What's up with this straight up pro-china and pro-russia stuff on Lemmy lately? (toast.ooo)

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What's up with this straight up pro-china and pro-russia stuff on Lemmy lately?

It's not even praising the people of China and Russia, but rather their gov directly.

Obviously the states have problems, and the EU to a lesser degree, but they at least have some human rights.

Is this some kind of organized disinformation campaign?

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Yes, we did have terrorist attacks done against us. That doesn’t mean that every person we locked up as a terrorist was one.

I’m sure some mistakes were made because no system will ever be perfect, but socialist states are fundamentally different from a capitalist, imperialist, globally hegemonic state. Without evidence, there’s no reason to assume that China’s handling of it was analogous to ours.

[-] procapra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

I have disagreements that China is currently socialist, but that is outside the scope of the original discussion.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Most Western Marxists do disagree, as I also used to.

[-] procapra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Are you suggesting that I read this work?

this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2025

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