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We can pay for it by eating just a few of the rich.

You can see on their profiles I believe

Can’t blame em for trying to win the cat/mouse game of adblocking.

IDK; I blame them.

YouTube has become part of the world’s social infrastructure. In a way, it is the town square.

Frankly it should be publicly owned.

If you’re on a private tracker, you can earn points or ratio to make requests. That’s a decent way to get things like that.

Wco stream is great

Is this community going to be for noon questions and people who won’t read tutorials?

Just trying to decided if I should block it like the noob only programming reddits.

That app became pointlessfore me when it was by internet instead of SMS

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It’s fine to acknowledge tat you don’t have the background information.

Just trust the consensus and intersecting beliefs and analysis of professional academics and historians over internet tankies. Because one group lies more than the other, and it isn’t the academics.

I’m not saying blind spots don’t exist. What I was doing is calling out a genocide denier for using bad-faith arguments.

You are being absurd by pretending that “100%” of Western media was complicit. You know full well that isn’t true.

Societies where in independent investigation and discourse is able to take place - Those societies are more able conduct independent and non-politicized research.

There are more of those societies in the West, not by some inherent positive quality of the West, but by historical intricacy.

Though honestly I think you know most of this, and that you are choosing intentionally to ignore the Chinese’s state abuses of its ethnic minorities. If you were intellectually honest there would be no way to deny the surrounding facts.

whereas anything from a western source is seen as cultured, measured, dignified, etc.

No leftist has ever believed that, and it is a bad faith argument.

It’s absurd to pretend as if the evidence for violent imposition of Chinese state policies in Xinjiang and Tibet isn’t overwhelming.

And before you ask, yes, Western states are also violent and this is also a bad thing.

There absolutely are protests in China, they happen, and this is a true fact. Until recently, it was broadly observed that such anger was directed generally at local officials and not at the CCP regime itself.

Recently, though, protests asking the CCP regime to resign have been seen. Which previously was unprecedented.

The fact that protests do happen and occasionally are tolerated in China does absolutely nothing to take away from the point that China is an authoritarian Police State. The Chinese Constitution is not respected within China.

Actually, a lot of what I’ve learned about China comes from books written by Chinese people and scholars.

Since you’re engaging with me, I’ll ask you.

Is there a genocide in Xinjiang? I’m ready to hear your evasion and denials.

Xi’s policies are reintroducing Totalitarian politics into the Chinese mainstream. The State is run as an ethno-state of the Han, as exemplified by Chinesification policies applied to Colonial regions like Tibet and Xinjiang.

And China used force, violence to acquire the ethnically, culturally and linguistically distinct territories of Xinjiang and Tibet. It then carries out, to this day, genocidal efforts to destroy these indigenous cultures and subjugate them to Chinese, Han and State-Approved ideals.

From where I’m sitting, there is no good-faith argument to be made that the Chinese state is not Imperialist. If Russia’s borders are founded on Imperialism, and if America’s are, then so is China’s.

Marxisms has its own flaws as an ideology, but absolutely, there is nothing in Marxist beliefs that requires authoritarian or totalitarian beliefs.

The truth is unfortunately worse than genocide denial. One of the main lemmy.ml admins has spoken seemingly in support of the Xinjiang genocide (and presumably, implied, is also pro other genocides carried out by the Chinese State).

They are the devs, based on reddit posts when the project was first getting started.

Being critical of a totalitarian and Imperialist ethnostate - by which I mean the Chinese state - is not bigotry.