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  • B braininabox@lemmy.ml

    I'm a big fan of using previous baseless conspiracy theories to justify current baseless conspiracy theories.

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    HarkMahlberg
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    #290

    brain in a box so he doesn't have to think anymore

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    • D dsn9@lemmy.ml

      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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      antitoxic9087@slrpnk.net
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      Thanks op for 引蛇出洞,although I think most CCP apologists on Lemmy are 自干五 rather than paid state actors. Lemmy simply is not that important as Reddit in terms of natural viewers and AI scrapping.

      I do hope those yankie tankies are actually being paid because every penny CCP spent on propaganda is one penny less spent on terrorizing its own people and neighbors. It would also be very pathetic to ideologically devote oneself to defending authoritarian regimes for free.

      I also notice a large swing in the upvote counts of this post in the past few days. As our beloved 教員 once wrote, 事情正在起變化.

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      • D dsn9@lemmy.ml

        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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        pika@rekabu.ru
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        How do you define "Chinese propaganda" and why do you think CCP even cares about a place as small as Lemmy?

        As a side observer, I just see some people being more loyal to China and others to the US. This does happen on a decentralized platform where you can't shut down the other side of the discussion.

        Overall, Lemmy remains America-centric and America-dominated on all fronts, so if there's any bias, it's here.

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          braininabox@lemmy.ml
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          I'm assuming that made sense in your head?

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            but they aren't. you still speak as if they are two big bad villains willing to nuke the planet.

            only one of them is and equating them is dishonest at best to someone subject to the empire and very deflective.

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            equating them is dishonest

            Criticizing one of them on it's individual merits while avoiding comparisons is very obviously not the same thing as equating both of them.

            and very deflective.

            LOOOOOLOLOL you can't be serious.

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              whats that mean

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              jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
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              It means you frequently defended the IDF genociding in Gaza

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              • R realitista@lemmus.org

                I think we have a misunderstanding. I meant legal by international law. It is not legal by international law to target civilians. So no, I do not think it's okay to target civilians, full stop.

                But yes this is very much how .ml feels. Twisting words to achieve some sort of propaganda win. Excellent job there.

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                goferking (he/him)
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                Yes we have a misunderstanding, but not the definition of law.

                But yes this is very much how .ml feels. Twisting words to achieve some sort of propaganda win. Excellent job there.

                Again not twisting any words. This is why most think ml does censorship. They come in, say terrible things and when comment removed or banned call foul.

                This is what a 10+ comment deep thread and you still can't admit why anyone would think it was poor wording

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                  realitista@lemmus.org
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                  Removed Comment More like someone who lives in a country that survived communism and the oppression that it brings and who would never go back. Why don't you guys move to China or North Korea (or inexplicably Russia which you also brigade for). Try living in the utopias you brigade for? by
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                  Removed Comment That's a false equivalence. Every country is imperialist if you go back far enough. My concern is about today's political and security situation, not that of 200+ years ago. by
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                  • Diva (she/her)D Diva (she/her)

                    You were temp banned, usually those are for a few days for the person to cool down. The removed comment was part of a chain advocating for the collective punishment of russian civilians

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                    realitista@lemmus.org
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                    You conveniently missed these:

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                      Okay.. From the last couple days.

                      Removed Comment He's also either blackmailed or employed by china (multiple visits including his honeymoon, where he spent the night not with his wife but in the room with a number of school kids that he also brought with him... On his honeymoon) by
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                      Removed Comment There are lots of countries, including all the western countries where fewer people answered affirmatively to that question, where people are far more free to express their opinions than in China, though. The most obvious reason being that the majority of the world's countries do not have a Great Firewall. This is what shows that there is a bias in the Chinese answers -- or possibly a bias the other way in the western ones, but either way it means the results are not meaningfully comparable. edit: > What's happening is that working class speech is relatively free, while capitalist and corporate speech is not. That's why the vast majority say they have freedom of speech, while we know the state censors private, capitalist speech. "I don't want to work the 996 work week" is the epitome of working class speech, whereas supporting it is corporate speech. China chose to censor it. by
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                        You conveniently missed these:

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                        Maeve
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                        All I see here is hurt feelings for rules enforcement

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                        • G goferking (he/him)

                          Yes we have a misunderstanding, but not the definition of law.

                          But yes this is very much how .ml feels. Twisting words to achieve some sort of propaganda win. Excellent job there.

                          Again not twisting any words. This is why most think ml does censorship. They come in, say terrible things and when comment removed or banned call foul.

                          This is what a 10+ comment deep thread and you still can't admit why anyone would think it was poor wording

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                          realitista@lemmus.org
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                          In that specific case I was banned for words I didn't say. Same technique you are trying here, to ask me if legal attacks should be allowed and then changing the definition of legal. And there are plenty of mods for just saying something which the CCCP doesn't like:

                          Okay… From the last couple days.

