It’s the US government that heavily influences what content gets promoted/demoted/censored on US corporate social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, etc., and that is why anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist software developers created Lemmy in the first place.

Sure. Every country of nontrivial size likely has propaganda apparatuses. It’s more a matter of (1) scale, (2) purpose, (3) efficacy, and (4) to what extent they face externally vs internally. I think US psyop is proportional with the rest of its military-industrial complex, which is as large as the next nine or ten largest militaries combined. It’s laughable that Russian psyop has moved the needle much with the US electorate, never mind swung an election for Trump. The US is just a weak, vulnerable smol bean country whose military-industrial complex invented the internet.

*Langley and Eglin

Also, previously.

Emphasis mine:

A team of researchers who say they are from the University of Zurich ran an “unauthorized,” large-scale experiment […]

This whole thing is sus from the get-go. Why should I believe anything these anonymous supposed “researchers” say?

Rust Belt on the Rhine: The deindustrialization of Germany

Put simply, the formula that made Germany Europe’s industrial powerhouse — a highly skilled workforce and innovative companies powered by cheap energy — has come undone.

Feb. 2022	President Biden on Nord Stream 2 Pipeline if Russia Invades Ukraine: “We will bring an end to it.”
Sep. 2022
Dec. 2022	U.S. LNG exports both a lifeline and a drain for Europe in 2023
Apr. 2025

I think I have a hind-brain heywaitaminute gland that catches me before making this mistake.

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Silver Lake, not to be confused with:

• Alder Lake
• Amber Lake
• Cannon Lake
• Cascade Lake
• Coffee Lake
• Comet Lake
• Cooper Lake
• Elkhart Lake
• Ice Lake
• Jasper Lake
• Kaby Lake
• Lakefield
• Raptor Lake
• Rocket Lake
• Silvermont
• Silverthorne
• Skylake
• Tiger Lake
• Whiskey Lake

Tankies have killed as many people as the Nazis, actually more.

Are you also going to claim that DeepSeek isn’t censored?

You can download DeepSeek and run it yourself to get uncensored answers.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are not truth machines. They are garbage in, garbage out. The input to English-language models are largely English-language texts from Five Eyes countries, with all the disinformation and bias that that entails. So the DeepSeek company is in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. They can either refuse to answer certain questions, in which case Western media will accuse them of censorship; or they can answer them, in which case (a) their model will perpetuate Cold War I & Cold War II falsehoods and (b) Western media will parade those false answers around in a victory lap. They chose the former for the cloud version of their app, and the latter for the local version.

If you don’t see any protests in a democracy, it’s not because everybody is happy.

Now you’re just vagueposting 🙄 Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds:

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

Let’s talk about Tiananmen Square.

• Tank Man (now with more raw footage)
• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• Columbia Journalism Review: The Myth of Tiananmen
• 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

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Or how about Uyghurs.

• https://lemmy.ml/comment/15126223
• https://lemmy.ml/comment/14839342

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Let’s use a picture of Winnie the Pooh.

Not censored. You can buy Pooh-branded toys, watch Pooh Disney films, and ride Pooh-branded amusement park rides. Nobody has a problem with this adorable meme.

People’s democracy my ass.

• Most in China Call Their Nation A Democracy, Most in U.S. Say America Isn’t
• Long-term survey reveals Chinese government satisfaction
• Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says [UN] Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• China’s Energy Use Per Person Surpasses Europe’s for First Time
• At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
• China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

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If you want to talk about a fake democracy, look no further than the US. Previously:

The US government was never not captured by the bourgeoisie, because the US was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote. BBC: [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

GPL is evil. GPL is poison. You’re an ideologie.

🤣 Do you hear yourself? No one’s going to say something as hyperbolic and emotional as “GPL is evil. GPL is poison.” except an anti-GPL ideologue. The “original UNIX cultural mindset” is itself an ideology. You are an ideologue. You might as well as well say, “BSD license fills my heart with so much love, I wish I could make passionate love to the BSD license.”

Proof of what? The proof of her making baseless accusations are in her comments and in the modlog.

Or are you asking me to prove a negative? That the downvotes are not coming from my thousands of alt accounts?

Or did you still not get my joke, and you think that I’m genuinely accusing you of being a bad faith alt account?

Proof is: it’s a joke. The woman above accused me of downvoting her with my many alt accounts, and this isn’t the first time she’s done it to me. She has no evidence of course, and the mods & admins can trivially see that she’s just shit talking. But I’m the bad faith actor, she says. She’s a troll.

I think you’re wasting your breath at this point. This McCarthyite’s views aren’t going to move an inch, and virtually no one else is going to see this conversation, because this thread is buried under the fold and the post is a day old.

It doesn’t matter that first they came for the communists, or that no one has shed more blood fighting fascists than communists. “Authoritarian” communists are fascists, case closed.

Why thank you, one of my thousands of no good, bad faith alt accounts.

I wouldn’t call this the “average” Lemmy user, but there is a minority of very loud users who make it seem that way at times.

If we want this to be a pleasant place, users need to report them, and mods & admins—who, I cannot stress enough, do this labor for free or at most peanuts—need to deal with them.
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html

What, a Zionist genocidaire giving a performative twenty five hour faux filibuster is not stopping fascism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie#Modern_Internet_uses but actually https://www.joewrote.com/p/jfk-files-reveal-the-cia-role-in

The Hungarian Freedom Fighters were [Central Intelligence] Agency sponsored.

Socialist software developers created their own place, Lemmy, because corporate social media told them they did not fit in there.