Right?! That was basically my reaction to this thread and now my major worry. I want Lemmy and the fediverse to grow, but not at the expense of it just becoming Reddit 2.0 in its userbase culture
That is why leftists need to be there. Image r/TheDeprogram moving to Lemmy
half of it's the bad politics, but the other half is just the smug, annoying, unfunny commenting tendencies. like a good portion of redditors just have zero ability to look at a dogshit comment and think "nah, i don't need to put my account name on this one, this adds nothing"
Fuck the see see pee Winnie the Pooh social credit!! :so-true:
All the greatest r*dditor China one joke equivalents. Funny how on Reddit nothing ever happens to anyone posting this shit or even to those straight up calling for China to be nuked, but if you post anything that contradicts Western media, it'll be deleted. Yet they're always patting themselves on the back for defying authority and sticking it to China.
What exactly shapes Redditors into being like this? Again, I've never seen another social media site as obsessed with China as they are. Yeah you'll get dumbass Youtube videos and comments but they almost never end up being trending sites unlike Reddit where sinophobic propaganda always makes it to the front page.
I know a lot of them are astroturfed but this just shows that a lot of them are regular people who've been completely brain broken.
That makes more sense. It goes along with the paranoid takes I would hear about American entertainment being controlled by China. Didn't sound all that different from Jewish conspiracies.
Why do these people call it criticism? Like, criticism implies a desire for the thing you're criticizing to improve on something, but most of these people just want to see the CPC destroyed and the entire country run into the ground. Their idea of "criticizing" the CPC is the equivalent of telling someone they should kill themselves and calling that criticism. They'll go on about how "The Chinese are evil disease spreading sub-humans" and when someone calls them out for racism they'll just go all "IT'S NO RACIST TO CRITICIZE THE CCP!!!!!!!!"
Personally, I don't say I criticize the US because that would imply I want it to remain the global hegemon by being more efficient in exploiting the third world, I just want it to fucking die. I don't criticize the US, I shittalk it because I fucking hate it and the dumbass shiteaters who support it.
EDIT: I removed the excessive "like"s I put at the beginning of my sentences and left just one over because they were bothering me after I re-read this.
What I want is for the US to clean up even a fraction of the mess that they've made. What I'd settle for is a dissolution of the state.
fuck the orcs. fuck the CCCP. Winne the Pooh shouldn’t run a country
Hate the people, and the government too!
Imagine still being mad at the Soviet Union 30 years after it's demise
Why these peoples worry more about China than their own country? Last time I checked, police still execute poc in their country with impunity
National chauvanism is a danger and difficult to treat form of delusion.
Their own country presents China as an enemy in order to encourage jingoism. Having a "bad guy" helps them justify the abhorrent behavior of their own country.
CCP
i don't know what that is. Are you perhaps referring to the "CPC" Communist Party of China?
It is not called the "chinese communist party."
nah, they are referring to the Cool Cock Party. It's very well known around here that criticizing the CCP will get you banned by our glorious rooster lemmy overlords.
Edit: Absolutely not to be confused with the Cool Cock Clan. Fortunately unrelated, unfortunately easy to confuse.
CCP vs. CPC is definitely a shibboleth, but I feel like when you end up arguing with libs about this you come across like :jesse-wtf:
i don't argue with libs about thisjust kidding we're all libs hereI mean, if the comment starts with "CCP," there will always be something more substantial you can correct them on than their spelling.
No idea what they're talking about there. There's no such thing as a "Chinese Communist Party."
These liberals have stuck their heads so far up their asses that they're discovering a new colonic reality.
It's always been like this. Here's an article from 1960 http://www.marx2mao.com/Other/CI60.html
You lost me. Article doesn't work anyway. I'm just going to assume it clarifies that the correct name is the Communist Party of China.
Oh my fucking god that person crying about a transphobe being banned. Go fuck yourself endless.
The criticism: "Xi jingling Winnie the pooh -1000 social credit tank man" :soypoint-2:
Lmao @ the guy unironically posting a rage face in 2023 Anno Domini
The OP links to a post that links to another post that is actually a serious discussion about how orientalism w.r.t. China breaks Rule #1 about not being racist or xenophobic.
Instead of actually posting their disagreement in that thread they just decided to shit their pants instead.
happy to see some comrades in the comments fighting back the libs. Please, keep up the stellar work :lenin-laugh:
