• josefo@leminal.space
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    18 days ago

    I refuse to believe that the tweet is real. This is just satire, right guys? Hahaha, please be satire

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      17 days ago

      I see you’re lucky enough not to be familiar with the Victims of Communism Foundation. This is pretty standard for them.

      They’re also extremely successfully at mainstreaming these kind of views: they’re often cited by “respectable” western media like BBC, are used by Wikipedia, and are the original and only source for a lot of the kind of scandalous accusations against China that liberals will call you a tankie if you don’t believe

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          17 days ago

          Yup. They’re also the only source for the “one million Uyghurs in concentration camps” claim that western “leftists” treat as unquestionable gospel