• ATGM 🚀@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        I think that tankies, arguably, are hardly leftists at all.

        Looking at the community, all I see is Red-Draped Reactionaries.

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        No thanks. I don’t give a fuck about getting ratio’d. Let the people decide. Assuming this platform ever gets more traction, which it seems to be doing, the vast majority of the people that come here won’t be tankies so… no, no I don’t think I will go somewhere else.

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            1 year ago

            echo chamber? youre the one echoing western corporate media narrative.

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              I have done no such thing lol. I’ve made two comments one making fun of the guy that said china isn’t part of world news and this one. Your comment trying to paint me in this light just reeks of desperation or the inability to read

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                1 year ago

                I’m sorry let me clarify. By ‘you’ I mean the influx of users with a predominantly western liberal mindset.

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                  1 year ago

                  So posting one article about china bad is an influx of new users with a predominantly western liberal mindset echoing the corporate media narrative. Seems like a bit of a reach.

                  If someone posted some bad shit about USA nobody would give af and would mostly agree, you just seem like you don’t want anything critical of china

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    Hey, tankies, decent countries don’t have to violently suppress their populations and then lie about it. Oh, and socialism is worker ownership of the means of production, not whatever the fuck they’re doing in China.

    (inb4 people assuming I must support the US since I hate China)

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        Lol. Thinking some countries have better governments than others is supremacist? Whatever, dude.

        By the way. If there are any countries with decent governments, I don’t know of them. But like. If there were decent countries, they wouldn’t behave like China.

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          Saying “decent countries” clearly has a perverse slip within the thought, the idea of a collective I in the our countries and an objectifying negation of the I in the other group. Basically good ol’ civilisation and barbarians. The same rhetoric you and your people have been using to oppress me and my third world brothers and sisters all around the world. You really think you need to do the missionary work of educating the beasts, don’t you?

      • ATGM 🚀@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Ah yes.

        Being against China’s racist genocide is racist.

        China, the imperialist ethno-state, is clearly innocent.

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    Meanwhile in Taiwan, the island’s equivalent of the Tiananmen massacre from the KMT dictatorship (the 228 incident) has its own memorial park and museum.

    No need for a self-inflicted legitimacy crisis when you respect your citizens’ basic rights.

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    I’m not sure I understand China’s reactions here… if nothing happened, then why not just let them congregate and “remember” something that supposedly didn’t happen? What’s the harm? If they were blocking traffic or riots were involved, it would understandable to want to stop it, but if it’s peaceful, where’s the harm? Unless of course, something did happen that they want people to forget…