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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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[–] 19 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Uh huh. And China is also everything they told me China was. The world is in a shit state.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I was about to post the same comment. It’s wild to me that so many see it as one or the other is bad. Both have massive problems and frankly I don’t want anything to do with either of them.

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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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    [–] -2 points 5 months ago

    The west is everything china is

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    [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    @Maeve

    Do the Uyghurs agree?

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 5 months ago

    Perhaps if you all read the information presented, you may get a clue. Reading is fundamental!

    So, rich crooked ones probably don't agree, much like the Batistas push their narrative about Cuba, but regular people seem happy.

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    • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    This is my first time seeing an altmedia.house post, is this yet another tankie cesspool?

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    [–] 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    And, China is too. One doesn't negate the other.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    They lied to us about Cuba, Palestine, Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, Hawaii, Chile, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Haiti, ANC/Africa, Peru, the Dominican Republic, but surely they won't lie about China!

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Which Korea?

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    When the United States went to war to promote United States' business interests, there was only Korea. Now there is Korea and occupied Korea.

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    • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Me: Why isn't the fediverse bigger,

    This post: Yo.

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