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[–] [email protected] 67 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (11 children)

Almost all the Lemmy instances consist of imperial core labor aristocrats. They're Western chauvanists. Many of them are tech bros. Many lack class consciousness. They have poor media literacy skills while believing they have excellent skills. They consume their governments' and corporate media's propaganda uncritically, unaware that they’re being propagandized. Many of them are as rabidly anticommunist now as people were during the first Cold War.

They'll regurgitate:

  • pooh bear
  • tiananmen square
  • hong kong
  • famine
  • uyghur genocide
  • secret police stations
  • spy balloons
  • tiktok
  • havana syndrome
  • social media bots
  • taiwan
  • nine dash line
  • ghost cities
  • tibet
  • secret imprisonments & assassinations
  • great firewall
  • social credit score
  • technology theft
  • debt trap diplomacy
  • han superiority/replacement theory
[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

The Han Chinese one is something I wasn't even aware of but have had people mention to me previously. Where does that come from, exactly? Also, the "social credit score" one tickles a brainworms still, I know it's likely nothing like how it was described to me in the past, but I don't even know what the reality behind that one is.

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