Well yeah, Chinese democracy actually exists

Hexbear’s a good and active left unity instance

You can tell China doesn’t care about its people by the fact that they did zero covid for months and delivered groceries to everybody, as opposed to the enlightened and humane west, which let that shit rip and killed everyone’s grandma to make line go up

called me a “terrorist”

We did it folks, we finally made it back to 2002

it seems that moderators in 196 are deleting those comments from lemmygrad posters in a way that appear as visible while seen from lemmygrad while they appear as deleted by mods from any other instances

Whoa, that’s pretty 1984 Animal House of them

You want to put me in a box in your heads ;)

Hey Mr. Actually Laughing, that’s what you came in here to do. Don’t want to fit in the box? Don’t be a square

You’re not here for a dialogue, you’re here because of a nagging sense of being complicit in something monstrous that compels you to justify your shallow beliefs and corrosive way of life by spewing half-digested propaganda at people discussing the problem.

There’s that empty liberal appeal to an assumed normative opinion again, combined with “uhh actually you have now proven my nebulous non-point by asking a basic question”

My man is floundering

For real, they complain about “authoritarian tankies and their echo chambers” when we’re not even censoring them like they do to us, they just can’t handle being shown to be wrong.

At what point does being clowned on by an entire instance spur self-reflection?

“Using a cell phone, eh? Be sure to thank Comrade Kupriyanovich and the other soviet scientists who first made handheld satellite communication a reality”