I don’t care about making you look bad. I’m throwing light onto some fucked up beliefs that get dressed up with “fuck America!” to make them more attractive. The fact that you embrace these beliefs is irrelevant to me. This is for the reader, not you.

It does being context to your righteous indignation that you’ve so closely tied the discrediting of your beliefs to a personal attack.

This exchange has been the same thing I’ve repeatedly seen or personally experienced with tankies.

They end up thinking that their “gotcha” will be expressing fucked up Western policies or actions. They do this because, as I originally stated, they hate the thing they know (Western capitalism) and therefore embrace “the other thing” to feel like they’re on the “right” side. They assume that everyone else is doing the same, and that by being critical of Communist governments, we must love Western governments.

And as I also said up front, THEY’RE BOTH SHIT, and if you can’t see that, you’re very simple. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend. You’re not on the good guys’ side just because they’re opposed to the bad guys. It’s the Crips vs the Bloods, not Batman vs the Joker.

I hope you wake up to this very basic truth someday, but I’ve continued this conversation more for other people, to show them the holes in your line of thinking.

That would be a reasonable thing to suggest if my account was on the americafirst.trump2024 server and I replied to a picture of the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians with a picture of a Palestinian doing something fucked up.

Genocide is an abomination, whether it’s the Israeli government doing it to the Palestinians or the Chinese government doing it to the Uyghurs. We can all agree on that, right?

…right?

“If all you’re interested in is describing the exact experience of a lot of people, all I can do is disengage because I have no leg to stand on.”

The Uyghur genocide is an abomination, don’t you agree?

Here’s a couple observations: you attempted to discredit what I said by invoking the straw man argument while asserting what “you people” all do in the same breath.

You also ended your last comment by offering the false dichotomy that my 2 options are “backing off my false claims” or acting in good faith.

Third, for how active you are in commenting and debating, it’s disingenuous at best to pretend that my assumptions were random words stung together. If you comment in lemmy.ml on any of the omnipresent Chinese or Russian-centric posts with anything other than adoration, you’re banned… Criticism isn’t allowed in any of the major communities there and you’re obviously aware of that.

You’re not the paragon of fairness, honesty, or logic that you’d like us to believe.

You’re right, assumptions were made, though your lack of context for posting that picture definitely lends itself to my narrative. Not refuting anything I said also doesn’t help to destraw yourself.

Please, take this opportunity to clear the air and let us all know that you’re aware of how damaging Chinese and Russian policies are for their people, just like Western capitalism for its people.

Anyone: Russia or China did something fucked up.

lemmy.ml: BUT WHAT ABOUT…!

These people are so black and white, it completely boggles the mind. They live in “X is bad so Y must be good!”

X and Y are both completely fucked and if you can’t see that, then so are you.

I get that the heavier bowling ball affects the acceleration of the earth more than the lighter feather, but I don’t see how that means it’s falling faster as the meme is stating. The bowling ball would meet the earth first when dropped separately and from the same height because the earth is (imperceivably) accelerating toward it faster than it does the falling feather, but both the bowling ball and feather are falling at the same rate due to Earth’s gravitational force.

Or am I missing something?

It’s a cute little comic about how people feel on first dates and how crazy dogs look drinking from a hose.

You come off as someone who has no personality if they’re not talking down to others.

I’m not sure I get this one. Is the joke that they’re the first humans so they don’t know that they’ll die someday?

Jesus Christ this thread is full of people who don’t realize they’re the judging hipster in the post.

Ubuntu isn’t the entry level distro that you move on from once you’ve gotten your feet wet, and your not very subtle pats on your own backs for using something different aren’t earned.

Does it do everything the user needs from it? If so, don’t tell them that they need to “graduate” to a “better” flavor.

Or Ubuntu could perform every task they need it to and never switch to anything else.

Braver than most western journalists, who regurgitate the corporatocracies narrative and manufacture consent on their behalf.

True

Hopefully she’s given a good job and granted asylum somewhere in the west ASAP, so she can go on with her life.

What?

@lemmy.ml

Not everyone of course but there’s way too many people over there who will justify anything the Chinese government does or just ignore criticism by saying, “what about what the US does?!!?!”

How they cannot understand that the US and China are both dystopian hellscapes is embarrassing.

There are very little, if any, benefits to using a VPN service to browse the public internet.

This is why it’s often best to just avoid the comments completely

It would take a super genius to understand that they’re either a non-native English speaker or made a simple typo/autocorrect issue. Also, since it’s completely impossible to even guess at the point they’re trying to make through the context of every other word in their comment we all owe you a debt of gratitude for calling this out!

Thank you, corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca, for adding something incredibly meaningful to the conversation and the world as a whole!

Oh no… I just saw this comment in a different thread from 2 hours ago, and it MAKES NO SENSE:

Doctors today face a demand form their services that, while we can’t guarantee will get them.jigher wages, can give them more leeway against unwritten political rules of speech.

• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

What is a doctor’s “demand form?” And “them.jigher” isn’t a term I could find anywhere on the internet! I don’t understand what the author, corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca, was trying to say! It’s all just gibberish!

I feel good calling it out though. I’m sure that corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca will be grateful for my much-needed help and not think I’m a dick for detracting from their point to assert my knowledge of English grammar over them.

Since when are independent shops no longer an option? I just checked their site and it says you can take it to independent shops, but risk warranty.

You answered your question.

the evidence seems to suggest people are happy with their Teslas

Your “evidence” are people who live on your block and your boss. You might be an engineer but you’re no statistician.

It appears that you’re in a lot of pain. I’m truly sorry.

That’s 86 F for all you freedom lovers, or the front seat temperature of a Ford F150 with 312 fresh Big Macs in the extended cab.

It’s true, I spent way too long replying. I usually avoid engaging but I think it was the absurdity that made me throw away what had to be at least a combined hour of my day. They knew the true nature of the universe and tried to convince an atheism group.

It was obvious pretty quickly that they weren’t in a place where they could accept their belief being challenged, but maybe a really bored person read it all and took something away from it.