WanderingVentra

People who wanted kids to run would've just kept voting Biden or Kamala. They were killing plenty of them. Don't think Trump has even reached those numbers yet, although in his defense, he hasn't been in office as long.

I voted Kamala, but I still understood why people didn't. I saw it coming a mile away, while people like you plugged your ears and would rather ignore it. I was trying to save her campaign.

Liberals care more about the golf resort than the genocide.

If Democrats can't handle the lowest bar in thr world, that of being against genocide, then the party doesn't deserve to exist full stop. We need a new party, the Dems won't save us from the next Trump either.

Al Jazeera is a terrible for you, but a great example for my point. It never mentions things critical of Qatar ever. It's good for news about other stuff, like Palestine, which the US media is likewise horrible about covering. It's why nobody here knew about the situation there until October 7th.

The US is not allowing criticism of Palestine. Not sure if you've seen the stuff happening in college campuses, job applications, the DNC where they didn't allow a speaker, even local elections where foreign policy shouldn't matter, etc. And it's only going to get worse according to the 2025 plan, where it details additional attempts to shut it down. It's also been downplaying other stuff in schools, such as the negative parts of slavery, Jim Crow, basically everything bad the US has ever done. The problem with our education system is that it depends a lot on which state, city, and even school you are from (private or public, charter or not, etc.).

The whole conflict about critical race theory and the Moms for Liberty stuff is all about them trying to roll these things back.

I agree their censorship is too high in China, though, but I think it's a result of siege theory. Essentially they've seen the US do a million coup attempts and color revolutions in other countries, often successful, and so you if you're a third world country you basically need a tight control of your press and elections if you want to resist US control. And I doubt seeing us fall to propaganda in the US from billionaire backed media organizations and foreign countries is going to encourage them to not censor though. Unfortunately, if anything, it will do the opposite.

Tank man stood in front of the tank on June 5th, the massacre happened on June 4th.

They're always combined together. They're considered part of the same event.

What was that again about me making shit up? It sounds to me like you're getting high off you're own supply.

Journalistic and diplomatic testimony at the time confirms this. It's pretty accepted by people who were there, including Western journalists. This is one example of a journalist there for the Washington Post at the time who later wrote a piece regretting writing their article in such a way that contributed to the myth that people died in the square.

Lol you really had to do mental gymnastics to come up with any examples at all. I mean you had to go all the back to 1791 to the Whiskey Rebellion (if we're going back that far then look up the Taiping Rebellion) to find something and then used the Waco Seige of the Branch Davidians cult as an example. The only relevant example you have is the Kent state shooting, and even that's from 1970 and only 4 people were killed. Even then, I'm honest enough to acknowledge that this event was indeed bad and should be condemned.

I gave more recent examples too. The only reason I went back that far is to show that the US has been shooting at its citizens from the beginning. Keep in mind, China is a lot newer of a country than the US, so it feels fitting. When cou tries are newer, they are a lot more vulnerable to different conflicts and, sadly, these things can result as different factions fight it out. It's only been around since about the 50's. And 1970 isn't that much older than 1989. You act like it's ancient history.

Highly debatable. Mao has a very good case to top Hitler. He killed way more people and he was just as ruthless. Mao tops Hitler as the worst dictator of the 20th century.

Once again, Mao didn't kill more than Hitler. Famines are not the same as purposeful targeted genocides. If you want, we can say that US Presidents are worse than both if you add every death resulting from every war, and every post-war famine, civil war, etc that the US has been involved with. You'd add up basically every death from everything that's happened in all of South America and the Middle-East since the 50's in there.

Not to mention that the numbers you quoted aren't reliable. Their sources are dubious and usually CIA funded. Deng's numbers are a bit more realistic at 16.5 million but still most likely exaggerated because of the downplaying of Mao's legacy they were doing at the time, like you mentioned. US numbers are usually wild guesses and extrapolations.

And of course they still hail him as a hero. Even if policy-wise he wasn't the best, he was still a great and successful revolutionary who freed them from an oppressive monarchy, brought them socialism, cut poverty, increased life expectancy, reduced mortality, increased the spread of education and healthcare, and led them on the path to where they are now as an extremely successful country. And yes, they were increasing life expectancy even while he was in charge.

And yes, the US is worse today. They are enabling a genocide. That's basically the checkmate of atrocities.

Its not a competition, but the point is that these statements and propaganda always start as a way to encourage war and conflict with other countries. Every single time. It's why China doesn't celebrate the Kent massacre every year or the Civil War, or things like that that the US does. They don't have military bases all over the world and aren't constantly invading and occupying other countries, so they don't really need the excuse to drum up propaganda as an excuse for war. And while China has a lot of negative points, that's what makes the US worse that people in it don't understand: it's inperialistic nature.

I've used it a lot to save stuff I want to read or watch later, and then always forget about it lol.

You can save posts and comments. Not sure how other apps do it since I mostly use Voyager but it's pretty obvious in that app.

Sounds like they do save which is pretty cool. Will be sad to lose my post and comment history, but at least I have my saved posts and comments.

The thing is, only the US and West do this shit of constantly complaining about other countries and celebrating their historical tragedies every year. And it's not a coincidence that they're also the countries to invade and constantly engage in imperialism all around the world the most, and have the capacity to, with hundreds of military bases around the world.

It's such obvious propaganda against foreign enemies, especially ones we want to fight. You think it would make it super obvious how propagandized Americans are, but they don't see the hypocrisy at all because of that very propaganda.

What would be the point in China bringing up the Haymarket massacre or Kent state every year? And for that matter, what's the point in the US bringing up the Tiannamen Square every year?

Glass houses indeed.

Oh nice! Thanks!