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[+] 0 points 11 months ago (7 children)
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    Which would be about as honest as me taking the Brown University shooting and claiming it represented the USA as a whole.

    Did you expect me to get defensive about this? That does represent the US as a whole. It might be too much for you to comprehend, but I can criticize more than one country at a time.

    And yes, I fully believe you can buy stories where there was "time travel" that turned out to be all just a dream or where it was actually part of an in-universe fictional story, but everyone's heard about Back to the Future being banned for having actual time travel in it.

    Did you have to use a VPN to access Lemmy, by the way, or is it too small for the Great Firewall to know or care about?

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    So you really think it's okay that your country blocks you from visiting foreign websites? Like, I'm perfectly happy to criticize all the dumb shit that's wrong with the United States. Our government is a pile of shit. But you need a VPN to use ordinary websites, and you still think China's laws are "good"?

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    I never said the US was better than China, but you sure seem determined to think that only one of them can be bad, so I don't see any point in continuing this.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Is the "thorough dismantling" in the comment you deleted? How am I supposed to reply to something I can't read?

    But sure, let's say you're right about that -- you replied to those examples and not my mentioning erotica being banned, so I presume I was right about that?

    You know what, I just noticed you also cited "math is hard" as a "typical American" attitude, but if you're going to go this hard on defending Chinese censorship, I might as well point out that "math is hard", in the context of talking dolls, was thoroughly clowned on by literally everyone when it happened in... [checks] 1992.

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