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[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 10 months ago (31 children) Chinas military stays in and around china as far as i know… But the us is everywhere interfering in everyones business permalink fedilink source hideshow 31 child comments replies: [–] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 7 points 9 months ago (5 children) Yes comrades, that is 100% correct. Assuming you also accept chinas definition of where its territory ends. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Objection@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago Personally, I'm just waiting for the aggressive, expansionist country of Switzerland to end it's occupation of Zurich. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (1 child) Where does the US territory end, Palestine? Vietnam?? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone -6 points 9 months ago Eventually it will end at Chinas border. permalink fedilink source parent [–] KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago Yes let's support le Taiwan independence!! (But don't look up what territory the ROC has in their constitution btw) permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (1 reply) [+] callouscomic@lemmy.zip -6 points 10 months ago* (21 children) I do know China meddles in Africa a lot. I think because they are interested in resources, maybe mining or oil? I read in the past that a lot of the Sudanese groups that pillage and fight with a lot of South Sudan are funded and given firearms or something by China or Chinese groups. I think this was more prominent around 15 years ago when South Sudan was trying to be independently recognized. Side note: I also remember reading that George Clooney used to fund some kind of satellite thing that helped South Sudanese track movements of North Sudanese so they could preemptively avoid attack. China definitely meddles. But yeah, probably nowhere near the degree the US does. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 21 child comments replies: [–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago (2 children) Are you comparing economic collaboration with installing military bases? China has exactly one foreign military base. It's in South Africa. They are very happy with it and there's no contention. By contrast, US military bases in Japan are notorious for raping, kidnapping, and other abuses of locals. No. China does not also "meddle" in the rest world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 1 point 9 months ago (1 child) I'm not comparing Chinese influence to US. Both can exist and both can be bad. I don't believe I've ever read of lots of bases or invasions by China (though they do practice invasions with Russia sometimes). But they have in the last 10-15 years equipped a lot of Sudan with more than simple economic influence. Guns. Weaponry. Resources that allowed Sudan to oppress South Sudan. Well-documented since like 2010. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago I mean you did compare them and you're still comparing them. You're saying they're both bad. That's literally a comparison. China is selling arms to anyone and everyone that wants them. Is that meddling or mercantilism? By comparison, the US is committing mass murder almost daily. No, they're not both "bad". The US is atrocious and China is selling weapons to bad people. permalink fedilink source parent [–] KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Gyude Moore: “China in Africa: An African Perspective” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uzxV8ub9k permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago (17 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 17 child comments replies: [–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net -5 points 10 months ago (1 child) These are soft power projection projects. You would recognize them as such if it were the US doing it (which we used to before Trump decided it was woke), so why do you stick to the Chinese state narrative here? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago Those 2 things are not mutually exclusive. In fact, genuinely helping poor countries develop is a pretty good way to gain soft power. No one here, and I do mean no one, is saying that China isn't gaining anything from doing that. But that doesn't mean it's bad for the other party or hides some nefarious secret purpose either. Diplomacy isn't a zero sum gain where if China gain from a deal therefore the other party has to lose to compensate, that's not how international relations work. permalink fedilink source parent [+] Zexks@lemmy.world -8 points 10 months ago (2 children) No. Its not. Go read about their lease agreements. Theyre doing the same thing just through financial means. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Zexks@lemmy.world -8 points 10 months ago (1 child) https://africacenter.org/spotlight/china-port-development-africa/ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3335506/skin-game-china-pivots-operating-african-railways-ports-funding-shift https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/harbors-of-power-how-chinas-african-ports-are-shaping-indias-ocean-strategy/ https://www.extremarationews.com/post/china-s-expanding-military-footprint-presence-and-strategy-in-the-red-sea-mediterranean-and-north https://www.enr.com/articles/60580-china-port-construction-in-africa-raises-concern-about-military-use https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Ek6HZ5nD4&t=670 https://newsletter.boundlessdiscovery.com/p/ports-of-power-china-s-expanding-grip-on-africa-s-trade-gateways The only thing clear is if yoy do business with them they will take control of whatever it is they build. And acti g like they wont use it for military means when needed is a childs mentality. