Arelin
@Arelin@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Charlotte shooting: Three police officers shot dead, five wounded in North Carolina home siege 2 weeks ago:
Reddit ass behaviour
- Comment on Tim Loughton: MP deported from Djibouti over criticisms of China 2 weeks ago:
Conservative MP
So the “criticisms” in question is spreading imperial core propaganda
- Comment on But they wouldn't know the taste 3 weeks ago:
The perfected form
- Comment on North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows 3 weeks ago:
Imagine paying money for software 😎
- Comment on North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows 3 weeks ago:
Uncritical support to the DPRK in its heroic struggle against the genocidal US empire
- Comment on North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows 3 weeks ago:
Sanctions can’t block access to education and software lol.
- Comment on North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows 3 weeks ago:
Sanctions placed upon the North Korean regime, for its ongoing human rights abuses and nuclear warfare programs
Damn where are the sanctions on the US then? You know, the only country crazy enough to use those nukes on actual human beings?
- Comment on Biden 'outraged' over Israel strike on World Central Kitchen staff in Gaza 1 month ago:
As always
- Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem 2 months ago:
Well yeah? The only countries accusing China of mishandling the ETIM (an issue created by the US through Afganistan btw) in Xinjiang are the ones committing an actual genocide in Palestine, i.e imperial core countries. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and Muslim countries in general are against the western propaganda about it.
20 . Welcomes the outcomes of the visit conducted by the General Secretariat’s delegation upon invitation from the People’s Republic of China; commends the efforts of the People’s Republic of China in providing care to its Muslim citizens; and looks forward to further cooperation between the OIC and the People’s Republic of China.
- Comment on The lamest countries 4 months ago:
Parroting zionist talking points really well there bud. The fuck do you mean ‘wrong’?
The Viet Cong didn’t liberate their country from the US by being nice, and Palestinians won’t liberate theirs from US-backed Israel by being nice either. The difference here is the even more extreme brutality of the US that made NK the way it is today.
- Comment on The lamest countries 4 months ago:
So, pointing out that the US carpet bombed North Korea with 635,000 tons of bombs, killed 20% of their population and turned all remaining infrastructure to rubble is “tankie” now?
You guys just can’t see non-westerners as human.
- Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion 4 months ago:
Ah damn, how much are they paying you
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
genocide
Jesus christ, you don’t seem to realize how much of a fucked up accusation that is. Even the US State Department, who would love to throw around any and all accusations at the their geopolitical rivals, says there’s no mass killings in China, probably because the US couldn’t cause one like they did in 1965 in Indonesia.
Even if it’s not intentional, these kinds of thoughtless claims downplay actual mass killings like the one Israel is perpetrating against native Palestinians right now.
far-rights co opting leftist language to grab power
Hence why it’s important to scrutinize news, sources and claims, and not throw around baseless ones.
I do think we need a democratically elected authority though, or you get corporations and billionaires steering the government to wage wars for profit from oil, materials etc. like what’s happening now with Israel.
Perhaps one like Cuba, which is Socialist and has one of the most open democracies in the world. It has an unusually high percentage of women in the government compared to the rest of the world thanks to that; 53.22% now (U.S has 29.0%), and better LGBT rights than the US nowadays. Also free healthcare, and enough free high level education to provide Italy with doctors during the pandemic, despite the ongoing 60 year US embargo.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
Isn’t that a .world user? Lemmygrad doesn’t allow homophobes as a rule.
Being gay and imperialist is a hilarious thought though lol
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
he lives inside a paranoid nightmare
Lmao I wouldn’t go that far. But we can’t all see eye-to-eye ig unfortunately.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
If they were popular, they wouldn’t have needed China
Why wouldn’t commoners in a feudal slave state not want help from a nearby government whose views match their own?
just like the US supported revolutionaries that overthrew their governments
The US overthrew democratically elected popular governments, like Mosaddegh’s in Iran, or Salvador Allende’s in Iraq, replacing the latter with a military dictatorship, because their policies benefitted their own countries instead of the US.
Their are no us military bases in Iraq and all the oil money goes to Iraq.
