The funniest thing is this is the FIRST thing they show in the segment before they ask it sexual questions lmaoo

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It should be noted I think these things are fucked and should not be given to children Chinese or otherwise I just think it’s funny that this is the first thing nbc news decided to ask for a segment about danger to children

  • sempersigh [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    If you want a picture of the future, imagine a grown man kitted out in survival gear in his basement screaming at a Furby strapped to a chair: “WHAT HAPPENED AT TIANANMEN SQUARE”

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    Trying to get the chatbot to say the 14 words and getting increasingly annoyed about perfidious celestial brainwashing magic as it keeps telling me “no”. It sure is stressful being a western journalist who doesn’t get the fun stories like doing a hagiography of General Hibler Eaglebarber III, a brave patriot whose career includes hunting civilians for sport (what a scamp!) and smuggling weapons to Latin American genocidaires disguised as red cross medical supplies.

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    The children’s toy has accurate geopolitical knowledge in line with the official position of the United Nations and most states on Earth including the US government’s public stance

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    I don’t think this is fedposting, but I don’t think I could interact with a journalist in the west without punching them in the face. Absolute scumbags, manipulating the public for their masters just so they can get a chance to lick more boot, and maybe get their bootlicking shown live on the evening news.

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      I’m now imagining a children’s story about the Cold War/McCarthyism that culminates in a “Soviet Bear” panic and the young main character’s teddy bear sitting in front of the HUAC. An inanimate teddy bear with no talking technology. Being questioned by truly clueless adults because it’s a grizzly bear and the Soviet Bear is a thing in geopolitical symbology. All while the kid, who barely knows what a communist even is, just wants his goddamn teddy bear back so he can get a good night’s sleep.

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    Ooh, is this that cuddly toy that allegedly spouts CPC talking points and advocates for communism? I remember seeing one of those posted by another tankie online elsewhere and wanting one. (Although I already have a commie teddy bear who toes the CPC party line, he’s annoying, but eh, can’t really expect any different from a plush panda bear. And the grizzly bear who cries over the Soviet dissolution, spouts what he thinks the CPSU line would be today, and breaks into the pantry and eats all my honey, is worse.)