• panopticon [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      So Chinese bots are on lemmy too now.

      Amazing how comfortable you are being racist on a public forum.

      Anyway, people should look at this map and take note of how far Taiwan's ADIZ extends into Fujian province of mainland China and the open ocean (which is the southwest corner the PRC's airplanes were supposedly encroaching on). These articles are obviously published to make China seem more aggressive than it really is. Meanwhile the US, with the most powerful navy in the world, parades its warships through the Taiwan strait, which for some reason is not seen as a threat or provocation. Also Taiwan claims the mainland as its own territory. Oh, poor little Taiwan. Lol, get off it.

        • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          You are obviously pro-China (...). That makes you a Chinese bot.

          At long last, we've reached the molten core of psychotic liberal solipsism

        • DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          "How am I being racist? I'm just assuming anyone who disagrees with me must be a certain ethnicity and/or bot."

          This really isn't too complicated. Stop using Chinese as a pejorative and "bot" as a thought terminating cliche. It prevents any meaningful discussion, and yes, it's also very racist.

          • RandAlThor@lemmy.ca
            hexagon
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            1 year ago

            The term isn't being used as a pejorative. The term is being used as an adjective to a pro-chinese social media commentator. Mister Doi Doi with NO history in lemmy.

            • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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              1 year ago

              The term isn't being used as a pejorative. The term is being used as an adjective to a pro-chinese social media commentator. Mister Doi Doi with NO history in lemmy.

              galaxy-brain
              Got'em. You should post hog

            • NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]
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              1 year ago

              Mister Doi Doi with NO history in lemmy.

              Their account is two years old and has two years of history. Idk if that doesn't show up for you or something, but it is indeed there.

              Show

            • silent_water [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              Chinese refers to the people who live there or who's families emigrated from there, not randos online who don't support the rabid NATO line. your racism is showing.

        • panopticon [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Sir or Ma'am, I am a US citizen of Chinese descent and I assure you that you are being a cracker, and you can stop any time.

          My bias is towards peace and against interfering in other countries' internal affairs. Taiwan is part of China, this was settled in 1972. It's only in recent years that the US has taken a hostile stance against the PRC since its peaceful economic rise has started to threaten US hegemony. This is not my fight, it's not your fight, it is the fight of the US ruling class—its political establishment and its financial oligarchs. China and the US should be allies, and we should be putting our combined labor into decarbonization, healing the ecosphere, reparations for the global south, and preparing communities for the effects of climate change.

          Also, my family immigrated from Hong Kong before it was released from British rule, so ~by your logic~ I should be against China, which I'm not, because I'm capable of critical thinking.

          Oh, and one more thing: countdown

        • Sasuke [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          You are obviously pro-China . . . That makes you a Chinese bot.

          you, oh enlightened reddit-logo one, could you perhaps explain to us what the word 'bot' means?

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          That's precisely the sort of argument one would expect from a NAFO bot. Hope you earned enough FICO credit points to buy food tonight.

      • randint@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        Yes, the ADIZ includes part of China, but this article is mainly about jets crossing the median line of Taiwan Strait. Also I don't think Taiwan gets mad over any jets intruding the "overclaimed" part of the ADIZ.

        • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]
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          1 year ago

          but this article is mainly about jets crossing the median line of Taiwan Strait

          It says the jets did that OR were in the southwest zone. It is intentionally vague alarmism.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I literally quoted the part that you just also quoted, which specifies that some of the craft were merely in the ADIZ, the one thing I was talking about in my comment

    • zephyrvs@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I'm so tired of the notion that anyone not being in line with certain narratives is automatically considered a drone.

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        Like 6ish years ago we all, liberals and leftists together, were creeped out by the right's sudden proliferation of "NPC" memes, correctly pointing out how dehumanizing it is and conjecturing darkly about what exactly this kind of rhetoric was priming these people for. Now, the overton window's so fucked that the we've normalized deploying the exact same invective against anyone who speaks up on behalf of humanity and against a US-dominated world. I've driven past the ruins of the Japanese concentration camps out in the miserable desert, and to know that so many people around me who act self-righteous but stand for nothing would rebuild those camps at the snap of a finger, or the running of an op-ed, or a scary news story....well, these people may haughtily object to being called blue MAGA, but that sure doesn't stop them from doing absolutely fucking everything they can to earn the label.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Everyone who disagrees with me must be a bot.

      I bet your response will contain one of more of the following: Winnie the Pooh, social credit, comrade, Uyghurs. Yet you call others bots, lmao.

    • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      You both quoted the same exact piece of text. You said they didn't read the article but you didn't even bother to read their comment?

      You are calling a human being a bot, literally dehumanizing them, because they don't have the same hatred of China as you. You should really check yourself. You are full of hatred and ideological poison. It is clear from your comment that you have limited literacy skills and understanding, you should check out some other perspectives and try to broaden your horizons. Here is one. This is also another incredible resource with a lot of essays and information with a different perspective

        • booty [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          the user you just replied to made their account a year ago and has an extensive post history

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
            ·
            1 year ago

            No no never engage their statement on it's alleged merits. Kick them in the [redacted] and then ask them why they can't walk while laughing. It is the weirding way.

          • randint@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            We should give @RandAlThor@lemmy.ca benefit of the doubt. Sometimes when people view other's profile from another instance, the post history shows up empty.

        • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          ...are you aware you can't see people's post histories if you click their username on lemmy.ca and you have to visit their home instance?

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Uhhh, that's obviously different, America is a white western country and so it owns the world

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Beep boop I have been programmed to make really fucking cool historical dramas beep boop (This is my stereotype about China idk what else happens there I just really like Three Kingdoms adaptations did y'all see 2008's Red Cliff it was dope af! John Woo directing!)

        • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]
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          1 year ago

          MUST MAKE DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF TOM AND JERRY SHITPOSTS

          MUST POST MEMES OF AN AD FOR MIXUE ICE CITY

          MUST UPLOAD 12 GB FOLDER OF BIAOQING IMAGES

    • zephyreks@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      "or"

      not "and", "or".

      The southwestern quadrant of Taiwan's ADIZ overlaps with China's ADIZ. If anything, Taiwan is overclaiming their ADIZ.

    • socsa@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      First day? Lemmygrad brigades every worldnews thread about China or Russia.

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Did you ever check out that thread on lemmygrad I made for you? You never said anything but you might have just forgotten.

                • socsa@lemmy.ml
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                  1 year ago

                  I glanced at it. But you see what's happening here right? These people have no interest in anything but trolling.

                  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                    1 year ago

                    I mean, it was made solely for your benefit (though I did like reading it). For your convenience, here it is again.

                    They are mocking you because they have assessed you as not interested in really engaging with people. If you were more unassuming, the response would be different. It sucks to be dogpiled-on, it has happened to me -- with this very group no less -- but it's good to try to have some perspective of the limits of the implications of such behavior.

                    Also hexbear is just a little excited to have liberals to use as punching bags via federation, so there's definitely a bit of a hair trigger. I generally prefer to stick to my own ways of talking with people for various reasons, but I struggle to find serious fault with them when I am essentially doing the same thing in my own way with others, and OP seriously brought this upon themselves by posting such a stupid, misleading, and alarmist article (see the comments about the Taiwan ADIZ from myself and others).

                    Edit: also I checked back and yeah, you were picking a fight. Liberal complains about "brigading," socialist A criticizes them, socialist B riffs on socialist A's comment, then you come and reply to socialist B with "You seem upset," which I would struggle to read as anything other than condescending and terse. I misread

                    It's not like you said "Hey, what about the Taiwan Strait part?" and got people screaming "HOG OUT OR LOG OUT!"