There’s the obvious language barrier, but just because something is not from the west does not mean it’s accurate.

I lived in Hong Kong for 3 years, Malaysia for 1, and live in a former Soviet country, so I am no stranger to non-western options.

I hope you give non-western media the same critical analysis that you do western media.

I’m not okay with suppression of information though. How would I even interact with Iranian citizens given that the government has blocked internet access?

Media isn’t blocked in western countries like it is in authoritarian dictatorships like china, Russia, Iran, north Korea, Cuba, etc…

Lack of popularity does not equal censorship and that’s a huge distinction. If I wanted to, I could read NK news.

So the state should choose what people can read and say?

Why on earth would you want that?

I really don’t get the tankie obsession with dictators and authoritarian rule. It seems so contrary to socialist ethos.

I wasn’t thinking about the Chinese internet firewall at the moment, but you bring up a good point - that’s a bad thing. What’s the alternative, internet freedom where china can’t police the media and public discourse?

Sucks how the west makes china censor it’s citizens.

You’re the one who keeps dick measuring countries. I call out specific bad actions, regardless of who commits them.

It’s okay though, the west made you post that message.

Got it. Everything is the west’s fault. Very nuanced.

You guys are so weird. Russia is awful for non-cis people and you’re all falling over yourselves simping for them.

You’re fooling yourself if you think Lemmy/mbin content isn’t getting scraped and thrown into LLMs. There’s nothing stopping it and they’re not huge on consent.

A factual statement about civilian protestors being killed equals “fascist talking point” to you. You certainly have an interesting thought process. Maybe those people didn’t matter to you though.

This war is absolutely not justified and Israel and the US should face international condemnation and prosecution.

Fuck Israel, but you need to educate yourself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres

Prior to that, there have been countless cases of abuse and murder of protestors and even just uncovered women.

Fuck the Islamic government of Iran too.

I get your frustration, but “helped a little” is a massive understatement for the contributions the US made for Ukraine immediately before and during the early phases of the war, when Biden was in office.

Trump is just awful by every measure though.

That’s so weird/trashy that china “controls” a whole breed of animal.

Look at this nonsense you’re spewing. It’s clear that china is threatening Australia and any country who interferes with what they consider a domestic issue, but anyone who isn’t a sinofascist understands is two independent nations who should stay that way and work on improving the world; not killing people.

This isn’t a “china bad” or “sinophobia” issue. It’s a being a decent human issue.

Yeah, China should definitely subjugate Taiwan to fend off those Americans who have no intention of attacking China and who have benefitted from trillions of dollars of trade from the US.

Wtf are you talking about? Imperialist China just finished encircling Taiwan in a “defense exercise”

No.

I live in Estonia. It does use 1520mm gauge rail, but it has been completely modernized. A new high-speed line based on the European gauge is in development, but it will be a while before that’s done.

I live in one and the infrastructure is great. Could use better train service, but it’s modern and nice.

That is completely untrue. Even Russia conducts its exercises mostly professionally and I don’t object.

If you think what China is doing is a defensive exercise, you are so biased that you are unable to see reality. They are encircling sovereign territory and practicing for a land invasion and blockade to subjugate the Taiwanese people and steal their land. I would like to hear your explanation for how https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLA_Navy_landing_barges are defensive in nature.

The weapons that Taiwan has purchased is a direct response to Chinese imperialism, aggression, and threats. Taiwan is not threatening Chinese people, but the opposite is not true.

Are you mentally ill or something? That was a defensive exercise and this has nothing to do with race.

Former SSRs are doing much better now than when they were vassal states and resource producers for Moscow.

That was in 1871; almost a hundred years before the Korean war. Wtf are you talking about?