I'm not saying there can't be news about China, what I'm saying, and I've seen this a multitude of times, is that there is something that Usonians and Europeans do a lot, is that they post news about their countries as if they would be the world. In my book "World News" means something the entire world should care about, not just the Anglosphere and Europe, the description seems just a silly thing to put as a placeholder, at least that's how it has always worked in this community, news that the entire world cares about. It is a good rule that something global would involve at least 2 countries, or some event that it is really worth mentioning, like a natural disaster in some country, etc.

The post you mentioned, as you see, involves two countries, Argentina and China in joint cooperation as how they are going to go around doing trade and commerce. I'm sure that if you look a bit you'll see a post I did a long ago where I talked about this issue and proposed some rule so that actual World News would be posted, since the same thing always happens where Usonians post stuff like "Some US state does something", and that's most definitely not world news. I don't have any issue with you posting news that contain a pro-Western imperialist point of view, I will not report those, I may debate with you on the comments but that's it. But this is by no means a world news scenario, as I mentioned, if the world would start shit posting every day would be memorial day to remember atrocities committed by your own government on your own people, and there is plenty, every day there would be posts on world news about that. Maybe it's better to keep that sort of thing in communities dedicated to their own countries.

You don't need to say the literal words to mean something. By adhering to the Western narrative and highlighting a very specific and not so big of a history event (compared to for example the bombing of Laos, the most bombed country on Earth by the US government), you are actively contributing to the image of the US and its lapdogs as good guys, and the Global South as some kind of sub-humans who commit atrocities, while the reality is that countries that struggle due to first world imperialism will always end up in bad situations.

[+] Senokir@lemmy.ml -7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Enjoy my "shitposting" then. I won't be engaging with someone that refuses to actually address the points that I raise. Again, this is not a post stating "yesterday was the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre" so your claim this time that "if the world would start shit posting every day would be memorial day to remember atrocities committed by your own government on your own people, and there is plenty." makes no sense.

"You don’t need to say the literal words to mean something." - By criticizing the CCP I am not in any way implying that America is good. It's true that you CAN imply things without actually saying them, but it is disingenuous at best to assume that me criticizing the CCP is the same as me "actively contributing to the image of the US and its lapdogs as good guys". I am very much able to hold the belief that the CCP is in the wrong and that USA isn't perfect at the same time.

Goodbye.

[–] sovietsnake@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then it is even more futile and unrelated, if this is about the thing they are doing now, it would make no sense as something the world should care about. Imagine if I were to post "Police in Ecuador is blocking the way to some tourist place".

It's CPC, not CCP. I love how you say, they are wrong, but the US isn't perfect, like, China is worse, yet in the last hundred years I could literally create a wiki only about US atrocities and China has an all in all pacific history, but they are the ones that need to be converted and purified by liberal bourgeois democracy, and the US just needs to do a tiny bit better.