• @[email protected]
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    These threads are great because they are nice tankie block attractors. They can’t help themselves from commenting on their non tank-3 accounts.

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      It’s hilarious. I have them all tagged and the same usual suspects always show up like clockwork.

  • @[email protected]
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    Man, your post has really brought out the CCP shills. It’s fascinating to watch people go, “Nuh-uh! China doesn’t do any of that!”

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      I learned a dozen countries are all in on a conspiracy theory in which they pretended China had operated overseas police stations in their respective countries. Fake news!

  • @SoftTeeth
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    I got banned there last week for saying that lemmy mods are just as pathetic and banhappy as reddit mods

    • @[email protected]OP
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      in my experience, they’re a lot worse….
      stuff that would get a comment removed or a note from the mod to chill just gets you an instant permaban here…
      and they’ll ban you for the dumbest shit too… simply discussing china’s human rights abuses that are well documented and publicized is “racism against chinese people” or some dumb shit….
      luckily it’s just the hard hard leftists… the places that are all shills anyway (like he-x-b34r)
      (i just spelled that dumb so it’s harder to search).

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        I’ve noticed mods of some instances will lurk and ban users for comments that weren’t even on their instance.

        Some of the mods on blahaj do that while using fake user accounts to sow approval.

        It’s insane what patheticly small amount of power internet janitors will manage to trip on

  • @Treczoks
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    What is “Rule 1”? Is it “Thou shall not have a different opinion.”?

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      Officially, it’s “bigotry”, unofficially it’s a catch-all so that when someone brings it up their more prominent users can make declarations like this:

      “routinely the actual reasons people are mad at .ml is getting banned/ censored for being bigoted”

    • toomanypancakes
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      No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

    • OpenStars
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      Only in actual fact, though ashamedly never written down anywhere irl in a manner that is so clear and understandable.

  • @[email protected]
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    Just block those instances. My weirdest and most disgusting experiences ever on Lemmy were on instances like that one.

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    Lol, I got a similar removal and ban (rule 1, 2*) the other day for replying to someone who mentioned credit ratings as a counterpoint to the attempts to discredit the existence of “social credits” (or whatever actual system exists in China, and it does exist, to keep tabs on their population):

    This right here.

    And the point is that an average American barely knows how those work, or exactly what information the government and or private financial and other companies collect about them (it’s a lot) or how much it impacts their daily lives (deeply), in the same way the average Chinese person barely knows just how much surveillance their government is doing on them (it’s a lot) or how much it impacts their daily lives (deeply).

    This post is such tankie bullshit.

    Pretending like only one government does (internal and external) propaganda, or only one government is oppressing and lying to its own people (not to mention people in other countries), or that the average person in any country know, or is willing to admit to themselves, never mind others, and especially never mind people from a country you’ve been propagandised against from birth, the flaws of their own government is not only laughable, and hypocritical, but also massively counterproductive.

    *as you can see, the ban is really for calling OP “tankie bullshit” and *gasp* pointing out that China is bad in the same ways America is bad. Such fragile egos lmfao

  • @Serinus
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    It might be a bit repetitive, but I think it’s important to keep the most clear examples here.

  • @[email protected]
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    You’re literally just spreading propaganda except for one point. Your critical thinking is a sham

    • @cm0002
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      Oh yea because I’m sure China’s CCP isn’t spreading propaganda or anything of their own/s

      • @[email protected]
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        Sure, all governments do. China makes themselves look better. The US tries to make everyone else look worse since they know no one would believe propaganda that makes them look better.

        • @cm0002
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          That’s just being pedantic, there’s no significant functional difference in most cases

          China makes themselves look better

          Denying a genocide makes them “look better”

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            There’s no genocide to deny, even the US state dept has found no evidence of genocide

            • @[email protected]
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              I thought you wanted us to:

              stop blindly repeating a fascist government’s propaganda

              Yet you’re now using that same fascist governments propaganda to claim your side is right?

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                Given they’re the ones that started the rumor and are the only ones to have ever have claimed to have evidence of the rumor, without sharing it mind you, yes.

  • @surph_ninja
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    Wild to be so indoctrinated that you continue to believe the Uyghur genocide lies, even when the departments that made it up admit they made it up.

    This is why it’s so easy to mislead the American public. You want the lies.

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          yeah, criticism of the PRC is not racism… it’s the opposite, i don’t want their human rights to be violatd… but nice try, agent

      • redrum
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        Sorry, but who should prove that there is a ongoing genocide is who do that claim, requiring to prove the no existence of something is a fallacious argument.

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          LMAO did you even read your source‽ It’s right there in the summary

          But evidence that it is carrying out other forms of genocide abounds, Beth Van Schaack, a visiting professor at Stanford Law School’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice, wrote in a recent post on Just Security.

          “For example, the torture, rape and sexual violence committed against Uyghurs likely constitute genocide ‘by causing serious bodily and mental harm’—the second type of genocide recognized by the Convention,” she wrote. “Likewise, the deplorable living conditions of incarcerated Uyghurs may constitute genocide by ‘deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about [their] physical destruction’—the third form of genocide.”

          @[email protected] you should have read their source, it doesn’t even back them up in any way LMFAO

        • toomanypancakes
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          From your article:

          But evidence that it is carrying out other forms of genocide abounds, Beth Van Schaack, a visiting professor at Stanford Law School’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice, wrote in a recent post on Just Security.

          “For example, the torture, rape and sexual violence committed against Uyghurs likely constitute genocide ‘by causing serious bodily and mental harm’—the second type of genocide recognized by the Convention,” she wrote. “Likewise, the deplorable living conditions of incarcerated Uyghurs may constitute genocide by ‘deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about [their] physical destruction’—the third form of genocide.”

