• freagle@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      Won’t someone please stop the truth from being contextualized in history! We have to protect the Western news media from undue critique! Let’s all band together and protect Bezos, Weiss, Ellison, Murdoch, Zuck, Musk, Dorsey, and every other rich fuck and dynasty that owns our local newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, and mass social media!!

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        Yeah! You aren’t allowed to criticize the West on western platforms! Oh, wait…

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            In the sense that you are a clown for comparing Chinese censorship to the western internet, yes!

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              You’re allowed to criticize Western power because you’re not a threat to Western power. You’re a joke. Obviously that wasn’t always true. If you were a communist you were blacklisted, censored, and if you were a successful organizer you were on a target list for the cops to kill you. Once they successfully purged all the communist organizers and sent them all running, you could say whatever you wanted.

              Until recently. Now that communist consciousness is raising in the West once again, the Rs and the Ds are working together to denounce it and fight it, with the Rs in power throwing people in prison for 75 years for the crime of publishing communist literature.

              It really requires you to fully disengage with history AND the present to believe that the Western media is not completely controlled by the owning class and that suffering no consequences for being an angry brat with no power means that therefore there is no censorship