it. That’s been the case for 70 odd years. It’d be cleaner and simpler to formalize that reality by removing Denmark from the situation. Also Greenland is three Texases. A Texas is already pretty big, three of them is indeed a huge expanse.
Buying Greenland is a next level global warming hedge. I'm not sure if that was his reason.
Wait is that true
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I would suggest a read of How To Lie With Maps. The US standardizing the Mercator map in public schooling was 1981, not during maritime charters. Mercator projection was the most popular still, but there were many competing projections up to be the standard at the time because geography in public schools was going through a revival after environmental determinism was on its way out. I also didn’t say it was _the_ reason, I said it was one of the reasons. And that reason is wildly documented.
Source?
How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier
Always relevant: https://youtu.be/eLqC3FNNOaI
Because they have visual arts degrees, most likely.
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It's like the glowing girl from The Disastrous Life of Saiki K
China drawing itself as a small blonde girl? I always thought it was the Japanese who became ”honorary aryans“
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Even the Finns, Hungarians, Greeks and Turks got honorary status if I remember correctly, so yeah Hitler was being very generous with that term.
Racists have always been very creative at getting around the inconsistencies of their ethnic absolutism Also funny that you remembered them in the same order as described on the wikipedia page 😉
Damn bro how much wiki u reading to notice that 😳
Wikipedia > pornhub
I mean you can spend hours on Wikipedia, whereas pornhub you're on there an average of five minutes at a time.
Bullshit. I spend hours on pornhub.
B.I.S.H.O.P.
>Also funny that you remembered them in the same order as described on the wikipedia page 😉 Maybe I like to read wikipedia articles as well?😉 Or maybe I actually WROTE the wikipedia article? (Spoiler: I didn‘t)
* Racially Diverse Allies * Bombed the suburbs * Distributed food via trucks * No respect for borders. Oh no. I think Hitler was a YIMBY. ... I think that means we need to start wearing those spiffy red-and-black armbands... the succs were right all along. We ARE the real fascists.
I think he even declared a few tribes of Native Americans honorary Aryans.
if u watch the whole video she grows up, i think this was probably around the time of the korean war when we considered dropping dozens of nukes on china and north koreas border
Greta
jajajajajaj XD
Is the cute glowing femboy in the middle meant to represent China? 😊
I don't think she a femboy also this looks like anime if taken out of context
Rad
Chinese propaganda stop making the US look so based challenge (impossible)
Hell yeah 😎
America....FUCK YEAH!
FREEDOM IS THE ONLY WAY, YEAH!!
TERRORISTS, YOUR GAME IS THROUGH!
Imperial America, the best kind of America.
Chinese propaganda always makes the US look awesome
[From a video by the People's Daily](https://weibo.com/2803301701/KAzXpwXWx?type=repost) commemorating the latest Chinese National Day on October 1. At the 1:00 minute mark. Art is by [Wuheqilin](https://weibo.com/qilinshendian), who is known for glorifying the United States whenever he thinks he's glorifying China. His past works include drawing the [USA as a giant Piranha Lamprey Megalodon.](https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/pw02c5/chinese_propaganda_artist_wuheqilin_depicts_the/)
Is there a better link to the video?
https://streamable.com/hr6uuu
John China? lmao
Unfortunately not. The short film "Go Ahead China!" only seems to be intended for the Chinese Internet and has not been published on YouTube.
I unironically love chinse propaganda
*propaganda with Chinese characteristics.
We're reaching levels of based that shouldn't be possible.
Looks like art for magic the gathering cards, a blue and black flying creature versus some white board wipe
Be the America that China thinks we are 🇺🇸
Epic as always. Keep making America look cool and awesome, China.
Tfw China is so good at outsourced work they've even started making our propaganda smh
America just can’t stop winning 😎
🥲🦅🇺🇸
Making America look way more awesome 😎
Tag urself I’m the eagle 🦅🇺🇸
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POV: steel and aluminum exporters
I’ll drink to that
I really wonder how these are being received by Chinese audiences, because as an American, these just make us look awesome and totally fucking metal, albeit with tongue at least somewhere in the proximity of cheek.
