• w3dd1e@lemmy.zipBanned from community
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      I don’t get why you would trust either? Both are shady and know liars.

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        US government: known liars according to experience

        The CPC: known liars according to the US government

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        I’m not saying that the Chinese government is blameless or full of saints but comparing the two is ludicrous.

        Like, having a discussion about this specific historical fact, comparing it to something that happened in the US a few months ago is really pathetic. Even if we took the western propaganda at face value, this was 40 years ago and the US police alone killed twice as many citizens last year. And that’s just the cops executing people on the street not to mention the historical injustice of the US “justice system” and it’s self reported by the cops so when they disappear people, it doesn’t count.

        You expect me to trust a government that pulls that about how evil and authoritarian their ideological enemies are?

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          Not at all! I mean that in rejecting Western Propaganda, it feels as though many people are blindly believing China and we should be questioning both.

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            No, most of us just refuse to believe in CIA propaganda and do their work for spreading it.

            Explain to me, what would the goal of the CPC be? What were the goals of the insurrectionists? What would be the outcome of the success of the insurrectionists?

            And while we’re at it, do you support the Jan 6 rioters?

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            I mean, of course we should. But that doesn’t mean statements from the two have equal weight.

            The US and all it’s propaganda apparatuses have not only a bias but an unhinged one. The general common knowledge is if you see something in western media about any non-western government or people, assume the opposite is true and you’ll be right 95% of the time.