Its like Hillary walking into a working class kitchen for the first time.

They’ve been shielded from even critical support of China and other AES for so long they literally, not figuratively, literally cannot process that people exist that have beliefs that aren’t Reddit Approved. They immediately assume it’s bots or wumao. Human beings can’t possibly hold these beliefs, so they must be Oriental hordes or actual robots.

  • RedDawn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    52·
    1 year ago

    No it isn’t, that’s laughable. The US has far and away the worst most heinous surveillance of its citizens, not to mention the citizens of other nations as well. Try reading a summary of what Snowden revealed about the US state surveillance programs for instance

      • ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        44·
        1 year ago

        you think it’s better that the US tries to hide all of its nefarious (and frankly worse) spying? what the hell???

      • RedDawn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        42·
        1 year ago

        I’m not from China but I’ve been there and it isn’t hard to speak with people from China to learn that it’s not some dystopia. US is hands down far more of a police state.

          • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
            39·
            1 year ago

            I highly doubt that. It sounds like you’re someone who’s never had your material security threatened. There’s no other way you could imagine that unrestricted pickup artist and grind set entrepreneur internet is more valuable than the Chinese peoples’ ongoing victories against crushing poverty.

              • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
                41·
                1 year ago

                You don’t have to suppress information to improve people’s lives

                Of course you fucking do numbnuts. Who the fuck do you think owns all the media? The proles? I sure love all the proletarian mainstream media we have around here. Oh my fucking god I feel so fucking represented!

                Lack of control over the media results in the bourgeoisie exercising their financial power to use it to control the superstructure of society, through entertainment, art and more everything becomes the cultural product of the bourgeoisie. The outcome of which is a bourgeoise-led society and ultimately this leads to bourgeoise politics.

                  • ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
                    34·
                    1 year ago

                    anyone can start their own media without suppression.

                    yeah until you get popular and you suddenly have 3 bullet wounds to the back of the head, if you somehow even have the money to start a media outlet that challenges state power

          • RedDawn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            29·
            1 year ago

            In the US corporations do the censorship and it isn’t better. Also, if that trumps everything for you, a reexamination of priorities is probably in order. There are actually more important things than reactionaries being able to say whatever they want online. Facebook was used to help commit genocide in some countries for example, is that OK for you or should the calls for genocide have been censored?