r/conspiracy: Asians carrying skateboards

Asians carrying skateboards

1 2018-07-30 by mralstoner

Call me crazy but lately in Sydney Australia I've seen some rather straight-A Asians carrying some pristine skateboards around on the trains.

Now we know that China is the gold medalist in propaganda, and they can stoop to mind-bogglingly petty levels of propaganda. But would they go this low and trivial?

Both Australia and the US have ramped up the anti-China rhetoric lately, so could China go this low?

Well, these particular Asians didn't look very sporty or co-ordinated. Nor did they have any "rad" fashion or tattoos. And their skateboards did look rather shiny and clean.

I don't know the answer, but it's a very real possibility that this is a new low in Chinese propaganda.

25 comments

1 mpg1846 2018-07-30

What the fuck

1 turtlew0rk 2018-07-30

well said

1 Dreadcarrier 2018-07-30

Let me get this straight: Asians... in Australia... are somehow purveyors of Chinese propaganda? Do you really think that the Chinese are sending skateboard-wielding agents abroad to somehow convince the West to ease their anti-Chinese rhetoric? I’m absolutely open to the idea given more evidence but you’d need to present it.

1 mralstoner 2018-07-30

Well, China does have a $10 billion foreign influence campaign, that ranges from buying into Hollywood, to Confucius Institutes in Western schools, to an endless array of United Front operations that mobilise the Chinese diaspora to influence their local governments, etc. The question is: would they stoop to this level of petty propaganda? That's the burning question.

1 Dreadcarrier 2018-07-30

All of those means seem like they would be much more efficient/effective in promoting Chinese propaganda. I don’t think they’d waste money sending young skateboarders (a type of person that the older generations, who hold most of the political power, already judge/dislike) abroad. If I were them, I’d continue mainlining cash into the veins of West via the aforementioned methods.

1 mralstoner 2018-07-30

That's a rational and reasonable interpretation of China. But time and again, I continue to be surprised by the scope and pettiness of Chinese propaganda, much of which seems pointless to us.

Maybe it's because (a) China has billions in cash to splurge on propaganda and (b) the Chinese mindset is like a game of Go, which involves few rules apart from overwhelming your opponent with sheer numbers, using the maximum number of pieces on the board to surround your opponent. The Chinese mindset leaves no stone unturned, and leave no rack in the cue.

1 Dreadcarrier 2018-07-30

Fair enough. I’ll up my disbelief rating from “probably not” to “maybe”

1 MrParadoxxx666 2018-07-30

Honestly, they probably have the skateboards to enhance their chances of a successful "fight or flight" if ot is necessary. Australia is known to have skme pretty deadly wildlife, and my friends down there have ahown me extensive material of outright violance to minorities there. Im not just talking people on working holidays or international students either, I'm talking about your distaste for your new orleans visitors as well as your natives. (Who I have connects as outreach workers in their local community)

1 idoitforthekeks 2018-07-30

How much alcohol have you had to drink today?

1 eatscactus 2018-07-30

Lately I've noticed more and more Asians with black hair. Gotta be some shit going on with that.

1 send_recipes_plz 2018-07-30

I am completely failing to see how Asian men carrying skateboards on a train would in any way be Chinese propaganda.

1 mralstoner 2018-07-30

You can say that about 90% of Chinese propaganda, that it is pointless and useless. But they do it anyway.

1 send_recipes_plz 2018-07-30

If they want to throw money into the wind, I'm sure as hell not going to stop them.

1 mideastmidwest 2018-07-30

I think the question is more, what propaganda message could that possibly be trying to convey? That the Chinese are ... good at keeping their skateboards clean?

1 mralstoner 2018-07-30

China is trying to present itself to the world as just as open, modern, hip and liberal, and peace-loving as the Western world. That's because the real China is anything but peaceful, and they want the West to remain pacifist while they expand and dominate the globe.

1 mideastmidwest 2018-07-30

Ah, I got you. Okay, I can see that. Might be too subtle for most in this case, but it wouldn't surprise me.

1 DracoDystopia 2018-07-30

Aussies bullshit about other races as they themselves ethnically cleansed an entire race into obscurity lololol.

1 TiddleMaE 2018-07-30

Technically it was the English that slaughtered the indigenous Australians.

1 DracoDystopia 2018-07-30

They're still treating the remaining Aboriginals like shit. They have no ground to stand on whatsoever.

1 Shibbian 2018-07-30

Are you aware of how asinine of a statement you have made?

1 macronius 2018-07-30

Quite right, those Chinese have been imparting skateboards to Australia recently. Said skateboards are actually weapons of war, with which they will defeat us from within when the Chinese PLA gives the signal.

1 mralstoner 2018-07-30

Nobody said that Chinese propaganda was money well spent.

1 facelessnature 2018-07-30

Very bigoted post, op.

1 CASunDevil24 2018-07-30

This is an age old conspiracy. We call these people Posers.

1 mralstoner 2018-07-30

That's a rational and reasonable interpretation of China. But time and again, I continue to be surprised by the scope and pettiness of Chinese propaganda, much of which seems pointless to us.

1 mralstoner 2018-07-30