SpooneyOdin

It's in the article I referenced:

"Last December, a report from NGO Safeguard Defenders said it had identified 102 Chinese police stations operating in 53 countries, including five in Canada."

To be fair, the article you posted claims that NGO is some kind of CIA backed organization. I don't know if I really buy that, but I suppose it is possible. Antcedotally, I've heard other stories of China doing stuff like this (particularly when there were a lot of Hong Kong protests) but I'll admit I don't have much first hand evidence myself. It's just, on a balance of probabilities, I'm much more likely to believe that an authoritarian regime like China is capable of doing it.

Also that example about the "Devil Eyes" dolls is bit disengenious to bring up. Your own source states that they only ever built a few prototypes. Granted, it does say an anonymous Chinese source says hundreds were shipped to Pakistan, but again I don't think we can really trust China's take on this.

The CIA has lots of looney plans (likely a product of Military-Industrial complex), but not many come to fruition becasue they are not practical.

I don't know man. The RCMP has recently charged one of their officers for allegedly putting pressure on people of Chinese origin. Now, I'll admit this a pretty different situation than the "secret Chinese police stations" and, as far as I know, no charges been brought up in their cases or anything found during their investigations. However, China does appear to be putting pressure on its citizens from abroad using clandestine methods. Is the West likely doing much the same? shrug I haven't heard about that myself but regardless this kind of practice shouldn't be done by any country.

Anyway I found this National Post article which has more details:

https://nationalpost.com/news/b-c-man-places-chinese-police-station-sign-in-front-of-rcmp-detachment

Anyway, I appreciate the source but I gotta say I don't find it very credible. It starts going down a rabbit hole that this all part of some CIA backed psyop, but I don't really believe that. These types of stories have been popping up around the world and I doubt the CIA has that kind of reach in some attempt to... what... make China look bad?

I mean I have some pretty toxic family members as well, but at least a few of them are decent or innocent people. Pretty much everyone is going to have at least one family member that they care about even if most are shit heads.

I see it all over Lemmy unfortunately. I think it is because Lemmy is still relatively fringe and it is where lots of pro communism communities emerged. Normally, I find it actually pretty refreshing to see more left wing stuff but the pro China (or at least the kneejerk reactions to anything anti China) to be exhausting.

To be fair, I used to see a lot of it on Reddit as well. I think they are just a bigger proportion percentage wise on Lemmy so you see much more of it.

This is pretty crazy if true. I wonder if it has any connections to the alleged "ghost" CCP police stations that were reported around in Canada. I believe it was being claimed the stations were being used to bully Chinese people that were in Canada.

There is a logical reason why numbers like 12, 24, and 60 are used in a lot of systems. They are highly composite numbers so they have lots of prime factors which means there are lots more options to break them into whole groups.

That's pretty cool! The French actually had a decimal time system after the revolution, but they eventually abandoned it.

Or you could - oh, I don't know - read the article you are commenting on... it says he was a test operator and not a programmer.

For sure, the person in that video (Shays Moss) is one of people mentioned in the article who is suing Giuliani.

Oh for sure. Nobody can get as weird as Lynch though 😛

I think the infinite growth part is a big part of the problem: "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell"

For sure, it just immediately reminded me of the Simpsons like you said:

"Who are we?" "THE WILDCATS!" "Who are we going to beat?" "THE WILDCATS!"