• pongo1231 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    Them getting trashed by the comments on an american site just shows how much the whole US propaganda apparatus has fallen apart. That would’ve been inconceivable a few years ago on Reddit outside of ML subreddits.

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    Yup, the things you correctly identified as typical reddit-ass content being on the site is the propaganda, while the targeted political campaign that was “all over reddit” (including places where it made absolutely no sense) was the organic, neutral stuff blob-no-thoughts

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      Why else would they be doing this incontrovertibly great and seemingly altruistic thing if not for the benefit of us, the only real people in the world?

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      “Attention! Someone said something positive about this woman, who the church clearly said is a witch that should be burned. Why are people portraying her in a positive light???”

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      I have a lot of anxiety around language barriers, but if I can get over that (and the costs, and the shitshow that would be returning to the US), it would be an incredible trip for sure. Hell, I’d move there if we could pull it off.

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    When your country’s propaganda campaign against their geopolitical rival winds down and you start seeing real news that humanizes them uhhh is this propaganda??? aren’t they evil and we’re supposed to hate them because of [previous propaganda campaign]? powercry-2

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    It is kind of incredible how consistent it is that people who scream the loudest about “China doing genocide” always turn out to be genocide denying white supremacists themselves, or hang out with them. I’ve never seen someone care so much about this who wasn’t a massive piece of shit or completely ignorant and totally ok with hanging out with pieces of shit.

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    It is quite sad, that people recognize China with only Propaganda, and nothing positive, but I’ve remembered this joke or its variations:

    A Russian and an American get on a plane in Moscow and get to talking. The Russian says he works for the Kremlin and he’s on his way to go learn American propaganda techniques. “What American propaganda techniques?” asks the American. “Exactly,” the Russian replies.

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    When China is winning so fucking hard that it’s pretty much only boomers on fb and twitler who can have a good old circle jerk about how China Bad.

    Not counting Reddit bc that’s just fed on fed communication.

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      It’s fully possible to condemn both if you’re uneducated, yes, many such cases. It just so happens that the Zionists pushing anti-Palestinian sentiment are very often proponents of the Uyghur genocide conspiracy theory concocted by western fascists such as the type of Adrian Zenz.

      Unfortunately for them, the widespread video evidence of what an actual genocide looks like emerging from one of the most totalitarian controlled regions of the world (Palestine at the behest of the Zionist entity) has severely de-legitimized the claims of the false genocide in Xinjiang, which only serves to create a “two things can be bad at the same time” narrative to both alleviate the genocidal sins of the western empires and simultaneously manufacture hatred against socialist China.

      The “Uyghur genocide” narrative is a form of genocide denialism by calling everything a genocide, which severely undermines the legitimate struggle of the Palestinian people against their colonial oppressor. Thankfully it’s very easy to disprove by asking for any shred of video evidence of systematic violence against the Uyghur such as unfortunately has existed in all our social media since the intensification of the genocide against Palestinians that takes place since 2023

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      Condemning China for what exactly?

      It’s 2026, I didn’t even realise people still fell for the Adrian Zenz fabrications? Maybe some redditors I guess. Zenz being funded to invent a fake genocide by a foundation that’s already notorious for blatant ideologically inspired academic fraud is simply genocide denial.

      Clearly it works if some fuckwits swallow it whole though.