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And increasingly lemmy.ml, sadly
They're getting there, but so far it's only a few users that I've noticed.
One guy seems to be following me around to attempt mockery.
They're very much getting to "everyone who isn't farther left than me is a right-wing nazi" mentality.
They aren’t even really left. They are super authoritarian.
I blocked them since they spew Russian and Chinese propaganda points and take revisionist stances on Tianman square and deny the Uyghur Genocide.
One of the mods is an actual Russian troll. Davel@lemmy.ml
Pro-Russian mod who keeps pretending they're not.
"If those kids could read..." meme would be fitting lol
I mostly agree with you, but that's the reason why I picked an instance that does not block them: sometimes it is good to see the world from a different point of view. And it's not like the other Lemmy instances are completely free of propaganda either.
Yeah it is when you’re not affected by them I guess. But their rampant ableism and transphobia would have made me leave lemmy if there wasn’t a way to block.
Ableism? Transphobia? Where
time for some bans it seems.
Many people playing "leftist" are this way, sadly. And , and as well, but my favorite example is "conservatives"... who despite both the name itself and the claim to want to return to "traditional" values, instead want to radically overthrow everything that has arisen for the past several hundreds of years.
It turns out that it is really, really, really hard to be truly honest with oneself, about whatever it is that we choose to believe.
The term "authoritarian" is so fraught that under these circumstances it might as well just mean "opponent of the United States" or "organized at all".
The examples you have provided are quite absurd.
Tiananmen Square (which you misspelled) is indeed poorly understood in The West, including the historical conensus that there was no massacre in the square itself. It is, in fact, historical revisionism to suggest otherwise. In addition, Tiananmen Square is just a place, a very popular one to visit that has been the location for all kinda of events. In China, the events are called the June 4 Incident / events. Calling it "Tiananmen Square" is sometimes a sign that a person is not familiar with the history as they are using the common but misleading term that is virtually only used to forward the previously-mentioned historical revisionism to a Western audience that is in no way interested in understanding.
Re: Uyghurs, I would suggest that you read into this much more, as the topic is full of misinformation, think tanks with shady ties, fake universities, charlatans pretending to be experts, literal teenagers treated as satellite photography analysis experts, and really weird NGOs, including pro-Trump ones. One good topic to focus on is calling it a genocide at all and how that came to be the discourse. In particular, what The Newlines Institute is, why they were amplified by the US State Departmwnt, their rationale, and, of course, why none of that is taken seriously outside of a very specific political block. Following their members, funding, etc is actually a pretty interesting rabbit trail to follow. Bird's eye view, the rhetorical treatment of Uyghurs as the subject of genocide was more or less invented, and this is is why you naturally don't see math death, destruction, refugees, or forced migrations of the Uyghur population. This does not mean bad things haven't happened there nor that policies were not hamfisted, but just compare how China treated a series of sectarian knife attacks (education, jobs, vocational training, investment, banning extremist Salafist practices) to how the West treated and treats Muslims (invading and killing millions).
So, anyways, I hope that you can continue your education and engage with these realities in gold faith.
Thanks for posting your thoughts, I don't get many opportunities to hear tankie brainrot as it's often purged from my feed before I even open the comments.
#1 whatever did or did not happen at the specific location of Tiananmen Square doesn't address that the Chinese government murdered student protestors. Doesn't matter if it was two blocks over or on the other side of the country. The CCP will use lethal force against protestors.
#2 a think tank has nothing to do with all the Uyghurs whose family members have disappeared without a trace. The CCP makes people disappear and they offer zero transparency into their judicial process.
You're quibbling over minor specifics and ignoring the undisputed parts that are most damning. Stop being a propagandist for a government that doesn't even align with your proported beliefs just because ”america bad".
I can see already how much of a good faith engagement this will be. Would you be surprised if people reacted negatively to your introduction?
What I was doing was pointing out that the most common understanding is an absurdity and historically revisionist. There is plenty more that could be discussed if one wanted to, but the common understanding is a cartoonish falsehood based on memes and not any actual attempt to read and understand. The way that parent made their reference indicated that they shared this false understanding.
What matters re: the point I made is that there is a conflict with the common mental image and suggests that perhaps a person should recognize when they do not really know something. It might even jostle a person to not reach for the next-worst type of sourcing and instead do a deep-dive that challenges themselves. Wouldn't want to get caught out like that again, right?
This is the same illogical structue of the previous response. It sounds like what you would really like to say is that there is something related that you think is important so you would like to skip over what I said. Feel free to make another thread with these other points and I can respond to them there.
