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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It doesn’t mean that reports are false just because two states are enemies (which is an exaggeration).

If they were strongly cited I would not be criticizing people believing them. All sources are biased, the question is how factual a source is.

The BBC is strongly biased against China. If they make claims without proof the most logical course of action is to not assume they are telling the truth and not incorporate what they say into your beliefs. (Note that this is different than "assume they are lying")

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would suggest reading "Imperialism, the highest stage of Capitalism"

Imperialism has a highly specific definition.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

The term tankie comes from the 1956 hungarian revolution/counter-revoluton (depending on who you ask) which split the British communist party, those that supported the Soviet Union suppressing it with the military were called tankies.

The video of the man in front of the tank column related to the June 4th incident did not result in the man standing in front of the tank dying, and those tanks were leaving the area where the violence occurred and is not where the word tankie comes from like I believe you are suggesting.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Do you know what the KMT did to the indigenous people who occupied Taiwan before the KMT retreated there?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

What’s with all the conspiracy nutcases here? The fucking Uighur genocide…

... is mostly sourced from a far right German nationalist who's been proven to mistranslate Chinese documents over and over again, and claims that God gave him a mission to destroy China.

... has been debunked by many Muslim countries visiting China to investigate

... is a media narrative connected to the US funding radical Islamic groups to destabilize east turkestan and failing miserably as the Chinese response was mostly improving economic conditions and funding uyghur cultural programs which actually is effective at deradicalization, which is what the US could have done in Iraq in Afghanistan if they were over there for altruistic or mutually beneficial reasons and not just to extract oil and opium while making some defense contractors very rich.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

The cambodian genocide was carried out by fascists who were supported by the US and shitty Chinese policy. They were crushed by socialist vietnamese soldiers.

Pol pot claimed to be socialist. The nazis called themselves the national socialist party, and we all know based on their record that was a lie, as communists, socialists, and trade unionists were their biggest domestic enemies. Next you'll blame the holocaust on socialists, despite the socialists being in the camps. Don't be so credulous.

Edit: also, the US killed many Cambodians with mass bombings during the same era, which is a fun fact that is relevant given the fascists there were allied with the US government as they carried out their mass killings.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago

Read "Riding the wave: Sweden's integration into the imperialist world system" which broadly follows the same story as Norway.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh okay you're a conspiratorial CHUD, got it.

Anti-communist "leftists" and liberals take note that these are your allies.

"Dont believe statistics" lol, statistics lie, and they lie much less than whatever anecdotes and rhetoric they have you huffing.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  1. US police kill around a thousand people who arent in prison every year. The US contains 25 percent of the world's prisoners despite only making up 4 percent of the world's population.

  2. By “succeed” you mean the 1000s of countrymen and women that were slaughtered to silence by the tyrannical leaders’ armies because they were an actual threat to their grip on the people.

2A) lots of those people were right wing or fascist assholes who should be repressed.

2B) This is what every state does, capitalist or socialist. Socialist societies aren't yet communist so they don't get rid of the excesses of the state, they only get rid of the violence of capitalism.

  1. The US cuban regime was a horribly violent dictatorship. Now, Cuba has a thriving democracy which just overwhelmingly passed a family code by referendum that makes it the most progressive country in the world on lgbt and family rights. Before it was voted on, it was developed starting on the local level and where each citizen had input on the process and then moved up into larger committees.

The US was responsible for four million vietnamese deaths by waging their illegal war there. Vietnam is now a flourishing democracy despite still cleaning up unexploded ordnance and chemical weapon contamination. The vietnamese people have a strong anarchist tradition and decentralized community armories to resist aggression. Every citizen is trained in basic warfare and college students are required to study more advanced military knowledge. If they didn't want their government, their government wouldnt be around for long.

Laos was bombed to shit by the US despite never being party to war. Laos is currently a one party socialist democracy that is doing well for itself and well for its people.

The US killed 20 percent of the Korean population after the dprk tried to liberate the south, which had become a US puppet military dictatorship that was killing thousands of peaceful protestors and tens of thousands total, including random people and justifiably violent protestors. The DPRK has more democratic institutions than modern South Korea. South Korea's military is still subordinate to the US pacific command.

The socialist Chinese government has stronger democratic institutions than the US. Over a hundred million people are members of the party. The Chinese people overwhelmingly approve of the party: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/long-term-survey-reveals-chinese-government-satisfaction/#:~:text=The%20survey%20team%20found%20that,%E2%80%9Chighly%20satisfied%E2%80%9D%20with%20Beijing. Which makes sense, given that China has gone from an impoverished semi-feudal country to a modern nation massively improving the quality of life of everyone within it, all while breaking the US stranglehold on the world by merely being an economic alternative.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Well if it is on Wikipedia it must be accurate. /s See my other comments in this thread.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (46 children)

Its a very weakly sourced state sponsored media article reporting on their state enemy. You have to be willfully credulous to believe their claims without further proof.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Bud those "Russian shills" have been here much longer than you

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