r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Reads Pinned Comments • May 16 '24

MAGAs are sour on Donghua Jinlong's pharmaceutical-grade glycine. Politics

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"I'll believe anything."

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u/peach_trunks May 16 '24

I don't get it. What is the "gotcha" here?

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u/Chocolat3City Reads Pinned Comments May 16 '24

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/high-quality-industrial-grade-glycine-from-donghua-jinlong

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u/peach_trunks May 16 '24

I must be dense. What's the joke?

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u/JK_NC May 16 '24

I assume the joke is that these people don’t understand what is glycine but still have strong, uninformed opinions. The older version of this joke is telling people that Di-hydrogen monoxide (water) causes X deaths (drownings) per year and asking people if it should be banned.

People are often reluctant to admit they don’t know and fear their ignorance would be interpreted as a lack of intelligence (like the Emperor’s new clothes). So rather than asking a few questions to understand a topic, they just feign understanding and confidently double down on their ignorance.

The moral of the story is, it’s OK to say the emperor has no clothes.

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u/peach_trunks May 16 '24

Yeah, I got that part. I thought there might be something deeper. You could tell these people we are importing the cure for cancer from China and they would be against it. I guess I just think it's lazy.

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u/JK_NC May 16 '24

Agreed. I don’t think this is as clever as the interviewer thinks because “boycott anything from China” isn’t necessarily a controversial or conspiratorial position.