[+] [email protected] -15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is the pot calling the kettle black, but sure. It's correct.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

The “neither Washington nor Beijing” folk always try to draw equivalences even when Trump is tanking the world economy and China is the only one with the means and reason to take a stand. The truth is, China isn’t a bully, while the US absolutely is. It isn’t China with the hundreds of millitary bases worldwide, it is always China pushing for multilateralism.

Is China perfect? Nope. Is it getting steadily better as the US is steadily getting worse? Undoubtedly. The fact is, Socialism works, and the genocidal settler-colony of the US Empire does everything it can to make people see the PRC as equal to its evil even with the most sophisticated propaganda networks on Earth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Don't they use centimeters and kilometers? I guess it doesn't hit the same..

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Banned from X for exercising their free speech in 3.. 2..

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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[+] [email protected] -22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

yup, just found out the hard way what posting on lemmy.ml entails.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

cry ab it

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I find it incredibly fascinating that many people in the West can make the connection that their own governments regularly lie and deceive them, but can't accept that, maybe, just maybe, the same governments are lying about the Chinese government. It's astonishing to see the contradiction there. Like, perhaps since you are well aware that your own government isn't completely honest, why would you not question other narratives that are pushed by that same government?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Most believe whatever Five Eyes NGO & corporate media and what Wikipedia[^1] tell them. I try to lead them toward developing real media literacy, but they seldom drink.

[^1]: Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Basically this meme:

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

I touched on it here:

Whether intentionally or not, this idea that China can’t be better than the US is rooted in eurocentric chauvanism that tries to desparately cling to the idea that Western countries cannot be surpassed morally and materially. There can only be morally good countries or materially prosperous countries, because the US is morally bankrupt but materially wealthy. China shatters the idea that these sins are necessary to preserve this wealth, which sends the “neither Washington nor Beijing” folk into logical pretzels and existential crises.

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