• Jeffrey
    338·
    3 years ago

    There’s no way to make a meme against a group or in support of an ideology without stripping away all the nuance and dehumanizing people. Many of the articles that are posted here are misleading and in some cases entirely untrue.

    Yesterday, I down voted an article claiming “AP confirms no Uyghur genocide”. I read the cited AP article and found the post’s click bait title was completely false. The post’s author is pointing at a report that contradicts his beliefs and claiming that his beliefs are therefore correct because the article is lieing. It is fine to refute an article, but to twist an article’s words and then claim that the source says something it clearly doesn’t is just dishonest.

    I believe misleading and dehumanizing posts should be downvoted in order to promote a space where diverse peoples can all feel welcome.

      • Jeffrey
        182·
        3 years ago

        My comment is only specifically critical of that one post on Lemmy, I did not indicate support or condemnation of China or the west. You’re reading between the lines and tilting at windmills my friend.

          • Ora
            111·
            3 years ago

            You’re missing the point. The misinformation was that the AP didn’t make that claim. It was not about whether the claim was true or not.

  • drone621
    3612·
    3 years ago

    I downvote the Chinese propaganda spam. Also the poorly written opinion pieces with unsourced claims or tabloid articles.

  • vis4valentine
    257·
    3 years ago

    I don’t downvote Leftists posts, i am in the center and I’m very progressive. If i weren’t, i would be on fucking gab (i hate that shit). I really don’t like people defending dictatorships, something i know very well since i live in Venezuela. Also accept that China is a cyberpunk dystopia with serious human rights violations and is creating a system that makes impossible for a revolution to rise. I’ve been told that money in Venezuela didn’t matter, that is a “socialist utopia” has also been told that Venezuela is not socialism, and that is stupid to call Venezuela a poor country (i literally just need to walk outside my home to prove then wrong). These are interactions i had on Lemmy alone. Now imagine how much shit i got on Reddit.

    English speaking leftist are always like “Oh, i don’t care about your first hand experience, this book i bought on Amazon says otherwise”

    Some people need to chill and start recognizing propaganda when they see it.

    • nutomicA
      91·
      3 years ago

      Whether or not Venezuela is socialist, whats more important is that it has been under illegal sanctions from the US for decades. No country can prosper in that situation.

  • SudoDnfDashY
    269·
    3 years ago

    Because it is a private, federated alternative to reddit. Plus, most of the ‘leftist’ shit here is just Chinese propaganda.

  • dragnucs
    6·
    3 years ago

    I don’t know what left is and at this point I am too afraid to ask.

  • EvanM
    5·
    3 years ago

    friends, please as always keep it civil

  • JBSPD
    51·
    3 years ago

    deleted by creator

    • EvanM
      3·
      3 years ago

      I find it funny, because on this instance’s home page it says it is a leftist community

        • SudoDnfDashY
          33·
          3 years ago

          Someone who supports the Chinese government or other brutal state capitalistic states under the guize of ‘communism’. I am also defiantly not a capitalist lol. Just a anarchist.

            • SudoDnfDashY
              31·
              3 years ago

              I don’t reed the news lol. I only ever really go online to read and talk about Linux and technology. Every single government, including China and the USA are all run by fascists and useful idiots. I oppose Capitalism, much like I oppose the ruthless state capitalism that is prevalent in China.

                • SudoDnfDashY
                  1·
                  3 years ago

                  In China the government owns the means of production, not the people collectively. It is state capitalist. Not fascist? Remember the Tienanmen Square Massacre?