China isn’t communist.
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PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world 9 months agoIt’s the same Meta, Twitter, Reddit and all west centralized social media are doing but instead of be working for communists they are working for fascists.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s kind of the no true Christian argument. China is Communist in some ways, like it has a “Communist” party that knows best what’s good for the people. Clearly according to communist doctrine.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
This reminds me of a famous quote from Karl Marx:
“If you call yourself a communist, you must be a communist”
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In a way yes. Except other communists will always complain that any attempt of implementing communism isn’t true communism.
But people who favor democracy, have less trouble identifying that communism doesn’t really work, and accept it as communism despite the failures of actually living up to the ideals.
SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I hear ya man. It really gets my goat when people say Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea isn’t a Democratic Republic. Like, it’s right there in the name.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Strawman argument, that clearly shows you don’t get the no true Christian fallacy.
bartolomeo@suppo.fi 9 months ago
Yea, isn’t it just “media is capable of influencing public opinion in the United States”? Lots of news about Nazi stuff on twitter so I doubt this law is about protecting the social fabric of the U.S.
GarrulousBrevity@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I know this is what-about-ism but I really wish we cared half as much about Meta having already destabilized the last two presidential elections.
thejml@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Same here. Generally, I really hate the whataboutism people hop to, but in this case they literally crafted a bill for one company/set of specific companies… they could have easily made it more wide ranging and solved multiple issues with one bill. I feel the “but these others are also doing it and you should have thought about that” is valid criticism of this bill.