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#14926 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by Eff-1  https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/0...ave-out-drugs/
Ken Sim is such a dolt.
Councillor Zhou goes on wechat and accuses some other councillors of being drug dealers.
Of course, those other councillors are infuriated and call the accusations completely false.
So councillor zhou ends up apologizing for putting out misinformation, and the mayor thanks zhou for taking accountability for sharing information that wasn't accurate.
Then today, the story breaks that it was actually the mayor who originally called the other councillors drug dealers back in December LOL | If you didn't watch the video in the story you need to - it makes Sim look WAY WORSE than the written story. Ken Sim is a total scumbag - he lets his own guy hang, is the source of the original accusation, pretends he had nothing to do with it, and slanders/defames a fellow councillor.
I'd expect a lawsuit out of this one (for defamation).
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Yesterday, 11:24 AM
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Originally Posted by supafamous If you didn't watch the video in the story you need to - it makes Sim look WAY WORSE than the written story. Ken Sim is a total scumbag - he lets his own guy hang, is the source of the original accusation, pretends he had nothing to do with it, and slanders/defames a fellow councillor.
I'd expect a lawsuit out of this one (for defamation). | I know someone who knows Zhou, they were former coworkers. And when I told that person this story, they were really surprised.
The reaction was "Really?? that doesn't sound like something Zhou would say. He's smarter than that, I thought..."
Now it makes perfect sense, he was just echoing what his boss had said. And then his boss let him take the fall in front of the media for it. Brutal.
Once I told that person it was Sim behind it all along, they were like "Ohhhh ok that makes me feel better. I didn't think Zhou was that stupid to say something like that haha"
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Yesterday, 11:38 AM
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Even though Zhou may not have been that type of person in the past, you gotta remember that power corrupts. The current City Council has been in place for 3 years already, and that can change someone.
If I were Zhou myself, I'd be totally pissed to see myself getting thrown under the bus like that by my boss.
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Yesterday, 01:29 PM
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here's the mayor's response  https://x.com/izavarise/status/20274...RDR-CSLKnRSc0A
i'm not sure what's the worst part of all this:
A) he didn't bother to fact check like crazy whether it was true or not before making the accusation public the first time
B) he didn't say anything when zhou, who said the exact same thing, had to apologize for it. instead he praised zhou for taking accountability for it.
C) he made the accusation only to the chinese speaking media, but never said a word to the english speaking media  | |
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Yesterday, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Eff-1 here's the mayor's response https://x.com/izavarise/status/20274...RDR-CSLKnRSc0A
i'm not sure what's the worst part of all this:
A) he didn't bother to fact check like crazy whether it was true or not before making the accusation public the first time
B) he didn't say anything when zhou, who said the exact same thing, had to apologize for it. instead he praised zhou for taking accountability for it.
C) he made the accusation only to the chinese speaking media, but never said a word to the english speaking media | What an asshole. He should resign.
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Yesterday, 01:44 PM
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Purely for conversation only (and not an allegation in any way) but could there be any possibility Sim himself is a drug dealer, or has ties to any?
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Yesterday, 01:55 PM
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#14933 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by bcrdukes Purely for conversation only (and not an allegation in any way) but could there be any possibility Sim himself is a drug dealer, or has ties to any? | He's sleezy but he's never been associated with that form of activity. He's just your typical rich guy scumbag.
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Originally Posted by supafamous What an asshole. He should resign. | Quote:
Originally Posted by supafamous He's sleezy but he's never been associated with that form of activity. He's just your typical rich guy scumbag. | Judging by what public sentiments seem to suggest, I think Sim's chances of getting re-elected is pretty low.
That said, out of the current crop of people who have announced their interest to run for mayor, I don't think I can trust any of them. 
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Sim looks like a Gotham character
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I'm curious for the people here: How do you feel as Chinese residents that this false messaging was clearly targeted to only that ethnic group, rather than to all city residents?
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I don't think anyone here is part of any Mandarin only boomer wechat groups
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Yesterday, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Eff-1 I'm curious for the people here: How do you feel as Chinese residents that this false messaging was clearly targeted to only that ethnic group, rather than to all city residents? | Of course it is targeted mostly to residents from Mainland China. WeChat is primarily used by Mainland Chinese people, and the language Zhou used in the video was also Mandarin.
I can't imagine Zhou had done any actual fact-checking into what he said about other counsellors, cuz if he had, it should be fairly easy to find that the accusation is pretty baseless -- Orr wasn't even in Vancouver at the time when Sim said he was handing out drugs on the streets of Vancouver. He simply believed what Sim told him / have said.
I would also extrapolate from that, and tend to believe many of the people Zhou reached via that video in WeChat would also believe Zhou without doing any fact-checking themselves as well. Otherwise, someone would probably have called Zhou out within the chat group.
It all goes back to the importance of using reliable sources of information. Unfortunately, many people will just believe whatever they've been told, esp when it is coming from "authority figures".
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Sim knew what he was doing. He was directly appealing to the conservative Asians that view expanded social services as "wasting money on lazy people," and medical Drug rehab/treatment or decriminalization as, "giving free drugs to addicts."
People like my dad, who's idea of detox/rehab is to drop addicts off in the Rockies and see if they survive and make it back to civilization.
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Originally Posted by Eff-1 I'm curious for the people here: How do you feel as Chinese residents that this false messaging was clearly targeted to only that ethnic group, rather than to all city residents? | ooooooo ching chong ling long ting tong!!!
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#14942 | | I *Fwap* *Fwap* *Fwap* to RS
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