• Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.net
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            more and more I feel like people who are both transphobic, and also project that on China are really telling on themselves about what they would do if they were in power. It always feels like “you’re lucky our FREEDOM LOVING government lets DEG*NERATES like you exist!” It’s almost more terrifying than the typical right wing blue hair enby boogieman memes.

            • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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              I feel like there’s a lot of people along for the ride when it comes to these narratives- like people who will seriously believe some military guy that spent the last two decades airstriking muslim weddings when he says with a straight face that he’s really concerned about the freedom of east Turkistan

      • good_girl [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Oh no I never considered that a place I’m critically supportive of might not be perfect. Guess it’s time to throw away all my beliefs and buy NFTs while sucking down whatever the dems are pushing in amerikkka.

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        It’s fucking bizarre people keep hammering on this when the US is engaged in, I cannot emphasize this enough, anti-trans genocide as defined in international law. Like bruh. Bruh. Clean up your own house.

        • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          It’s that brazenness which makes me feel compelled to respond. If you live in the US, claim to be on the left and can’t even call for an end to your own government for its crimes I have no interest in your contributions.

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      11 months ago

      You would be prosecuted and possibly killed by the Chinese government. Remember that.

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          It doesn’t matter. There’s no way you would even consider any point that doesn’t fit in your bubble. You and all the other idiots in your fantasy world of an instance are a waste of energy. You are lthe same as any Facebook Trump supporter. Your politics are different, but the brainrot isn’t.

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            I’m pretty sure it’s you who’s never explored outside their ideological bubble, because I was a bog-standard American liberal for over 40 years, until I actually read a book or listened to a point of view outside of that bubble.

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                All you know is that I think you and your buddies are removed.

                anticommunists try to go 5 minutes without yelling slurs at people challenge [impossible]

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                I think it’s safe to assume that you think of yourself as a conservative, a centrist, or a “liberal”, and all of those are liberalism:

                Liberalism is an idealist ideology that promotes free market principles, individualism, and fundamental rights

                Now you know why we use the word liberal with a seemingly broad brush: we are using its original meaning, as people in continental Europe generally still do.

                I don’t know what removed is euphemizing, or why you’d euphemize it on a platform that has no algorithms to circumvent.