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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.

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There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.

A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.

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Additional reading:

The Myth of Tiananmen published by the Graduate School of Journalism at the Ivy League Columbia University

BBC Reporters, CBS News, and New York Times reporter who were actually in the city the day it happened who report mainstream news got it all wrong. BBC Source | CBS Source | NYTimes Source

Readings into what happened with the protests:

https://redsails.org/another-view-of-tiananmen

https://www.liberationnews.org/tiananmen-the-massacre-that-wasnt-2/

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

An error in my thought? I was responding directly to something you asked:

What would you think of Biden or Trump calling our military to put down protests like what happened in summer of 2020 in the U.S.?

They do this and that's bad. Your "hypothetical" implies you didn't think it was happening, so I pointed out it is happening. There are examples all throughout the last century in America: Kent State, when Reagan used the military to go around the air traffic control unions, the battle of Blair Mountain.

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

I'm anti state, every state. I don't apologize for Kent State or anything else.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The reason why people here will say you're apologizing for American actions is because we don't equate China and the US on the basis of being states. We see the USA as far, far more harmful to the world, regardless if China has truly authentic socialist ideology in is government. I really think you'd agree to this.

It's a valid ideological premise to be wary of states, sure. That's fine, we can talk about the details of that after we organize a revolution.

I don't think you're a bad person or that you're truly trying to defend the US. I think you're just saying things that come across as rhetorically inauthentic because you're repeating things we more closely connect to liberals.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

The US is a far more violent state and it's not even remotely close.

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

This person isn't ready to engage honestly yet, so might as well leave it. There are plenty of thoughtful responses but the user only responds to ones that they can easily dismiss as "whataboutism" or say things like "i'm against every state" in some kind of weird all lives matter style...