lemmy.world is such a cesspool I don’t understand it

Same thing is happening to India before our eyes.

Thing is, the Western view that media is free inherently makes people more susceptible to propaganda. To be more precise, Western media has achieved a few things: (1) The illusion of media freedom makes people less likely to question the media they consume. (2) The profit-driven motive of media companies makes it more likely for facts to be “reinterpreted” to better fit the target reader’s worldview. (3) The extent that government agencies are involved in media has been completely hidden from the public.

I mean, it’s not like Chinese people are stupid. We know what’s wrong with society in mainland China, but we also see all the benefits that it’s brought. The fact that it isn’t talked about doesn’t mean that everyone’s bought into government propaganda, it just means that people are on average happy enough to not bother with it.

Flipping the firewall is easy. Going to Taiwan or Hong Kong is easy. Emigrating is easy.

Just because someone isn’t white doesn’t mean that they’re stupid ffs

Caps on Russian oil price, restoration of original Ukraine borders, prosecution of Russian “war criminals”

It’s what you’d expect from a country that’s completely winning the war and not stuck in a stalemate while losing support

Well, yeah. Obviously not wanted anymore, since they got him lol.

What if the state itself doesn’t follow those laws?

What evidence do you want to see about a state-sponsored assassination? It’s happened twice now and you think it’s an accident?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-homicide-victim-wanted-india-1.6975772

Just yesterday.

The laws of Western states that the West only selectively follows? Gee…

I’m happy to move over from programming.dev to lemmy.ml

Sweet of you to think that

Thanks for your contribution!

Whoosh?

The Guardian is indeed Kremlin propaganda. Ever since Ole Jacob Sunde took over (with known ties to the Kremlin), The Guardian has very slightly shifted their editorial stance to be marginally more pro-Russian.

You’ll get protection if discrimination passes a certain point, but it’s really more of a “hey you shouldn’t treat people that way” and not a “hey you shouldn’t treat gay people that way.”

A lot of older Chinese people just feel that the Western LGBT environment is rather odd: the rampant sexualization and PDA is at odds with the traditionally conservative culture. If the LGBT movement had adopted a more traditional protest scheme rather than the flair of flamboyance it has today, it would have seen much more support in China imo.

Also, a lot of Chinese TV has homoerotic undertones, idk what you’re watching.

Socialism worked in Russia: it dragged hundreds of millions of people out of subsistence farming and turned the USSR into an economic powerhouse. Of course, the collapse of the USSR showed the failings of an aggressively socialist state, but the funny thing is that China already has the solution: a market-based economy with strong state control. Putin doesn’t dare piss off the oligarchs though, so we’re stuck with this crony bullshit.

The only territorial claims China has tried to enforce recently are to literally uninhabited lands (Aksai Chin and the SCS islands) and Taiwan (which they are still at war with).

How much do you really care about a piece of rock with no people and no animals living on it?

That’s the cost of designing education for the worst students.

But the traces in the wastewater are fairly high, falling just below legal food limits (ignoring that bioaccumulation by definition accumulates toxins from the water into animals).

China bet hard on developing countries because the developed world isn’t growing at a rate that can keep up with China’s economic growth targets. In fact, we’re very quickly running towards the crossover point for Chinese trade dependence on the West vs. on the rest of the world.

Also, a big chunk of Chinese exports to the West is in computers and consumer electronics… Markets which have seen a huge slowdown due to commoditization and aggressive political lobbying from the US.

Per this source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abc1507

The treated water contains traces of other radioactive elements that do bioaccumulate. While the water alone is below the legal food limit, that can’t be considered as a fair limit due to bioaccumulation of heavier radioactive isotopes.