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Started by Syt, December 06, 2015, 01:55:02 PM

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grumbler

#3525
January 31, 2017, 03:21:32 PM
Quote from: Valmy on January 31, 2017, 03:01:20 PM
I hate false equivalencies.

Know who else hated false equivalencies? 

Hitler, that's who.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

CountDeMoney

#3526
January 31, 2017, 09:34:20 PM
QuoteReporter's Notebook China
Fake Donald Trump tweets filling up Chinese social media
Netizens have created over a million fake tweets in English and Chinese mocking the 45th US president.
aljazeera.com




Twitter is blocked in China. Without the help of VPN services, people cannot log on to the site to reach information unfiltered by the Chinese government.

But that doesn't mean internet savvy users cannot poke fun at the newly inaugurated US president.

As the Lunar New Year is right around the corner, officially starting on Saturday and marks a fresh start for the Year of the Rooster, netizens are faking tweets using Donald Trump's Twitter handle @realdonaldtrump.

With the help of a start-up application called Jike, downloadable from the Chinese app store, one can enter any content and a snapshot is created, often with the same distinctive exclamation mark and bitter or outraged tone used by the president himself.

Jike said on Thursday that in only four days, users had created more than a million fake Trump tweets in Chinese and English.

"Make your Chicken Year Great Again!" A succinct and powerful one.

"Happy Chinese New Year, and please be generous in giving out red envelopes!" is a common phrase, mocking the Chinese New Year tradition of giving out red envelopes with cash inside, usually from the elders to the youngsters.

"All the universities should cancel the homework and exams for Chinese students to enjoy the Spring Festival!" This one obviously comes from a student attending after-school classes in the fierce competition to excel in his final exams.

"I get all five Fu in Zhifubao, but where is Red Bao? Where is the money? Look, this is how Chinese fool our American. Sad!" :lol: With some grammar mistakes, this Trump tweet mocks China's biggest online shopping company Alibaba, which recently launched a Pokemon-style game rewarding users if they collect enough photos of Fu - the Chinese equivalent of Christmas ornaments.

Some of the "tweets" are in Chinese characters only, but they still fooled quite a few people, who thought the new president was making efforts to mend ties between China and the US.

With the environment of free speech further tightened under Xi Jinping's administration, making fun of the American president seems to have become the new political correctness.

Fake Trump tweets are filling up Chinese social media without censorship. With a 15-day long nationwide festival about to start, why not have some fun?

Oexmelin

#3527
January 31, 2017, 10:26:23 PM
Que le grand cric me croque !

11B4V

#3529
February 01, 2017, 12:22:57 AM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Valmy

#3530
February 01, 2017, 10:55:15 AM


:bleeding: :bleeding: :bleeding:
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Razgovory

#3531
February 01, 2017, 01:22:43 PM
That is one confused baby.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

#3532
February 01, 2017, 01:27:38 PM
At least he's not drinking iced tea.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Liep

#3533
February 01, 2017, 01:34:21 PM
"Af alle latterlige Ting forekommer det mig at være det allerlatterligste at have travlt" - Kierkegaard

"JamenajmenømahrmDÆ!DÆ! Æhvnårvaæhvadlelæh! Hvor er det crazy, det her, mand!" - Uffe Elbæk

Berkut

#3534
February 01, 2017, 02:19:59 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 31, 2017, 08:44:39 AM


I would contribute money towards a project to blow that up to billboard size and stick it somewhere public where Trump can't miss it....
"If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven't been paying attention."

select * from users where clue > 0
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Oexmelin

#3535
February 01, 2017, 08:58:42 PM
Que le grand cric me croque !

11B4V

#3536
February 01, 2017, 09:36:49 PM
Ed?


"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Ed Anger

#3537
February 01, 2017, 09:37:30 PM
Mine is motorized.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

11B4V

#3538
February 02, 2017, 11:13:19 PM
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

celedhring

#3539
February 03, 2017, 06:16:43 AM
Half my Facebook feed is Beyoncé preggy photos. I guess all is well again?
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