This is long, but it's about what's happening in China and how it relates to all of us

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21. It's a travesty how little we pay attention to China

I've tried here and failed to get any traction. If Russia has so much as sneezed in the past 7 years, we hear about it. However a nation of 1.4 billion is facing a series of serious crises, and it's just crickets.

Part of it is how much money and control China currently exerts in our own country. They throw money at our political class. Our media companies, lovingly consolidated in such a way that "journalism" organizations are also coupled in with things like movie studios, don't want to rock the boat too much and lose out on those billions. Our corporations are highly dependent on - and highly compliant with - good relations with an authoritarian regime to make their billions and manufacture their goods.

What Apple did with Air Drop to fuck over dissidents and protestors is far, far, far, far, far more appalling than anything Elon Musk has done all year.

But who is in the media on the daily? Who are we talking about all day every day?

That is not an accident.

It's disgusting how our entire media and political structure just looks the other way because money. And we follow suit, because those same media companies black out any useful information. "Look over here. Don't look over there. Don't worry about it."

And the shit works.