• CaptFeather@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    I'm pretty sure everyone at lemm.ee is cool with y'all. I'm still not super sure why other instances want to defederate with you tbh lol

    • PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES [it/its]
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      10 months ago

      I think Blahaj wanted to defederate because they didn't like talking about trans rights or removing slurs

              • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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                10 months ago

                There is no genocide against the Uyghurs and continuing to lie about it is the holocaust denial you're being accused of. You're diminishing the term 'genocide' and making what the nazis did look as comparatively harmless as what China is doing. You're doing PR for the nazis by making their crimes look less serious.

                But you've had this explained to you a thousand times. You know what you're doing. You're doing it because that's your goal, clearly.

                • randint@lemm.ee
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                  10 months ago

                  You are doing PR for the Chinese Communist Party. I have nothing against communism, what I am against is their dictatorship.

                  My goal is to... well I don't really have a goal. All I want to do is to make my opinions heard just like you are.

                  • SootyChimney [any]
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                    10 months ago

                    You should honestly investigate how democracy actually works in China - You'll find that they have far more votes and actual choices for their officials than you ever have, and the approval rate of the government, even when anonymously/independently surveyed, is almost certainly higher than your country's.

                    • randint@lemm.ee
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                      10 months ago

                      I honestly find it hard to believe that there is any degree of democracy in a country where the government regularly silences words on its social media. The local officials (the mayor, legislators, and the president) where I live are all elected and I'm pretty sure that's already more than what China has. Their high approval rate is due to the fact that people don't know that their government can be better.

                      • SootyChimney [any]
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                        10 months ago

                        The local officials (the mayor, legislators, and the president) where I live are all elected and I'm pretty sure that's already more than what China has

                        I think what I said is still true.

                        There's a lot of handwaving in your reply that China's population are just ignorant and censorship exists therefore its bad, based on little info. All Western countries also have major systems of censorship on social media. The majority of people in China have access to the internet via unfiltered VPNs - they have basically as much free access to information as you do.

                        • randint@lemm.ee
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                          10 months ago

                          All Western countries also have major systems of censorship on social media.

                          Well, yeah, I suppose so.

                          The majority of people in China have access to the internet via unfiltered VPNs.

                          I would say that Chinese people who have a VPN are among the minority (less than 50%). But yeah, Chinese people who have a VPN have access to all the content outside the national firewall.

                  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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                    10 months ago

                    Your opinion doesn't deserve to be heard though. You're calling China a dictatorship. You haven't done any investigation into the thing you're talking about and are therefore speaking nonsense. Why do you want your opinion to be heard so badly? Have you done so much work on it that you're proud to show it off to others?

                  • Egon [they/them]
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                    10 months ago

                    There have been provided several sources for you in this very thread, yet you choose not to engage with them. Why do you think you have a right to spread misinformation?

                  • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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                    10 months ago

                    How do you know that? All the evidence we can find says that China is not doing that.

                    Your gut is telling you they are. What could give you this instinct? It could only be rascism.

              • space_comrade [he/him]
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                10 months ago

                You can't just say "genocide denial" and pretend you've won the argument. You first have to actually provide proof of the genocide happening. I could also say "the Dutch are being genocided as we speak" and then call you a genocide denier when you say that's preposterous.

                It's strange how elusive the proof for this supposed genocide is.

              • Awoo [she/her]
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                10 months ago

                The notion that a genocide is occurring against the fastest growing ethnic group in China is preposterous. And the second fastest is Tibetan.

                Where is the evidence? Have you looked at what it really looks like when a country is genuinely abusing an ethnicity in its borders? Have you ever visited https://reddit.com/r/israelexposed ?? Why do you think Israel, a richer country per capita with smaller borders to police is incapable of hiding its atrocities but you can't find me a single real video of anything of this shit in a country where 90% of the population has smart phones?

                Oh and where are the tens of thousands of refugees?

                • randint@lemm.ee
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                  10 months ago

                  I understand that some people may not choose to believe things unless provided concrete evidence. I respect this attitude, and I am sometimes like this too. However, to dismiss even the possibility that there might be such a thing happening is unthinkable. Do you think that Israel controls its Internet as strictly as China does? Do you think that the camp is somewhere in the city center where hundreds of people pass by it every day? Do you think that the government doesn't prohibit people to even come near the facility much less allow them to take photos?

                  Oh and where are the tens of thousands of refugees?

                  Sorry, what refugees are you talking about?

