• tired_n_bored
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    5 days ago

    I’ve came across too many .ml posts about praising North Korea, China and Russia. Had to block the whole instance.

    Even [email protected] was full of this shit, but the mods didn’t do anything to prevent it (but instead removed comments like “NK is a dictatorship”)

    • @[email protected]
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      145 days ago

      but China is doing so well! they’re certainty winning! look at all their free public transit, solar panel farms, large buildings, and many jobs!

      they have so many jobs they’re literally giving them away for free! they even give these people places to live with food and everything. China even brings their whole family with them so they can all be happy and prosperous together.

      it’s so much better to live in China than in the US. you’ll never leave China once you go there!

      • @[email protected]
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        5 days ago

        There are things China does right.

        Like retirement age of 55. Like nationalising billionaires when they get too big.

        It also does a shitton of things wrong, but credit when credit is due.

        • tired_n_bored
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          5 days ago

          Absolutely. I am not the person you replied to but I have no problems admitting that China or Russia can be better than the West in some aspects, for example what you said. Likewise I have no problems saying that the West is flawed and that capitalism is killing people while billionaires rent Venice for a wedding party, in fact, I am the first opponent of that.

          What I can’t stand is people claiming that North Korea is not a dictatorship, China is democratic and Russia, poor them, was forced into invading other countries.

          • @[email protected]
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            55 days ago

            What I can’t stand is people claiming that North Korea is not a dictatorship, China is democratic and Russia, poor them, was forced into invading other countries

            I signed on .ml because that was the second most popular instance at that time; there are so many people in .ml enamoured with USSR, whitewashing it, that I tend to skip local posts because it’s not worth it. They behave like people brainwashed by USA propaganda but with different polarization.

            Sometimes I think they might be CIA shills/bots created to discourage people from socialist movements.

            Btw - China does have local elections where people pick their local representative. So people can pick a person, but not the ideology - that is mandated from the high. It’s not exactly what I would call democratic, but hey, the more you know

            • @[email protected]
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              14 days ago

              I don’t remember it being bad before lemmygrad got defederated from most instances. Plain ml used to just be the demonstration instance while lemmygrad was the ideological one. But once they got blocked from a lot of the Lemmyverse more and more .ml accounts are being associated with weird tankie stuff.

      • @[email protected]
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        125 days ago

        Awesome, isn’t it?

        Turns out that if the government is controlling the narrative by threatening, harassing or jailing whoever dares go against it, people will only read about the good things!

        Wouldn’t it be great if the US did the same thing? Could we all become a happy place like China if we tried a bit harder to make our country… I dunno… great again?

        • tired_n_bored
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          85 days ago

          No no no. You are allowed to suck the cock of communist regimes only

        • @[email protected]
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          35 days ago

          Wouldn’t it be great if the US did the same thing?

          But… You do. Example - no US invader can be charged with crimes against humanity, as the standing US policy is to then invade Hague. Another example - operation Gladio. Or even fucking TikTok from recent years that bent the knee and started spewing american R/Trump propaganda after last election is USA