Shoot, I don’t have it offhand but you should send the Ben Norton video back, where he talked about how China is letting their property sector fail in order to shift their economy to being focused on green energy and tech.

As well, he mentions how morally corrupt it is to use property as an investment and how shifting where your investments are is actually a better idea.

Okay, unrelated but I gotta ask because it’s the first time I’ve seen this. What’s up with the hammer and sickle hamburger? Lol.

Whenever “brainwashing” comes up, I’m reminded of this article: https://redsails.org/masses-elites-and-rebels/

The writer uses the term “licensing”. Which I think is appropriate. We can show them that their entire society is propaganda, but they will brush it off as if it’s not proving anything, then embrace the term propaganda when it’s not part of their embedded culture. “Licensing”, because the libs and america have a license to do bad things, even while judging others for doing those same things.

You need to stop telling us what we believe. We don’t worship anyone.

Oh my, considering the content of the comic, you should reevaluate your opinions.

Or go back to fascist reddit. Lemmy was made by communists, you don’t seem comfortable here.

Smooth brains are out today, aren’t you? You can go home now.

Lol you commented in the wrong place! And SocDems are falling for fascist parties sooooooo fuck SocDems, fuck fascism and fuck capitalism.

Nice, reasonable explanation comrade! Just in case anyone didn’t know, TheDeprogram has a good wiki page on whataboutism that covers this nicely as well.

But yeah, people will find that we communists do criticize socialist governments, past and present, and do find flaws in China’s system. You just have to come to the communist subs and read around, or ask honest questions. But on platforms like this, where obvious lies, biases, and if nothing else, just one-sided reporting is rampant, we need to balance out the rhetoric. Of course capitalist countries (past and previous) have jailed journalists and those that have pushed back against American imperialism. Native Americans, Middle Easterners, Mexico, are just a short list of those that we constantly oppress.

China keeps making the news because western media keeps putting them in the news, even if it is for things that the USA or western Europe is also currently doing (You don’t think the USA and Europe don’t ban websites, do you? Have they ever forcefully sterilized people? Yes. Have they ever taken journalists prisoners… obviously yes… Oppressed religions? Duh… The list goes on and on). Calling out these non-western nations for doing these things is simply adding fuel to the fire to create a monolithic opinion that the USA or Europe is the best place on earth.

If you are on Elysium, things looks pretty great, and you can look down upon the others and judge them easily, while extracting their resources and causing their struggles in the first place. Being taken out of your bubble feels really uncomfortable, but it’s the first step in learning.

Thank you for responding well once the confusion cleared up. We get a lot of trolls, so please understand that we fight misinformation constantly, and are quick to point it out.

Cartoon propaganda occasionally worked like a broken clock :-P ( to proactively explain for those that don’t know this one too: broken clocks are right twice a day by dumb luck)

Even papa Parenti was kicked out of his faculty position for his opinions. Truly progressive movements have a history of being oppressed in the imperial core.

I also hope someone can rally the crowd like he used to be able too, but in the modern era.

Too real :(

:-P

I like how the only stat they throw, as you said, is basically a made up problem, but the rest of the article is just a clear attack piece on kids that “don’t want to work”. Even if you think they are being lazy, cherry picking like this can go either way. It’s anecdotal, but how many articles talk about how lazy kids are (Only every generation for the last 100+ years).

And in the 3ns, isn’t it a good thing kids don’t work? They can get an education, spend time with family, you know, live life while they are young. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

ding! Good catch!

works for me, is it still broken for you?

Okay yes, but still fuuuuuck Ben Shapiro.

Damn, looks like there’s more road than grass 😢

Lol, you might be right.

You should probably stick to the software side of the fediverse. I think you’re out of your league here.

Please keep your eyes open in the future to the media also using these terms. For example, every single time a peaceful protest gets pushed by the police into going violent. See how the media uses extremely charged verbiage during those situations.

Or how about every single time China or North Korea or Russia is brought up. No matter what the news story is about, they will always be labeled the bad guys. And sometimes they are, but sometimes they’re not.

Notice how the media will always talk about their “regimes” compare to our “government”, their “worker camps” vs our “prisons”. By the way our prisons also do force labor, and also torture people. How come our prisons aren’t worker camps? Or torture camps?

You’re going to see this if you keep watching osely, Communists have been talking about politically charged rhetoric for a very long time. We started calling out the government for using biased language long ago. See: Michael Parenti, for starters.