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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago

Strategists admit West is goading China into war

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Strategists admit West is goading China into war

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ to World News@lemmy.ml • 2 years ago
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  • @yo_carny_bob_eye@lemmy.ml
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    LMAO so this is 100% a Chinese propaganda website. Have you looked at the articles there? Not saying it’s true or not true. But first of all, this article is from 2021 and secondly I don’t buy Chinese propaganda.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      Sorry to hear you only consume US state approved propaganda.

      • @sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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        Ahh the old whataboutisms come out.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          Screeching whataboutism is a really round about way to tell us that you’ve got nothing meaningful to say.

          • @sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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            Ok.

            Let’s be real about this for a second.

            You are implying that the media in the US is as state controlled and state supporting as the media in China and therefore that neither is more true than the other, merely a viewpoint. Is that actually what you’re saying?

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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              I mean entire books have been written on the subject of how US oligarchs who own the government use the media to manipulate public opinion. Here are a couple you should read

              • https://archive.org/details/inventingrealit000pare
              • https://archive.org/details/pdfy-NekqfnoWIEuYgdZl

              And the fact that the state in US is firmly in the hands of the oligarchs is made pretty clear by a study analyzing many decades of US policy

              What do our findings say about democracy in America? They certainly constitute troubling news for advocates of “populistic” democracy, who want governments to respond primarily or exclusively to the policy preferences of their citizens. In the United States, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes. When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the U.S. political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

              The fact that you don’t even recognize the propaganda you’re being subjected to further underscores how effective it is.

              • @sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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                I don’t read very much US news. A bit of WP and occasionally CNN, but it’s certainly not where I get my news from. I don’t live in the US FWIW.

                You still haven’t answered my question: Do you believe that the US press and the Chinese press is both lying to the same extent? Do you believe the US and Chinese press are in service of the state to the same extent?

                I’m not disputing the press is influenced in the US. You keep speaking in absolutes though … I’m speaking about degrees. So let’s compare degrees, instead of saying “influenced” or “free” as some absolute binary measures.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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                  If you live in the west then exact same dynamics apply. The media is owned by the oligarchs, and much of the media in all the western sphere is dominated by US.

                  And to answer your question it’s clear to anybody who follows news that US press lies to a far greater extent. The whole notion that privately owned press in the hands of the oligarchs is somehow more objective than government owned press has no basis in logic or reality.

                  I’m also not speaking in any absolutes, I’m simply telling you that objectively speaking there is plenty of evidence that western press regularly engages in outright misinformation and lies. Chinese press has a bias, because any press has a bias, but I’ve yet to see it spread conspiracy theories like Russiagate. This is a perfect example of a huge misinformation campaign orchestrated by western media that has been thoroughly debunked, yet large portion of western public still believes it and regurgitates it today. That’s just one example.

      • @yo_carny_bob_eye@lemmy.ml
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        0•2 years ago

        Why on earth would you assume I consume US media, let alone what kind of US media I allegedly consume? Unlike you I actually was born and grew up in a dictatorship with actual state approved media. Your stupid comment is an insult to the victims of dictatorships everywhere.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          I grew up in USSR, and a lot of numbskulls called it a dictatorship.

          • @Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz
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            How were those free and fair elections in the USSR?

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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              A lot better than in western shithole countries.

              • @DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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                I’m speechless.

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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                  Maybe educate yourself on the subject then. A democracy is a government that works in the interest of the majority and is held accountable to the people of the country. A government like that would ensure that everybody had food, housing, healthcare, education, jobs, and retirement the way USSR did and the way none of western “democracies” seem to be able to.

              • @andyquest@sh.itjust.works
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                Always shocked to see how debilitating of a mental illness tankie brain is

                • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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                  Amazing counter point you got there.

    • @Tosti@feddit.nl
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      Purged by creator

  • @Lmaydev@programming.dev
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    0•2 years ago

    YES, WE WANT WAR. But just a small one, please, followed by a quick surrender. The United States is diligently working with Australia and the UK to goad China into what they hope will be a limited war over Taiwan, according to military strategists

    Citation needed

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      I mean did you sleep through US working with UK and Australia to put nuclear subs in Australia, what do you think the purpose of those subs is exactly?

      • @sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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        Contain an expansionist China, which is intent on subjugating free people?

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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          In reality, it’s the burger empire that’s been subjugating people across the world in most brutal of ways. China hasn’t been at war since the 70s, meanwhile US has been at war for 93% of its despicable existence.

          • @sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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            0•2 years ago

            Ah, it’s you again! We clashed over the press freedom of China vs the US just yesterday 🤣

            No point carrying this discussion on - we clearly don’t live on the same planet.

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