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the West is everything they told you China was. (thespectaclemag.substack.com)
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...No discussion of Western hypocrisy is complete without Ursula von der Leyen, the unelected queen of the European Commission and an unequivocal master of the genre. There is a video, widely circulated at this point, of von der Leyen being heckled by a member of the public. The man asks a difficult question. She responds with a smile and a line that was clearly rehearsed: ‘If this was in Russia, he would be arrested.’ The crowd laughed. The man was arrested.

Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/11847282

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ah yes, the finnish police fined someone for disturbing a political event and this is of course comparable to systematic human rights abuses and massacres like tiananmen square.

Like there are enough troubling developments in the west we could discuss, but instead we get highly misleading RT propaganda stories to whitewash authoritarianism.

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