"Why it matters: Xi's erosion of established guidelines for succession creates uncertainty and puts China at risk for high-level power struggles in the future."
My speculation as to why they would do such a horrible thing is because they know they can't hold the position and want to cause as much damage as possible before they leave. Why would they bomb civilian targets like apartment buildings?
We do a little bit of shameless self promoting without disclosing it I see
It's disgusting what Russia is willing to do just to spite the rest of the world.
Here is an article that isn't blocked behind a paywall and that accurately attributes the damage to Russian forces.
Evacuations begin after a major dam in southern Ukraine is heavily damaged https://www.npr.org/2023/06/06/1180345954/kakhovka-dam-southern-ukraine-damaged-russia
I appreciate the heads up. I just applied to slrpnk.net which also blocks lemmygrad.ml so I should be good for now hopefully.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinese-communist-party
CCP stands for Chinese Communist Party
Enjoy my "shitposting" then. I won't be engaging with someone that refuses to actually address the points that I raise. Again, this is not a post stating "yesterday was the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre" so your claim this time that "if the world would start shit posting every day would be memorial day to remember atrocities committed by your own government on your own people, and there is plenty." makes no sense.
"You don’t need to say the literal words to mean something." - By criticizing the CCP I am not in any way implying that America is good. It's true that you CAN imply things without actually saying them, but it is disingenuous at best to assume that me criticizing the CCP is the same as me "actively contributing to the image of the US and its lapdogs as good guys". I am very much able to hold the belief that the CCP is in the wrong and that USA isn't perfect at the same time.
Goodbye.
No thanks. I don't give a fuck about getting ratio'd. Let the people decide. Assuming this platform ever gets more traction, which it seems to be doing, the vast majority of the people that come here won't be tankies so... no, no I don't think I will go somewhere else.
Nice job trying to justify the Tiananmen Square massacre. Now can you justify the detention of 32 people and the restriction of the square itself which took place yesterday?
Okay, let's go through this slowly and rationally.
First of all, this community is self described as being "News from around the world!" China is a part of the world and this is news from China. This is news from around the world. If you are trying to insinuate that any post involving news from China does not belong in this community then why did you not seem to take issue with this post that was also about China and was posted in this community?
Clearly you take issue with the fact that this news paints China in a bad light, not with the fact that it is about China to begin with. So your claim of "I really don’t care about what you believe, but what I do think is reasonable is that this is not world news." VERY CLEARLY does not hold water.
Let's move onto the next issue that I have with your thought process. You just spent quite some time defending the Tiananmen Square massacre and didn't even respond in any way to the actual news article that I posted which is about restricting access to the physical location and detaining 32 people. This isn't just a post saying "it's the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre" which you seem to be defending.
You also state "It’s always what about, what about with you liberals. What about China, what about North Korea, what about Cuba, but why don’t you try and look a little bit under your own rug?"
I never said "what about" a single time. In fact, this post is not a response to anyone telling me anything so it wouldn't make any sense for me to say "what about, what about". Furthermore, I never claimed in this post or anywhere else for that matter that America is perfect. I even take issue with many of the things going on in America too. However, that is in NO WAY relevant to the news that I posted or the Tiananmen Square massacre.
So lets review, your claim that this post doesn't belong in this community is absolutely ridiculous. You refuse to address the actual article that I posted about and instead just tried to justify the Tiananmen Square massacre instead. And finally, your last point was "well what about under YOUR rug" while claiming that I was the one saying "what about, what about".
I gave reputable sources for my information. Please enlighten me as to how spreading this news and reminding everyone of the very real Tiananmen Square massacre that occurred on June 4th, 1989 is misinformation.
It is my understanding that that has been the case for a long time, yes. But I also hope that with the large influx of new users that we will overshadow any bad actors attempting to spread misinformation.
If this community doesn't welcome people who actively fight against misinformation then I am more than happy to be banned.
I plan on actively posting to counter the constant barrage of tankie propaganda that is very clearly an issue here. Misinformation is a very real issue that we face in our society and unless we actually do something about it, it will only continue to get worse.
Don't ever let anyone forget or brush under the rug the horrible acts that occurred in Tiananmen Square on June 4th, 1989.
https://www.history.com/topics/asian-history/tiananmen-square
Thanks, yeah, I can see this one works fine. I can post comments on your post for some reason. I just can't make my own post in this community and I can't make a comment under someone else's post who I was trying to reply to earlier. I just dm'd the person I was trying to write a comment to so it all worked out in the end for now. Hopefully I'll be able to figure out why I can't post eventually though.
Having trouble commenting and posting in this community - this is just a test
Edit: Huh... would you look at that. Still can't create a new post or comment on another thread that I wanted to comment on though
If you're on Jerboa there should be a text box with three dots in it on the right side below the main post.
Per my post here (https://lemmy.ml/post/1141245) I am finding it a little frustrating that I am not able to block instances as a user. I understand giving instances the ability to block other instances, but why should I not be able to do that on the user end as well? I already effectively have the ability to do it but it's just practically impossible to actually do it since it would involve going to every community and every user in that instance and manually blocking all of them which I'm obviously not going to spend the time to do.
One user suggested that I just browse my subscribed communities, but I have a couple issues with that. First of all, I don't want to lose the functionality of sorting by all as opposed to subscribed/local. Second, it doesn't do anything at all for blocking comments which blocking an instance would do.
The ideal situation currently is that I am able to find an instance which fits my preferences, which assuming adoption becomes more widespread should become easier. My problem with this being the ideal solution is that even in this situation there can arise issues later on. Let's say that a year down the line another instance pops up which gains enough traction to where I am seeing its communities/users regularly enough for me to want to block the instance. The only way that I currently have of doing that would be to suggest to the instance owner to block it and hope that they agree with me. Even if they do agree with me, others in the instance might not agree. Let's assume for a second that they don't want to block the new instance, what are my options? It seems to me that I can either go back to manually banning every community and user that ever pops up on the new instance, or I can go look for another new instance to join that is a better fit again and abandon my year old account in the process since you can't transfer accounts.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't literally all of these problems be solved by allowing users to block instances on their end? And don't users already effectively have the ability to block instances one community/user at a time so it's not like you would even be giving them any more power than they already have? I would be able to find whatever instance most closely fits my ideals without it having to be perfect even if they don't block any of the instances I want blocked. Of course I would still have to abide by the rules of the instance, but it gives me much more flexibility in choosing where I want to call home and more flexibility should any future issues arise.
So in light of finding out that I can't block an instance as a user, I am trying to find an instance that actually suits me better. Specifically I do not want to see anything relating to lemmygrad.ml and from what I can see, the main instances that block lemmygrad are lemmy.one which isn't accepting new applications and beehaw which, while I don't mind interacting with their instance at all, I don't wish to join it for a couple reasons. There are others like midwest.social but I don't live near there and while I know it is open to people that don't live there it doesn't exactly seem like where I would want to make an account that I plan on actually using.
So if I'm not mistaken, my options are basically to stay on lemmy.ml and deal with having to see posts and comments from lemmygrad.ml users, go to beehaw which I also don't want to do, make a new instance for myself which I'm not going to do, or just leave and come back later when there are actually options that suit me better. Does that sound about right?
Is it possible to block an entire instance as a user that your current instance hasn't already blocked for you or would I have to go through and find all of their individual communities and block them?
I was able to comment elsewhere earlier today, but just now when I went to post a comment on someone else's post in c/baduk it just gave me the spinning wheel forever. I tried to make a post of my own and it did the same thing. Am I just being stupid or is there something out of my control that's happening here?