• garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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    4 years ago

    i feel like i should have known this. if i didn't know this, i feel like a lot of other people probably don't. we need more content like this.

    • Elyssius [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      We fucking shout that every time the Dalai Lama is brought up, not our fault you don't listen the first, second, third, tenth, fiftieth time we do

        • Elyssius [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Of course, I'm happy that someone finally allowed themselves to learn the truth - but that's just it - the only thing that prevents anyone from learning that the Dalai Lama is a fucking theocratic slaveowner is themselves. Acting like we're the ones not doing a good job spreading the message is to ignore the fact that we are doing what we can, it's just that others have to accept it, we can't learn it for them

            • Elyssius [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              I don't particularly feel like coddling your ignorance, given that it's almost a guarantee that I or someone like me has told you that the Dalai Lama is a fucking slaveowner and should not be given any attention or power, only to be met with a "fuck off, CPC shill" or something similar

              And true, perhaps I've been slacking off on screaming about the Dalai Lama over here on Chapo. But don't pretend that Chapo is the only place where discussions can be held

              • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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                4 years ago

                I don’t particularly feel like coddling your ignorance

                This will bring the revolution any day now, I can feel it

                • Elyssius [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Oh I'm sure you weren't, you just scream free tibet at me to own the libs is all

                    • Elyssius [he/him]
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                      4 years ago

                      Hey once you western leftists start pushing back against imperial propaganda I'll stop

                        • Elyssius [he/him]
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                          4 years ago

                          I'm this hostile because of your implication that I or others like me aren't doing what they can to educate others on Tibet (and China, and non-western countries as a whole) because we absolutely are. The problem is that when we bring up the Tibetan slaves (or anything else, for that matter), people just say "that's not true!" or some variation.

                          It's not that people aren't teaching, it's that people refuse to learn

                          • garbage [none/use name,he/him]
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                            4 years ago

                            i literally advocated for more of this kinda content and showed you that there hasn't been any of it for months. i learned something new today, which is great. on sites like reddit there definitely are assholes who do nothing but shit on communism, but we all left reddit for that very reason. in this instance you got it wrong, which is fine, everyone gets it wrong sometimes.

                            just saying, not everyone is unreachable, some people are just un-informed, and by being an ass you don't do anything for your cause.

            • Elyssius [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Every time I bring up the Dalai Lama's slaves I get like 50 replies about how they weren't actually slaves, how it's CPC propaganda, how slaves under the Dalai Lama lived a better life than the average citizen in China, how they didn't have slaves, etc.

              It's not that there's a lot of propaganda (which, granted, there is). It's that people cling to their propaganda and nothing we do will loosen that grip. That change has gotta come from within

                • Elyssius [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  Well then maybe the problem isn't that tankies aren't shitting on the Dalai Lama enough, it's that the western left lends credence to this propaganda and should fight it instead