You know what rattles my belief in humanity? Supposed leftists regurgitating capitalist propaganda because they are afraid of being labeled a “genocide-denier” without even doing the research to see if the claim that there is no genocide in Xinjiang holds any water.
If you agree that capitalism is bad and that capitalist media exists to uphold the status quo, why do you just blindly trust the capitalists when they say there is a genocide? Especially when they deny the genocide in Gaza that is literally being televised every day. Obviously capitalist media cannot be relied upon for the truth.
It amuses me that your comment was down-voted automatically in literally less than 30 seconds of posting, which means there are actual bot farms on here down-voting the mere mention thereof. I only noticed because I happened to refresh and see the notification that you replied to me.
The general thought when I’ve seen this brought up in the past is that the default upvote represents your own willingness to stand by and approve what you say; kind of like the adage, “If you won’t stand up for yourself, who else will?” Not that I mind either way but I’m curious why you take extra energy and time to do so.
Don’t mention the Uyghurs around tankies. At least if you want to keep your sanity and/or believe in the inherent goodness of people.
You know what rattles my belief in humanity? Supposed leftists regurgitating capitalist propaganda because they are afraid of being labeled a “genocide-denier” without even doing the research to see if the claim that there is no genocide in Xinjiang holds any water.
If you agree that capitalism is bad and that capitalist media exists to uphold the status quo, why do you just blindly trust the capitalists when they say there is a genocide? Especially when they deny the genocide in Gaza that is literally being televised every day. Obviously capitalist media cannot be relied upon for the truth.
Anyway, here’s some reading if you want to break out of the capitalist media bubble and start thinking for yourself: https://www.qiaocollective.com/education/xinjiang
It amuses me that your comment was down-voted automatically in literally less than 30 seconds of posting, which means there are actual bot farms on here down-voting the mere mention thereof. I only noticed because I happened to refresh and see the notification that you replied to me.
Though sadly yeah, I know what you say is true.
My comment has no downvotes. I just don’t upvote my own comments.
Oh interesting, do you manually down-vote yourself to 0 or is there a setting for that?
I just remove the upvote on my comment after posting.
The general thought when I’ve seen this brought up in the past is that the default upvote represents your own willingness to stand by and approve what you say; kind of like the adage, “If you won’t stand up for yourself, who else will?” Not that I mind either way but I’m curious why you take extra energy and time to do so.
If I don’t stand by my comments I don’t make them.