The conversations are amazing

  • Korne127@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    China propaganda machine goes brrrr

    The way people really suddenly think oh yeah China is just a good country like a European democracy where you can live well is flabbergasting. Of course a dictatorship with massive censorship and suppression of minorities has mostly positive comments.

    And of course, many people that aren’t part of a harassed minority or politically active against the rulers aren’t saying horrible stuff against them (which wouldn’t be seen anyway).

    • SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Hey. I want you to Google the name Fred Hampton and find out what America does to it’s minority who speaks out.

      Maybe consider we have a larger prison population than the 1.whatever billion people. Largely made of our minorities.

      Take a mirror to yourself before you throw stones.

      This isn’t to say China doesn’t deserve criticism. The point is that many of your “they are an evil dictatorship who slaughters minorities!” Doesn’t hold up when we, a democracy, is doing the same thing but worse.

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        45 minutes ago

        You sure about that? The Uyghers are being ethnicity cleaned as we speak. Same with Tibet. Plus China is taking territory. America is not.

        • MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml
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          40 minutes ago

          China is taking territory. America is not.

          Gestures at Trump talking about Panama, Greenland, Canada

    • tomi000@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      Yes China is a dictatorship and theres a lot of censorship. I would still choose living in China over the US 1000 times.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Ha ha don’t anger the tankies!

      Yeah this is so simplistic too, “cute asian girl” explaining the few better things in china lol.

      All that exists in Europe, with democracy btw, where are the stories about that :-) oh yeah everyone already knows about the expensive healthcare in the US…

      • ours@lemmy.world
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        9 hours ago

        Some Americans believe we’re screwed in Europe. I had a US boss trying to “save me” from the “socialist hellhole” that is Switzerland by trying to convince me to move to the US. Some believe Islam is going to sweep across Europe and turn us all into jihadists.