Is it not allowed or frowned upon by the mods and maintainer of Lemmy? Although I do respect the technology and services that Lemmy and its community have provided, I’m still looking for answer on the fact whether it’s ok/allowed to have a vocal and confident opposing view.

Also, within this community (China), Am I allowed to post things that opposes the chinese government, such as, not liking their attitude towards a certain island in the south east of china?

  • @southerntofu
    -2•2 years ago

    As a resident of France and French speaker, i have access to way more information about France than you non-french speakers. I have access to all your information sources and other sources.

    Yet i don’t believe anything my government says because all governments lie to protect the psychopaths in power and we should burn all parliaments down in order to establish a true democracy (power to the people != elections).

    Whether your overlords are elected for 5 years after being pushed by the oligarchy (hello Sarkozy/Hollande/Macron) or rulers for life (hello Xi Jinping) does not matter. Almost every Nation-State on Earth is a capitalist and colonial construct that must be abolished in order to build a free society. Especially if you feel like you’re a communist, “stateless” and “classless” is communism 101 and apart from the Zapatistas in Chiapas and to some extent the Kurdish in Rojava no wide-scale society on this planet is going in such direction, especially not liberal “democracies” like France or State-capitalist “republics” like China.

    • @ttmrichter
      1•2 years ago

      As a resident of France and French speaker, i have access to way more information about France than you non-french speakers. I have access to all your information sources and other sources.

      I’m not sure what point you’re making. Are you seeing me make confident, vocal statements about France or something? Or are you just picking words at random from something you read so you could react to it with your favourite hobby horse?

      Go back and read what I wrote. Then come back and explain line by line what literally anything in your reply had to do with what I said.

      • @southerntofu
        2•2 years ago

        My point is that foreign propaganda is just as wrong as domestic propaganda. And no you weren’t exactly defending Chinese government propaganda, you were in fact defending a more balanced view which is good. That’s why i didn’t downvote :)

        I merely expanded on your argument. Or maybe i’m just a GPT-3 powered bot, who knows? ;)

        EDIT EDIT: removed my edit which was replying to the wrong person editing their post. Having posts edited in real-time in the UI is… disconcerting