I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 year ago

      I think you are doing what the same thing a far right guy would do. Give money to the guys handling your ideas ;-)

        • @[email protected]English
          12•1 year ago

          I think anyone saying “behave under the rules I set or I kill you” is an authoritarian.

          I’ll wait while you invent reasons why this definition only fits the USA and not Russian or China.

        • raktheundead
          6•1 year ago

          That moment when you pretend to fight against imperialism - by implicitly supporting imperialists in the PRC.

            • @TotallynotJessicaEnglish
              10•1 year ago

              I don’t know, claiming parts of other counties as their own on official maps seems pretty imperialist to me. I also don’t know what your definition of totalitarian is if you believe the US is totalitarian. I’ve heard claims of authoritarianism before, but claims of totalitarianism make even less sense. It seems like an effort to render a word meaningless by misusing it.

              America is imperialist, as is China, Russia, and every other major world power. It’s just what large states tend to do. I suspect MLs view imperialism only through the lens of capitalism, when imperialism far predates capitalism. Capitalist imperialism is only one form of an empire projecting its power.

                • @TotallynotJessicaEnglish
                  7•1 year ago

                  I don’t know, I’ve met plenty of American tankies, anarchists, socialists, and communists. This is some real “reject the evidence of your eyes and ears” level shit. I can’t twist reality into enough of a pretzel to make this viewpoint have any validity. It’s laughable.

                • @A_Random_IdiotEnglish
                  2•1 year ago

                  I bet you also believe America sent genetically engineered super mutants soldiers to Ukraine to overthrow Russian freedumbs.

            • raktheundead
              2•1 year ago

              First of all, not American.

              Second of all, nine-dash line and neo-colonialism in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe says very differently. As does the Han supremacism that Xi surrepitously perpetuates.

            • @harkEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              China is imperialist to a degree, but they’re certainly not invading countries all over the place like the US. People here like to claim that bringing up the US is whataboutism even though the US is the prime example of imperialism currently and the US likes to preemptively point at China and Russia to distract from their own actions.

            • @A_Random_IdiotEnglish
              0•1 year ago

              Don’t usually see this much autofellatio without a @lemmygrad or @hexbear following the username.