Cosmic Penguin

You see, I realized in the last few months that, by translating information and news related to one of the fastest growing spaceflight powers of the world...I inadvertently became a spreader of PRC propaganda. And with me exactly 180 degrees away from them, I feel scared.

It actually started a few years ago - it's not hard to meet Chinese Twitter users interested in spaceflight, either those living overseas or find a way to climb over the wall. Not surprisingly, many of these S/F enthusiasts are interested in their own military too.

This steadily grew with my followers' count until the flagship Chinese spaceflight missions of 2020 (Chang'e 5 especially but also many others) brought in dozens of them liking/re-tweeting my info tweets sometimes, and similar no. of such followers every month.

I do casually check these new followers/users sometimes. To my horror, far too many of them routinely insults, attacks, mocks others who they see as "anti-China" or spread potential mis-information, even blatant attacks, that started off w/ their state media/spokesperson.

I always expect some of such people to be very nationalistic. What I DIDN'T expect is that the percentages of them are extremely high lately, up to 90%! And it's absolutely awful and disgusting in seeing some of the words they use, in many cases in English & replying to others.

For a recent example dozens of them follow my tweets while at the same time happily mocking a certain Down Under nation on their case of soldiers murder of civilians, after *the* PRC foreign spokesperson take a distasteful propaganda satire drawing & mock that country on Twitter.

And that's just one tip of a giant iceberg - never mind how much insults and fake info they have thrown out on my very own city & people of 1 certain island. This cohesive behavior, often below Western media and politician accounts in English, are hardly explain by bots.

These people often post their own lives in Chinese - what to eat, college life, even a dozen or two liking the same anime girls that I like too. Yet they just can't keep the mouths shut when it comes to international affairs & keep attacking using disgusting words.