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago meanwhile in the real world https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-doing-colonialism-in-africa permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -10 points 10 months ago (11 children) While it does have benefits, the overarching Chinese plan is to own everything, and have countries on the debt hook. USA is the world bully by might, China does it by strategy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 11 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 11 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (10 children) There's lots of other links that discount your denial of their plans and how they leverage. USA is like 5 year plan, 10 year plan. China has 100 year plan and 1000 year plan. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (10 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (9 children) I just don't want to confuse capitalism vs socialism, with Global Domination strategy of USA or China. They are "socialist" but they aren't doing it out of the idea of greater good of all humankind, they are a dictatorship (currently) and this is self interest so they can be a global logistic player and their port building also includes military access. This is a longterm goal to be the only superpower. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (9 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -8 points 9 months ago (8 children) From ex pats of China, they disagree with you that there is huge rates of satisfaction or "democracy". You are trying to paint a pleasant picture on the web, but people who have left it disagree with you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (8 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children) Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can't talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) [–] observes_depths@aussie.zone -5 points 9 months ago (2 children) Sorry but no. Tibet, South China Sea, they've even got patrols to intimidate Australia permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago Tibet, South China Sea These are 'in and around China' whether you like it or not. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LeninWeave@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago they’ve even got patrols to intimidate Australia Good, lmao. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 7 points 9 months ago (5 children) Yes comrades, that is 100% correct. Assuming you also accept chinas definition of where its territory ends. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Objection@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago Personally, I'm just waiting for the aggressive, expansionist country of Switzerland to end it's occupation of Zurich. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (1 child) Where does the US territory end, Palestine? Vietnam?? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone -6 points 9 months ago Eventually it will end at Chinas border. permalink fedilink source parent [–] KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago Yes let's support le Taiwan independence!! (But don't look up what territory the ROC has in their constitution btw) permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (1 reply)
[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago Personally, I'm just waiting for the aggressive, expansionist country of Switzerland to end it's occupation of Zurich. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago* (1 child) Where does the US territory end, Palestine? Vietnam?? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone -6 points 9 months ago Eventually it will end at Chinas border. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone -6 points 9 months ago Eventually it will end at Chinas border. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago Yes let's support le Taiwan independence!! (But don't look up what territory the ROC has in their constitution btw) permalink fedilink source parent
[+] callouscomic@lemmy.zip -6 points 10 months ago* (21 children) I do know China meddles in Africa a lot. I think because they are interested in resources, maybe mining or oil? I read in the past that a lot of the Sudanese groups that pillage and fight with a lot of South Sudan are funded and given firearms or something by China or Chinese groups. I think this was more prominent around 15 years ago when South Sudan was trying to be independently recognized. Side note: I also remember reading that George Clooney used to fund some kind of satellite thing that helped South Sudanese track movements of North Sudanese so they could preemptively avoid attack. China definitely meddles. But yeah, probably nowhere near the degree the US does. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 21 child comments replies: [–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago (2 children) Are you comparing economic collaboration with installing military bases? China has exactly one foreign military base. It's in South Africa. They are very happy with it and there's no contention. By contrast, US military bases in Japan are notorious for raping, kidnapping, and other abuses of locals. No. China does not also "meddle" in the rest world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 1 point 9 months ago (1 child) I'm not comparing Chinese influence to US. Both can exist and both can be bad. I don't believe I've ever read of lots of bases or invasions by China (though they do practice invasions with Russia sometimes). But they have in the last 10-15 years equipped a lot of Sudan with more than simple economic influence. Guns. Weaponry. Resources that allowed Sudan to oppress South Sudan. Well-documented since like 2010. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago I mean you did compare them and you're still comparing them. You're saying they're both bad. That's literally a comparison. China is selling arms to anyone and everyone that wants them. Is that meddling or mercantilism? By comparison, the US is committing mass murder almost daily. No, they're not both "bad". The US is atrocious and China is selling weapons to bad people. permalink fedilink source parent [–] KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Gyude Moore: “China in Africa: An African Perspective” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uzxV8ub9k permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago (17 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 17 child comments replies: [–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net -5 points 10 months ago (1 child) These are soft power projection projects. You would recognize them as such if it were the US doing it (which we used to before Trump decided it was woke), so why do you stick to the Chinese state narrative here? