"China is the future, do you agree?"

[shimmeringkoi@hexbear.net]

What's a non-authoritarian state?

[themurphy@lemmy.ml]

What do you call Tibet then. I know they couldn't fight back that much, but it's a literal invasion.

[baaaaaaaaaaah@hexbear.net]

Tibet was recognised by every country on the planet as sovereign Chinese territory, both then and today.

[shimmeringkoi@hexbear.net]

In 1959, Anna Louise Strong visited an exhibition of torture equipment that had been used by the Tibetan overlords. There were handcuffs of all sizes, including small ones for children, and instruments for cutting off noses and ears, gouging out eyes, breaking off hands, and hamstringing legs. There were hot brands, whips, and special implements for disemboweling. The exhibition presented photographs and testimonies of victims who had been blinded or crippled or suffered amputations for thievery. There was the shepherd whose master owed him a reimbursement in yuan and wheat but refused to pay. So he took one of the master’s cows; for this he had his hands severed. Another herdsman, who opposed having his wife taken from him by his lord, had his hands broken off. There were pictures of Communist activists with noses and upper lips cut off, and a woman who wasremovedd and then had her nose sliced away.23

Earlier visitors to Tibet commented on the theocratic despotism. In 1895, an Englishman, Dr. A. L. Waddell, wrote that the populace was under the “intolerable tyranny of monks” and the devil superstitions they had fashioned to terrorize the people. In 1904 Perceval Landon described the Dalai Lama’s rule as “an engine of oppression.” At about that time, another English traveler, Captain W.F.T. O’Connor, observed that “the great landowners and the priests… exercise each in their own dominion a despotic power from which there is no appeal,”

Liberating people from inhumanly cruel and merciless theocratic overlords is good, actually.

Quotes from "Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth" by Micheal Parenti. The whole essay is quite good and not very long. https://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?t=88773

[objection@lemmy.ml]

Putting aside everything else, approximately when do you believe that happened?

[lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I'm saying this unironically: this comment could go on any dumbass thread about China's dumbass social media and dumbass AI. I don't understand why I don't see it more.

They. Are. Authoritarian.

[yuri@pawb.social]

reply to the person who’s actually arguing with you, coward!

[yuri@pawb.social]

babe all i know is folks in china who protest their own government use whinnie the pooh as a derogatory representation for that man. are THEY being racist? or is it possible that the color of the cartoon plush bear isn’t the point?

maybe it’s more to do with whinnie the pooh being a dopey idiot liable to get his head stuck in a honey jar. i reckon THAT’S the insult. it seems pretty obvious against something so literally stupid as “haha bc he’s yellow”.

i didn’t think people SERIOUSLY still used this garbage as a gotcha. you’ve genuinely impressed me with your willingness to so boldly plow into a bad faith argument. please do something better with your time

[achyu@lemmy.sdf.org]

Tanks stopping when a person blocked their path? And remaining calm even when the person climbs over the tank? Finally the tank driver talking with person calmly?

Their army or atleast the tank driver seems to be very decent.

[achyu@lemmy.sdf.org]

The Tiger character is called Tigger

Totally not racist?

[achyu@lemmy.sdf.org]

The Tiger character is called Tigger

Totally not racist?
Btw, what does Tigger rhyme with, my fellow Ningen?

Censorship of memes is not fun as a person who likes memes, but considering how they lifted millions of their people out of poverty very quickly, a ban on a racist meme is ok.

^Copied from my comment to another person in this thread^

[amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

lmao top-tier troll

[xanthobilly@lemmy.world]

I don’t buy it. The Chinese people have been using this meme.

[achyu@lemmy.sdf.org]

But the commentors above said that the Chinese govt is censoring Winnie the Pooh. This image has Pooh and also another character from the same series.

So the commentor is wrong and there is no active censorship?
Or they're partly correct where only some Pooh gets actively censored?

[xanthobilly@lemmy.world]

I’m sorry, but you’ve been arguing with me! I already shared the wiki. As far as I know it’s not racism, it’s exuberant Chinese censorship. This whole post is Chinese propaganda and they’re astroturfing it.

[ngn@lemmy.ml]

no, infact i think there should not be any china in the future

[achyu@lemmy.sdf.org]

Arguing?

[olgaabi@lemmy.ml]

no state at all, I'm a libertarian socialist

[braininabox@lemmy.ml]

What year do you think it is?

[braininabox@lemmy.ml]

So when you said "that kinda thing never works for long" you were referencing to any state? I think history has proven you wrong on that one, champ.