zbyte64

joined 9 months ago
[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago

Yeah but this time we surely got'em, right? Maybe if we compromise on voting rights and the Supreme Court they'll be convinced. If not, let's keep compromising until that changes.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago

I have found that the results from Baidu do not state whether violence happened or how many were killed in regards to the massacre. The event also seems absent from the Baidu encyclopedia: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%97%A8/63708

This is more than a government that doesn't want to acknowledge any violence on their part, it acts to silence discussion around the event and the .ml community's actions replicate that effect (which damns any objectivity the mods have).

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Well now that we have established that it is as censored as I believe because I have first hand experience, can we circle back to massacres and censoring said massacres are bad and not what we want in a social media service?

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Dude, I literally ran a Firefox plugin at one time that gave me the "Great Firewall of China" experience. But just in case, I went over to Baidu and did a search and here's the official story you speak of (and the only one told in the search results): https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-07/14/content_12898720.htm

The article does not address how many people were killed or even whether violence occurred.

I would call those results to be censorship.

Edit: I don't like the South Korean state either, but not more or less, just different. I'm not here to say which state is more morally justified than another, even when they're at end stage capitalism.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Again, the UN has looked at the numbers and found them to be reasonable. And we would have more numbers if the IDF didn't kill a record number of journalists (and their families).

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

If the discussion is about how a government that massacres its own people and censors even searches of it is bad, then no, rectifying that difference in number doesn't make the objection go away.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You don’t believe me?

What is it that I disbelieve exactly? You're here trying to convince others that a group of people don't value their lives as much as you do. I believe you when you say that you don't value groups of human lives equally, I just don't share that view.

Those who are immersed in islamist ideology think quite differently from people of christian heritage

I'll be honest, I didn't bother reading the rest of the wall of text after this. Enjoy your crusade and may you die as you have lived.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Not sure if you realized, but you moved from "Hamas's numbers can't be trusted" to "we can't trust any numbers because it's war".

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Just know that this accusation you make is a confession of your views and you should investigate what that says about yourself on your own.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 1 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Deleting and banning those who discuss tienamen square is pretty damning IMHO.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 7 months ago

If they aren't human shields then they're human bait. Or as my household calls it, a war crime going unpunished.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

They bomb entire neighbourhoods to rubble as a distraction mechanism for their teams to go in.

Those human shields had it coming. /S or I guess they're human bait now?

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