kimjong_ill

I for one choose not to believe that the only opinion is the one stated by an authoritarian regime

okay, then don't listen to the state. read the "evidence" yourself, look at the data and see that it is straight up bullshit. some things are outright lies & others are completely misunderstood and misrepresented data. when you crunch the numbers it is abundantly clear the "genocide" is not ocurring. seriously. do the calculations.

or, you could listen to people who actually live there. and if you don't trust those people, how about non-chinese tourists who go to xinjiang? there are plenty of videos of people walking around.

i would say perhaps you would understand more if you went to 新疆维吾尔自治区 but it appears you are an anarchist so i don't see you being able to separate the idea of china in your head from the real china. that name up there reads "xinjiang uighur autonomous region", by the way. an autonomous region has different legislative power than a province. they also are required in xinjiang to have higher offices held by uighurs. so i think they would know better than some anarchist what is best for them.

what do you say about the fact that the us state department attorneys have said the isn't evidence of genocide??

then just use the "subscribed" tab and not "all" or "local". that way you're not "wading through" anything. you can set it to automatically default to subscribed in your settings.

for anyone reading that definition of tankie, i will provide some education:

"Stalinism" is not a thing.

to the hilt, even in cases where other communists criticise their policies or actions.

this is 100% false. "tankies" absolutely have criticisms of socialists states. but 1) they are just criticisms, not those based on false propaganda 2) are not shared aloud around liberals because liberals latch on to a single thing as if it is evidence that proves every one of their wrong thoughts

Some of the people round George W Bush used to be left-wing, but they haven’t really changed their views much; they were mostly tankies.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

We shouldn’t have to be concerned about this will be gab.

this won't become gab precisely because there is no "free speech". allowing "free speech" means that you allow things that are destructive and oppressive and the moderators & admins rightfully won't allow that. that's a good thing.

Believing and spreading propaganda denying current and genocides of the past, posting things like “defeat israel”, defending russia and china, pushing misnifnormation and propaganda in the dictatorship of Belarus’s favour and even supporting north korea.

you are the one believing in & spreading propaganda. the people here encourage each other to look past propaganda & listen to the people of the countries and people who understand the actual systems of those countries, instead of taking CIA propaganda and automatically thinking it is true.

for anyone reading this, let's use the DPRK (north korea) as an example. you hear that it is a dictatorship. but that falls down immediately when you figure out how their government actually works. kim jong-un is not even the president! he is also not the premier (arguably the "top" of the three "top" positions in the government)! he is in charge of the military and the worker's party (which is a position he is elected to). and about that, there are three political parties, by the way. and a worker can run as an "independent". two-ish years ago there was an interview with a young man who lives in the DPRK. he said that he votes for kim and nearly everyone he knows does because they think he truly is the best person for the job.

see? once you start reading about the way things actually work, you realize that what you have read is not merely misleading but outright false.

Lemmy is just the gab of the left but as an alternative to reddit so they can spread their stuff.

this doesn't make any sense. if we were simply trying to "spread our stuff" we would be on reddit doing so.

I’ll actively work against Lemmy and it’s developers

i had been polite to you but after this i say: good fucking riddance.

this is so horrible. the article brings up right to repair and obviously there is the issue of privacy so i won't comment on those but i'd like to bring up another issue present in these cases: misogyny. it is no accident that the photographs that were published without conset belonged to a woman. yes, men have also been victims of this, there is no doubt about that. but men feeling like they own women's bodies and that they need to violate women's autonomy for sexual or even humiliation purposes (sometimes nudes are published as "punishment") is an issue we cannot forget to address.

someone said to me that people were being helped by china "only because china wants something in return"... but then said that china hasn't asked for anything and acknowledged that the people of the island love china because china cares for them and provides aid when no one else will.

so only the two ends of the spectrum, communists and fascists aren’t, libs?

for the purpose of calling people libs on the internet, yes. reality is more nuanced.

doesn’t it mean “individual rights and freedoms” a bad thing

yes. individualism is a tool of the bourgeoisise. communists want "everything for the masses".

dude is a fucking clown. which wouldn't be such a huge deal if he didn't have so much power over people. as mentioned by others, he's not even that smart. he's just rich.

all billionaires are bad. i'm not memeing or anything--it's the truth. people don't have billions of dollars by accident. they have billions of dollars by exploiting other humans (and the planet's resources).

chaotic neutral

exploiting people

yeah, that's not neutral.

also you used said that he "indirectly" exploits people. this is untrue. he directly exploits people.