• Wanpieserino@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    When I say that china is just another capitalist nation, then your whataboutism to other capitalist nations does not defend china.

    It proves my point.

    China heavily guides public opinion, there’s no opposition allowed.

    And you are a mouthpiece for the Chinese government.

    And you’re allowed to do it because we allow opposition.

    That’s democracy.

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      And you’re allowed to do it because we allow opposition. That’s democracy.

      It’s absolutely crazy how brainwashed westerners are to believe that Democracy is when the people can’t control policy, but they’re allowed to importantly post criticism of it online.

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        6 days ago

        Monday there’s a strike against government policy. I won’t join because I’m pro government policy.

        We do somewhat control policy by voting. The greens for example reduced nuclear energy. So they lost many votes. Now we are funding nuclear energy again.

        If the greens were authoritarians. Then we would only hear how great it is to be without nuclear energy. Only hear the positive sides of it. Opposition silenced.

        Then we wouldn’t be able to impact policy on the next election, as there would be propaganda.

        How else do you want to achieve democracy? Mr definitely not brainwashed

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      6 days ago

      When I say that china is just another capitalist nation, then your whataboutism to other capitalist nations does not defend china

      It proves my point.

      I am not interested in defending China. I want you to know that West is not holy

      China heavily guides public opinion, there’s no opposition allowed.

      It is good then. Many oppositions only care about themselves

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        6 days ago

        So the opposition, ml instance, only cares about themselves and thus should be heavily censored?

        I thought we were here on Lemmy so that we could choose what content we see and which content we want to upload.

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          6 days ago

          I said “many oppositions only care about themselves” not “all oppositions only care about themselves”