davel

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago

I see what you’re saying. If it were my article I’d have titled it differently.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 days ago (19 children)

Uyghur or not, she was lying for US empire. Previously:

The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing Salafi terrorist into Xinjiang, and once its efforts failed, it made lemonade out of its lemon by concocting and promoting a genocide narrative.

The only countries pushing this narrative are the “always the same mapimperial core countries, which just so happen to be largely the same ones supporting Israel’s genocide.

Almost no predominantly-Muslim country buys the Uyghur genocide narrative, because they know it’s bullshit, because they talked to the Uyghurs themselves.
https://twitter.com/un_hrc/status/1578003299827171330 #HRC51 | Draft resolution A/HRC/51/L.6 on holding a debate on the situation of human rights in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of #China, was REJECTED.

See also, Citations Needed podcast:

  • US Meddling, the Limits of 'Agency' Discourse and How Media Chooses Which 'Voices' To Center

    In this episode, we discuss the uses and misuses of liberal standpoint theory to promote US meddling, sanctions, and bombing. With guest Vincent Bevins.

    “Tony Blair says world must listen to Iraqi exiles,” reads a 2003 New York Times subheadline. 'I Want To Get The Hell Out Of Here': Thousands Of Palestinians Are Leaving Gaza,” NPR told readers in 2019. “Will Iran’s hated regime implode?,” The Economist wondered earlier this year, in June 2025.

    In recent decades, when the US, or one of its client states, has sought to invade, bomb, occupy, or otherwise destabilize and destroy a country and its people, media and policymakers who support these aims––which is to say the vast majority––have employed ad hoc liberal standpoint theory to frame these efforts as in support of “the people” of said country, insisting that we listen to those people–whose platonic voice, we are told, share the US security state’s desire for regime change, sanctions, bombings and/or meddling.

    Whether in Vietnam, Iraq, Bolivia, Gaza, or Iran, we’re told this “Platonic Voice of the People” not only objects to their government’s policies, but supports, either implicitly or explicitly, aggressive US intervention.

  • The Human Rights Concern Troll Industrial Complex

    The conceit that the U.S. has been a dedicated and earnest promoter of “freedom”, “democracy,” and “human rights” throughout the world — even if, at times, a “flawed” one — is a defining narrative, largely taken for granted by major media. But how accurate is this assumption? What do we mean when we talk about human rights? What abuses are highlighted and which aren’t? Where do labor rights fit into the broader discussion of human rights?

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 29 points 6 days ago (21 children)

The organic sentiments are real, but they’re also manipulated by inorganic “offensive cyberspace operations.”

For example: A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China

Previously.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Presumably because he borrowed someone else’s for a selfie shot.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 days ago

Gracias por nuestro pan diario, Jesús.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 56 points 6 days ago (26 children)

Not all of it is organic. In 2013, the city “most addicted to Reddit” was a US air force base that houses “offensive cyberspace operations.” Presumably they use VPNs to obscure their location nowadays.

Archive of Reddit blog entry: Get ready for Global reddit Meetup Day, plus some stats about top reddit cities and languages.

DuckDuckGo search: “eglin air force base cyberspace

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago

Individually, I don’t know. Collectively, socialist revolution. Workers in socialist states aren’t nearly as anxious about AI as workers in capitalist ones.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

WSWS has an okay MBFC Credibility Rating.

Not that MB/FC is credible. Previously. Previously.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

Tankies literally can’t fathom being able to recognize two things as bad at the same time.

The thought-terminating straw man that online Western “leftists” can’t stop embarrassing themselves with.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

This retort unfortunately never works, because they’ve only ever heard lies about Russia’s motivations and desired outcomes—falsehoods about what Russia would consider to be “winning.”

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