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[–] Sorgan71@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (4 children)

Except of the tiannamen square massacre, the great leap forward, or the genocide. Also taiwan.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

These are literally the things being referred to

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Jesus, at this point right wing sinophobes don't even try to make a coherent point; they just rattle off the list of buzz words.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Always has been. That's how propaganda works. A lot of exposure for a small amount of loaded terms. Taught in schools to prepare the kids to grow up hating China as our state enemy

[–] Malek061@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

China has been behaving badly lately.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Lmao according to whom? I wish we had China as our neighbor instead of the fucking US, stealing our land and resources at gunpoint, always threatening an embargo, buying up our politicians, starting covert operations and protecting organized crime. China has never done anything to us except provide mutual development and affordable goods, and all the US does is threaten to invade if we get closer to them.

[–] Malek061@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Remember when China killed 60 million people because they were idiots? I do. I also remember them invading Tibet and the Philippines.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 hours ago

Tibet has been a part of China centuries before "the west" realized you couldn't drink the water where your pig shits.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

And so has America. However imagine if every comment about every topic related to America was filled with "They are arming a genocide!"

I mean, this post is just about the fun facts Americans and Chinese are learning from each other about how we really live and cutting through both nations propaganda and instead of talking about how FUCKING COOL THAT IS, we have to stop and have this conversation. Again. Because China is a trigger word and every American is a sleeper agent

[–] Malek061@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, and China has been acting real nice lately. Go talk to everyone of their neighbors. The hatred is real for a reason.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

We genocided native Americans, currently have the largest enslaved people population in the world, and actively have destroyed other countries simply for not wanting to be friends with us when we really wanted them to be our friend.

We have a president actively advocating for invading Mexico, invading Panama, annex Canada, annex Greenland.

The problem with trying to shit talk the "evils of China" is that as Americans, it's purely hypocrisy. We don't have a fucking leg to stand on. Everything they've done we have done or are currently doing.

Does that make what they do okay? No of course not. But pretending they are this axis of pure evil when all they have done is the typical things a large state does is hypocritical and makes you look silly.

You ever considered the cool things China has done?

Oh noooo can't do that. It's Chinese propaganda to pretend they ever have done anything good. Obviously I am a 9 year old chained to a chair being forced to write this.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Everything they’ve done we have done or are currently doing

False equivalence. I wish the US had done the belt and road initiative, instead of having over 900 military bases, predatory loans with policy mandates attached, black ops and political assassinations as well as forcing extractive rather than productive economies on the global south. China hasn't dropped a single bomb on other people in decades, has never seized an asset from a debtor, has never engaged in a war to steal oil and gas or forced an embargo to starve out a nation, let alone starve several dozens at any given time.

The only countries in the 20th century doing what the US has been doing internationally are Nazi Germany and Japan.

[–] flux@lemmy.ml 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

And did mentioning these things just make the message disappear on US-based lemmy-instances?

I don't believe it did.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 0 points 7 hours ago

And what do you know about Chinese censorship? You just say words but have you spoken to a Chinese person from China and idk. Asked? You can do that. It's happening right here. You have a vague idea that China has censorship and your entire life full of memes about it each one increasing the severity of the previous one.

My point is you don't know shit about what a Chinese forum would even look like. Youve never seen one, read one, talked to anyone who has. But you come here swinging like your a god damn born and raised talking from first hand experience. You could be right. You could be wrong. Neither of us know for sure but I can admit that and you can't imagine that maybe someone embellished some things to you and you bought it.

[–] Sorgan71@lemmy.world 0 points 11 hours ago (4 children)
[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago

It's not even that long of a comment. It's like 3 short paragraphs. Read a book my guy

[–] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 0 points 9 hours ago

What a fuckin stereotype.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago

Your time is sooo valuable lol

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago
[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 0 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The Nazis built the autobahn, but we don't cheer for the Nazis.

Like we shouldn't be cheering on any state, just because of the good.

Yes, I include the US, China, Russia, and all the other states that have committed untold evil on humanity, even if they all also did something good.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Nazism is when a US politician doesn't like you, and the more they don't like you the nazier you are

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 0 points 4 hours ago

Not correct, but go on.

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 0 points 10 hours ago

But it's still good to talk about the good things because those good things help us do better the next time. Doesn't mean you gotta go out and buy a Chinese flag, learn Mandarin, defect, marry a Chinese woman and integrate into the culture, swear yourself to the CCP and what the fuck else. You can just be like "hey China is investing heavily into public transport. It's pretty effective. Neat"

You know. The way you react to any country doing a neat thing. But since we got this "China is evil dictatorship where their whole population is basically enslaved" mindset, you can't. That's propagandas power. They are just people like the rest of us.

[–] Binette@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago

you can search the tiannamen square incident. it's just in another name and written in chinese