                  • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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                    10 months ago

                    If there is a genocide against an ethnic minority happening, there would be refugees flooding the borders of neighboring countries

              • cynesthesia
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                8 months ago

                deleted by creator

              • Egon [they/them]
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                10 months ago

                Youve literally been provided with several sources proving there isn't a genocide going on, in this thread.
                You have refused to engage with them. Why do you think you're still owed civil discussion or good-faith engagement?
                It is not disagreement, it's you refusing to engage in good-faith discussion.

                  • Egon [they/them]
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                    10 months ago

                    You are asking to prove an unfalsifiable thing. The sources prove that the camps aren't camps, that Zenz is a liar, that Falun Gong are liarsz that Uyghurs aren't being forced to not speak their language, that Uyghurs are growing in populayion, that Uyghurs aren't kept out of political or cultural posts. Yet you still claim it might be going on.
                    There is no source that indicates a genocide is going on. The story of a genocide is going on has been proven to be propagated by liars. There is no rational reason to believe a genocide is going on, there is literally nothing indicating one is going on.
                    You continuing to want us to treat China as if it is committing one isn't based on one shred of fact, but instead because you feel like it might be possible. What you feel like isn't something that inherently deserves respect. It is honestly kind of racist how you keep insisting china is commioa genocide, despite all evidence to the contrary.

                    I have refused to engage with them? That's a ridiculous claim.

                    Instead of actually engaging with their content and acknowledging what they say, you move the discussion (as you are doing here) to one about what feel is happening.

              • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]M
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                10 months ago

                a “genocide” with no proof is impossible. there is plenty of proof of the Holocaust, even before the Allies liberated the camps and saw the documentation of the several genocides committed by the Nazis, it was well known around the world that an extermination campaign was underway. there were Holocaust victims who were able to escape during the war and told of the genocides.

                now, where is the proof of a Uyghur genocide? its all hearsay from Adrian Zenz, a guy who’s been to China once 15 years ago. now western media props him up as a “China expert” bc he tells them what they want to hear. he feeds them lies for the propaganda machine in order to stoke popular outrage against China. bc a country like the PRC is dangerous for the existence of capitalism. look at how tough China is on their capitalists. executives of a baby formula company allowed expired formula to be sold in order to turn a profit, many babies died, the executives were tried for this mass murder, and a few were executed. this is justice, real justice. state power exerted against capital is the only way to overcome capital

                • randint@lemm.ee
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                  10 months ago

                  I did not defend Nazi apologia. I did defend Zenz on his opinions about the genocide against Uyghurs in China.

                  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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                    10 months ago

                    His opinions about the "genocide"? The fact that you recognise that they are entirely opinions and not facts just shows how inauthentic the claims are.

                      • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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                        10 months ago

                        That's not what "I did defend Zenz on his opinions" means at all. How do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you'll lie about what you said only a few centimetres away?

                  • Egon [they/them]
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                    10 months ago

                    Who gives a shit about some dudes opinions about the misinformation he's spreading?

                      • Egon [they/them]
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                        10 months ago

                        Neat! I personally give a shit about facts rather than what some dumbass loser thinks might be happening despite all evidence to the contrary. The Washington Post is a rag owned by Jeff Bezos, acting like it is in any way reputable is laughable

                      • Flaps [he/him]
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                        10 months ago

                        Yes, some of my comments are done with the aim of making hexbear look bad.

                        This is your previous comment

                          • Flaps [he/him]
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                            10 months ago

                            You see how you're making it difficult for anyone to take you seriously right

                              • Flaps [he/him]
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                                10 months ago

                                If

                                there are very few people that would take hexbear seriously

                                Then why

                                Yes, some of my comments are done with the aim of making hexbear look bad.

                                    • randint@lemm.ee
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                                      10 months ago

                                      I don't know whether you read my parent comments or not, but I am not a nazi apologist.

                                  • Egon [they/them]
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                                    10 months ago

                                    Of course they were made to make you look bad, you're clearly not interested in good faith discourse. We want to dunk on you, because you're a condescending little unimaginative impotent weasel

                                      • Egon [they/them]
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                                        10 months ago

                                        Of course I'm being condescending, why do you think you deserve good faith when you've shown yourself to be a sad little troll? You're a dumbass idiot that have literally admitted you're doing this to make us look bad. You've failed to engage with well sourced arguments, instead moving the discussion to one of your "opinion" needing to be respected and the possibility needing to be taken seriously - There is no evidence a genocide is occurring, and your opinion isn't one that is inherently worthy of respect. Your opinion isn't based on facts, and your opinion isn't a fact either.
                                        Are you actually this stupid you don't understand?

