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[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Strange, I never had any trouble on Reddit talking about socialism.

[–] psilocybin@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

As long as you don't question that the enemies of US imperialism deserve it you should be mostly fine. The big geopolitical topics are more sensitive.

I was permabanned from multiple subs for sharing this telegraph article for example:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230701133656/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.html

It differs from sub to sub but the bigger and more political the stronger the imperial narrative is enforced.

r/worldnews is one of the worst, and honestly suspect its astroturf and run by assets or a derivative of an imperial institution (council on foreign relation, think tanks, the likes)

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

There are literally pictures of bloodshed.

I legitimately don't understand why Leninists are so keen on making folk heroes out of tyrants. Why exert the energy to defend this shit instead of learning from it and building a better class of socialist??

[–] GarbageShootAlt2@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are literally pictures of bloodshed.

Not in the Square itself, which was the scene of many absurd claims by defectors, like the "tanks crushing people to wash them down the gutters" cartoon bullshit.

Here are interviews with some of the leaders of the protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu3zmbFGwQA

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