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago Those 2 things are not mutually exclusive. In fact, genuinely helping poor countries develop is a pretty good way to gain soft power. No one here, and I do mean no one, is saying that China isn't gaining anything from doing that. But that doesn't mean it's bad for the other party or hides some nefarious secret purpose either. Diplomacy isn't a zero sum gain where if China gain from a deal therefore the other party has to lose to compensate, that's not how international relations work. permalink fedilink source parent [+] Zexks@lemmy.world -8 points 10 months ago (2 children) No. Its not. Go read about their lease agreements. Theyre doing the same thing just through financial means. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Zexks@lemmy.world -8 points 10 months ago (1 child) https://africacenter.org/spotlight/china-port-development-africa/ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3335506/skin-game-china-pivots-operating-african-railways-ports-funding-shift https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/harbors-of-power-how-chinas-african-ports-are-shaping-indias-ocean-strategy/ https://www.extremarationews.com/post/china-s-expanding-military-footprint-presence-and-strategy-in-the-red-sea-mediterranean-and-north https://www.enr.com/articles/60580-china-port-construction-in-africa-raises-concern-about-military-use https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Ek6HZ5nD4&t=670 https://newsletter.boundlessdiscovery.com/p/ports-of-power-china-s-expanding-grip-on-africa-s-trade-gateways The only thing clear is if yoy do business with them they will take control of whatever it is they build. And acti g like they wont use it for military means when needed is a childs mentality. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago meanwhile in the real world https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-doing-colonialism-in-africa permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -10 points 10 months ago (11 children) While it does have benefits, the overarching Chinese plan is to own everything, and have countries on the debt hook. USA is the world bully by might, China does it by strategy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 11 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 11 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (10 children) There's lots of other links that discount your denial of their plans and how they leverage. USA is like 5 year plan, 10 year plan. China has 100 year plan and 1000 year plan. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (10 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (9 children) I just don't want to confuse capitalism vs socialism, with Global Domination strategy of USA or China. They are "socialist" but they aren't doing it out of the idea of greater good of all humankind, they are a dictatorship (currently) and this is self interest so they can be a global logistic player and their port building also includes military access. This is a longterm goal to be the only superpower. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (9 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -8 points 9 months ago (8 children) From ex pats of China, they disagree with you that there is huge rates of satisfaction or "democracy". You are trying to paint a pleasant picture on the web, but people who have left it disagree with you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (8 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children) Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can't talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago (2 children) Are you comparing economic collaboration with installing military bases? China has exactly one foreign military base. It's in South Africa. They are very happy with it and there's no contention. By contrast, US military bases in Japan are notorious for raping, kidnapping, and other abuses of locals. No. China does not also "meddle" in the rest world. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 1 point 9 months ago (1 child) I'm not comparing Chinese influence to US. Both can exist and both can be bad. I don't believe I've ever read of lots of bases or invasions by China (though they do practice invasions with Russia sometimes). But they have in the last 10-15 years equipped a lot of Sudan with more than simple economic influence. Guns. Weaponry. Resources that allowed Sudan to oppress South Sudan. Well-documented since like 2010. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago I mean you did compare them and you're still comparing them. You're saying they're both bad. That's literally a comparison. China is selling arms to anyone and everyone that wants them. Is that meddling or mercantilism? By comparison, the US is committing mass murder almost daily. No, they're not both "bad". The US is atrocious and China is selling weapons to bad people. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 1 point 9 months ago (1 child) I'm not comparing Chinese influence to US. Both can exist and both can be bad. I don't believe I've ever read of lots of bases or invasions by China (though they do practice invasions with Russia sometimes). But they have in the last 10-15 years equipped a lot of Sudan with more than simple economic influence. Guns. Weaponry. Resources that allowed Sudan to oppress South Sudan. Well-documented since like 2010. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago I mean you did compare them and you're still comparing them. You're saying they're both bad. That's literally a comparison. China is selling arms to anyone and everyone that wants them. Is that meddling or mercantilism? By comparison, the US is committing mass murder almost daily. No, they're not both "bad". The US is atrocious and China is selling weapons to bad people. