Cosmic Penguin

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.

I simply do 2 things to such accounts - block and report. Unfortunately the no. of these accounts following my Chinese spaceflight news simply grow w/ time. Just for Chang'e 5 alone I've blocked 100+ in the last 2 months, that's just how bad it is.

As someone who's as close to 180 degrees away from their directions (you'll be surprised in many of my stances I would say) I'm disheartened that - whether they followed me because they really like my info translations or they think I'm a threat - my tweets are used in such ways.

I always think that gathering/translating as much info and data on *the* independent spaceflight power of the 21 Century - regardless of how they are twisted or modified or presented - is crucial for independent analysis of the current and future of Chinese developments in S/F.