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Jonathan Swift offered A Modest Proposal.

I see. You’re just wasting our time playing knee-jerk contrarian.

The government obviously has some influence, that is undeniable. But it’s limited

How limited? As limited as they themselves claim?

You can watch many channels on YouTube.

Who do you think funds the high-budget Kurzgesagt and PragerU videos? Who do you think controls YouTube’s recommendation algorithms, search algorithms, and censorship?

Please look into cultivating real media literacy, not the dumbed-down version they teach in high school.

• Wikipedia: List of famines in China
• Reuters, 2018, China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data
• United Nations Secretary-General, 2019: Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• The Economist, 2021: At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
• Bloomberg, 2024: China’s Energy Use Per Person Surpasses Europe’s for First Time

No one is more hostile to the US’s enemies than USAGM outlets like RFE/RL.

AFAICT, there’s nothing wrong with them.

• https://lemmy.ml/comment/19469789
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87#Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87's_death

Maybe a meat cessation drug can be derived from them. A meat Zyban.

You forgot Poland. — GWB

NATO didn’t stop a genocide; it aided one. And Milošević has posthumously been found not to have committed genocide.

A classic from the dot-com boom era: Phase 1: Collect underpants

Not NATO, countries that just so happened to be members of NATO for completely unrelated reasons don’t even worry about it.

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$ curl -sw'\n' \
     https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/resolve_object?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsh.itjust.works%2Fcomment%2F19488525 \
     | jq -r '.comment.comment.content' | head -n 1
~~hmm that's interesting because I did not have a lemm.ee account! :D~~ just 3 tons of links to it.
$

  

Edit to add: Lemmy seems to URL-encode ':' and '/' sometimes :/

Danish Jim Crow laws.

“What is the name of the big staircase in Rome?”

I don’t know, and I spent a week in Rome. This is a wypipo pop-culture trivia question that has fuck-all to do with parenting.

• Democratic People's Republic of Korea (sources at bottom)
• A North Korea Researcher Says You Can Trust 38North and DailyNK | It's time for a deeper dive into the propaganda machine of DPRK 'citizen reporters'
• 📺 Three Stooges go to the Korean DMZ and 'break' DPRK 'laws' | You'll NEVER BELIEVE what CRAZY LAWS the DPRK will PASS NEXT!!!

https://lemmy.today/post/32488436

Cert issues has been fixed now

Yeah I think it was a Hail Mary for US support, which hasn’t seemed to help.

I mean we can generally agree that China is worse.

We cannot agree, “comrade.”

• The myth of China’s ghost cities
• The US tried to foment division in China by funding and organizing terrorist cells in Xinjiang, and once those efforts failed, it concocted and promoted a genocide narrative.
• Does Viral 'Sun Bear' Video Actually Show a Person in a Bear Costume? (tl;dr: No.)