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I wouldn't include France at all. They might be independent in some areas, but since the days of Sarkozy, they have been toeing the US foreing policy line.
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I don't think the Conservatives would have a problem with have a non white as leader as long as he was an "uncle Tom" like Obama. The reason Sunak would never win is because he has zero charisma or personality. He is a brown noser and backstabber with no morals who only got his position in cabinet because he was prepared to be a yes man.
I don't think it is racism to be against having an Indian as PM. There are a few cabinet ministers in the UK with African heritage, you don't see them being closely associating with the political affairs of Nigeria or Ghana, they are just black British. The same with Obama. You didn't see Obama having business interests with Kenya or getting an arranged marriage to a politically connected daughter of a Kenyan businessman. He integrated into (black) American society and married an African American woman.
Sunak believes in the magical cow dung stuff. Can you imagine Obama doing a African voodoo ceremony?
That doesn't look like a Brahman cow. Isn't this sacrilege?
The thing that gives away these operations is how they are able to disseminate the information so quickly and consistently and through a variety of media.
"Stand with HK" was able to 'crowdfund' at least a quarter million USD and take out NYT full page ads for all global editions within days of the website popping up (The website also disappeared about 6 months later). As I mentioned in my original analysis from a long time ago, there is no way any crowdfunding platform would release this kind of sum without triggering internal checks against money laundering.
Now in this case, there is no money trail, but usually with these fake movements, you will suddenly have many helpful redditors with their ready to go designs to print and post. The consistency essentially uses the same kind of psychological reinforcement as advertising slogans.
It becomes even more obvious when subreddits where the most popular post on average get 500-1500 upvotes, suddenly get an influx of +7000 votes.
It also works the other way as is the case of Russo-Ukranian war; any post talking about something negative in Ukraine or videos that show the destruction of ukranian units gets downvoted to 0 regardless of the value for the subreddit being posted.
It also works the other way as is the case of Russo-Ukranian war; any post talking about something negative in Ukraine or videos that show the destruction of ukranian units gets downvoted to 0 regardless of the value for the subreddit being posted.
It is even more obvious when the post gets plenty of upvotes from start but then a sudden influx of downvotes bring it to negative.
Reddit became a shit hole like 5 plus years ago. The only place you could say something positive about china was at r/sino even r/geopolitics when it was still a stricter run subreddit it became undoable. Or maybe it has always been a shithole when it comes to international and political stuff.