Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian?

• hamid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People who defend the US and its empire are the “authoritarians”

  Take your shitty smiley face and shove it loser

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  • raktheundead@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That moment when you pretend to fight against imperialism - by implicitly supporting imperialists in the PRC.

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    • hamid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The PRC are literally not imperialist you brainwashed goon. This is what is so frustrating about communicating with Americans who live under totalitarian mind control of your state, you believe ridiculous unprovable nonsense and are smug shit heads about it.

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      • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t know, claiming parts of other counties as their own on official maps seems pretty imperialist to me. I also don’t know what your definition of totalitarian is if you believe the US is totalitarian. I’ve heard claims of authoritarianism before, but claims of totalitarianism make even less sense. It seems like an effort to render a word meaningless by misusing it.

        America is imperialist, as is China, Russia, and every other major world power. It’s just what large states tend to do. I suspect MLs view imperialism only through the lens of capitalism, when imperialism far predates capitalism. Capitalist imperialism is only one form of an empire projecting its power.

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      • YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Americans don’t live under totalitarian mind control, you brainwashed goon.

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      • raktheundead@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        First of all, not American.

        Second of all, nine-dash line and neo-colonialism in Asia, Africa, South America and Europe says very differently. As does the Han supremacism that Xi surrepitously perpetuates.

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      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Don’t usually see this much autofellatio without a @lemmygrad or @hexbear following the username.

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      • hark@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        China is imperialist to a degree, but they’re certainly not invading countries all over the place like the US. People here like to claim that bringing up the US is whataboutism even though the US is the prime example of imperialism currently and likes to point at China and Russia to distract from their own actions.

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  • YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think anyone saying “behave under the rules I set or I kill you” is an authoritarian.

    I’ll wait while you invent reasons why this definition only fits the USA and not Russian or China.

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    • hamid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You are just a literal idiot that knows absolutely nothing about China and goes online pretending you are an expert in anything.

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      • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I bet I’ve spent more time in China than you have.

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