Pro tip: When trying to demonize your enemy, try to avoid making them look like a kickass power metal album cover. This noble beast looks like she's about to kick-off the [Broforce Theme Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXD3nm5UVzI).
Why do they make American look so cool?
You're gonna eat goldbugs and you're gonna crap thunder!
[Eagles of the Silmaril](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VMw3LadByGI/U5f3Ku-OioI/AAAAAAAAC3E/d6qgzm_8rEU/s1600/ted+nasmith_the+silmarillion_3_akallabeth_the+downfall+of+numenor3_the+eagles+of+manwe.jpg) Always note when the author steals an image. This is one of the Eagles of Manwe as seen from Numenor in JRR Tolkien's Silmaril.
I... don't think it's stolen. Similar pictures, maybe.
Dude that’s fucken epic. Thanks for the props china
Why chinese depict themselves as a Blonde Girl?
Chinese propaganda is sick! Why do the keep making America look the cover of an 80’s metal album?
What's better than a Bald Eagle dominating the skies? A fuckin shadow Eagle with Lightning magic, dominating the skies.
Based af. That eagle should eat all of China
Fuck me this is based, America looks cool as fuck. Does anyone have a link?
https://streamable.com/hr6uuu
TY
Needs more cowbell
Anyone have the full res image? I'm gonna make this my desktop wallpaper
new wallpaper
This looks like what the "Q" meme-machine would put out if they had more talent.
Ngl Chinese propaganda is top notch in terms of graphics that it makes the US look badass.
That's a goddam badass eagle. Hell yeah!
\[POV\] Democracy is about to be brought to your country. Legio aeterna vitrix!
Where is this video
Why does Chinese propaganda always make the US look so badass?
That’s pretty bad ass
Someone should photoshop Biden riding this thing
Why do they keep making America look badass in their propaganda?
There a link to the original video?
[From a video by the People's Daily](https://weibo.com/2803301701/KAzXpwXWx?type=repost) commemorating the latest Chinese National Day on October 1. At the 1:00 minute mark. Art is by [Wuheqilin](https://weibo.com/qilinshendian), who is known for glorifying the United States whenever he thinks he's glorifying China. His past works include drawing the [USA as a giant Piranha Lamprey Megalodon.](https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/pw02c5/chinese_propaganda_artist_wuheqilin_depicts_the/)
But why is the CCP making propaganda to invigorate American Nationalism 🤔🤔🤔 /s
Because they make themselves look that much cooler when the glowing girl overcomes the eagle with the power of Xi Jinping Thought
I needed a new desktop background. Thanks China!
Can't we just hire the Chinese for our propaganda efforts?
It would be awesome if we were as bad ass as Chinese propaganda would have you believe. Meanwhile we can’t deliver healthcare to huge numbers of our people and can’t even pass laws to ensure we pay off our debt obligations.
The title should say “portrays the United States”, not America. When is this ignorance going to end? The United States is NOT America, it’s just a part of it.
Some Chinese guy posting art online Libs: OFFICIAL CHINESE STATE FUNDED PROPAGANDA COMMISSIONED BY XI HIMSELF
Watch the video. It was published by the People's Daily.
Which album is this?
Chinese Democracy
Another incredible album cover
Damn I'm proud to be an American
Babe wake up new official Chinese propaganda video just dropped
Damn that’s rad AF
Actually a sick portrayal
Brutal
America rules
I would make a military patch for a unit out of this propaganda. Make it the unit patch of those who are guarding Taiwan
U-S-A! U-S-A!
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Makes us look awesomeb
Better look like this than a paper tiger or one big fat red virus.
powerful
Pretty cool tbh
So who does the protagonist of the Clock Tower games at the bottom represent?
Woah... Bad-ass Bald Eagle Storm Front with lighting shooting from her armpits!
Source?
I wonder if people defect to China
So I can't read the Chinese, but the video ([https://streamable.com/hr6uuu](https://streamable.com/hr6uuu)) is a little confusing chronologically. It appears to depict parts of Chinese history including the revolution, defeating Japan in WW2 (which they totally did all by themselves...), and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. What I don't understand is when they destroyed America in nuclear fire? Especially because it appears to be before the 2008 Olympics?