• If you respect China, you’re a piece of shit. Taiwan deserves independence, Hong Kong does too, so does Tibet, and so does East Turkestan.

    This is helping me filter people. These are true beliefs I hold and if you give me the “MUH TIBET HAD SLAVERY” thing, good job you bought into propeganda.

    I eat ass.

    • If you respect China

      China as a country, a people and a culture deserve respect. The current power structure doesn’t.

        • That is a fascinating graph indeed. Ever wondered why official rape rates can be much higher in very progressive countries than in ultra-convservative countries where women have few rights, even if rape is illegal there? Hint: It is not because there are necessarily more rapes.

              • I’m sure you know better than the actual Chinese people polled. Thanks for setting the record straight.

                • I see what you’re getting at but you only need to glance at the US to know that a lot of citizens of a country do NOT know WTF they’re talking about when it comes to their leadership.

                • Some times it takes an outsider to see the problems, and I’m not alone in seeing massive democratic problems in China. You don’t know who participated in that poll (and neither do I) was it random people on the street or pro party people? With the amount of surveillance in China, I probably would think twice before speaking against the party.

                  The communist party has the sole power in China, while other parties technically are legal they haven’t got any power higher than city/regional level.

                  And then there’s the corruption, they have massive problems with that.

                  And before you go “hurr durr other countries bad” yes other countries do have problems and some may be worse than China, but that doesn’t legitimise Chinas government.

        • Your point is that China is exceptionally nationalistic? Based on a subjective study. Nice hard facts there. What’s really awesome is that the source is partnered with Taiwan Foundation for Democracy. An organization explicitly aiming to distance Taiwan from China and strengthen it as a independent democratic government.

          https://allianceofdemocracies.org/supporters

    • These are true beliefs I hold and if you give me the “MUH TIBET HAD SLAVERY” thing, good job you bought into propeganda.

      I mean, so did almost literally everyone else to some degree, unless they went extinct as hunter-gatherers. If that’s your disqualifier, you need to go live with the penguins in Antarctica.

      • The argument isn’t that Tibet once had slavery at some point in it’s history, but that Tibet had slavery up until the PRC ended it. There are no states in the modern day that practice slavery or serfdom in a comparable way (you could argue things like “wage slavery,” but that’s still significantly different from chattel slavery or serfdom). Slave states do not have the right to exist, and any nation without slaves has the right to invade a slave state and free the slaves. That’s not an unreasonable standard, it’s a standard that exists today.

        • 16 hours

          any nation without slaves has the right to invade a slave state and free the slaves.

          This one doesn’t ring well. It is one thing if the oppressed people themselves asked for help, but otherwise its just an invasion. No nation has a ‘right’ to free slaves.

        • any nation without slaves has the right to invade a slave state and free the slaves.

          If you believe that’s objectively true then I suspect you need to ask yourself “why aren’t governments everywhere banding together to obliterate the actual slavery going on inside their borders?”

          Those discord user account compromises and social media accounts asking for gift cards to avoid releasing your personal whatever aren’t legitimate businesses and the people performing those actions for them are not free to quit or even leave the buildimg they “work” in.

          Okay, you could maybe argue that’s one-off tourist kidnapping by criminal parties at scale, but then we have blood diamonds. How is it they still exist?

          Vegas hotels getting regular visits from cops as the drugs wear off early and the occasional girl escapes from the room she’s being held in, the fact that the superbowl is the world’s largest human trafficking conference, large portions of haiti under the current regime, slavery is EVERYWHERE and whoever is feeding you that line and placing the onus at a governmental policy level is trying to distract you from reality and hand-wave away anything that doesn’t line up with their own agenda.

          The world banded rogether to eliminate CFC’s because of the ozone hole.

          It’s clear we CAN all cooperate, so I posit you should be asking yourself: when reality doesn’t line up with the convenient point-proving “statements of fact” someone is pushing your direction, what does someone stand to gain from misrepresenting reality with quotable sound bytes?

  • I want to visit west Taiwan one day, or as some people call it: “China”.

