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davel , (edited ) to memes in Lift like China, bro šŸ‡ØšŸ‡³šŸ’Ŗ
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Here we go with this lemmitor copypasta dumbassery again.

Neither the Tiananmen riots nor Pooh is censored in China. I think Lemmitors themselves made up the Pooh censorship nonsense.

And the Uyghur bullshit has been debunked six ways to Sunday.

The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing terrorist cells in Xinjiang, and when those efforts failed it concocted and promoted a genocide narrative. Antony Blinken is still pushing this slop, just two weeks ago.

We see here for example the evolution of public opinion in regards to China. In 2019, the ā€˜Uyghur genocideā€™ was broken by the media (Buzzfeed, of all outlets). In this story, we saw the machine I described up until now move in real time. Suddenly, newspapers, TV, websites were all flooded with stories about the ā€˜genocideā€™, all day, every day. People whom weā€™d never heard of before were brought in as experts ā€” Adrian Zenz, to name just one; a man who does not even speak a word of Chinese.

Organizations were suddenly becoming very active and important. The World Uyghur Congress, a very serious-sounding NGO, is actually an NED Front operating out of Germany [ā€¦]. From their official website, they declare themselves to be the sole legitimate representative of all Uyghurs ā€” presumably not having asked Uyghurs in Xinjiang what they thought about that.

The WUC also has ties to the Grey Wolves, a fascist paramilitary group in Turkey, through the father of their founder, Isa Yusuf Alptekin.

Documents came out from NGOs to further legitimize the media reporting. This is how a report from the very professional-sounding China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) came to exist. They claimed ā€˜up to 1.3 millionā€™ Uyghurs were imprisoned in camps. What they didnā€™t say was how they got this number: they interviewed a total of 10 people from rural Xinjiang and asked them to estimate how many people might have been taken away. They then extrapolated the guesstimates they got and arrived at the 1.3 million figure.

Sanctions were enacted against China ā€” Xinjiang cotton for example had trouble finding buyers after Western companies were pressured into boycotting it. Instead of helping fight against the purported genocide, this act actually made life more difficult for the people of Xinjiang who depend on this trade for their livelihood (as we all do depend on our skills to make a livelihood).

Any attempt China made to defend itself was met with more suspicion. They invited a UN delegation which was blocked by the US. The delegation eventually made it there, but three years later. The Arab League also visited Xinjiang and actually commended China on their policies ā€” aimed at reducing terrorism through education and social integration, not through bombing like we tend to do in the West.

davel , (edited ) to memes in Lift like China, bro šŸ‡ØšŸ‡³šŸ’Ŗ
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FWIW the meme originally came from China, but Western libs do be racializing it every chance they get.

your dear leader

šŸ™„ That ainā€™t how we do; thatā€™s how libs do: Great man theory

davel , (edited ) to worldnews in US says Israel's use of weapons may have violated international law
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I wouldnā€™t disagree that Russia has corruption, but I donā€™t think that means much. Itā€™s much less corrupt now than it was when Yeltsinā€™s government let the Western shock therapists come in and plunder the country. Putinā€™s government kicked them out. Ukraine is famously the most corrupt country in Europe, though reports about that mysteriously stopped in 2020. Just based on the cost-plus model of our military-industrial complex alone, the US is very corrupt.

And I wouldnā€™t disagree that Ukraineā€™s drones will continue to be a challenge for Russian infrastructure. They can only reach so deep into the deepest state landmass on Earth, though. Eastern Russia is largely barren, though, and Iā€™m not trying to discount the drones by arguing it isnā€™t.

davel , (edited ) to worldnews in US says Israel's use of weapons may have violated international law
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Aside from the first link theyā€™re all Wikipedia, and none of them are considered controversial in the least. This stuff is regularly referenced in scholarly works and covered in college curricula. Itā€™s standard stuff in polysci, public relations, marketing, history, etc.

davel , to worldnews in US says Israel's use of weapons may have violated international law
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first-time

A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink.

ā€œI have to admit, Iā€™m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,ā€ the CIA agent says.

ā€œThank you,ā€ the KGB says. ā€œWe do our best but truly, itā€™s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.ā€

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. ā€œThank you friend, but you must be confusedā€¦ Thereā€™s no propaganda in America.ā€

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davel , to fediverse in Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitter
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Two things can be true at the same time: that Twitter & Nostr have become Nazi bars and that the large US corporate social media platforms (Meta, X, Alphabet, Reddit, etc.) have become constituent parts of the US military-intelligence-industrial complex.

davel , to fediverse in Jack Dorsey says he quit Bluesky because it was becoming another Twitter
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Twitter is merely a Nazi bar when what Jack wanted was a Turbo-Nazi bar.

jwz: Blockchain Rasputin over here is mad that moderation exists

It has been obvious to anyone paying attention that the reason Dorsey founded and funded Bluesky was with the end goal of enabling Twitter to go [Spider-Man Pointing dot GIF] any time an actual Nazi showed up, because moderation was not their problem, they just outsourced it to a series of nested shell companies (that they fund) who act as reputation laundries and liability crumple zones.

Now he pouts and says the quiet part out loud.

davel , to worldnews in US says Israel's use of weapons may have violated international law
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They arenā€™t. This person is running on Western propaganda and copium fumes.

davel , (edited ) to worldnews in US says Israel's use of weapons may have violated international law
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If people havenā€™t figured out by now that the US doesnā€™t give a rats ass about the Palestinians, I donā€™t know what to tell you.

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Cut off all support and Israel buddies up with China, India, or possibly even Russia.

Neither China nor Russia is going to give Israel the time of day. I can think of no reason why India would, either.
Full text: China-France Joint Statement on the Situation in the Middle East

(The latter is becoming unlikely as Russia begins to unravel).

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davel , to worldnews in US says Israel's use of weapons may have violated international law
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orly

davel , to worldnews in UN votes to back Palestinian membership, prompting Israeli envoy to shred charter
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Eat your heart out, The Onion.

davel , to asklemmy in What is freedom?
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Ah thanks.

davel , to asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?
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I donā€™t know why youā€™re doubling down on your confident incorrectness when you donā€™t even have Wikipedia-level understanding. The very first sentence from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism

Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

And obviously the question who the state allows to own the means of production is very much political. Economics is politics.

davel , (edited ) to asklemmy in What is freedom?
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Is this a joke or is it more r/neoliberal leakage?

davel , to asklemmy in What is freedom?
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Actually itā€™s about ethics in gaming journalism.

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