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China opens recruitment for ‘planetary defence force’ amid fears of asteroid hitting Earth (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 months ago

[+] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works -15 points 5 months ago

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[-] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 20 points 5 months ago

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Imagine my surprise when my lukewarm take on China’s checks notes flawless human rights record got nuked faster than a Tibetan monastery in the cultural revolution archives.

I’m pretty sure virtually all of the Tibetan people are happy to no longer be suffering under agrarian theocratic feudalism. Happy to no longer be illiterate serfs suffering depredation. I’m not at all sad that CIA asset Dalai “suck my tongue” Lama is unhappy.

The irony of Western tankies cosplaying as bastions of free speech while wielding the banhammer like a digital Tiananmen Square reenactment isn’t lost on me.

There’s no irony in Westerners like you believing that the Tiananmen Square riots are censored in China, because that’s what Western propaganda works to have you believe.

Post anything that doesn’t align with the Party-approved narrative and you’ll find yourself exiled to the cyber-gulag of defederation.

What instances have we defederated from?

How very critical support of them.

That don’t see how that term applies here, but it makes you sound very smart to drop it in there, so you must be right 👍

[+] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works -14 points 5 months ago

Ah, the classic tanky playbook: rewrite history, deflect criticism, and sprinkle in some smug condescension. Let’s dismantle this nonsense.

First, your glorification of China’s “liberation” of Tibet is as hollow as your grasp of nuance. Replacing one form of oppression with another isn’t progress—it’s just a different boot on the neck. Illiterate serfs? Sure. But now they’re surveilled subjects in a police state, stripped of their culture and autonomy. Some upgrade.

Second, the Tiananmen Square denialism is peak propaganda regurgitation. You’re not edgy for parroting state narratives; you’re just embarrassing. The fact that you think censorship is a Western fabrication while ignoring China’s Great Firewall is laughable.

And defederation? Don’t play coy. Lemmy.ml’s selective “critical support” is just authoritarianism with extra steps.

And honestly, watching you tankies work overtime to defend this is adorable. My post has you running in circles, grasping for links and buzzwords like your credibility depends on it. Keep scrambling—it’s the most effort I’ve seen from your side in ages.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

But now they’re surveilled subjects in a police state, stripped of their culture and autonomy. Some upgrade.

I doubt they’re any more surveilled than I am in the US
The US is more of a police state than China is
Tibetans were not stripped of their culture, and they certainly have more autonomy than they had under a feudal theocracy.

Second, the Tiananmen Square denialism is peak propaganda regurgitation.

Literally no one is denying it, so what exactly is being regurgitated?

And defederation? Don’t play coy. Lemmy.ml’s selective “critical support” is just authoritarianism with extra steps.

What am I playing coy about? What is the “critical support” you’re talking about, and how is it “selective,” and how is that selectivity “authoritarian”?

Like I said, you just vibe and jazz, and gish gallop. And it’s getting increasingly incoherent.

And honestly, watching you tankies work overtime to defend this is adorable. My post has you running in circles, grasping for links and buzzwords like your credibility depends on it. Keep scrambling—it’s the most effort I’ve seen from your side in ages.

🤣