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What's up with this straight up pro-china and pro-russia stuff on Lemmy lately? (toast.ooo)

submitted 1 month ago by individual@toast.ooo to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What's up with this straight up pro-china and pro-russia stuff on Lemmy lately?

It's not even praising the people of China and Russia, but rather their gov directly.

Obviously the states have problems, and the EU to a lesser degree, but they at least have some human rights.

Is this some kind of organized disinformation campaign?

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[+] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml -9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

The US persecuted Assange, not the EU. The rest was pure politics, because no country would cause a diplomatic incident over Assange.

So the EU obeys the US which is authoritarian?

What are you talking about? There is a constant coverage on Gaza even with updates of the kids killed by Israel.

https://lemmy.ml/c/ManufacturingConsent

Pray tell if you believe Hamas raped anyone on October 7 by the way.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Only Germany has a stronger stance on Israel, probably due to the large presence of Jews in the country.

You are misinformed. There hasn't been a large Jewish population in Germany since the Holocaust, and attributing Germany's support for Israel to an imagined one sounds, frankly, a bit antisemitic.

There are many EU countries with more Jews per capita than Germany. Less than 0.2% of Germany's population is Jewish, and less than 1% of Jews in the world live in Germany. 60% of Jews in Germany live in a single city (Berlin). Over 80% speak Russian, having immigrated there from former soviet states.

German politicians often say that, due to the Holocaust, support for Israel's security is part of Germany's "reason of state"; they tend to avoid discussing the Zionist view that Jews choosing to live in Germany today should also really move to Israel.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago

The West is guilty of regime changes in some places, that’s true,

Man, you sure love going "yes that's true and I have no counter point, but I'm going to declare that it doesn't count"

What are you talking about? There is a constant coverage on Gaza even with updates of the kids killed by Israel.

What do you believe the current death count in Gaza is?