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    eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

    eigenrobot Retweeted China Xinhua News

    so the thing I was made to understand about this stuff is that the target audience is typically the boss or commissar of whoever makes it. "what is my political overseer mad about" seems like the contents of this cartoon are quite compatible with that modelhttps://twitter.com/XHNews/status/1392315897985912832 …

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    China Xinhua NewsVerified account @XHNews
    "Mirror, mirror on the wall, does the U.S. 'rule-based order' dominate the world?" Well, if you have the same question, just take a look at this episode of Xinhua Cartoon and try to find out how many mirrors have been broken in the end pic.twitter.com/1Nr1qFTB8L
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    • Curwen Ares Rolinson fark caort G. Fox Cat Al Sadius 4th Class Officer Cleetus The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA Fred Arnolfson RegularHKer🍎
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      2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

        reminiscent of that wolf in sheep's clothing thing apparently Chinese students will often get a set of somewhat stale western fairy tales and fables and so maybe the idea is that these are deeply resonant for extremely online westerners in 2021pic.twitter.com/l2zbVwl8ll

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      3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

        also the Aesop tweet has VERY STRONG Thomas Friedman energy to it

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      4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

        its especially confusing because that is not among Aesop's better-known fables and when I see a wolf and a lamb my mind tends to go "wolf in sheep's clothing" or the boy who cried wolf. maybe at a stretch to Byron

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      5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

        and it's a bit odd because Chinese political cartoons existpic.twitter.com/uVehi610YY

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      6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

        admittedly many of them are sublimely cryptic to me I wonder how much of this is a matter of translating across literary conventions maybe those cartoons would actually be bangers in a chinese cultural contextpic.twitter.com/xcSoRVnkST

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      7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

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        heres the original motivating thread (two clicks) https://twitter.com/darpyu/status/1392336359365373953?s=19 …

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      8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

        ok heres an explanation for the fertilizer comic 1. fertilizer is something like "fattener" 2. embezzlement is "eating" 3. there's a typo and it should say "fattening" not "flattening https://twitter.com/edwardW2/status/1392340654705942532?s=19 …pic.twitter.com/gCMdfq0gPK

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      9. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

        layered and darkpic.twitter.com/SAy281YNG2

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      10. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

        broke: masturbating gives you hairy palms joke: masturbation makes you blind woke:pic.twitter.com/pRu9BAyfUT

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      11. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

        this guy hates meetingspic.twitter.com/ChFHagWwEf

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      12. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

        also apparently hates celebrities? was this some kind of anti-Western thing?pic.twitter.com/v38Hn3cJrr

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      13. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

        definitely getting a defensive cultural vibepic.twitter.com/CvlLPNUz7x

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      14. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot May 11

        ending with a gratuitous attack on the Cantonese holy cowpic.twitter.com/uH1ZjF3eYZ

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