China using families as 'hostages' to quash Uyghur dissent abroad
www.bbc.co.uk
Refugees and activists tell the BBC intimidation tactics are tearing apart Uyghur communities overseas.
  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
    3121·
    1 year ago

    Imagine thinking there are paid astroturfers on a tiny niche platform with a few thousand users. We have some utterly insane people here after reddit migration.

    • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee
      1323·
      1 year ago

      Imagine thinking governments, fascists and PR agencies wouldn’t migrate to wherever people choose to hang out and continue their decades-long campaign to brainwash people into believing whatever is convenient for them.

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
        2318·
        1 year ago

        I see you don’t understand the concept of niches. Governments, fascists, and PR agencies are going to spend their effort where it makes the most impact. Only a brainwashed person couldn’t comprehend that people could legitimately disagree with their world view, and anybody who thinks different from them must therefore be a paid troll.

        • socsa
          714·
          1 year ago

          PSA: these kinds of threads are a great way to create blocklists of western bootlickers and trolls.

          This you?

          • fishtacos
            106·
            1 year ago

            The people you wish to dunk on built this platform. Feel free to leave…

            • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee
              26·
              1 year ago

              How about you go fuck yourself instead? That’s all you can do anyway. We’re not going anywhere and we outnumber you.

                • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee
                  21·
                  1 year ago

                  Sounds like you need to get the last word to win something, and you’ll prove that you need the last word by running your mouth again. Here, go ahead:

            • socsa
              49·
              1 year ago

              First, I will take the compliment with grace.

              Second, this forum deserves a better class of communist. This shit is just intellectually lazy.

              • fishtacos
                43·
                1 year ago

                Who were you replying too? Lost? Got a bit overzealous with your keyboard warrior persona today?

                • socsa
                  24·
                  1 year ago

                  Nah, this shit is broken on mobile and I can’t see the context of my own comments for some reason. Sometimes when I hit context it shows me random comments under the same parent.

                  But bro you are on the same website having the same conversation I am lmao.

              • OurToothbrushM
                88·
                1 year ago

                Most socialists are people in the global south. Their projects that “tankies” support are actually being done. Most of this “you’re a tankie” shit stems from western chauvinist white man’s burden shit. Call us when you’ve done a successful socialist revolution, until then we’re going to be emulating the ideologies of successful socialist projects.

                Edit: because lol “the US did a revolution” , read “the counter revolution of 1776”

                • socsa
                  56·
                  1 year ago

                  So engaging in violence is the determining factor for determining who can have opinions?

                  That’s great news, because Marx drew pretty heavily from the French and US revolutions when discussing his own revolutionary framework. Where do I pick up my badge?

                  Edit - Just do a revolution! No not that way!

                  • OurToothbrushM
                    47·
                    1 year ago

                    So engaging in violence is the determining factor for determining who can have opinions?

                    No, you are free to engage in revolutionary violence that results in a socialist society with a communist ruling party or elect your way into a socialist society with a communist ruling party. Plenty of socialists did the latter, they just didn’t live for long. If you do that I’ll gladly listen to you.

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
            1419·
            1 year ago

            If you don’t like it here then feel free to go somewhere else. Lemmy was a community of sane people who were capable of having civilized discussion, and then a bunch of reddit chuds flooded here and started acting like you own the place. Get over yourself.

            • DauntingFlamingo
              99·
              1 year ago

              Bahaha look at you. “Everyone who disagrees with me is a bootlicker/troll/westerner.”

              Edit for the bootlicking troll below: Ahem A straw man fallacy is the informal fallacy of refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be “attacking a straw man”.

              You don’t understand what a straw man is.

              You’re really bad at this. You even tried to copy my comment and failed miserably! Congratulations, you’re stupid in two languages!

              • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
                412·
                1 year ago

                Bahaha look at you using straw man to attack me. Thanks for providing a good example of the kind of trolling I’m talking about.