                              • Egon [they/them]
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                                10 months ago

                                And you believe people are gonna take the idiot that can't even engage with the simplest of refutations of his bogus claims seriously? Lmao

                      • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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                        10 months ago

                        It's funny because calling you out on your dishonest and racist shit is the original source of your grudge against us

                        Now you come to our site for the explicit and sole reason of starting shit with us

                        And you act indignant at being called out for your behavior once again and act like you're vnidicated

                        logout

                        • randint@lemm.ee
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                          10 months ago

                          As I have already clarified multiple times, I am not here to start shit. I am here to express my opinions, just like the hexbears do on those news posts on China.

                          • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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                            10 months ago

                            A Hexbear calling me out for being a troll? Calling my claims rooted on dishonest bullshit? Wow.

                            And how does this comment fit into that objective? Because this looks like you engaging with and in shit.

                          • Egon [they/them]
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                            10 months ago

                            You have just admitted you want hexbear to look bad you disingenuous idiot

                      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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                        10 months ago

                        you should stop making ad hominem attacks and instead watch this countdown for an important message then click the spoiler below afterwards countdown

                        Don't click until the 60 seconds are up, silly!

                        Ad nom on deez nutz ayy lmao

              • Awoo [she/her]
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                10 months ago

                democratically elected president of Taiwan

                lmao

                • randint@lemm.ee
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                  10 months ago

                  Did I say anything wrong? Was the process democratic? Yes. Was he elected? Yes. Was his title "president"? Yes. Did this happen in Taiwan? Also yes.

                  • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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                    10 months ago

                    By this same logic, Xi is the democratically elected leader of China but for some reason you keep calling it a dictatorship

                    • randint@lemm.ee
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                      10 months ago

                      No? Xi does not even claim himself to be democratically elected by the citizens.

                      • Sephitard9001 [he/him]
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                        10 months ago

                        By the citizens? You didn't say that part lol. That disqualifies the U.S. as a democracy.

                  • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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                    10 months ago

                    Taiwan is a fascist colony and democracy is not possible until the junta is gone and western influence wiped away

                  • Egon [they/them]
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                    10 months ago

                    Damn I didn't know you supported the democratic people's Republic of Korea, that's kinda based of you

                    • randint@lemm.ee
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                      10 months ago

                      I don't think the people of North Korea have any say in who gets to be the president/chairman/general secretary.

                      • Egon [they/them]
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                        10 months ago

                        Uhh sweaty it's in the name, it's democratic. You just used this logic yourself you fucking dumbass dog-headed pissbaby

              • comr [he/him]
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                10 months ago

                Judging by your post history you are definitely trying to stir shit up.

                  • AOCapitulator [they/them]
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                    10 months ago

                    you look how many of them are still federated with nazis and transphobes and tell us again how sad it is those freaks defederated

                      • AOCapitulator [they/them]
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                        10 months ago

                        again, aww boo hoo all the most reactionary instances defederated from us waaahh

                      • Egon [they/them]
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                        10 months ago

                        Aww boo hol we don't get to interact with libs like you that spread misinformation long after they're been showed to be liars? We don't get to interact with more people like you that thinks they're deserving of respect despite acting in bad faith themselves? We don't get to interact with idiots like you that somehow think an opinion based on nothing but lies and hearsay is something that should be respected? That's really too bad

                  • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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                    10 months ago

                    And? There's only like three major instances worth being federated with in the first place.

                  • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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                    10 months ago

                    I hold that it is bad as far as we are concerned if a person, a political party, an army or a school is not attacked by the enemy, for in that case it would definitely mean that we have sunk to the level of the enemy. It is good if we are attacked by the enemy, since it proves that we have drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves. It is still better if the enemy attacks us wildly and paints us as utterly black and without a single virtue; it demonstrates that we have not only drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves but achieved a great deal in our work.

                  • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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                    10 months ago

                    No one here cares because they're filled with losers like you. It is a privilege to federate with us. Blahaj was on some transphobic and ableist bullshit, so they lost that privilege.

              • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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                10 months ago

                What you said in your comment is slander and hurts my reputation. I would like to politely request that you take down the allegations.

                It's not slander if it's true.

          • Krause [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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            10 months ago

            A UN Resolution of global south nations: https://web.archive.org/web/20220210055246/https://undocs.org/pdf?symbol=en/A/HRC/41/G/17

            We express our firm opposition to relevant countries’ practice of politicizing human rights issues, by naming and shaming, and publicly exerting pressures on other countries. We commend China’s remarkable achievements in the field of human rights by adhering to the people-centered development philosophy and protecting and promoting human rights through development. We also appreciate China’s contributions to the international human rights cause.

