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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

LMAO so this is 100% a Chinese propaganda website. Have you looked at the articles there? Not saying it's true or not true. But first of all, this article is from 2021 and secondly I don't buy Chinese propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

Sorry to hear you only consume US state approved propaganda.

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

Why on earth would you assume I consume US media, let alone what kind of US media I allegedly consume? Unlike you I actually was born and grew up in a dictatorship with actual state approved media. Your stupid comment is an insult to the victims of dictatorships everywhere.

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

I grew up in USSR, and a lot of numbskulls called it a dictatorship.

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

How were those free and fair elections in the USSR?

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

A lot better than in western shithole countries.

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

Always shocked to see how debilitating of a mental illness tankie brain is

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

Amazing counter point you got there.

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

Here is the projection. When faced with your own methods you are quick to point out the bad faith which you yourself have systematically applied in every single comment in this very thread.

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

No, I've made actual arguments in this thread. Maybe read them and try to comprehend what was said.

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

You should re read your own comment that I'm responding to. You weren't exactly making a point, lmfao. Truly mental illness bruv

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

Nah, I made my point quite clearly bruv.

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

Ah, well, then my thought-out counter point is that the elections in the eastern shithole countries were worse :)

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

A lot of people who actually live there seem to disagree with you, and say things got a lot worse for them once they got to experience enlightened western democracy. Obviously we should take your word for it though, since you've clearly shown yourself to be a knowledgeable intellectual in this thread.

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

Typical yog- posts a bunch of articles from a decade ago as if they are still relevant- fails to read the next page that completely discredits his argument and/or posts from an obviously biased source e. Lol. Dismiss and move along- nothing to see here... again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

Maybe educate yourself on the subject then. A democracy is a government that works in the interest of the majority and is held accountable to the people of the country. A government like that would ensure that everybody had food, housing, healthcare, education, jobs, and retirement the way USSR did and the way none of western "democracies" seem to be able to.

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

You are really delusional and a liar. I do not believe for one second you grew up in the USSR, not one nano second. If you were present during that that period you would have noticed that these proud USSR population did not walk but ran towards the west and all the things they really wanted. Not what USSR barely could provide (remember the lines before shops? No you don't, you were not there) but what the west could and would provide. You casually forgot that. Well, you could not forget little liar as you lied about being alive and present in that period.

I was and I call you out: liar!

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

Ahh the old whataboutisms come out.

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

Screeching whataboutism is a really round about way to tell us that you've got nothing meaningful to say.

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

Ok.

Let’s be real about this for a second.

You are implying that the media in the US is as state controlled and state supporting as the media in China and therefore that neither is more true than the other, merely a viewpoint. Is that actually what you’re saying?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don’t read very much US news. A bit of WP and occasionally CNN, but it’s certainly not where I get my news from. I don’t live in the US FWIW.

You still haven’t answered my question: Do you believe that the US press and the Chinese press is both lying to the same extent? Do you believe the US and Chinese press are in service of the state to the same extent?

I’m not disputing the press is influenced in the US. You keep speaking in absolutes though … I’m speaking about degrees. So let’s compare degrees, instead of saying “influenced” or “free” as some absolute binary measures.

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

If you live in the west then exact same dynamics apply. The media is owned by the oligarchs, and much of the media in all the western sphere is dominated by US.

And to answer your question it's clear to anybody who follows news that US press lies to a far greater extent. The whole notion that privately owned press in the hands of the oligarchs is somehow more objective than government owned press has no basis in logic or reality.

I'm also not speaking in any absolutes, I'm simply telling you that objectively speaking there is plenty of evidence that western press regularly engages in outright misinformation and lies. Chinese press has a bias, because any press has a bias, but I've yet to see it spread conspiracy theories like Russiagate. This is a perfect example of a huge misinformation campaign orchestrated by western media that has been thoroughly debunked, yet large portion of western public still believes it and regurgitates it today. That's just one example.

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

YES, WE WANT WAR. But just a small one, please, followed by a quick surrender. The United States is diligently working with Australia and the UK to goad China into what they hope will be a limited war over Taiwan, according to military strategists

Citation needed

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

I mean did you sleep through US working with UK and Australia to put nuclear subs in Australia, what do you think the purpose of those subs is exactly?

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

Contain an expansionist China, which is intent on subjugating free people?

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

In reality, it's the burger empire that's been subjugating people across the world in most brutal of ways. China hasn't been at war since the 70s, meanwhile US has been at war for 93% of its despicable existence.