Typical COINTELPRO shenanigans, amirite.

Then, why’d ye bother responding… anyways, how’s rent on your part?

Let us look at a specific example. A claim like “There’s cultural genocide of Uyghurs in Xinjiang” is simply unreal to most Westerners, close to pure gibberish. The words really refer to existing entities and geographies, but Westerners aren’t familiar with them. The actual content of the utterance as it spills out is no more complex or nuanced than “China Bad,” and the elementary mistakes people make when they write out statements of “solidarity” make that much clear. This is not a complaint that these people have not studied China enough — there’s no reason to expect them to study China, and retrospectively I think to some extent it was a mistake to personally have spent so much time trying to teach them. It’s instead an acknowledgment that they are eagerly wielding the accusation like a club, that they are in reality unconcerned with its truth-content, because it serves a social purpose.

What is this social purpose? Westerners want to believe that other places are worse off, exactly how Americans and Canadians perennially flatter themselves by attacking each others’ decaying health-care systems, or how a divorcee might fantasize that their ex-lover’s blooming love-life is secretly miserable. This kind of “crab mentality” is actually a sophisticated coping mechanism suitable for an environment in which no other course of action seems viable. Cognitive dissonance, the kind that eventually spurs one into becoming intolerant of the status quo and into action, is initially unpleasant and scary for everybody. In this way, we can begin to understand the benefit that “victims” of propaganda derive from carelessly “spreading awareness.” Their efforts feed an ambient propaganda haze of controversy and scandal and wariness that suffocates any painful optimism (or jealousy) and ensuing sense of duty one might otherwise feel from a casual glance at the amazing things happening elsewhere. People aren’t “falling” for atrocity propaganda; they’re eagerly seeking it out, like a soothing balm.

https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

Now, go ahead and downvoot, you lemmy.world arseholes

12+ hour shifts

Wow, you must be making a lot of surplus value money for yourself, your Ted Lasso fascist PMC Neoliberal masters bosses, and finance capital the shareholders

Basado

Yeah… let’s make it quick, boys : )

An umbrella…

Some fellow student named Jordan did it years ago…

I’m still pissed and wondering where wtf he lives

It is possible (and highly encouraged) to use basic critical thinking and be critical of both when relevant.

You would probably classify me as pro-us, because I think tianman square was a horrible massacre and russian forces are commiting war crimes in ukraine. Doesnt mean I’m not critical of american imperialism. You can be critical to both. And in your whataboutism, I think a lot of ML, Hexbear accounts fail to be critical when appropriate of both.

Eh, fair enough.

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To be fair, regardless of your political views (pro-U.S or pro-China)

I guarantee, this is a more impactful change than the U.S or China’s politics, on their own, will ever get… at least something’s new IN THE WORLD

(I’m not even gonna convince y’all on whether China is good or not or America bad; I have my own views, you have yer own)

My man, yk I could just say flip the liberal whataboutism and that being history and also point ye at the U.S occupying parts of Syria, and controlling South Korea’s military now as we speak

No, that’s just a plain-out exceptionally right wing American-brain dead theory, the same it would be if you replaced “Biden” with “Trump” in that text, for Communists, especially outside the West…

Of what illusion were their stances not antithetical to each other, in foreign policy especially?

The ebil tankie wankies of course…

Maybe, if there was a new better-fitting, revolutionary superstructure that would replace it

I think by its context, religion was the ideology of feudalism and the medieval times’ economy (eg. Hinduism)…

And while it was progressive for its time, when the dawn of a new system came, its weaknesses were exposed…

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Nice, it seems.

Wait, so Dems seem to have like a majority support of her, that’s news to me?

Well, if ye think about it from a perspective of recording things

Most of our ancestors may have been able to look at things as it is, according to their eyes, but they’ve never seen it recorded in photos and videos, let alone in color or good quality, until these relatively recent centuries that we now live in…

It gives a new perspective to the world around us, beyond our eyes, and is probably the closest we’d ever get from literally looking at someone else’s point of view…

1000 + 100 + 10 + 1

Ye think slavery, worker rights, and decolonization was done merely by protests and by the mere will of liberalism?