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            Yes, she’s trying to stretch their claims into persisting. Again, without evidence.

            I understand reading is challenging for you, but you’re gonna have to actually read the whole article to get the context.

            What’s actually happening is China is preventing the US from further radicalization of the Uyghurs to destabilize the region, and de-radicalizing those being rehabilitated. The US doesn’t like their terror cells being stopped.

            https://x.com/SpokespersonCHN/status/1380170110736855041?mx=2

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              Yep, for sure. More western countries should adopt the Chinese approach of “cultural assimilation” by locking up all our Muslim immigrants in “re-education” camps to unlearn Islam. They wouldn’t get any criticism for that right?

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                Wahabism isn’t native. It’s literally being imported by Saudi Arabia, and is actively trying to destroy Uighur culture.

                ‘Muslim’ is not a monoculture and it is ironic that someone worried about cultural genocide believes it is.

                • Unruffled [he/him]
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                  Don’t straw man me. I was simply pointing out how insane this would be if any Western country employed the same ‘assimilation’ methods that China is doing. I mean, arguably the US is doing something similar with the way they exploit their prison populations (minus the re-education part). But that’s also shameful. Just because the US does shameful things too doesn’t mean that China’s shameful things don’t matter or shouldn’t be talked about. These types of reprehensible State actions should all be scrutinized and opposed.

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                Dude, it’s gonna blow your mind when you hear about Guantanamo Bay.

                • Unruffled [he/him]
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                  I agree with you, all authoritarian States suck ass, including the US. I post more critical stuff about the US than about any other country. Still that doesn’t give China a free pass. You can shove your “critical support” where the sun don’t shine if you are just simping for a different authoritarian State.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          even when the departments that made it up admit they made it up.

          i mean a source that backs up the claims you made, sea lion

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            Sealioning? By providing you the source? Do you expect me to read it to you?

  • Hegar
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    I don’t get how suicide nets is a knock on china. They’re making our phones.

    It’s our consumer demand and our company’s price points that are responsible for the conditions in the factories that make our phones.

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      It’s their citizens / labor laws.

      Sure an American said “we want 12h shifts 6 days a week with absolutely minimal breaks” (or whatever the specifics are) (and that’s a a terrible request.)

      But the kicker is a Chinese labor official said “yup, sure thing”

    • Unruffled [he/him]
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      So are you saying that in the glorious Chinese workers paradise they don’t set and enforce decent health and safety policies and regulate working conditions and wages for the benefit of their citizens? Paint me amazed!

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        the glorious Chinese workers paradise

        The scary thing is they genuinely believe this.

        I had responded to a tankie who claimed that China wasn’t an oligarchy by sarcastically asking if they thought the workers control the government, and like 5 different (or are they?) hexbears descended on me to tell me that yes, akshually, they do (and therefore must be the most self loathing workers on the planet, if those are the conditions they inflict on themselves, and curiously keep “electing” the same authoritarian, billionaire, dictator to be at the top of their classless, moneyless, stateless society). 🤦‍♀️

        E: on a side note since I’ve got you here and you’re an admin, I thought this instance was defederated from hex, and I have them on my personal blocked instance list, should I still be seeing their users?

        • Unruffled [he/him]
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          You can still come across their users if they post in a community external to Hexbear, even if you have instance blocked them. Our instance actually isn’t defederated from Hexbear fyi. They mostly leave us in peace nowadays though, so unless you go looking for a fight on their instance, you’re unlikely to run into problems with them.

          • @[email protected]
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            I remembered seeing some drama between the two instances from before I moved over to db0, so I just assumed off the back of that, but good to know, thanks! Definitely don’t go looking for them, I have better things to do with my time and little remaining sanity lol

    • @[email protected]OP
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      because the Chinese public isn’t supposed to know about it… plus people might demand more ethically produced phones if they were more aware.

  • redrum
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    YDI.

    The .ml policy against bigotry --including parroting western anti-chinese propaganda, that liberals throw ad nauseam there-- has been a consistent policy over time of that instance.

    • @cm0002
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      By definition

      Sounds like .ml are the biggest bigots around

    • @[email protected]OP
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      seeing that you’re from lemmy.ml, stfu….

      but, it’s not propaganda, it proven facts… there are photos and leaked surveillance videos, it’s very real.
      it’s not “bigotry”, which is such a laughable claim… i love chinese people and DON’T want them to suffer… it’s the absolute opposite of bigotry

      • redrum
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        I strongly disagree.

        But, by example, if l (a .ml and lemmyngrad user) go to a Ukrainian instance with a pro-western narrative to tell that they are backing and are backed by fascism, as other hundreds others had done before, I would deserve a ban.

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            I mean, during the past 4 years, you guys have been building a giant wall to keep brown people out, funded a genocide to maintain a white ethno state in the middle east, enacted economical sanctions to try to suffocate socialist movements around the world, overturned a law that granted access to abortions… I could continue, but I think that’s enough to consider the USA fascist already.

            • @cm0002
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              during the past 4 years, you guys have been building a giant wall to keep brown people out

              Not really, the infamous “wall” is, at most, a handful of sections

              funded a genocide to maintain a white ethno state in the middle east

              Fair, however, it will absolutely accelerate under Drump unlike Harris who would have at most kept the status quo as it has been for decades

              economical sanctions to try to suffocate socialist movements around the world,

              Sanctions against places like Russia, hardly a “socialist movement haven”

              overturned a law that granted access to abortions

              It was not a law, it was a supreme court ruling that was overturned. Had it been a law, it would in all likelihood be still in effect

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        No, there’s not any of that in the uighur genocide. The state dept has admitted as such. Please at least keep up to date with your propaganda.