• laziestflagellant [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    Love the libs posting the tank man photo in the replies. Yeah, that’ll show the tyranny of the evil ceeceepee, horrific graphic video footage of a man where [checks notes] he is not killed, not injured, not threatened with being run over, nor arrested.

    • RamrodBaguette [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      The comment section in general is really a testament to how the accusation of “Whataboutism” is simply liberal projection. Even if China were this 1984 Torture Circus like propaganda paints it as, trying to deflect to it or Russia/Iran/etc at every criticism of Burgerland should logically disqualify you from using the term.

    • GnastyGnuts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      I can’t find Eugene V Dabs’ “Yankees vs Tankies” video where it compares the clip of the Chinese tank stopping in front of tank-man, with footage of some US soldiers in Iraq running a tank over some guy’s car just because they’re mad at him.

      • Redcuban1959 [any]@hexbear.net
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        2 years ago

        US soldiers in Iraq running a tank over some guy’s car just because they’re mad at him.

        It’s worse than that, they stopped this guy because he “stole” some wood, then they crush the car and the “stolen” wood with a fucking tank

    • darkcalling [comrade/them,she/her]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      They are already beginning to plan one for the west. When it goes down theirs will be up in short order. That EARN-IT act is an escalation in the whole ‘disinformation’ censorship saga we have going on, a probable move to outright banning encryption. Once you do that and cut off VPNs the west can very effectively prevent the small amount of people who want to venture beyond its propaganda outlets from doing so without extreme effort as well as just straight up prevent Chinese/Russian/African/LatAm IPs from using social media platforms, etc in the name of “combating disinformation”. At/before that point they of course purge non-western aligned media from social media entirely in the name of that combating disinformation. The west /HAS/ a soft ‘firewall’ for info but it’s becoming harder and will only get more so as the decline accelerates and the reaction turns inwards.