[notavalleyman]

Sometimes an essay is just an essay, and not an elaborate conspiracy by multiple governments to trick you into thinking about geography

[hulitu]

And most of the time people do not work in their free time.

[MSFT_Edging]

This one was just an essay, but remember when you couldn't go a day without an article about Uyghur's in Xiajiang?

I'd play this game with those articles, where every article would cite a little essay like this on a similar thinktank site or the actual Zenz study. No new journalism, just rehashing reports like this.

This isn't a conspiracy, it's an industry made up of ex-insiders who maintain relationships and pedal the talking points.

[notavalleyman]

Ok so....you previously felt like you were seeing a lot of articles about Uighurs ....and that's proof of a wider conspiracy?

And....you see that essays often include citations. And that's proof of a dark network of the illuminated?

Maybe these were all just essays?

> This isn't a conspiracy, it's

It's not X it's Y

[MSFT_Edging]

> It's not X it's Y

Buddy....

Here's the author of the essay by the way: https://x.com/RaghuKondori/status/1877616501395505259?s=20

He has multiple books with AI covers, loony-adjacent nonsense ideology, prolifically posts on X @ing politicians and posting AI images.

He even has his own thinktank: https://shahvand.org/en/

He's also a Reza Pahlavi crank, you know, the Maryland Shah. https://shahvand.org/en/pahlavi-will-return/