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I spent 15 minutes looking at all the links and clicking on a few.

North Korea is apparently a functioning democracy that gives its civilians everything they need. They’re all extraordinary happy and love their fairly elected leader. The ones who defect only do it because they’re filthy, selfish capitalists.

Tiananmen Square was apparently not a massacre of thousands of unarmed civilian student protestors, but the site of a skirmish between capitalist pig armed provocateurs who assaulted and killed soldiers in cold blood and acted surprised when the soldiers (with extraordinary restraint) defended themselves against their attacks, leading to just 200 deaths (including those poor innocent soldiers).

The Uighurs are apparently all happy. They took thousands, no, hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and placed them in camps, all out of a selfless desire to help those poor, misguided souls. There’s definitely no cultural oppression, no forced labor, and no human rights abuses. They’re just all-inclusive resorts with free “cultural lessons” to help them understand both Uighur and Chinese culture. The CCP loves their Muslim citizens and definitely doesn’t consider them terrorists in need of forced reeducation.

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Steeve@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Every time I see something that looks like Chinese/Russian/anti-Western propaganda I check the profile and it’s usually a user that’s been here for years. I’m starting to think the Fediverse was born as a misinformation shithole, here’s hoping the new users can get that content to fuck off into it’s own little defederated corner of trolls, bots, and edgelords.

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barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Tiananmen Square was apparently not a massacre of thousands of unarmed civilian student protestors,

Actually, that one is true, you can look it up on wikipedia (including plenty of reliable sources): The massacring was in side streets while the main protest on the square was dissolved “peacefully” by telling students “well, you can go, or we also have rifles here”.

The whole thing was flanked by a power struggle within the CCP between reformers wanting to work with the students and hardliners, who ultimately won out but didn’t go so far as massacring the students without giving them a chance to cave in and leave on their own. They wanted obedience, after all, not blood.

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