• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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      When you find yourself defending literal slave owners maybe take a step back and reevaluate how you got here.

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        I don’t defend slave owners, but you do defend genocide. I’ll pass on taking any life from advice from someone like that.

        How about China free the liberated Tibet? Oh, what’s that it was really about territorial acquisition?

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          I know I’m late to the party but you’re arguing with a known tankie. I would suggest block and move on. No need to read pure propaganda and lies.

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          Tibet is free, they have representation and everything.

          I do not defend genocide because there is no genocide happening right here in Xinjiang, you just refuse to believe you’ve been lied to. No investigation, no right to speak.

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              Right, which begs two questions…

              Why all the smoke for China when it’s obvious the US is much more so?

              Do you think it would be better if we allowed the confederacy to exist? You deflected to “both sides”. What do you believe here?

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                You deflected to “both sides”.

                lol what? You were the one who initiated the whataboutism here.

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                  I think they’re both in the right. I want to know if you think the confederacy should exist. Please elaborate

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                    I’m not here to discuss the merits of the argument. Especially not with someone engaging in such obvious bad-faith reasoning.

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                1. I think you mean “raises the question”.

                2. It’s not obvious that all the smoke is for China. We get so much American politics on Lemmy that everyone else is sick of it and sets up filters. This meme in particular is about China.

                3. No. I think if it wasn’t imperialist, the USA would’ve done a better job at Reconstruction. In case you need an obligatory condemnation, the USA has the world’s largest prison population and still practices slavery.

                There are other countries that are neither imperialist nor slavers.