  • Damn. I know this is a shitpost (and a funny one) but this is actually a neat strategy as a rough filter for bad people, like on dating sites or such.
    I think I’ll start using this. Thank you OP! <3

    • Put the anti douchebag statement at the top:

      “Trans rights are human rights. Free Palestine. Systemic racism exists. Feminism benefit everyone. No war but class war.”

      Saves a lot of time.

      • I saw one where they asked the other person to say Taiwan is an independent nation and to say (type) the words Winnie the Pooh, and they wouldn’t. That’ll do it.

        • OTOH, if I was traveling to China every so often, I would likely be also cautious with writing such things. For a similar reason I likely shouldn’t enter the US any time soon.

      • 18 hours

        I’d rather be young than a tankie with the Chinese flag that far up my ass 🤷‍♀️
        Gotta say, it’s really in there! How does that even happen?

        Classic lemmy.ml troll, btw

            • Ah shit, you are actually really young. Sorry for being so confrontational, but good guys and bad guys is a very naive way to view the world.

              • HornyQueenMiisha@lemmy.blahaj.zonedeleted by creatorEnglish
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                It’s fine lol. Just…there are probably better ways to express your opinion/disagreement

                good guys and bad guys is a very naive way to view the world

                Should have made it clearer, what I meant is “bigoted assholes”

                • Of course, just sick of hearing westerners calling China the bad guy when it’s objectively America who’s been destabilizing the globe for 80 years, lol

          • Yes, 20 day old .ml account.

            You are indeed one of the imperialist regime worshippers this post is talking about.

            • Lmao China is imperialist for wanting to reunify with a country that also calls itself China? What are you smoking?

    • .ml memes be like:

      Uyghurs deserve to be genocided because terrorism.

      Or

      Ukraine are nazis and deserve to be genocided by Russia.

      While somehow still saying democrats are the genociders.

      • I mean that the fake texts with intentionally bad spelling stereotyping Chinese people acting like a racist charicature is similar to the racial charicatures of the 1800s, was that unclear?

          • I’m not sure how that has anything to do with anything I said.

            The texts werent even a character. Your claims of racial stereotyping are absurd.

            Lmao. Yes, the Chinese scammer breaking character at the mention of Taiwan to say “Fuk you,” definitely not a charicature or stereotype and it’s totally absurd to suggest it.

            What’s next? Just start making jokes like full on, “Me so horny, me love you long time?”

              • What do you mean? Taiwan is independent for all intents and purposes, but is not, nor if I’m not mistaken does it claim to be, formally an independent country. I acknowledge that reality, yes.

            • The joke is expressedly about china not accepting taiwan as a country.

              Fuk you, .ml pig. <— satire demonstrating anyone can be hateful in this way.

              • No, it’s not about “China” not accepting Taiwan as a country, because “China” does not typically engage in text messages, seeing as it’s not a person.

                It’s about a stereotypical Chinese person acting and speaking in a way that the person who created the fake texts decided to make them. Which is, first trying to scam people, then being so triggered by the mention of Taiwan that they break character, then misspelling a word in a stereotypical way.

                Taiwan is just how you justify the rest of it to yourself.

        • But they didn’t have texts in the 1800s and that’s a political cartoon used to support the Chinese exclusionary act. I think you may be confused. I take it you’re a fan of Taiwan and its sovereignty then?

          • But they didn’t have texts in the 1800s

            Yes, this is what makes it a joke. Because the only difference is the format that’s changed, while the racial sensibilities are about the same.

            Chinese exclusionary act not anti scamming propaganda.

            Hey now, if you get to define your racist charicature in your own terms, don’t you think you should let them do so to? I’m sure the Workingmen’s Party of California would say that it’s just “anti-capitalist” propaganda, the capitalists being the ones who let those damn Chinese come in and take our jobs.

            Of course, it’s bullshit in both cases.

            I take it you’re a fan of Taiwan and its sovereignty then?

            What does Taiwan have to do with anything?

                • “charicature” isn’t a word. You’re looking for caricature and not only can you not spell it but you clearly don’t know what it means. You posted a racist caricature, I did not. Everything else you’ve said is also false. Me asking “what do you mean” is bait and I figured you’d say dumb enough shit to embarrass yourself/.ml. congratulations, ya dun it.