Didn’t even take an hour lol.

Who should I trust more about reporting the treatment of Muslims? Western countries who have been antagonising Islam since the dawn of Abrahamic religions, who support Israel’s actual genocide of Muslims and are literally banning Islamic practices like Burkas in their own territories, or Islamic countries themselves? Seriously, you will say literally anything to discredit literally anyone who goes against your views on China. Do you know this particular Islamic group? Of course not. Yet you’re already accusing them of, one, accepting Chinese money, two, not caring about human rights, three, being racist, just be cause they said something good about China. Meanwhile, the West gets a free pass on all of these despite having a very clear track record of the latter two and clearly stand to benefit from smearing China as much as possible?

Finally, when every Muslim majority country agrees on the fact that China isn’t abusing Muslims, even though they have plenty of disagreements on way less significant things, maybe you should at least consider that they might be right? They all supposedly hate each other, but not one of them goes “fuck you all, I’m not going to be in this China coverup with you!” Speaking of, why don’t any of them support Israel by the same logic as you used to justify turn supporting China, who, again, are legitimately engaging in a genocide of Muslims?

Also, will praise Israel and condemn China for their treatment of Muslims in immediate, back to back statements.

Watch the (non-Muslim, never set foot in an Islamic country or China) libs blubber something about “well they must care about that China money more than Islam!!!”

Fair enough.

Throw Linux with a light desktop environment on one of those and it can still hold up today.

For Apple specifically, it’s because it would cannibalize the sales of the iPad. They’ve pretty much got the tablet market cornered, the iPad is considered the only “good” tablet nowadays and by far the best selling, and they’re NOT giving that up. They’ll gladly let you sync your iPad to your Macbook to get a similar effect as having a direct touchscreen input though! How nice of them!

No one. The trolls, spammers, etc get banned instance wide, and I don’t block anyone for being “liberal” or “right wing” or “anticommunist” or whatever because I’m confident in my own ideologies enough to not be afraid to hear differing opinions.

What does this even mean?

Lemmy is only a few years old, and only started federation for less than half that time. It’s far to early to be talking about instance traffic and retention and stuff like that.

If you’re this displeased with the selection of instances, start your own and make whatever rules you want. That’s the point of an open source platform like Lemmy. No one else owes you a space tailor made for what you want and don’t want to see.

Also, not even. I saw a large proportion of Lemmy.ml usernames in that thread.

They want to cleanse Xinjiang/Tibet/whatever so much that they swung all the way back around integer overflow style and ended up exempting them from the one-child policy lol.

why the people of Xinjiang should stay in their concentration camps

Literally no one said this. Seriously, with such a pattern you have of putting words in people’s mouths, you should really think about whether people you disagree with really are as evil as you assume.

Wtf that’s what I was referring to! Did you assume I thought they were actual terrorists?

Lemmy.ml is also explicitly leftist. Look at the page title on the homepage. And no it’s not the default instance, there isn’t one. If you want centrist or right wing, there are other instances.

I know. I’ve just never actually seen anyone using map projections as propaganda before (that post they linked to and accused of doing so is the stretch of the century, like, do you expect them to mail you a 3D globe? It’s clear they just pulled the default maps off Wikipedia because convenience.)

I imagine it was done, and would have worked in, like, the 18th century when 90% of the population couldn’t afford to read books, but we’re in the age of the internet when you can just look up the actual fucking land area of any country.

Anyone who expresses anything I disagree with is lost to humanity.

1. It’s called the CPC.

2. A lot of us support both, yes. Resources on both why that is and debunks to pretty much everything you’ve mentioned is littered all over this instance. Probably seen this link getting dropped?

3. Dude, it’s the fediverse. Use another instance that better suits your worldview if you’re this bothered by the politics here, don’t try to shame and change the existing userbase of an instance for having different political opinions as you. That’s the whole damn point of Lemmy!

I’m assuming you’re also one to screech about free speech.

What does that even mean? What does that have to do with fucking anything?