• YaBoyMax@programming.dev
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    3 years ago

    Bold of you to assume what I do and don’t know about geopolitics. I’m well aware of the fine line that the US government walks, but I don’t speak for the US government and my views aren’t informed by “propaganda” but by the simple observations that 1) the PRC is a totalitarian regime, and 2) that Taiwan is a de facto sovereign state which broadly speaking doesn’t particularly want to be assimilated into the PRC. Where is the propagandistic angle here?

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      3 years ago

      my views aren’t informed by “propaganda” but by the simple observations that 1) the PRC is a totalitarian regime,

      lol

      Just because you agree with it doesn’t mean it isn’t propaganda

        • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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          3 years ago

          you’re only allowed to call the PRC “totalitarian” or undemocratic if you condemn the “democracies” of the english speaking world. the US president isn’t even the person who gets the most votes🤡

          Taiwan does not “generally” have a stance against reunification, some independence parties are a bit more popular than they used to be, but them becoming a legally independent state requires vast constitutional and international changes no government has even begun to implement

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          3 years ago

          “Totalitarian” is a buzzword with a hazy definition at best. Go ahead and substantiate it.

          But my point is that using such a buzzword with no further explanation is a somewhat comical display of how propagandized you are for how thought-terminating your use of the word is.

    • brain_in_a_box [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      3 years ago

      my views aren’t informed by “propaganda” but by the simple observations that 1) the PRC is a totalitarian regime,

      And how exactly did you observe that?