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As if we didn't already know. I didn't know being against businesses using slave labor counted as bigotry, though.

Context: https://lemmy.ml/comment/16281740

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[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 42 points 4 weeks ago

Everyone should know by now that you can't criticize China or Hezbollah, on lemmy.ml.

[-] ilost7489@lemmy.ca 34 points 4 weeks ago

Or China, Russia, North Korea, or anything else that vaguely labels itself “communist”

[-] Comrade_Spood@slrpnk.net 24 points 4 weeks ago

Its not about them being labelled communist, all that matters to them is if they are against the west. Cause apparently only the west can be imperialist

Step 1: Declare yourself a (Anarcho-)Communist

Step 2: Declare .ml to be reactionaries

Step 3: ???

Step 4: ~~Profit?~~ Communal Property?

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 weeks ago

Really want to know what step three is here. I’m pretty good at steps 1 and 2 by now.

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 7 points 4 weeks ago

Declare them Trotskyists and counterrevolutionary!

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 14 points 4 weeks ago

Russia is even funnier, given that they don't even do that anymore.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 2 points 4 weeks ago

Go ahead, smuglord.

Your stance serves the one that owns your platform, either way. (inb4 y'all defed)

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 8 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 5 points 4 weeks ago

Post... yer on the Lemmy fediverse, along with me.

[-] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 34 points 4 weeks ago

Don't use .ml

If you can't criticize the US, Russia, China, Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, and every major religion (the religion itself, not it's followers), all in one go, you don't have true freedom.

Authority is inherently evil and should be scrutinized, regardless of which "side".

(Btw I don't even interact with .ml except a few like c/privacy, also the c/news in lemmy.world also have obnoxious mods)

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 weeks ago

By separating the institution from its "faithful", you risk deboning your own argument before it takes its first steps. Religion is an ancient method of control, and those within it are all peddlers of some form of its seed — unwitting, or no.

No one should have to make excuses for Religion's altogether insidious, pervasive, corruptive and vile existence. Kill every god, utterly. There is no heaven, and none of us get out of here alive. 😘

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[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 17 points 4 weeks ago

Do you have any source for that "fact?" Like, whatsoever?

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 16 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Zuzak@hexbear.net 18 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I see, thank you. That provides important additional context that we're talking about a company using a shell company to employ people in shitty conditions, which is a valid criticism of international corporations of all countries.

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[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 7 points 4 weeks ago

Just DuckDuckGo "Chinese sweatshops". Lots of reading material. You can even find other countries as well!

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago

Facts about what exactly? That there is slave labor in the world?

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 weeks ago

were you talking about US prisions?

or do you consider some of the service industry slave labor, which to be fair it is?

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 9 points 4 weeks ago

The post was about BYD vehicles, but I'm happy to discuss other instances where it's relevant.

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 weeks ago

This thread has gone completely off the rails. Nobody is discussing whether the ban was deserved and instead there's only insults to the op, or arguments on who's worse USA or China. I'm locking this.

Please stick to judging whether they're mod action was deserved and not rehashing the talking points especially by flaming each other

[-] Lawn_and_disorder@hexbear.net 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Seems you are confusing China and USA.

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 weeks ago

If it happens in US it's actually a privilege, not forced labor.

Characterizing prison work as forced labor is wrongheaded, he said, because most inmates who qualify for paid work earn that classification based on positive credits for behavior. “In other words, it’s a privilege,” he said, better than some of the other alternatives behind bars.

-Shawn Bushway, RAND Corporation

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

China doesn't have any and more of it? Hmm

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago

The US actually has a higher prison population than China, both per capita and total despite having a fraction of Chinas population. I'm not in favor of forced labor or the carceral state in general.

When it's happening in the country I live in, it's going to be a slightly higher priority for me.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 4 weeks ago

The US actually has a higher prison population than China, both per capita and total despite having a fraction of Chinas population.

This is only true if you exclude Xinjiang concentration camps though.

But either way, it ain't a competition both states run a degeranged penal systems albeit targeting different undesirables. China focused on wrong think, US goes for poors and/or minorities.

The end goal is the same, keep the normie acting like a docile dog.

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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Another brilliant take from the hexbear basement...

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[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 7 points 4 weeks ago

Probably slave labor both places.

[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The US has the largest prison population in the world and when measured per capita stands alone as a completely absurd outlier. A country that has legalized slavery if used as punishment for a crime. A country that has private prisons where the prisoners are used to make consumer goods, fight forest fires, and in some cases even work on farms classico style. There's no probably about it at all - the US facilitates enourmous amounts of slave labor and that's not even getting into the resource extraction from the global south that keeps the whole machine running.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 4 weeks ago

Neither Beijing nor Washington, but actually Washington very-intelligent

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

On one hand, it's ridiculous that campists just can't accept any criticism of their "aes". On the other hand, you don't have to go to the every posts about something positive happening in this hell world to remind that they suck but if you do, I hope you also do the same about positive happenings in the USA and EU or you're just a hypocrite.

[-] pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Facts are bigotry

There's no facts in deleted post and on my guess there's no bigotry, it mostly looks like trolling or disinformation.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

its ml, any criticism of china will be censored

being banned there and .world news and politics subs is just normal part of any self respecting shit posters fedi career.

freedom enjoyers setting more communities on smaller servers as we speak. seek them out!

ml and world control too many big subs and they use them to censor opinions that dont fit their propaganda.

this sub exposes how pervasive mod miscondcut is, now we know, time to decentralized. let them keeo their echo chambers

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