If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying.

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  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mltoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Memory Wiped
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    21 days ago

    That’s fair. But I’d rather focus on things in my own country where I (theoretically) have some say over what happens. The only means I have really over the Chinese government would be through the US government interfering. That’s not to say the affairs of other countries aren’t important to pay attention to and understand from an academic standpoint, but I don’t see how I’m supposed to effect change in China through criticism from abroad.

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mltoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Memory Wiped
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    21 days ago

    That’s a fair point, but I think people are too attached to this 1984 idea of what dystopia looks like. Like, I’m free to criticize Mitch McConnell all I want, but if it has zero actual impact on his political power, then is it really anything more than jester’s privilege?

    Of course, it’s a valid criticism, but is it enough to write off the whole country as a dystopia, rather than critically examining the positive and negative aspects together? Does censorship of a nearly 40 year old event outweigh, for example, poverty alleviation?

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mltoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Memory Wiped
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    21 days ago

    Honestly, this.

    Speaking as a “tankie,” people go too far if they deny that anything happened at all. It was a significant and controversial event, enough that Deng Xiaoping himself resigned over it. But what I don’t get is why people are so obsessed with it, when the shit that happened under Mao was way worse, and this happened so long ago. I think people are just uneducated and disinterested in Chinese history, so they’re vaguely aware of like to three events from it that they name-drop endlessly to own the tankies. It’s such a tiresome and repetitive subject, and the obsession shuts down more intelligent, nuanced discussion about China and global politics.

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mltoMemes@sopuli.xyz•You don't need to answer this
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    3 months ago

    Those poor rich people have to deal with so much hatred and discrimination😢

    That’s why I’m personally volunteering to take their money so they can no longer be rich and subject to such hate. I may be hated instead, but I’m willing to bear that cross and take up the Rich Man’s Burden. Some may call me a hero, but I ask for nothing in return, no praise, no monuments in my honor. The only thing I ask for is to take over the burden of owning a mountain of unearned wealth.

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.mltoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Trying to build viable third parties by voting for them in presidential elections is like trying to build a third door in your house by repeatedly walking into the wall where you want the door to be.
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    6 months ago

    I don’t agree that that’s an “of course.” There should be discussion of specific local races in a general politics community. Like I said, presidential votes only matter in a handful of states. If you add up the populations of swing states, I’m sure it’s higher than any individual state, but there are still some pretty big states where millions of people live that that aren’t included in that. And yeah, everyone is affected by the presidential race, but everyone is affected by congressional races too. If you want to say, let’s say 90% of the content should be on the race that’s relevant to people living in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and maybe North Carolina that’s fine, but if the rest of us have to see their content all the time, then they shouldn’t mind if they have to see like 10% of the content relevant to the people who live in some of the other 44 states.

    And to be clear, this isn’t something I’m saying about Lemmy in particular. Go anywhere in America, from the deepest red state to the deepest blue state, and ask about the latest story-of-the-week about the presidential race, and people will know about it and have an opinion on it and care about it. Ask them about local races, and they’ll be far less knowledgeable far less invested, and will probably try to fit it into a framework based on the one race they actually care about, even if they can’t affect it in any way.

    There would be so much more potential to cut through battle lines if people would go like, “OK, fine, you don’t like either candidate, you don’t have to vote for them. But do you mind if I ask what state you live in? Maybe there’s someone running for congress or governor who’s more to your tastes. I’d be happy to look into who’s running and discuss them with you.”

    But nobody wants that shit. We want the battle lines, we want the group identity, the team sports. We don’t want to do research about boring shit nobody cares about, we want a constant stream of engaging news stories and hot takes that we can all experience together, as a culture.