• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    I’ve noticed an uptik of pro Chinese propaganda content here on lemmy in recent days. I am afraid the fediverse had been discovered.

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      10 months ago

      On Reddit too. You’ll see alot more of it everywhere as the US hands over global dominance to China and their soft power increases, until it presumably becomes as ubiquitous as american propaganda and you don’t notice it anymore

            • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              10 months ago

              So, lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and a few other Lemmy instances have a reputation as being “tankie” (aka, aligned with overseas communist or former-communist powers). Their users will effectively attack any western viewpoint (e.g Gaza genocide) but remain completely silent on any topic related to Russia or China (e.g Uigihur genocide). They argue in bad faith and exist as a propaganda tool only.

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                10 months ago

                Is the creator of lemmy one of them? I saw the username for lemmy’s creator in wiki and on the same day, bizarrely enough, he replied to my comment while defending north Korea of all places.

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                10 months ago

                Any chance you could link to some examples?

                Edit: I ask because I just scroll through lemmy without actually knowing which instance is showing which content. I’ve heard the same sentiments voiced about lemmy.ml but never really looked into it.

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        10 months ago

        A big thing that’s been weighing on my mind recently has been the impending threat of climate change. Who is actually going to be able to step up and potentially prevent our extinction as a species? It’s definitely not America. Europe has too many incoming threats to be able to focus on the climate crisis. In terms of world powers, it sure seems like the PRC is the only chance humanity will have, as long as we can convince them to care.

        I don’t like that, but I don’t see another option. I guess if our options are extinction as a species or the Chinese model, I’ll choose the Chinese model.

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    10 months ago

    So does that mean they’re going to drop the South China sea thing and leave Taiwan be? Stop trying to push other nations around? Or are they going to stay organ harvesting, genocidal hypocrits? I know which one I’m betting on

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    10 months ago

    Since when does China give a shit about small countries? Are they trying to sway a UN vote or something?

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      10 months ago

      Ah yes China, well known for… invading countries like the US does instead of dealing with things diplomatically and economically

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        China’s only really become comparable to the US in the past couple decades. Give it some time. Their increasingly heavy-handed posturing around Taiwan for instance seems to say they’re well on their way.

    • yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.worksBanned
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      10 months ago

      Unlike the US, China hasn’t been declaring war every week for two centuries.

      Instead, the belt and road initiative is what neolibs think USAID is.

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        10 months ago

        I guess the border clashes with India where you want to take their land aren’t happening.

        That your explicit, logistical and tactical support for Russia aggression against Ukraine isn’t happening.

        I also guess you’ve never commited genocide against the Uyghurs.

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          Nor Tibet, Nor Taiwan, Nor Hong Kong - China may not be as willing to engage in intercontinental wars but it absolutely does use force or the threat of force to bully neighbors. Anyone denying Chinese aggression hasn’t been watching the South China Sea.

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        belt and road initiative

        This is a neo-colonists project. USAID actually did a lot of good things. I dare you to show an example of Chinese foreign aid that did the good things that USAID did.