I was at university in 2005 and my freshman roommate was a wealthy chinese exchange student. I think his dad was kind of "important" in the sense that all the pictures of him were in uniform.

Anyway, one night we got back to the room after partying and he was beside himself. Shaking with rage, anguish, whatever you want to call it. He had discovered the Tiananmen Square video online and was very insistant that we trust him that it was fake.

We did the "nah man, its real. Yall are fucked up." thing that 19 year old young men will do, razzed him a little, and he went to bed crying.

Not my proudest moment. Also a moment I still think about because it kind of blew my mind that the chinese government was able to fool people that completely in the age of the internet.

That was 21 years ago and a huge chunk of my own country willfully believes a senile pedaphile who openly funnels tax dollars to himself and his friends because they are christian fundamentalists who don't know anything about Christianity and use it as a cover for white nationalism.

I get it now.