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago I mean you did compare them and you're still comparing them. You're saying they're both bad. That's literally a comparison. China is selling arms to anyone and everyone that wants them. Is that meddling or mercantilism? By comparison, the US is committing mass murder almost daily. No, they're not both "bad". The US is atrocious and China is selling weapons to bad people. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Gyude Moore: “China in Africa: An African Perspective” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5uzxV8ub9k permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago (17 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 17 child comments replies: [–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net -5 points 10 months ago (1 child) These are soft power projection projects. You would recognize them as such if it were the US doing it (which we used to before Trump decided it was woke), so why do you stick to the Chinese state narrative here? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago Those 2 things are not mutually exclusive. In fact, genuinely helping poor countries develop is a pretty good way to gain soft power. No one here, and I do mean no one, is saying that China isn't gaining anything from doing that. But that doesn't mean it's bad for the other party or hides some nefarious secret purpose either. Diplomacy isn't a zero sum gain where if China gain from a deal therefore the other party has to lose to compensate, that's not how international relations work. permalink fedilink source parent [+] Zexks@lemmy.world -8 points 10 months ago (2 children) No. Its not. Go read about their lease agreements. Theyre doing the same thing just through financial means. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Zexks@lemmy.world -8 points 10 months ago (1 child) https://africacenter.org/spotlight/china-port-development-africa/ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3335506/skin-game-china-pivots-operating-african-railways-ports-funding-shift https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/harbors-of-power-how-chinas-african-ports-are-shaping-indias-ocean-strategy/ https://www.extremarationews.com/post/china-s-expanding-military-footprint-presence-and-strategy-in-the-red-sea-mediterranean-and-north https://www.enr.com/articles/60580-china-port-construction-in-africa-raises-concern-about-military-use https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Ek6HZ5nD4&t=670 https://newsletter.boundlessdiscovery.com/p/ports-of-power-china-s-expanding-grip-on-africa-s-trade-gateways The only thing clear is if yoy do business with them they will take control of whatever it is they build. And acti g like they wont use it for military means when needed is a childs mentality. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago meanwhile in the real world https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-doing-colonialism-in-africa permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -10 points 10 months ago (11 children) While it does have benefits, the overarching Chinese plan is to own everything, and have countries on the debt hook. USA is the world bully by might, China does it by strategy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 11 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 11 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (10 children) There's lots of other links that discount your denial of their plans and how they leverage. USA is like 5 year plan, 10 year plan. China has 100 year plan and 1000 year plan. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (10 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (9 children) I just don't want to confuse capitalism vs socialism, with Global Domination strategy of USA or China. They are "socialist" but they aren't doing it out of the idea of greater good of all humankind, they are a dictatorship (currently) and this is self interest so they can be a global logistic player and their port building also includes military access. This is a longterm goal to be the only superpower. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (9 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -8 points 9 months ago (8 children) From ex pats of China, they disagree with you that there is huge rates of satisfaction or "democracy". You are trying to paint a pleasant picture on the web, but people who have left it disagree with you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (8 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children) Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can't talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net -5 points 10 months ago (1 child) These are soft power projection projects. You would recognize them as such if it were the US doing it (which we used to before Trump decided it was woke), so why do you stick to the Chinese state narrative here? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago Those 2 things are not mutually exclusive. In fact, genuinely helping poor countries develop is a pretty good way to gain soft power. No one here, and I do mean no one, is saying that China isn't gaining anything from doing that. But that doesn't mean it's bad for the other party or hides some nefarious secret purpose either. Diplomacy isn't a zero sum gain where if China gain from a deal therefore the other party has to lose to compensate, that's not how international relations work. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago Those 2 things are not mutually exclusive. In fact, genuinely helping poor countries develop is a pretty good way to gain soft power. No one here, and I do mean no one, is saying that China isn't gaining anything from doing that. But that doesn't mean it's bad for the other party or hides some nefarious secret purpose either. Diplomacy isn't a zero sum gain where if China gain from a deal therefore the other party has to lose to compensate, that's not how international relations work. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Zexks@lemmy.world -8 points 10 months ago (2 children) No. Its not. Go read about their lease agreements. Theyre doing the same thing just through financial means. