Fair

Not saying that’s what happened here. I’m asking: if someone did that, what would you consider it? Academic question, decoupled from China or any other country

What would you call the selection of friendly people to sit around the leader to create photogenic moments? “Hey Mr Albenese, here are some friendly people for you to chat with”.

Fair callout. I suspect we pretty much agree then beyond debating semantics of where you draw the line between staging and framing.

Did you? Xis approval rate has nothing to do with that photograph

The approval rate of the politician does not enter into the fact that any photo that looks like that is marketing and involves some level of staging or artifice

Anyone who disagrees with this along the lines of “Oh but Trump/Obama/Xi/Trudeau/Macron/Stalin/Hitler is really loved!” then you should put get off the Internet until you grow a bit.

Any photo like that from any significant nation is, on some level, staged.

This person gets it.

Americans don’t count as people.

Agreed. I ran a system upgrade at home and then went to a coffee shop. My machine didn’t boot at the coffee shop. I installed Fedora instead of doing what I had gone there to do

China and climate change eh?

This comment section is disgusting.

My take way is a subset of people are (justifiably) unhappy with Pirate Software. He acted like a dick and someone in his position should have better articulated his arguments and been more open to dialogue.
It’s also a little gross how many people are trying to pay their bills by stoking rage about this rather than moving the issue forward. And yes, I do understand that the rage is probably why this movement got past the goal posts.
I still think we need to self reflect as a community.
PS was gross, but we should be better.

I think I’m just tired of being handed a pitchfork whenever I browse YouTube or read about Stop Killing Games.

Honestly I think Pirate Software was 90 percent in the wrong. He misunderstood the thrust of the Stop Killing Games movement and took his discourse too far. I think it’s a little gross how much we’ve chosen to pile on as a community.
In the real world we have in front of us some of the ideas put forth by Stop Killing Games will actually be hard for companies to implement. I don’t feel bad for them nor do I support the murder of games. It’s just not a simple prospect.

Let’s brigade people more for speaking and thinking differently. There should only be one correct opinion and anyone who disagrees should be shunned.