…What? There are still military bases in Iraq even now, and the economic dependence on the US that Iraq is now in is exactly what the US wanted/wants. ExxonMobil, Chevron etc. extracting oil for cheap from a war-torn country that doesn’t have a choice; even CNN admits it.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
China invaded and annexed them.
Again, the popular Tibetan revolutionary party fought the feudal rule; their views were in line with the rest of China, and the autonomous nature of the region while being part of China reflects that.
the US invasion of Iraq
Not even comparable. There were no popular pro-US movements fighting Saddam’s rule, and Iraq was destabilized in the first place because of US sanctions, not Saddam’s decisions unlike the feudalism in Tibet. This was purely a strategic invasion to set up military bases and secure oil and resources by making up false claims of WMDs.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
Well shit, ig I’m a far right reactionary now
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
I don’t think they’re pro-Putin? Seem to be as much against Russian imperialism and capitalism as they are for US.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
Very mature of you.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
you are trying to compare this to the US and bring up other Countries and what they think
Shouldn’t we look at different sources and scrutinize events and claims thoroughly? You seem to be thinking you’re being objective by taking a centrist position on these but this
China invaded and occupied Tibet
is a western claim, and exactly what the US and EU wants its citizens to think by drawing a false equivalence between them and their geopolitical rival. Tibet had a popular revolutionary party whose views were in line with the rest of China that wanted China’s help overthrowing the Dalai Lama, under whom slavery and serfdom was common in the region. Tibet is an autonomous region now.
Hell, the Tibetan uprising against the Chinese government later on was organized by the CIA, and the US is open about it and even proud of it now. Here’s a book on that written by a US district judge and a journal by a poffessor on Tibetan studies. It’s similar to how the US overthrew the democratically elected Mosaddegh in Iran because his policies would benefit Iran instead of the US.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
They pick one side and argue and justify away the crimes “their” Side has done
That’s a heavy oversimplification of everything on there… I see the folks on grad being mad about bad decisions by China just the same; they just heavily scrutinize negative news for bias or misinfo, as people should do for everything.
If you do scrutinize your news and sources, I think it’s only natural that you’d end up being very anti-west/imperialism, and far less anti-China, specially considering the grip western media and news have on the world. The two are just not equivalent at all.
The People of Tibet might disagree there
Here’s an example of that. The fact that ~90% of Tibetans can speak their cultural language compared to the ~8% of North Americans that can speak theirs means they’re just not comparable or equivalent. The only countries accusing China of such a fucked up crime like cultural repression are western ones with a political/economic interest for doing so. Muslim countries and the global south side with China on this and Xinjiang.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
Being vehemently against racism and fascism is left. It’s the logical extreme opposite of “a certain group of people are superior to everyone else”: “everyone is equal and their basic necessities should be provided for free”
You just seem to disagree with the folks over on grad and Lemmy devs on how that can be achieved, and maybe to what extent it should be. They believe an authority is necessary to enforce those rules, or you get corporations and billionaires steering the government to wage wars for profit from oil, materials etc. like what’s happening now.
Personally, I see being pro-China like they are on grad as much less worrying than being pro-US, the latter of which I have a feeling .world mods wouldn’t block because of their western bias. Only one of the two countries have constantly invaded other countries for their resources and overthrown democratically elected foreign governments to replace them with military dictatorships.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
I bet a large part of the Fediverse are Communist/Socialist too, or have similar ideas. Lemmy’s devs are, after all.
I mean, the whole thing is based on the idea of being free to use for everyone.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 5 months ago:
Wow, the Fediverse is actually visible :0
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
And the rest are racist.
Took a look through some of the ones with tame names out of morbid curiosity; not that interesting tbh. Just hope I’m not on a watchlist now.
- Comment on Further study is needed 5 months ago:
It sounds off-ful
I’m sorry
- Comment on The key to eternal life and never dying is to stay in the living room. Don't leave the living room. 5 months ago:
Our lore is weird
- Comment on GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles 5 months ago:
Wouldn’t mind tbh. There’s no shortage of great games to play, and GTA was never story driven so there’s no need to worry about spoilers.
- Comment on GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles 5 months ago:
Eh they’ll make a PC version at some point