• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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        Imagine my surprise when my lukewarm take on China’s checks notes flawless human rights record got nuked faster than a Tibetan monastery in the cultural revolution archives.

        I’m pretty sure virtually all of the Tibetan people are happy to no longer be suffering under agrarian theocratic feudalism. Happy to no longer be illiterate serfs suffering depredation. I’m not at all sad that CIA asset Dalai “suck my tongue” Lama is unhappy.

        The irony of Western tankies cosplaying as bastions of free speech while wielding the banhammer like a digital Tiananmen Square reenactment isn’t lost on me.

        There’s no irony in Westerners like you believing that the Tiananmen Square riots are censored in China, because that’s what Western propaganda works to have you believe.

        Post anything that doesn’t align with the Party-approved narrative and you’ll find yourself exiled to the cyber-gulag of defederation.

        What instances have we defederated from?

        How very critical support of them.

        That don’t see how that term applies here, but it makes you sound very smart to drop it in there, so you must be right 👍

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          Ah, the classic tanky playbook: rewrite history, deflect criticism, and sprinkle in some smug condescension. Let’s dismantle this nonsense.

          First, your glorification of China’s “liberation” of Tibet is as hollow as your grasp of nuance. Replacing one form of oppression with another isn’t progress—it’s just a different boot on the neck. Illiterate serfs? Sure. But now they’re surveilled subjects in a police state, stripped of their culture and autonomy. Some upgrade.

          Second, the Tiananmen Square denialism is peak propaganda regurgitation. You’re not edgy for parroting state narratives; you’re just embarrassing. The fact that you think censorship is a Western fabrication while ignoring China’s Great Firewall is laughable.

          And defederation? Don’t play coy. Lemmy.ml’s selective “critical support” is just authoritarianism with extra steps.

          And honestly, watching you tankies work overtime to defend this is adorable. My post has you running in circles, grasping for links and buzzwords like your credibility depends on it. Keep scrambling—it’s the most effort I’ve seen from your side in ages.

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            And defederation? Don’t play coy. Lemmy.ml’s selective “critical support” is just authoritarianism with extra steps.

            Y’all are past not reading any articles and straight onto not reading the ridiculous word salads you post lmao

            My post has you running in circles, grasping for links and buzzwords

            IMAX level projection. I’d bet this was cringebait if I didn’t know there were actually people this melodramatic.

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            But now they’re surveilled subjects in a police state, stripped of their culture and autonomy. Some upgrade.

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            Second, the Tiananmen Square denialism is peak propaganda regurgitation.

            Literally no one is denying it, so what exactly is being regurgitated?

            And defederation? Don’t play coy. Lemmy.ml’s selective “critical support” is just authoritarianism with extra steps.

            What am I playing coy about? What is the “critical support” you’re talking about, and how is it “selective,” and how is that selectivity “authoritarian”?

            Like I said, you just vibe and jazz, and gish gallop. And it’s getting increasingly incoherent.

            And honestly, watching you tankies work overtime to defend this is adorable. My post has you running in circles, grasping for links and buzzwords like your credibility depends on it. Keep scrambling—it’s the most effort I’ve seen from your side in ages.

            🤣

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        Oh, brilliant. Accidentally tripped into the lemmy.ml thought-police zone and dared to breathe oxygen that wasn’t pre-approved by the Ministry of Online Correctness. Imagine my surprise when my lukewarm take on China’s checks notes flawless human rights record got nuked faster than a Tibetan monastery in the cultural revolution archives. The irony of Western tankies cosplaying as bastions of free speech while wielding the banhammer like a digital Tiananmen Square reenactment isn’t lost on me. But hey, why engage with dissent when you can just yeet it into the memory hole? Turns out, federated platforms are just a game of ideological whack-a-mole. Post anything that doesn’t align with the Party-approved narrative and you’ll find yourself exiled to the cyber-gulag of defederation. How very critical support of them

        It truly is really odd to see a forum (even one banned in China) repeating the same anti-worker “truthspeak” that state propaganda uses. Even in this article China frames asteroid defense as a patriotic mission, but the job ads demand loyalty to the Party over expertise, and their “international cooperation” leaves out key players. Marx taught us (though some seem to have strayed far) that history is shaped by class struggle, yet here we see ruling powers using fear to push orbital militarization disguised as “defense.” Lenin warned that state narratives often hide their true purpose of controlling workers and dividing solidarity. Another distraction from the real enemy: those exploiting celestial events to strengthen ruling-class power.

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          Marx taught us

          The “Marx taught us” turtle has arrived. Your rhetoric is as vibes-based and formulaic as meowmeowbeanz’s.