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[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 38 points 1 year ago

And yet I can post pictures of Winnie the Pooh here in the west

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago

And the Tienanmen Square massacre.

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 year ago

Shit I can even talk about how much I hate specific politicians without issue as well

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

No one has ever told me what my social credit rating was.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Shoot, I don't even think we have one...?

[-] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 4 points 1 year ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago
[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I have to wait for the mice to get a British dude's brain to give you that.

[-] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 3 points 1 year ago

Just give me a sec and I'll get back to you on that.

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

My credit score is "in the toilet because you dared to not own a credit card."

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Me too man

Me too

[-] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can even label governments as tyrannical oppressors, and their media will give you a voice ¯\(ツ)

[-] wurzelgummidge@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

You've clearly never been to China. Winnie the Pooh mugs, t-shirts and the other usual shit are all available in China. Most of it is made there.

You can't believe all you read in western media. When it comes to coverage of places the US doesn't like, you can't believe very much at all.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

you know exactly what I meant and deliberately tried to steer the conversation away from it. Bravo

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Now try saying you support BDS

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Did you read the actual article?

[-] orclev@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

There is an entire universe of difference between the government telling you you can't say something and arresting and/or disappearing you if you ignore them, and privately owned museums, exhibit halls, or online platforms refusing to do business with you if you say something stupid in public that harms people's perceptions of you. You're absolutely free to spout every hot take and conspiracy theory you want (there's certainly no shortage of people who do), but nobody is obligated to respect you or do business with you if you do. What's not going to happen is an FBI agent or cop coming around to "have a chat" and if you refuse to publicly retract your statements then quietly sending you off to some gulag without telling anyone where you'll be worked to death and then your organs harvested and sold. That's the difference between "the West" and China.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a guy comparing getting his art exhibit canceled over a poorly worded tweet to Maoist China, where people were imprisoned, exiled, murdered, and worked to death for having wrong opinions, or wrong parents, or wrong possessions.

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago

I did actually, thanks

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