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Taiwanese massage degrees going to Turkey — Q12,102

The motif of spambots posting semi-nonsensical advertisements about how easy it is to get Turkish citizenship once you get a massage degree, or something vaguely in that vein, substituting Turkey for various countries but often keeping the theme of "massage certificates" or "massage tools".

This is a complicated scheme, but when you boil it down, what this appears to be is neocolonialism.
Step one is to persuade every country that capitalism is freedom (this is not mentioned on any spambot page). Step two is to attract a bunch of would-be capitalists from other countries to Turkey or Jamaica to generate businesses. Step three: the capitalists get citizenship. Step four: ten thousand Taiwanese capitalists dictate all the policies of Turkey based on what Taiwanese people would prefer, and insist that Turkey's people thinking up anything else is undemocratic. They remain connected to their families in Taiwan if they feel like it. They thoroughly disclaim that this is Taiwan conquering Turkey because they didn't hand Turkey to the government office of the island of Taiwan, thus it must be okay. If accused of settler-colonialism they shrug their shoulders and say they didn't violently claim all of Turkey in a war or kill its people, they just started businesses. And they don't know why living in a place doesn't entitle you to a government that serves you.

This scheme should really open people's eyes to how toothless the word "colonialism" is by itself at protecting anyone from empires. When all countries are chopped into pieces for sale, governments always serve the people that live in them.

[Dimensionality:] S1 - motif or theme
[Apparent ideology:] classical liberalism (ES/LR)

#LithographicaConceptPad

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you think spambots are funny and a silly little thing to analyze when you're bored,
until you realize what they're really advocating,
and then you go "...oh. that's rather horrifying"