• 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Because I don’t trust anecdotes from individuals

    [proceeds to trust some random patreon website and some youtube travel influencers…]

    anyway. it was a fun afternoon of earning capitalist value tokens while pretending to add value at work… thanks all for the discussion

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      15 hours ago

      The west doesn’t care about the Chinese or muslims but we are supposed to believe they care about Chinese muslims. Please let me know how many countries with a minority (Uyghur muslims as the example here) population have their languages on their currency and actively promotes their culture significantly (like drawing in tourism), skyrocketing of HDI and then gets accused of whatever you are doing here.

      The thing with the neither Washington nor Beijing schtick is that it is tantamount support of western atrocity propaganda; you want to believe Western lies as you have already decided on a hierarchy of human beings and denigrate those who stand against Western imperialism. If you know you have been lied to about every Western Designated Enemy since WWII but choose to believe current ones then you ain’t brainwashed, just bigoted.

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      You do realize that you can check the sources compiled by Qiao Collective, right? I also referenced the UN and PRC. The travel influencer bit was an addendum, not the core focus