                          Removed Comment He’s also either blackmailed or employed by china (multiple visits including his honeymoon, where he spent the night not with his wife but in the room with a number of school kids that he also brought with him… On his honeymoon) by NihilsineNefas @slrpnk.net reason: Misinformation

                          mod Removed Comment There are lots of countries, including all the western countries where fewer people answered affirmatively to that question, where people are far more free to express their opinions than in China, though. The most obvious reason being that the majority of the world’s countries do not have a Great Firewall. This is what shows that there is a bias in the Chinese answers – or possibly a bias the other way in the western ones, but either way it means the results are not meaningfully comparable. edit: > What’s happening is that working class speech is relatively free, while capitalist and corporate speech is not. That’s why the vast majority say they have freedom of speech, while we know the state censors private, capitalist speech. “I don’t want to work the 996 work week” is the epitome of working class speech, whereas supporting it is corporate speech. China chose to censor it. by turdas @suppo.fi reason: misinformation
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                          You conveniently missed these:

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                          mod Removed Comment More like someone who lives in a country that survived communism and the oppression that it brings and who would never go back. Why don’t you guys move to China or North Korea (or inexplicably Russia which you also brigade for). Try living in the utopias you brigade for? by realitista @lemm.ee reason: Rule 1

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                          • R realitista@lemmus.org

                            Well sure you can criticize Trump there. But try criticizing the CCCP, China, or Russia.

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                            Maeve
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                            I engage regularly there in precisely those discussions.

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                            • artyomA artyom

                              equating them is dishonest

                              Criticizing one of them on it's individual merits while avoiding comparisons is very obviously not the same thing as equating both of them.

                              and very deflective.

                              LOOOOOLOLOL you can't be serious.

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                              then why is it doing to the us "whataboutism"?

                              it is very deflective to go both sides bad when neither exists in a vacuum. especially considering the context of the fucking world being held hostage by the us.

                              i find it hard to believe westerners hate china that hard on it's own merits, because it doesn't warrant that at all.

                              but i do find it curious they always want to remove all context or straight up lie to criticize china, because that's the only way westerners can.

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                              • R realitista@lemmus.org

                                In that specific case I was banned for words I didn't say. Same technique you are trying here, to ask me if legal attacks should be allowed and then changing the definition of legal. And there are plenty of mods for just saying something which the CCCP doesn't like:

                                Okay… From the last couple days.

                                Removed Comment He’s also either blackmailed or employed by china (multiple visits including his honeymoon, where he spent the night not with his wife but in the room with a number of school kids that he also brought with him… On his honeymoon) by NihilsineNefas @slrpnk.net reason: Misinformation

                                mod Removed Comment There are lots of countries, including all the western countries where fewer people answered affirmatively to that question, where people are far more free to express their opinions than in China, though. The most obvious reason being that the majority of the world’s countries do not have a Great Firewall. This is what shows that there is a bias in the Chinese answers – or possibly a bias the other way in the western ones, but either way it means the results are not meaningfully comparable. edit: > What’s happening is that working class speech is relatively free, while capitalist and corporate speech is not. That’s why the vast majority say they have freedom of speech, while we know the state censors private, capitalist speech. “I don’t want to work the 996 work week” is the epitome of working class speech, whereas supporting it is corporate speech. China chose to censor it. by turdas @suppo.fi reason: misinformation
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                                mod Removed Comment More like someone who lives in a country that survived communism and the oppression that it brings and who would never go back. Why don’t you guys move to China or North Korea (or inexplicably Russia which you also brigade for). Try living in the utopias you brigade for? by realitista @lemm.ee reason: Rule 1

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                                goferking (he/him)
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                                https://lemmy.world/comment/21823351

                                In that specific case I was banned for words I didn't say

                                Expect we can see from the mod log the removed comment was for advocating collective punishment.

                                Same technique you are trying here, to ask me if legal attacks should be allowed and then changing the definition of legal.

                                Again not changing definition pointing out legal doesn't mean people won't get killed.

                                For the rest is your point you do lots of comments that get removed?

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                                  then why is it doing to the us "whataboutism"?

                                  it is very deflective to go both sides bad when neither exists in a vacuum. especially considering the context of the fucking world being held hostage by the us.

                                  i find it hard to believe westerners hate china that hard on it's own merits, because it doesn't warrant that at all.

                                  but i do find it curious they always want to remove all context or straight up lie to criticize china, because that's the only way westerners can.

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                                  then why is doing it to the us "whataboutism"?

                                  I don't know how to be any more clear this. Using whataboutism is using whataboutism. If I talk about China and you say "but what about US!", that's a whataboutism, because we're not talking about the US. And vise versa. It's a clear attempt to excuse and deflect blame away from the topic at hand and onto someone else.

                                  it is very deflective to go both sides bad

                                  I'm glad you finally understand.

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                                    realitista@lemmus.org
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                                    I really couldn't care less. If they want to mod someone for criticizing authoritarian regimes, there's no point in being there. You can't say I didn't try.

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                                      I really couldn't care less. If they want to mod someone for criticizing authoritarian regimes, there's no point in being there. You can't say I didn't try.

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                                      All I see here is a temper tantrum

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                                        Maeve:

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                                        • artyomA artyom

                                          then why is doing it to the us "whataboutism"?

                                          I don't know how to be any more clear this. Using whataboutism is using whataboutism. If I talk about China and you say "but what about US!", that's a whataboutism, because we're not talking about the US. And vise versa. It's a clear attempt to excuse and deflect blame away from the topic at hand and onto someone else.

                                          it is very deflective to go both sides bad

                                          I'm glad you finally understand.

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                                          and you still don't seem to get that condemning "rampant ccp propaganda!" when we praise it's accomplishments is not honest, and that neither country is in a vacuum.

                                          today's us colonial and fascist strategy is directly related to how they want to hurt china, and that also shows in the anti-chinese western narrative. and you don't really have the moral high ground to criticize them in light of this.

                                          neatly wrapped in a single word to deflect us responsibility for the shitty state of the world.

                                          i repeated that point a couple of times in different ways, so i'm just gonna wish you a nice day, and may your mind eventually be freed from that.

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