“‘Lightly’ brigaded” by two whole downvotes 😂

If your new lemmy.cafe account isn’t enough of a safe space for your anti-communist jihad, you can always go back to Reddit.

“Lemmy.ml is authoritarian because one time I got a month long ban.” It seems you get a lot of bans on a lot of instances. Maybe the problem is you.

I know what it means. “Authoritarian” countries are whichever countries the imperial core oligarchies want to regime change this week, so they can neocolonize them, keep them subservient & underdeveloped, and loot them. It’s whichever countries are on the Council on Foreign Relations’ shit list this week. It’s a bullshit category, strictly for the purposes of manufacturing consent.

This is so vague that it’s meaninglessness.

What did the “authoritarian” Lemmy instances do, make you eat your spinach? 😂

An intentional self re-enforcing propaganda loop.

What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy

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I think he supports every socialist revolution, except for every one that succeeds.

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90% of the time these assertions are BS, so evidence or it didn’t happen.

And that is why this shit gets removed from lemmy.ml.

Not because it’s a secret, but because they’re sick and tired of debunking tiny man flat earthers.

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

And where did you learn that in China you’ll be visited by the cops?

You learned if from the very same Western cold war propaganda machine we’re talking about. And you accepted it as fact without a thought.

Your satire is going to go over most of these people’s heads.

They also think it is the Chinese who are “brainwashed” NPCs, whilst they swim in propaganda and question nothing.

People not only don’t know what’s happening to them, they don’t even know that they don’t know. — Noam Chomsky

That’s the thing, though: The Tiananmen riots are not a secret in China, and they are taught, while you have been mistaught by Western propaganda that they’re a secret in China. So this meme is ignorant nonsense that perpetuates the propaganda for free.

Why watch the video when one photo and a lifetime of anticommunist propaganda tells me everything I need to know? 😐
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq8zFLIftGk

We, the Taiwanese people are the original China. Before China changed the characters and language and destroyed thousands of years worth of heritage.

Characters that no one could read, because the vast majority of people were illiterate peasants living under pre-industrial feudalism and suffering from frequent famines.

My parents and the older folks still dream about taking back the mainland Taiwan. The KMT party here tries very hard to make it happen.

The KMT are fascist.

Corporate media are owned by the oligarchs for whom fascism serves. Fascism is a false revolution that keeps the capitalist class in power.

Michael Parenti, Backshirts and Reds:

Divested of its ideological and organizational paraphernalia, fascism is nothing more than a final solution to the class struggle, the totalistic submergence and exploitation of democratic forces for the benefit and profit of higher financial circles.

Yeah… I don’t think you’re the expert on China censorship you present yourself as.

I think you just regurgitated every piece of Cold War propaganda & every rumor about Chinese censorship that you’ve ever heard.

This is the crux of it. People are so used to getting away with “bravely” parroting Western Cold War propaganda that even the mildest push-back is experienced as a massive affront.