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Zexks@lemmy.world -8 points 10 months ago (1 child) https://africacenter.org/spotlight/china-port-development-africa/ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3335506/skin-game-china-pivots-operating-african-railways-ports-funding-shift https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/harbors-of-power-how-chinas-african-ports-are-shaping-indias-ocean-strategy/ https://www.extremarationews.com/post/china-s-expanding-military-footprint-presence-and-strategy-in-the-red-sea-mediterranean-and-north https://www.enr.com/articles/60580-china-port-construction-in-africa-raises-concern-about-military-use https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Ek6HZ5nD4&t=670 https://newsletter.boundlessdiscovery.com/p/ports-of-power-china-s-expanding-grip-on-africa-s-trade-gateways The only thing clear is if yoy do business with them they will take control of whatever it is they build. And acti g like they wont use it for military means when needed is a childs mentality. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago meanwhile in the real world https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-doing-colonialism-in-africa permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Zexks@lemmy.world -8 points 10 months ago (1 child) https://africacenter.org/spotlight/china-port-development-africa/ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3335506/skin-game-china-pivots-operating-african-railways-ports-funding-shift https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/harbors-of-power-how-chinas-african-ports-are-shaping-indias-ocean-strategy/ https://www.extremarationews.com/post/china-s-expanding-military-footprint-presence-and-strategy-in-the-red-sea-mediterranean-and-north https://www.enr.com/articles/60580-china-port-construction-in-africa-raises-concern-about-military-use https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Ek6HZ5nD4&t=670 https://newsletter.boundlessdiscovery.com/p/ports-of-power-china-s-expanding-grip-on-africa-s-trade-gateways The only thing clear is if yoy do business with them they will take control of whatever it is they build. And acti g like they wont use it for military means when needed is a childs mentality. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago meanwhile in the real world https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-doing-colonialism-in-africa permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Zexks@lemmy.world -8 points 10 months ago (1 child) https://africacenter.org/spotlight/china-port-development-africa/ https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3335506/skin-game-china-pivots-operating-african-railways-ports-funding-shift https://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/harbors-of-power-how-chinas-african-ports-are-shaping-indias-ocean-strategy/ https://www.extremarationews.com/post/china-s-expanding-military-footprint-presence-and-strategy-in-the-red-sea-mediterranean-and-north https://www.enr.com/articles/60580-china-port-construction-in-africa-raises-concern-about-military-use https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W3Ek6HZ5nD4&t=670 https://newsletter.boundlessdiscovery.com/p/ports-of-power-china-s-expanding-grip-on-africa-s-trade-gateways The only thing clear is if yoy do business with them they will take control of whatever it is they build. And acti g like they wont use it for military means when needed is a childs mentality. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago meanwhile in the real world https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-doing-colonialism-in-africa permalink fedilink source parent
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago meanwhile in the real world https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/is-china-doing-colonialism-in-africa permalink fedilink source parent
[+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -10 points 10 months ago (11 children) While it does have benefits, the overarching Chinese plan is to own everything, and have countries on the debt hook. USA is the world bully by might, China does it by strategy permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 11 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 11 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (10 children) There's lots of other links that discount your denial of their plans and how they leverage. USA is like 5 year plan, 10 year plan. China has 100 year plan and 1000 year plan. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (10 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (9 children) I just don't want to confuse capitalism vs socialism, with Global Domination strategy of USA or China. They are "socialist" but they aren't doing it out of the idea of greater good of all humankind, they are a dictatorship (currently) and this is self interest so they can be a global logistic player and their port building also includes military access. This is a longterm goal to be the only superpower. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (9 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -8 points 9 months ago (8 children) From ex pats of China, they disagree with you that there is huge rates of satisfaction or "democracy". You are trying to paint a pleasant picture on the web, but people who have left it disagree with you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (8 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children) Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can't talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (11 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 11 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (10 children) There's lots of other links that discount your denial of their plans and how they leverage. USA is like 5 year plan, 10 year plan. China has 100 year plan and 1000 year plan. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (10 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (9 children) I just don't want to confuse capitalism vs socialism, with Global Domination strategy of USA or China. They are "socialist" but they aren't doing it out of the idea of greater good of all humankind, they are a dictatorship (currently) and this is self interest so they can be a global logistic player and their port building also includes military access. This is a longterm goal to be the only superpower. