If you are interested in my views and where my loyalty lies you can ask me about those things. Is there severe oppression in China? What is it? Do you mean Xinjiang? Have you seen any evidence to support this? Any evidence to the contrary?

I read independent journalism from China. It’s called Ginger River Review if you’re interested.

Independent news media was almost totally killed off in the US and Canada with the media mergers. Good thing Substack and for a while Medium, also YouTube, and just independent websites popped up. Of course YouTube is owned by Google and the reporting on it reflects their censorship.

As for authoritarian, that’s a core part of the propaganda campaign developed by NATO / The Atlantic Council to deal with states that don’t bend the knee to US empire. It’s a smear that distorts what is happening in The West (increasing authoritarianism) and in China (improving quality of life).

I don’t think anyone in this thread is anywhere close to implying all western news is true or that all non-western news is false.

Yes, I agree. But it’s a common belief in the West that Russian and Chinese news, for example, are pure propaganda. The irony is that this belief is itself the result of propaganda.

That’s a good point. I totally agree. Every news source has its biases.

The scary thing is getting hundreds of millions of people to believe Western news delivers the truth, while non Western news delivers the lies.

Also I don’t believe there is a single correct position on every issue. But on genocide there is a basic take: stop it immediately.

Consider The Guardian’s campaign against Jeremy Corbyn as an anti-Semite. Or their many character assassination pieces against Julian Assange. These campaigns serve the interests of the Zionist lobby and the US empire, respectively.

If you are critical of modern imperialism and capitalism, then The Guardian and AP do not have good takes on many issues. Currently, The Guardian publishes articles critical of the genocide in Gaza, which is the only correct position to take on the issue. However they have served Zionist interests in the past and carried water for US warmongers.

While they get on the bandwagon when critical mass gets unstoppable they also manufacture consent for empire.

Mix everyone up in a big cauldron then shoot the mixture via cannon. Did I get it?

Tariffs can be paid by the export country, indirectly. They usually have to lower the price of the commodity to make it competitive under tariffs.

Under Fordist economics the domestic industrial boost would lead to increased wages and buying power.

Under neoliberalism the domestic industrial capitalists gain a larger market share and then don’t pay their workers more. Then they are faced with the problem of what to do with products that are unaffordable.

Let’s not have advertising slogans in posts about products here on Lemmy. Reddit really has that going on if you’re into it.

Dead internet shall become undead.

The article states that there is no evidence that this is caused by Russia. But then goes on to speculate that it’s caused by Russia. Journalistic standards have fallen.

Went downstairs and had a cup

Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton, which is book 2. Book 1 in the series is Pandora’s Star.

Space opera.

I’m listening to a 44 hour audio book on YouTube.