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Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse. We need to discuss ways to combat this. One group- memes or something is wholly controlled by Chinese state actors. What do you think?

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[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 79 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 75 points 2 months ago

I’m no fan of Tankies or the CCP, but I’m really not seeing any more pro-china propaganda than you see elsewhere, mostly excitement as a result of their green tech stuff or HSR (while ignoring why China has a need for HSR)

Someone once told me China has such a robust rail system so that they can move their nations worth of prisoners around. I think this is what this user is implying, but I really don't quite know.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 58 points 2 months ago

Hey, can anyone tell me why the 3rd largest country by land area and 2nd largest by population needs high speed rail?

[-] JayTreeman@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago

After you hear why please talk to the Canadian government

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

Counterpoint: econony stonks-down

[-] Soot@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a secret and nefarious reason, that's why it must be left unsaid! Just know it's not for the godly purposes that white people use rail for.

[-] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 57 points 2 months ago

Yeah like what the fuck? can someone with an account tell this person that the U.S. has, and has had for decades, the world's largest prison population both in absolute numbers as well as proportion of the population

[-] ShareThatBread@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago

The duplicitous mind of the USAian can only have room for thinking of their next crime.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

Doesn't Honduras have a higher incarceration rate? Last time I checked in Wikipedia it said Honduras and Cuba are higher by their rates. (obviously taking the Cuba one with a pinch of salt because the source is a Western NGO)

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

US used to be the highest, I believe it peaked in the early 2000s? As soon as they took the gas out of the "War on Drugs" machine it really plateau'd

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

Much like capital grows until its own contradictions push it outward to the imperial periphery, it seems the war on drugs met a critical point where it could only survive by expanding to LatAm and transforming into the avatars of neoliberalism like Bukele. But also the recent excursion against Venezuela was justified using "war on drugs" rhetoric.

The punitive justice programs of dead generation weigh on the brains of the living like nightmares.

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[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago

The last breakdown I saw, only El Salvador had an incarceration rate to rival the US. It even broke down the union and listed each state individually, so the top thirty incarcerates were all US states, then El Salvador, then the rest of the US states and only then did other countries start appearing on the list.

[-] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This one was posted on lemmy.ml a year ago: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/graphs/2021.html

Updated 2024 version: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.html


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[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago

moving your people around a lot is bad for the environment. that's why, in the US, we lock up as many as we can in prisons and concentration campus before killing them and dumping their bodies in unmarked graves.

because its better for the environment.

[-] Elysia@hexbear.net 58 points 2 months ago

catgirl-salute shoutout to Cowbee, алсааас and Maeve for somehow enduring the lib nonsense

[-] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 months ago
[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 58 points 2 months ago

https://lemmy.world/post/42254843/21814710

Millions of Chinese are dedicated to destroying truth. No society can flourish in darkness. Poo bear will fail, although, in the short term they can propagandized the world with disinformation with successes in different areas. Humanity is truth. Without truth, there can be no humanity.

@DSN9@lemmy.ml When you say millions of Chinese (just "Chinese," not "Chinese people") are dedicated to destroying truth, and then say that without truth there is no humanity, it sounds to me like you're saying millions of Chinese people have no humanity. Is that what you meant?

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Millions of Jews are dedicated to destroying truth. No society can flourish in darkness. The Judeo Bolshevik menace will fail, although, in the short term they can propagandized the world with disinformation with successes in different areas. Humanity is truth. Without truth, there can be no humanity.

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[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 56 points 2 months ago
[-] Imnecomrade@hexbear.net 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Evil tankies bought a TLD for $200K to run evil propaganda websites to make libs tremble. These commies wouldn't possibly have any other use for that amount of money.

[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

Tankies made an entire country to run propaganda on a niche platform.

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[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago

WTF is wrong with these people that they are scared of Chyna? No one from China has harmed me. It's been white, American Christian Evangelicals that have caused the most harm to my life. Why aren't you lemmitors going after those people?

[-] nothx@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

You don’t seem to understand how much the west cares about the Uyghurs. Their socio-economical and religious autonomy is a breath of freedom air in the lungs of Chinese hegemony.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago

These people are going to have a fit when the UK starts promoting China officially because it's now trying to change ties from US to China.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago

Reddit blowback when the West spent millions of dollars making little neckbeard mujahideens that didn't get the memo that they're switching teams now.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We have always been allied with Eastasia.

[-] Inui@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago

We mention this a lot, but it's obvious they don't read. We have some of the biggest critics of China on all of Lemmy who are signed up on Hexbear or Lemmygrad. They just have actual evidence and intellectual backing for their critiques instead of re-posting Reddit comments for the last 10 years.

[-] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 44 points 2 months ago

I get upbeared with good faith critiques of china all the time lol

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago

Critiquing China for isolationism in the 21st century and collaborating with the US in the 20th, liberalism, cultural revolution, 4 pests campaign, social chauvinism, and other stuff that actually happens: halal

Critiquing China for Uighur genocide, oppressing Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong, social credit score, and other stuff that's either not real or is simply good and correct for a communist country to do (oh no they freed Tibetan slaves and took over a proxy used by Britain to influence China!): haram

Liberals could do well to learn that leftists have plenty of time to sit and reflect on the things we've done wrong because we're serious about trying again and doing them right. It's really telling that they can say we never criticize China or other AES because we do have so many criticisms, they're just not based on the fictions they have.

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago

we've wrapped around to hating china again folks, but it's because they don't nuke AmeriKKKa immediately

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 43 points 2 months ago

It seems my superiority has led to some controversy some-controversy

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago

Kind of like how the nu-atheists turned into deus vult guys once their Islamophobia won out over their skepticism, these are the people who, 20 years ago, were laughing and making fun of the red-faced Cold War boomer screaming about Communist Russian influences in the local HOA.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[-] sisatici@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

I wish China actually gave a shit about propaganda. They sold tiktok for basically nothing

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

"China" didn't sell it, a Chinese businessman did. I don't think the CPC or the PRC ever had a controlling stake in TikTok lmao, but maybe they should have.

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[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

It makes 0 difference to China what Westerners think of China. It's not like we have democracy.

[-] tane@lemy.lol 31 points 2 months ago

What an incredibly embarrassing thread. I feel like I lost intelligence just by reading it

[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

Christ, that’s bleak.

Just wanted to take a second to say yall are pretty cool here. We’re pretty lucky these ppl can’t hang.

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[-] MayoPete@hexbear.net 31 points 2 months ago

Gee, I wonder if my declining standard of living and constant fear of being murdered by some federal chud because I'm not a murican flag humper has something to do with looking at alternatives? Nah, it's just Chinese brainwashing brainworms

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

I need to step up my game. Gotta get those Xi Bucks.

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

i'm a chinese state actor, i played witch #2 in a production of macbeth by the people's shakespeare company

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

so glad i dont know how to make my hexbear account able to post there because i dont have the leftover energy to deal with these dipshit libs

[-] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 26 points 2 months ago

You can't, hexbear is defederated from lemmy.world lemmitor and lemmy.world is defederated from hexbear.


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[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't think we're defederated from them? They defederated as a last resort preemptively before federating with us, so we never had the discussion or so I think

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[-] DogThatWentGorp@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

Chinese state actors? Tbf I /am/ really excited to see Danny Divito's performance as the Chengdu Province.

[-] ComradeOohAah@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago
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