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China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD (www.dw.com)

submitted 1 year ago by tintory@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] alternative_factor@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Tankies: China is a world power!! It drives so many world events!!
Tankies: Nooo how dare China get in the press (good, bad, and neutral).

They feel like any China coverage is inherently imperialist, even when its "China breaks fusion record", that is meddling in China's internal affairs to them.

[-] AmberPrince@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

For real. The tankie problem here is crazy. I can say something like China is trying to deny freedom of navigation of international waters on the South China Sea and somehow it becomes "BuT aMeRiCa". I don't get it.

[-] reddwarf@feddit.nl 8 points 1 year ago

I’ve been seeing this a lot from instances like hexbear and lemmygrad and my take is either cult members, paid trolls, brainwashed persons prone to pavlovian responses, or all of the above.

I just wish that as a user I could block instances.

[-] Menachem@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

It's definitely all of the above.

Hexbear is particularly vexing to me. According to the fediverse observer they're less than a month old and yet have already become one of the most active instances.

[-] honeynut@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

hexbear has existed and been building their userbase for 3 years, but during that time their codebase diverged greatly from mainline lemmy to include in-house tweaks and features which made it not possible to federate, and it's only within the past month that they got everything compatible