• T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      Russia and China are beacons of freedom and prosperity, and everyone should emulate them

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        Well, China is a “beacon of prosperity” by any objective measure. I’ve not seen anyone there make the other claims. Though they do debunk a lot of the anti-Russia and anti-China propaganda, they back it up with facts.

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          by any objective measure.

          Does that objective measure also happen yo include freedom of press? Because boy i have some news for you…

          they back it up with facts.

          Revisionist facts? Whose alt is this?

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            No, freedom of press is not a measure of prosperity. And I don’t know many western countries that are in a position to point fingers at this point, considering how many journalists they’ve helped kill when they covered a genocide.

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              I don’t see how China is in a position to point fingers considering the treatment of the uyghurs

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                They deradicalized a sect that had been trained to destabilize the region by western intelligence, and reintegrated them into society. The facilities don’t even exist anymore, because they were successful.

                What would your country do in that situation?

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                  My country did exactly that to the native population, and you know what we call the residential schools now? A fucking ethnic genocide.

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                    We’re not talking about cultural erasure nor mass deaths. Just eradicating them from what the CIA and state dept did to them.

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          It’s a beacon of prosperity when there are anti suicide nets at foxcon? Or like the 996? Run by a dictator, also committing genocide isn’t very prosperous. My interactions have been " if it’s western propaganda it’s entirely false, but Chinese or Russian propaganda is entirely true"

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            anti suicide nets

            Should they just let people kill themselves?

            996

            Is illegal

            Committing genocide

            The UN did not find genocide only human rights abuses at best. You can go to China, you can go to a mosque and talk to Uyghurs there.

            Meanwhile the west is funding a real genocide in Gaza. You can’t go there to film the atrocities being committed and brave people still try. Israel has killed more journalists in their genocide than ww2

            Dictator

            2024 democracy perception chart

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              Should they just let people kill themselves?

              Or maybe if it’s so prosperous people wouldn’t want to work in a place where they want to kill themselves.

              Is illegal

              That has never stopped authoritarian governments lol

              Ok sorry ethnic cleansing isn’t genocide, sorry…

              And you think I’m supporting the west’s genocide in palestine? Nah miss me with that shit

              Dictator

              Yeah dawg I saw the source of that and I was banned in an .ml instance for saying “hows life in north Korea?” “Can’t complain” lol

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                Or maybe if it’s so prosperous people wouldn’t want to work in a place where they want to kill themselves.

                America has a higher suicide rate lol

                That has never stopped authoritarian governments lol

                I don’t understand what you’re saying. The 996 thing does exist but it was made illegal. Sometimes private companies try to make workers do more hours illegally.

                Ok sorry ethnic cleansing isn’t genocide, sorry…

                They didn’t find ethnic cleansing either. Again, you can go to Xinjiang and visit mosques with Uyghurs praying in them. So yeah ethnic cleaning ain’t happening.

                And you think I’m supporting the west’s genocide in palestine? Nah miss me with that shit

                You brought up the genocide to someone speaking positively of China. But the only ones doing genocide are the west. China does a bunch of bad shit it isn’t perfect but if genocide is the criteria we’re running with then China is the lesser evil.

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            Lifting 800 million people out of poverty is more than economic system has ever done.

            What genocide?

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              800 million people out of poverty is a stretch but if you wanted to make that claim, it’s because the west spent so much money to get goods from China. And the ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs

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                800 million people out of poverty is a stretch but if you wanted to make that claim

                Yeah, where do these stupid tankies get these numbers anyway? I’m sure China says they lifted 800 million kajillion people out of poverty or whatever, but let’s see what a western source like, say, The World Bank has to say about it.

                it’s because the west spent so much money to get goods from China.

                I swear these arguments get worse every day. You could just as easily say that the only reason the West has so much stuff is because China made it for them for cheap.

                Wait, that’s actually a much more coherent argument lol.

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                You can literally go to Xinjiang and visit mosques with Uyghurs praying in them. There is no genocide.

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          Yearning for a dictatorship is generally considered an extreme opinion.

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          Without elections you get to have kings and emperors. Unless you go full on direct democracy which actually is becoming more feasible thanks to the Internet I guess?

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            The point is that a system where you just vote for a guy every four years won’t change anything because the rich are in charge and have all the power.

            Without having the people in power there can’t be democracy.