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (9 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -8 points 9 months ago (8 children) From ex pats of China, they disagree with you that there is huge rates of satisfaction or "democracy". You are trying to paint a pleasant picture on the web, but people who have left it disagree with you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (8 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children) Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can't talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (10 children) There's lots of other links that discount your denial of their plans and how they leverage. USA is like 5 year plan, 10 year plan. China has 100 year plan and 1000 year plan. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (10 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (9 children) I just don't want to confuse capitalism vs socialism, with Global Domination strategy of USA or China. They are "socialist" but they aren't doing it out of the idea of greater good of all humankind, they are a dictatorship (currently) and this is self interest so they can be a global logistic player and their port building also includes military access. This is a longterm goal to be the only superpower. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (9 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -8 points 9 months ago (8 children) From ex pats of China, they disagree with you that there is huge rates of satisfaction or "democracy". You are trying to paint a pleasant picture on the web, but people who have left it disagree with you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (8 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children) Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can't talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months ago (10 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 10 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (9 children) I just don't want to confuse capitalism vs socialism, with Global Domination strategy of USA or China. They are "socialist" but they aren't doing it out of the idea of greater good of all humankind, they are a dictatorship (currently) and this is self interest so they can be a global logistic player and their port building also includes military access. This is a longterm goal to be the only superpower. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (9 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -8 points 9 months ago (8 children) From ex pats of China, they disagree with you that there is huge rates of satisfaction or "democracy". You are trying to paint a pleasant picture on the web, but people who have left it disagree with you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (8 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children) Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can't talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -12 points 10 months ago (9 children) I just don't want to confuse capitalism vs socialism, with Global Domination strategy of USA or China. They are "socialist" but they aren't doing it out of the idea of greater good of all humankind, they are a dictatorship (currently) and this is self interest so they can be a global logistic player and their port building also includes military access. This is a longterm goal to be the only superpower. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (9 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -8 points 9 months ago (8 children) From ex pats of China, they disagree with you that there is huge rates of satisfaction or "democracy". You are trying to paint a pleasant picture on the web, but people who have left it disagree with you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (8 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children) Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can't talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (9 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -8 points 9 months ago (8 children) From ex pats of China, they disagree with you that there is huge rates of satisfaction or "democracy". You are trying to paint a pleasant picture on the web, but people who have left it disagree with you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (8 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children) Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can't talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -8 points 9 months ago (8 children) From ex pats of China, they disagree with you that there is huge rates of satisfaction or "democracy". You are trying to paint a pleasant picture on the web, but people who have left it disagree with you. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (8 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children) Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can't talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago* (8 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 8 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children) Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can't talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children) Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can't talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 7 child comments replies: [–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies) load more comments (-1 replies)
[–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago (2 children) If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. No, that’s not a thing. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada No, you don’t. That’s not a real thing, either. You’re just regurgitating Cold War II propaganda nonsense you saw on TV. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Why are you making shit up? At this point I think you made the company up, too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. I think you’re projecting. Why are you peddling anti-China lies for free? A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum. Please use some critical thinking here. I am. They lead me to believe you’re full of shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent
