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China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/863209

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah, just people who uncritically regurgitate propaganda, and screech about everybody who disagrees with them being a Russian puppet and a tankie whatever that means.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The most offensive part of being called a tankie is being called British.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

😄

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My friend, I would like to remind you as gently as possible that brainwashing does not exist and was in fact an orientalist lie popularized to explain away why US soldiers would support China.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's a fair point. It's important to keep in mind that people are accepting the propaganda because they want to believe it and they understand that it serves their selfish interests.