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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Blocking doesn't solve the problem of the misinformation, Russian/Chinese propaganda, genocide denialism and human rights abuse denials they push

And also, I'm not making a decision for anyone

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yeah, like this one dude who keeps pushing this weird political agenda against Marxists as the world slips into fascism because he doesn't understand the concept of prioritization.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

A whole crusade just so Breitbart articles can get posted comfortably with only gentle downvotes as pushback.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm not against socialism/communism, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'd be happy to see the fall of capitalism in my lifetime.

Just not replacing it with just another flavor of authoritarianism, which is what the Tankies push which is what the current regimes of China and Russia are

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

marx was not a statist, leftism is about the destruction of heirachy, just because some idiots think they will be the king to control their pawns doesnt mean that is what the political theory suggests.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

did you like... read it? by statist I assume you mean in favor of a state?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

marx understood the nessesity of the state, but the end goal is a stateless society

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because tankies are just facists in red~

Tankies and facists do genocide, and two thinga can be bad at the same time! Imagine that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

So do liberals.

Do you think everyone should defederate .world?

I'm down. I'd fucking love not having to yell at both people that don't know what words mean and support modern genocide and people that do know what words mean but can't get over the fact that America Bad does not make Russia/China good.

No?

It's different?

Perhaps because liberal genocide, like communist genocide, is a failure of ideological ethics instead of a feature like in black fascism?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Yes, neoliberal regimes at least have conducted genocides, although it'd point it out as authoritarian regimes.

No, not really - it's mostly about telling the tankies that they are the same as their most hated enemy.

And the only difference between .ml and .world would be denial of genocide, at least as I've seen no denial of native genocides in Canada, US, scandinavia, or similar - neither any denial of the ongoing genocide in palestine. Ofcourse that could just be less noticed and talked about, but they don't ban you for saying that the US is doing genocide

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

genocide denialism

You have literally witnessed a real genocide for the past 2 years live on TikTok, with multiple daily updates on bombings, murders, and children assassinations. How come there's not ONE picture of whatever other "genocide" you're trying to construe leftists deny?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

China is the subject matter expert on censorship and media control, they probably wrote the book on it. Israel by comparison is both new at it and, honestly, I don't think they cared to hide it that much. China in all likelihood has very good (well good for them anyways...) reasons to do everything it can to keep a tight lid on it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Walter Lippmann and Edward Bernays (and Herman & Chomsky) literally wrote the books on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People on China have widespread and non-prosecuted access to VPNs. This is common knowledge. Media is irrelevant, a single photograph from a mobile phone leaked on the internet would be enough to make New York Times cover. The fact that this hasn't happened proves enough.

There isn't evidence of genocide in China. You can possibly make an argument for police state, but the genocide thing is so thoroughly debunked even wikipedia had to change the article title to "persecution" last year. If you want to have a serious, evidence-based conversation about this instead of the usual ear-shutting and namecalling, I'm fully willing.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago

Human rights abuses against Uyghurs in Xinjiang

In 2014, the Chinese government announced a "people's war on terror". Since then, Uyghurs in Xinjiang have been affected by extensive controls and restrictions which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese government has imposed upon their religious, cultural, economic and social lives. In order to forcibly assimilate them, the government has arbitrarily detained more than an estimated one million Uyghurs in internment camps. Human Rights Watch says that the camps have been used to indoctrinate Uyghurs and other Muslims since 2017.

Leaked Chinese government operating procedures state that the main feature of the camps is to ensure adherence to CCP ideology, with the inmates being continuously held captive in the camps for a minimum of 12 months depending on their performance on Chinese ideology tests. The New York Times has reported inmates are required to "sing hymns praising the Chinese Communist Party and write 'self-criticism' essays," and that prisoners are also subjected to physical and verbal abuse by prison guards. Chinese officials have sometimes assigned to monitor the families of current inmates, and women have been detained due to actions by their sons or husbands.

Other policies have included forced labor, suppression of Uyghur religious practices, political indoctrination, severe ill-treatment, forced sterilization, forced contraception, and forced abortion. According to German researcher Adrian Zenz, hundreds of thousands of children have been forcibly separated from their parents and sent to boarding schools. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute estimates that some sixteen thousand mosques have been razed or damaged since 2017. Associated Press reported that from 2015 to 2018, birth rates in the mostly Uyghur regions of Hotan and Kashgar fell by more than 60%, compared to a decrease by 9.69% in the whole country. The allegation of Uyghur birth rates being lower than those of Han Chinese have been disputed by pundits from Pakistan Observer, Antara, and Detik.com.

The policies have drawn widespread condemnation, with some characterizing them as a genocide. In an assessment by the UN Human Rights Office, the United Nations (UN) stated that China's policies and actions in the Xinjiang region may be crimes against humanity, although it did not use the term genocide. The United States and legislatures in several countries have described the policies as a genocide. The Chinese government denies having committed human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

Ok, so we can't yet use "genocide", we just have to say that China is commiting crimes against humanity on them

Leaked Chinese government operating procedures state that the main feature of the camps is to ensure adherence to CCP ideology, with the inmates being continuously held captive in the camps for a minimum of 12 months depending on their performance on Chinese ideology tests. The New York Times has reported inmates are required to "sing hymns praising the Chinese Communist Party and write 'self-criticism' essays," and that prisoners are also subjected to physical and verbal abuse by prison guards. Chinese officials have sometimes assigned to monitor the families of current inmates, and women have been detained due to actions by their sons or husbands.

That's some Grade A dystopian shit right there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghurs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a good thing .world doesn't deny any major contemporary genocides or carry water for the party that started it... [rolls eyes so hard I die]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

would love to hear specifics??

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You neolibs have almost mastered the art of gaslighting as much as the Trump chuds. Congrats!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Asks to hear specifics

You: THATS GASLIGHTING!

what‽

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Care to elaborate?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

You can block them, so you don't have to see their posts (or their comments, some apps allow you to block the comments as well iirc). Or you can move to an instance that chose to defederate with them.