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  • I’m a Marxist-Leninist, member of an organized group.

    I believe countries try to shape and weaponize citizens’ opinions about other countries, so I refuse to defend or criticize them unless I can argue that doing so is beneficial to my ideas (i.e., not based on feelings or ethics). Thus, I’m neutral towards most countries and defend multipolarity.

    I tend to doubt my ideas as much as I can.









  • pancake@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHave you ever been to Tiananmen Square?
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    1 year ago

    Well, call me a tankie, but I don’t see the issue with a coup attempt leaving ~240 dead (mostly policemen and radical communist protestors), or the government cracking down on extremists after absolutely massive terrorist attacks. Both have happened in my country (Spain), much worse than there, and I see no one complaining. And even that is nothing compared to what the US did after 9/11!

    Everybody seems to pretend that they would not actually want the government to take such actions if their life was in such danger. Like, hell, if I had as many terrorist attacks in my region as Xinjiang used to have, I would be cheering for the government to nuke all extremists from orbit.

    Edit: also, I’ve never heard of those events in Spanish media, if I were from the US I would really wonder why I hear about them so much. So hopefully when everybody’s sent to die in Taiwan I don’t fall for the old trick of manufactured consent.



  • It’s impossible to systematically lie to an entire country’s population about the country itself. It’s never happened anywhere on Earth and will never do so with current technology. It is however trivial to lie about other countries, which I like to always keep in mind. Think for a moment what reason a Chinese person would even have to dislike their government, when they are clearly doing a good job and actually solving their problems. Even the victims of Tiananmen weren’t those often talked-about “pro-Democracy” students, most were anti-liberalization communist worker protestors.