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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025
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"Was I brainwashed by Western propaganda?"
"No, only shithole commie countries like China have propaganda"
Do you folks not know that two things can be bad at the same time
Do you people get given a pre-opproved list of thought terminating cliches phrases? Because you always say that exact phrase, word for word, even when it doesn't remotely apply to the conversation at hand, as is the case here.
Ok, just in case there's a chance for you to be good faith. The above comment was a reply to a post about there being a lot of pro china and pro Russia propaganda being on Lemmy. It implied that the only way you can be against china and/or Russia is if you've fallen for western propaganda. This is a very clear fallacy, as being critical of china and/or Russia does not imply that you aren't also critical of the west. There's no conspiracy going on where everyone agreed to comment the same stuff, but if the same fallacy gets repeated over and over, multiple people will independently see it for what it is and call it out.
Ok, so you're just putting words in their mouth.
Which they didn't make, by your own admition. You just strawmanned them.
Using the exact same stilted phrasing, word for word, every time?
You're not buying any of this yourself, are you?
Wow, you sure stopped pretending you care about logical fallacies real quickly
bold assertion to make while pretty much every western 'democracy' is cracking down on people protesting for palestine
Can you point to some examples?
I'm from Russia, been living in the US pretty much all my life though. Got to have a front row seat for all the jingoistic warmongering in my time here.