The media told them Hillary is the most qualified candidate in history only Biden can beat Trump, because he appeals to moderates, where things like free healthcare and not locking immigrants in cages only appeals to far left loonies.

The average American wants these things, its just we cant risk the Republicans winning so we have to run on the republican platform from 4 years ago.

Austria had already been annexed by Germany when WWII started

You have a very big government that tries to control every aspect of society at the expense of the freedoms and rights of its citizens

The term is pointless because it is only used to describe foreign countries. What freedom does someone working for minimum wage, barely able to afford rent, and at the mercy of their employer to even be able to do that much experience? But also it’s impossible to separate any actual freedom in the west from the hyperexploitation of the global south; you are able to buy bananas or coffee with less than 10 minutes of labor because the dictators the US keeps in place in countries that produce them keep the price of labor and resources low.

overbearing rules that are enforced very strictly, and those who break these rules receive punishments that disproportionately exceed the crime

I’m from a country with 2% of its population in prison or homeless. To call any other country (except maybe Saudi Arabia, Iran, some gulf states, and Russia)'s rules disproportionate is laughable. Hell here in SK leading a socialist org is technically punishable by death, though the law isn’t enforced as written, in the lead up to the election I saw a demonstration with LGBT+ communist-like and anarchist flags that weren’t shut down. It’s like a fish accusing another fish of being wet.

In this case, the CCP is a tyrannical government that ordered soldiers to kill students for the crime of peacefully protesting.

Read the wikipedia article. You only accept such cartoonish logic of the evil communists needing to control everything and sending in troops to murder everyone who tries to ask for freedom because you have a cartoonish understanding of a real place with real people. You see the same short-circuiting of logic when you try to explain to a zionist why Oct 7th happened and they just go “They did it because they’re terrorists!” over and over. The CPC sent police and soldiers in unarmed, several got lynched (don’t look the pics up, they’re very graphic), they sent them back with weapons and a battle ensued, involving cops shooting indiscriminately in the area surrounding the square.

See, the next step is where you go “well it’s still bad cpp ebil” instead of developing any nuance or researching the political impact within China or doing further research into the various student factions and how it got to lynchings and how the other factions reacted (there’s quite a few contemporary interviews by students whose positions lead them to have different biases), and then I realize I’ve wasted my time.

The context that the reason this is promoted multiple times a year as opposed to any particular atrocities committed by western media that this can be used to justify further hostile action against a foreign nation.

If you still use the word “authoritarian”, You’re not ready to have a meaningful discussion on the event anymore than a zionist screeching about “terrorists” is capable of discussing Oct 6th.

At no point did I try to justify any atrocity, I simply supplied context that pissed off liberals because it required more nuance to interpret than their thought-terminating clichés supplied. Which really was rude, feel free to ignore me and go back to “china ran 100,000 people over with tanks for peacefully asking for freedom like we have, because thats just what terrorists authoritarians do.”

You support these atrocities and the regimes who committed them and so you perceive people calling out these acts as unjustified “hostility” rather warranted criticism.

Given the total lack of knowledge surrounding any of the events in question or the people affected, it is blatantly obvious that the “criticism” begins and ends with “<insert communist country> bad!”

The average ML has studied how/why such actions occurred and the response beyond the childish “dey did it coz authoritarianism!” that libs end their analysis at, because our interest isnt limited to its utility as hostile evidence.

This is gross. Israel invaded and occupied Palestine. The people of Gaza were driven there by ethnic cleansing, a wall was built around them, and they have been starved of food, water, and medicine for years before fighting back.

Israel wants to finish cleansing the land of Palestinians. Palestinians want to end the state of Israel and return to their homes. Only one of these requires exterminating the other side.

The subject is “whataboutism”, or when people bring up similar, but far worse things done by liberal institutions in response to supporters of liberal institutions accusing communists of doing bad things to show that the supporter of the liberal institution doesn’t actually give a shit about the event they’re crying about and is simply using it as a pretext to justify hostility against that communist state, victims included.

Here, it’ll take two minutes to read this. I’m not even going to get into the contexts “authoritarianism” is and isn’t used today (hint: liberals use it and see no hypocrisy).

If I had a nickle for everyone who either stopped watching Full Metal Jacket after Lee Emery gets shot or watched the husks of men, who just got massacred by a child defending her home, marching through the burning town while singing children’s songs, and thanked the next veteran they met for fighting for freedom.

The point isn’t to distract, it’s to provide context so the accuser can’t create an inaccurate framing. The atomic unit of propaganda isn’t lies, it’s emphesis.

If every week, a right-wing German posted about how many gays Britain murdered, imprisoned, or castrated during the 40s, it would be borderline deceitful for other lemmy users not to provide the full context of what Germany was doing to gays at that time (and what West Germany continued to do until the 1970s).

Same deal when we get the occasional zionist talking about the plight of gay Palestinians. Yes, they have their own struggle, but there is a very specific and obvious purpose behind a zionist bringing it up.

See the big difference is the US was murdering countless Vietnamese to keep them under the boot of capitalism. The protesters in Tienanmen aren’t as black and white. If the protesters were protesting China poisoning the food supply and massacring countless villages of country on the other side of the planet to keep a country’s resources easy to exploit and their people’s blood ready to be spent keeping other countries under the boot of capitalism, it would be that simple, but they weren’t.

Also “against authoritarianism” lmao you are a literal child.

It would be different if the protesters had lynched a dozen soldiers before they responded.

Of course given the context of the Vietnam war, the soldiers wouldn’t have been justified even if the protesters killed some of them first; you don’t get to claim self-defense when you yourself are only there to put down a protest against imperialism.

They’re just building latrines for future civilizations.

Get better tp.

Every bidet Ive seen has some kind of cleaning feature, whether self clean or just a button that makes it pop out so you can spray it with sanitizer.