• @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    The source actually comes from the Chinese government, and they’re trying to do something about it:

    China has been setting up national parks, nature reserves and an ecological “red line” scheme aimed at putting vulnerable habitats beyond the reach of human activity, with 30% of the country’s territory now protected.

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      11 months ago

      But of course this detail will be omitted in loaded posts like OP. Consider the still active modus operandi of western shills:

      “During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them. If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.” ― Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

      • ManderlorianOP
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        311 months ago

        But of course this detail will be omitted in loaded posts like OP

        This detail is obviously available in the teaser-text to anyone who can read.

      • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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        311 months ago

        While what you wrote is true, I don’t think it applies here and I don’t think OP had malicious intent (otherwise OP wouldn’t have posted an article whose contents, unlike the headline, make many positive comments about China)

        • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
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          311 months ago

          OP entire post history is just attacking the opponents of US, idk how you can even interpret the post title otherwise, since it’s not even the title of linked article, but the one made precisely with certain agenda in mind.

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            411 months ago

            To be clear, to me, lobbyist-run US surveillance “democracy” is as much a joke as Russian and Chinese systems of oppression. That doesn’t mean that communism or democracy are inherently bad. But in reality, you have a choice between plague and cholera. Capitalism indeed is the root of all evil, I guess that’s one thing we could agree on.

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              No, we don’t seem to agree on this, you constantly push propaganda of the imperialist core, you are very much pro capitalism in its highest stage.

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                I’d be surprised if he didn’t realise it was published officially by chinese government.

                See, even if someone posts smth positive bout Chinas efforts, you take that chance to attack them.