• DankZedong
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    China genociding the freedom to inject myself with bleach and eat horse dewormer

    • Muad'Dibber
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      Noooo the sisssypee took down my favorite youtuber doing the tide pod challenge! China is such an 1896

    • @201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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      Oh no, there are plenty of libs that say they should ban people with not medical background from spreading disinformation. But as with all things, the second China actually does exactly that they loose their fucking minds.

      Just like how everyone, including gamers, complained forever about micro transactions and loot boxes being literal gambling and taking advantage of children. Then China actually bans that shit and all of a sudden it’s the end of the world.

      • JucheBot1988
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        Wait till they find out that Chinese texts used to be written vertically, and it was the PRC which made writing horizontally the standard.

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            I’m not an expert on this, but I think it started in scientific journals, to facilitate the inclusion of mathematical formula (which are usually written horizontally). Eventually – and I’m not sure why – the horizontal orientation was standardized for everything. I believe the vertical orientation is still used for calligraphy and signs and such.

    • JucheBot1988
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      122 years ago

      “Hello, what up, it’s your boy MikeLiveYourBestLife69 with another ALL NEW new video! Today, we’re going to talk about an important health topic: brain surgery. Now, I’ll admit, I only started researching this topic last night, but…”

    • SubversivoB
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      I would love to live in a country where coaches (not the sports ones, but the life/quantum/career ones) need to hold a psychology degree.

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      For some time now in Germany systems of cosmogony, of philosophy of nature in general, of politics, of economics, etc., have been springing up by the dozen overnight, like mushrooms. The most insignificant doctor philosophiae and even a student will not go in for anything less than a complete “system”. Just as in the modern state it is presumed that every citizen is competent to pass judgment on all the issues on which he is called to vote; and just as in economics it is assumed that every consumer is a connoisseur of all the commodities which he has occasion to buy for his maintenance — so similar assumptions are now to be made in science. Freedom of science is taken to mean that people write on every subject which they have not studied, and put this forward as the only strictly scientific method. Herr Dühring, however, is one of the most characteristic types of this bumptious pseudo-science which in Germany nowadays is forcing its way to the front everywhere and is drowning everything with its resounding — sublime nonsense. Sublime nonsense in poetry, in philosophy, in politics, in economics, in historiography, sublime nonsense in the lecture room and on the platform, sublime nonsense everywhere; sublime nonsense which lays claim to a superiority and depth of thought distinguishing it from the simple, commonplace nonsense of other nations; sublime nonsense, the most characteristic mass product of Germany’s intellectual industry — cheap but bad — just like other German-made goods, (…). Even German socialism has lately, particularly since Herr Dühring’s good example, gone in for a considerable amount of sublime nonsense, producing various persons who give themselves airs about “science”, of which they “really never learnt a word”. This is an infantile disease which marks, and is inseparable from, the incipient conversion of the German student to Social Democracy, but which our workers with their remarkably healthy nature will undoubtedly overcome.

      Engels, Anti-Dühring, 11 June 1878 Preface, London.

      Edit: italics.

  • @201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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    Libs in the west screeching about Joe Rogan: People like this shouldn’t be allowed to just spread bullshit health advice with no medical background.

    China: actually does that

    Lib: OMG AUTHORITARIAN DICKTATTERCHIPS [followed by a string or racist memes]

  • @Beat_da_Rich@lemmygrad.ml
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    Libs: “I can’t belive people are taking horse tranquilizers to fight COVID.”

    Also Libs: “People should be able to use their platforms to say horse tranquilizers fight COVID if they want to. It’s their right.”

    • @electrodynamica@mander.xyz
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      “horse tranquilizers”, except it’s a human antiviral with a half century of track record, which was shown to have some efficacy in early peer reviewed trials, and is prescribed 100x more often for humans than animals. The entire “horse tranquilizer” narrative was created by pharma companies to buy them time to create new patentable therapies. And it worked. The ruse worked. Pfizer’s therapeutics don’t.

  • Bungkarnoenjoyer
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    relevant, just replaced with china :

    “In the United States, for over a hundred years, the ruling interests tirelessly propagated anticommunism among the populace, until it became more like a religious orthodoxy than a political analysis. During the Cold War, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.”

    -Michael Parenti

  • @whoami@lemmygrad.ml
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    82 years ago

    This is great…I wonder what the specifics for each field are? Western libs complain about fake news, China actually does something about it.

  • @ZhuGweilo@lemmygrad.ml
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    62 years ago

    the west don’t need advice from people with qualification. The guy with the most upvotes on reddit knows better.

  • I love it when some internet westerner says something along the lines of “People don’t realise this” and follow that up with the craziest conspiracies.

    Sadly for the random twitter jackass, they aren’t a one in a billion genius to realise something no one else has. Every other westerner has protagonist syndrome I swear to god.

  • @MessMattress@lemmygrad.ml
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    People have literally died from trying ‘alternative’ medicines and develop eating disorders from diet culture junk. Even cooking and arts n crafts videos have killed people because no one gets to take responsibility from promoting dangerous lifehacks without proper safety gear. Imagine being so racist that you can’t see ethical internet regulations as a net positive.

    • @electrodynamica@mander.xyz
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      Even so, it should only be required that you state your professional qualifications or disclaim professional qualifications up front, as done in the USA. Seems to work well without impinging on free speech.