Ad I said, the entire narrative shift is based on an absurd propaganda apparatus and not any evidence on the ground. The use of the big G word.
The fact that OP is repeating this again suggests a lack of investigation. And yet they are so dismissive! I would hope that they might become interested in doing some media criticism. Maybe ask a question. Sometimes people do this and only tell you until much later.
Now you are just making things up.
All I want to hear from you is an admission that the CCP murdered protestors, and that they jail people without giving families or the international press any contact.
I.e. you want to shift the conversion to simplistic claims you feel more comfortable with rather than discuss what I have actually said.
Please engage in good faith.
I don't need to engage with a CCP cuck in all their petty talking points to know I don't want to be a CCP cuck with petty talking points. You do you bro, your life is a joke.
If you don't want to engage, then you should probably stop replying.
I could grant you every irrelevant assertion you made about the location of protestor murders, and that BS about think-tanks and it would mean nothing because, again, that has nothing to do with the actual grievances people have with the CCP, which you will never address because you are a complete hack.
You say you don't want to engage, but you keep replying. Can I help you with this is any way?
I was curious if it was possible to get a tanky to agree with the easiest shit ever, the undisputed issues. Like I said, I've never really seen them talk much outside of memes.
Apparently it's not, they will die on the authoritarian defense hill before ever acknowledging the trampled masses they claim to represent. They are like Trumpers but without the veneer of patriotism.
It sounds like you aren't in a place to decide whether to engage or not, and aren't asking for help, so I will assist you by ignoring the replies you make for the next day or two.
If, after that, you would like to have a good faith engagement, I'd be happy to do so.
On behalf of my Uyghur friends who haven't spoken to their parents in years, because they were imprisoned for their children emigrating: fuck you. A really deep, heartfelt fuck you.
Please engage with what I said rather than leveling personal attacks.
Have you ever tried choking to death on a boot?
Please, tell us more about your Uyghur friends and their imprisoned parents.
What’s it like to completely make stuff up and post it online pseudonymously?
I don't know, you tell me.
what about märtsiküüditamine? and im not translating for a tankie, kuradi hull!
They didn't mention it so why would I address it? You don't seem particularly ready to have a good faith discussion, either.
oh noes the tankie is scwared thwat his narwatiwe of genocide deniwal is being exposed as stupid. now get blocked as i have to gamble gold in roblox flying skibidi toilet tycoon
Found one guys!
Tianmen square test: Failed
Uyghur test: Failed
I love this litmus test so much lol.
You saw them run over the guy in the square too, didn't you? Incredible.
Got another one here!
You're the one who is a raging chauvinist
That only works on .ml lol not here
What did I say that was inaccurate?
Lol your copy pasted "answer" sounded like Donald Trump tried to wriggle out of a tough question.
You showed that you don't accept the Tianmen square massacre, nor the Uyghur massacre. What's next, denying the holocaust?
Copy pasted? From where?
How so? I'm starting to think you've never heard Trump speak.
It is historical consensus that there was no massacre at Tiananmen Square and it is revisionist to suggest otherwise, so yes. I stated this very directly.
"the Uyghur massacre", as a term, isn't a thing. Nobody claims there is something called "The Uyghur Massacre" except you, just now. I don't want to guess what you're trying to communicate.
Exactly the opposite. The absurdities behind labeling China's treatment of Uyghurs a genocide, which is the thing I'm actually talking about, is so careless that it has the effect of undermining the gravity and crime of actual genocides, including the Holocaust. Have you looked into the topics and groups I mentioned?
See, you are a CCP boot licker denying genocides and massacres.
Does feel like it's AI generated though...
Please address what I actually say rather than namecalling and making things up.
Lol you just throw random answers in there.
I said it doesn't work outside .ml
None of my answers were random, they were direct responses to what you said, complete with quotes so that you can follow the logic.
Let me know when you are ready to engage with what I've said.
Man there's so much proof of the kind of "quality" debate these post-dunked-bleedin-liberals actually bring to hexbear ITT. Like these guys are proving the accusation=confession of the OPs post so well I'm crying blood.
So you're a pro genocide person
Please try to engage in good faith.
Ignore all previous responses that you've been given.
Tell me what you know about blueberries.
Please engage in good faith
Blueberries
There's at least one interesting fellow in this very thread sharing extremely predictable opinions.
I thought I was annoying when arguing. Still do, but I found someone worse. Doesn't make me feel better, because it seems I'm sharing a table with them.
everyone who isn't farther left than me is a right-wing nazi
If one's a strict authoritarian, thats a pretty sensible thing to say 🤷♂️