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can't even engage with these people. they'll ask for sources then ban you for posting them. of course the rules they use to justify it are arbitrary and don't fit. I'm a leftist but I'll never praise authoritarian shitholes with blatant propaganda.

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[–] SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Isn't this the same China that harvests organs from their prisoner population?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago

and westerners going there for easy access to organs, because they couldnt treat thier diabetes properly, i read that kidneys are the top organs to get in china, due to people having type 2.

[–] Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would be skeptical of that claim as it's coming from Falun Gong, who are far-right. Not trying to defend China though.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's not an allegation, China has been doing that for decades, I read about it in the newspapers back in 2001.

There are bigger fish to fry for us as to the organs I hear, our tax dollars involved, in harvesting palestinian organs for rich westerners.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Which part? The chinese harvesting organs out of executed criminals was reported in the Times and elsewhere 2001 and thereabouts multiple times.

The palestinian thing, there were those medical workers found in the mass grave with their hands bound, executed, some tortured, with organs cut out. 20 of them or so, as I recall, a year or so back, and there were other incidents. I'm looking for a link startpage is not providing it, or a number of other links it used to before the the enshitification, Double duck has some links, I haven't vetted them, but should cover some of the allegations. https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/11/06/gaza-organ-theft-even-in-death-palestinians-are-not-free-from-occupation/

They absolutely are harvesting organs of some of their victims I am certain, probably selling them to rich pricks in the US that go in for off the books operations.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 31 minutes ago

Do you have any better evidence for the Palestine stuff? This incredibly biased and lacking article isn't particularly conclusive.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago

trying to attribute uhyger genocide to a non-existent genocide of whites in AFRICA. HOW TO SAY you are a nazi without saying you are a nazi.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 33 points 2 days ago

the best and most comprehensive resource

explicitly pro-PRC

Gee, I wonder if there's any correlation here

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are many types of genocide. Not all of which require active murder. But rest assured, even when the vanguard is actively murdering causing genocide. Cowbee would defend the vanguard and justify the murder.

Is China slaughtering Uhyger outright? No. Are they erasing their culture and the culture of Tibetans, Hong Kongers, and every other non Han ethnic group under explicit threat of violence? Yes. And that is genocide. The US government made my ancestors prisoners in their own homes and stole their land under threat of violence. If that's genocide. And it is. Then China's Han supremist one China policy is too. If white supremacy is unacceptable. Can anyone explain to me how the fuck han supremacy is? How is one China significantly different than maga other than the groups involved.

[–] Poxlox@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Exactly. It's an ethnic and cultural purge. I am at least sane enough to admit it happens in all types of authoritarian shitholes. Including my own government.

[–] powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

lol "re-education" and "de-radicalization" are euphemisms the same as "enhanced interrogation"

tankies are the mirror image of MAGAts

[–] Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Re-education also screams genocide. De-radicalization is literally the term Israel uses to justify its genocidal intentions.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 8 points 2 days ago

if you superimposed thier ideals on top of each other like a page, they are the same people.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see cowbee i keep scrolling. Dude have no life.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It really is curious, he averages out on like 15-30 comments a day, and that's not even mentioning his hexbear account.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

yea alot of these tankies have have multiple accounts, just in case they get shutdown in any other thread they fire up one of thier ALTS to reinforce thier argument as if they were a different person.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

I got into it with one, and I'm pretty sure he trolled me for months on other non tankie instances until I called him on it a couple of times.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

I have encountered many of their alts, yeah, quite annoying.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And some of that 15 to 30 is like essay-length shit. I can't even reply to some reply i got the morning before it got removed, and dude is always available to defend some foreign country. Super odd.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

The essay-length stuff is copypasta.

[–] Geobloke@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have to think they are multiple people right?

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

nah, just some guy

[–] TanteRegenbogen@feddit.org 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He even admits to using a biased pro-CCP source.

What a clown.

[–] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago

We have investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

Every .mler that provides sources follows the same pattern

[–] greenbit@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago

Reading posts and comments from cb, biab, ygt, dvl is like they're zionists pretending to have a red flag

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You'll find this genocide denial from dbzer0 as well. Since nothing screams anarchist like defending an authoritarian state capitalist country.

[–] Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago

That first sentence is enough to make me check out and not read the rest. Literal outright denial straight out of the gate.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Ha yes he gave me this line too. How about there is a genocide in China and not one in Africa.