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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

In this article on baidu, there is a gap between 1988 and 1999, why is there nothing about some kind of protest that everyone keeps telling me about?


Edit: Thank you for responding, you have taught me a great deal about the usage and necessity of propaganda, counter-propaganda and censorship in a Marxist-Leninist state like China. Although some relied upon lies and insults as a means of trying to win an argunent, I got actual contentful theoretical education out of this, thanks.

[-] betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I talked to Chinese expats, and it changed my view of China positively, though I still had these propaganda brainworms in my head that made me think everything they say is forced and not their own will, brainwash etc.. This caused me, among other reasons, to be afraid to speak with them. That was a long time ago, I then realised what was really going on with that narrative.

I thankfully stopped believing this bullshit imperialist propaganda narrative about socialist countries, and started to educate myself out of curiosity, starting with Marx.

[-] betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago

I think it's more rational self interest, which he always shows. His rationality is completely centered around greed and egoism from what I have seen, so I would assume he does that because it would not be profitable for him if he did that

[-] betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 1 year ago

It's also generally healthier than american food I would assume

[-] betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Dont use chatgpt for information, especially politics, you will get conflicting answers

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I haven't heard of them until like 2-3 years ago and I see them posted in World News quite often. What kind of a news source is this? Are they biased in some way? Where are they based? Is there anything notable to know about them?

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See title

[-] betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago

In its first article, the constitution of India declares “India, that is Bharat, shall be a Union of States.”

[-] betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bananas in the GDR were from Cuba lol

[-] betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 1 year ago

No it was not. A Lada was basically unaffordable, most people owned Trabants and Skodas, Wartburg etc. You had to wait at least 3-4 years (in the early days of the GDR), and some colors were sparce, so it could be that a random car would be assigned to you, regardless of what you filled in on the formular. You also still had to wait for other cars from the socialist foreign countries. A used car market did not exist, but if you had good connections you could transfer the waiting list from another person to you, if they wanted. (sry for bad english)

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I don't know anything about him...

[-] betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 1 year ago

Inifinitely prolong the suffering. Nice job, very humane

[-] betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 year ago

*outside the natosphere, this narrative is dominant in all nato countries

[-] betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml 33 points 1 year ago

Then just make a new symbol, the sickle is not as representative today as it used to be when it was invented anyways, since agriculture is more industrialised now, at least in Finland.

[-] betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago

If your slogan has been featured by pro-nazi newspapers, how can you say with a straight face that you aren't fascist

[-] betterredthandead@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 1 year ago

And 50 years unmaintained

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I have some questions about the "funny memes" about President Xi as Winnie the Pooh or Chairman Mao as a cat (I'm sure there are many more, for example I heard some people call President Xi an "accelerator in chief", a very narrow minded and rude term in my opinion).

I basically only know the western narrative about those memes, I want to learn about how they are regarded in China, if they are actually illegal and/or "censored" and why, what their origins are, what they mean (I know from my scarce knowledge of Hanyu that Mao also means cat for example), and who made them.

I am trying to "de-propagandize" my mind, since I grew up only being taught the opposing side's narrative. I don't want to be disrespectful, and if I am please tell me, it is not my goal to be rude.

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This whole system is purely designed to keep a few people in power and it is fucking insane. We wouldn't even have the internet if a governmental institution hadn't created it, because the free market deemed it unprofitable. How can we as a society achieve progress like that?

I am constantly surrounded by people that defend free market capitalism without questioning it nor having independent thoughts about it, even though they are not stupid. I feel constantly alienated because I have to discuss the most ridiculous thing with me peers when I try to show them the massive amount contradictions of this system,, and they just reply that it does not work. Without having a single grasp of how politics work. I don't mean to say that the general population is stupid, but it feels like they are constantly influenced by pro-capitalist information sources. I don't know, I regularly question my beliefs and apply constructive criticism to my thoughts, but I always come to the same conclusion. Am I getting insane, or am I just to alienated?

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