I was able, as an anarchist, to joke along with their memes, up to the point I mentioned Taiwanese elections.
Whooo boy, big mistake.
Like yes, capitalism bad, but China also bad? List a bunch of reasons why. Nope, those are all insane propoganda, despite me personally knowing people who’ve fairly recently fled Hong Kong, and its not because theyre fucking Kulaks or something, they are working class.
Much like QAnoners, they live in an alternate reality bubble, which can be fairly easily shown to them and then they just pull a bunch of absolute bullshit out of their asses, dubious claims with no sources which often strain basic logic given an even cursory knowledge of world or regional history.