Title, I'm a leftist but after reading some things on lemmygrad and here it seems I might have been lied to all my life. I have talked with some people from Cuba and Venezuela (expats) that support the west narrative about poverty and mismanagement. I "believe" that Russia is attacking Ukraine for selfish reasons and that China censors access to foreign information using the Great Firewall, please prove me wrong. Furthermore, it ultimately depends who do you want to believe or there are hard facts from reputable sources that are simply a hidden by the mass media?

EDIT: Thanks everyone for your very civil responses. I'll answer as many as I can!

  • DiltoGeggins [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    You’ve gotten pretty consistent feedback on Russia and it’s not what you propose as a counterfactual there.

    Sorry I don't understand.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      No worries. You said:

      for example with Russia. I would love to be shown that the country is a pillar of human and worker rights, and that the stories I’ve heard are all media lies. So far though, even as I search, I haven’t found that.

      So I was simply saying that no one here claims Russia is a pillar of any kind of rights (beyond, arguably, local self-determination). The government doesn't intrinsically give a shit about any of that, so it maintains basic protections for members of the majority population as long as you don't go out of your way to get on its bad side. It is at best unremarkable in this regard afaik.