• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    very oppressive and paranoid, bit definitely not fascist.

    That is … an interesting take, especially taking the Uyghur genocide into account.

    • senseamidmadness@lemmygrad.ml
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      10 hours ago

      Not a genocide. No mass killings. Pure propaganda pushed by a CIA plant named Adrian Zenz. (You should look into him; he’s a religious zealot who believes his Agency-promoted investigation is a mission from God.) The UN’s own report from 2022 never uses the word genocide. https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/08/1125932

      It is an anti-radicalization education program put in place because the CIA was arming and training groups of Uyghurs with the intent of creating terrorist cells, just like they’ve done in bunches of other countries.

      The word “genocide” should never be used lightly. What Israel is doing to the people of occupied Palestine? That’s a genocide.

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      24 hours ago

      Fascism is far-right. China is sort-of Communist, which is far-left.

      Thus China is not fascist. Still a brutal, oppressive borderline-genocidal regime, but not fascist.

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        22 hours ago

        China is authoritarian, and that’s sort of the problem. That’s why the US is bad, bozo. But, sure, why don’t we point out all the definitely not capitalism that China is doing so you can pretend that all those Uyghurs aren’t being genocided, nor that the AI surveillance state they’ve got going on to censor and disappear people. Damn, dude, I’m glad I can pick between these two shitty governments.