If anyone has the post that was about china in general, which a lot of users contributed to, then I would very much appreciate it

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    Weren’t liberals mostly indifferent to China before Trump? Obama was trying to get them in the TPP. Then Trump spent the last 8 years blaming all our problems on China and liberals believed nothing he said except the stuff about China. Now everyone wants to be the biggest China hawk.

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      China has always been the on-again off-again scarebear the media could pull up whenever the MIC needed to justify its outlandish budget and no other villain of the week was available. Libs cried about Tibet back in the 90’s

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      Appreciated! I was looking for the megathread on China in general, which I know also has that card. I’ve been looking for it ever since I cleared out my bookmarks. I hope it is okay to have reposted your masterthread, otherwise I’ll take it down

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      Ooh, that looks flashy and official enough to share with my lib friends when they complain about “authoritarian China”

      Thanks!

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      Skepticism is good and healthy! I hope you employ the same amount of skepticism whenever you read any of the many pro-western news sources that have been shown to frequently lie in order to further a political agenda (most notably of course the many lies made about the Iraq war, but very much not limited to it). The user that made that masterthread is also in the comments of this one and has shared another great resource https://xinjiangahr.carrd.co/ which has a lot of the same info

      • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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        I hope you employ the same amount of skepticism whenever you read any of the many pro-western news sources that have been shown to frequently lie in order to further a political agenda

        I’m certainly trying to do that, and by my own verdict I’m considerably better at that compared to when I unironically watched Chris Chappell however many years ago… *sigh* No matter how much I shower, I can never feel clean from the burden of my sins.

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      “Don’t you know China is liar and wrong and you evil bad man! Yogurts need freedom delivered via drone strike you stupid tankie! Evil DICTATOR Xi hate ungers! You’re a chinese bot you bad shill! We should autoban bots liek this! I’m as left as they come but China is pure evil, literally worse than Hitler! Oh dontyouknow I hate US too? But China is Threat To World Peace! We have to destroy them for peace! Tinaymany square! Taiwan is a country! WHy are you so triggered China shill socialcreditwinniethepooh. WHy hate freedom? These bots would’ve all been destroyed if Hillary won!”

      Does that about sum it up?

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    The fact liberals pretend to care about the well-being of Muslims after they previously spent eight years under Obama justifying, ignoring or excusing his murder of Muslims all over the world is the easiest tell that it was all bullshit from the start

    In fact prior to 2018 before the China news cycle started libs didn’t care when Trump was going on bombing rampages all over the Middle East and Central Asia; destroying Mosul, dropping a MOAB on Afghanistan, intensifying drone strikes in Yemen, imagine the discourse if China had done anything that visible and widespread to the Muslim populations it borders

    4.5 millions muslims dead in twenty-three years under the bombs and guns of western imperialism, this shit is depraved hypocrisy and the one silver lining was the fact a majority of people in the muslim world saw right through it