            World Bank Investigation of Xinjiang: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2019/11/11/world-bank-statement-on-review-of-project-in-xinjiang-china

            When allegations are made, the World Bank takes them seriously and reviews them thoroughly. In line with standard practice, immediately after receiving a series of serious allegations in August 2019 in connection with the Xinjiang Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project, the Bank launched a fact-finding review, and World Bank senior managers traveled to Xinjiang to gather information directly...The team conducted a thorough review of project documents, engaged in discussions with project staff, and visited schools directly financed by the project, as well as their partner schools that were the subject of allegations. The review did not substantiate the allegations.

            Organization of Islamic Cooperation praises Chinese handling of Xinjiang: https://www.oic-oci.org/docdown/?docID=4447&refID=1250

            Welcomes the outcomes of the visit conducted by the General Secretariat's delegation upon invitation from the People's Republic of China; commends the efforts of the People's Republic of China in providing care to its Muslim citizens; and looks forward to further cooperation between the OIC and the People's Republic of China.

            https://web.archive.org/web/20201107223810/http://www.inp.net.pk/china-lauds-oics-resolution-on-xinjiang/

            Egyptian media delegates visit Xinjiang: https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/430738-egyptian-media-delegates-provide-a-detailed-insight-of-the-situation-in-xinjiang

            The recently published report also brings forth some interesting facts related to the religious freedom as opposed to the western propaganda. The report provides a strong testimonial by the visiting delegates who clearly state, “the in houses of worship such as the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar, modern facilities abound, providing water, electricity and air conditioning. Local clerics told the visitors that their religious activities had been very well protected”. "The conditions here are very good," said Abdelhalim Elwerdany, of Egypt's Al-Gomhuria newspaper. "I could feel that local Muslims fully enjoy religious freedom."

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            10 months ago

            genocide against Uyghurs by China

            Adrian Zenz has entered the chat. zenz

          • AntiOutsideAktion [he/him]
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            10 months ago

            Refining this into bullet points:

            • You said I did a bad thing I did not do a bad thing how dare you

            • Your opinions are bad and you take the side of people with your opinions

            • I did NOT do bad thing

            You should be able to recognize your hatred of us is a 'you' problem

      • Egon [they/them]
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        10 months ago

        Lmao we treat people with differing opinions completely fine. Hexbear isn't a monolith.
        We just dont tolerate debatebros. I have yet to see someone engaging in good-faith discussion being mistreated.

        Smug gotchas, refusing to engage in the arguments you're presented with, choosing condescention and the like gets you rightly treated like a condescending dickbag. Civil discussion is a two-way street.

        • randint@lemm.ee
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          10 months ago

          I never refused to engage in the arguments. I almost always replies back with thoughtful arguments.

          • Egon [they/them]
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            10 months ago

            Lmao "thoughtful arguments" is when you completely ignore what is written and instead start talking about your opinion or the possibility something might be happening despite all evidence to the contrary.
            There's nothing thoughtful about your argument.
            You've also admitted you're just trolling, so this is just really sad.

            You have failed to engage https://hexbear.net/comment/3830376 and after this you kept spewwing the now debunked claims.
            You have failed to engage zommeristleninist and cynestesia https://hexbear.net/comment/3830634

            https://hexbear.net/comment/3832154 antioutsideaktion.
            https://hexbear.net/comment/3832142

          • ZoomeristLeninist [comrade/them, she/her]M
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            10 months ago

            are you mad that you were wrong abt China? and that the only sources you had to back you up were Wikipedia and the fascist propagandist Adrian Zenz?

          • Egon [they/them]
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            10 months ago

            Last time I checked you had ignored severe users posting clear and concise arguments as well as well-sourced claims, instead choosing to be condescending. When you engaged with those users you ignored their sources and arguments, instead talking about what you felt like was happening or that your opinion should be respected - despite your opinion being one of propagating long since debunked misinformation.
            Your *opinion isn't inherently one that deserves respect

          • Egon [they/them]
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            10 months ago

            Your good faith? Last time I saw you engage you ignored every source posted and either didn't engage or went on about what you felt like or how there's a possibility despite there clearly never having been one.
            You aren't acting in good faith.
            If you wanna talk about possibilities a genocide might be occuring you'd have a lot more material to work with if you used the US or France or Ukraine. You didn't though because you don't actually give a shit about genocide, you're just propagandised to hate China.