[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 9 months ago (1 child) What is the source for that quote about the cold war? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago Chinese citizens have to tow the line. The company I worked for had operations there, when our guys meet with counterparts then and ask probing questions everyone clams up, and one off to the side says we can’t talk about bad things. If you go against it you have reprogramming training classes. So your "evidence" for that is a personal anecdote + trust me bro? Assuming you're not just making shit (it's not verifiable, as anecdotes tends to be) can you give examples of the kind of "probing questions" your guys asked? Also, did you personally witness the meeting or were you just told about it by your guys afterward? Looks to me like your little story is full of holes at best. We even have Chinese police stations here in Canada and they go knocking on doors because a Chinese citizen has said something negative about the homeland. And coerce them into going back to the mainland. This is not me reading it on the web, this is coworkers at the house when it happens to their room mates. Ah, yes. China totally has a nation spanning network of secret police stations (with all the 10s of 1000s or more personnel and tons of equipment that would imply) in Canada that Canada either somehow didn't notice or won't do anything about for some reason. A guy you know told you, so it must be true! Trust me bro! If your gonna make shit up or repeat shit made up by someone else, you should at least try to make it not completely nonsensical. Stop trying to make China a utopia it is not. I agree with Socialism, but not a dictatorship. No one said anything about China being "a utopia" and you know it. You know how ridiculous your narrative about China being a 1984 tech-dystopia that will track you down to the end of the world sounds and how badly it holds up to scrutiny, so instead of defending your narrative (since you can't really) you try to flip the table around and pretend that we are the one with a ridiculous narrative by pretending that we consider China "a utopia" when none of what we have said points to that at all. I see it, and anyone who isn't already indoctrinated by you narrative can easily see it too. It woukd seem you are being paid to promote China propaganda, or you are severely deluded to what goes on there. "If you believe something other that what I believe, you must either have been paid to say you do or be stupid/insane." A cheap excuse to dismiss criticism without having to think about it or come up with an actual counter-argument. A survey of citizens that know they cannot speak ll without retribution to them or their family, will always look positive. Please use some critical thinking here. That, my friend, is what we call an "irrefutable argument", and it's a fallacy. "Chinese peoples aren't happy with their government, and if they say they are it's because the government forces them to." It's a bullshit excuse to immediately reject any evidence that doesn't agree with your narrative. You're not refuting our point, you're just coming up with excuses to dismiss it without having to think about an actual reason it might be wrong (because you can't, and until you do I'll continue to affirm that you can't). permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (2 children) Brainwashing by some pseudo mind control is not how it works, its indoctrination by rote. Same as cults or religious faith. There core belief is altered to somebody elses way. Of course if you were paid it would change the merit. You seriously don't seem to understand critical thinking. And this is a waste of time Have a good evening. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (-1 replies)
[+] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago (2 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] BCsven@lemmy.ca -9 points 9 months ago (1 child) It is not an insult, it is fact. You are spouting rhetoric without actually thinking about what you relay. CIA tries over a small period in an experiment, bad results. But Dude look up cults and how their leaders get them to do things like drink poison or murder for them. Or have a extreme group suicide bomb themselves. Indoctrination. If you raise a kid and tell him everyday that black people are bad, they believe it and perpetuate it. Indoctrination. You are being what the rest of the world criticizes China for doing to its citizens. Being single minded with out a way to see past the delusions, and regurgitate random info without actually disseminating the root of things. Again, you thinking being paid or not doesn't change the merit , it absolutely does. Just like when red state newspapers report on news: they have to slant it to favour the payer or you don't get paid. It's how control works. If you don't see this, then that is highly unfortunate that you can't see the truth. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] m532@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago Its funny how you disprove your own "mind control" narrative by attempting it and failing to do it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] observes_depths@aussie.zone -5 points 9 months ago (2 children) Sorry but no. Tibet, South China Sea, they've even got patrols to intimidate Australia permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago Tibet, South China Sea These are 'in and around China' whether you like it or not. permalink fedilink source parent [–] LeninWeave@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago they’ve even got patrols to intimidate Australia Good, lmao. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago Tibet, South China Sea These are 'in and around China' whether you like it or not. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] LeninWeave@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 months ago they’ve even got patrols to intimidate Australia Good, lmao. permalink fedilink source parent