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Any comrades who speak chinese here? 这里有人说汉语吗
  • It is a remnant from the Northern Song Dynasty, as a form of etiquette and being polite, to not to disturb them while eating.

    "凡往见人,入门必问主人食否 […] 度无所妨,乃命展剌。有妨则少俟。"

    “Whoever you visit, you should ask them if they have eaten or not […] if they are about to eat, don’t enter the house until after they finish the meal. Otherwise, you would be intruding.”

    From the book "Lü Convention" 《吕氏乡约》

  • Why does it say nothing about the 1989 protests on Tiananmen Square, Beijing?
  • Edit: Thank you for responding, you have taught me a great deal about the usage and necessity of propaganda, counter-propaganda and censorship in a Marxist-Leninist state like China. Although some relied upon lies and insults as a means of trying to win an argunent, I got actual contentful theoretical education out of this, thanks.

  • Why does it say nothing about the 1989 protests on Tiananmen Square, Beijing?
  • Yes I know all of that, I know that mangopress also has a telegram account and that personal experiences can be easily faked.

    I was just bored and needed something to waste time on, why not hypothetical bs about "evil ccp big brother skynet country" narrative

  • Why does it say nothing about the 1989 protests on Tiananmen Square, Beijing?
  • Finally, the answer I wanted. Thank you very much for taking the time to respond, you helped me broaden my view on why things are how they are.

    I see the point. Looking at it abstractly as a war between narratives, lies and propaganda, it does make sense. But it does feel like an admission of guilt in the first moment, because why censor when you can make counter-propaganda? But yes, it is logical.

    I was just questioning my beliefs there because I felt like I have been conciously lied to by the CPC comrades, which has shocked me, because trust in the communist cause is endless.

    EDIT: Still, I very much think that agitating a whole squad of wumaos to try to disintegrate the potential dissident for single post thing is too much

  • Why does it say nothing about the 1989 protests on Tiananmen Square, Beijing?
  • This search results page is tampered. You use an uncommon search query (1989政治风波 = 1989 Political Turmoil, a strong euphemism, instead of "unrest" or "demonstration", " protest") to get specific results, probably for exactly this reason: plausible denialbility.

    If you click on the first result, the only thing said about the protests is one small sentence at the very end (that again uses euphemisms and is even just downplaying the event by just not talking about it that long), like it just happened casually on the side. To quote directly in chinese, since I am appareantly a 'stupid westerner, not understanding the chinese language and posts articles about numbers':

    "与此同时,据说有上千万农民在城市中寻找工作,结果就迅速发生了一系列抗议、罢工和游行示威行动,最终导致了1989年的政治风波。" - https://news.ifeng.com/c/7fc9V5NzCYr

    Yeah, just farmers looking for work, making a little unrest.

    The rural population did not even participate in the protests, except if a student was from a rural area maybe.


    Or another quote from another result:

    "1989年春夏之交在首都和一些地方发生政治风波,党中央采取了断然措施予以解决。" - http://www.93.gov.cn/lshm-dsj/253321.html

    Yeah, some small turmoil occurred, but has dealt with. Same stylistic elements as the first example.

    I could go an all day, all of the petty attempts of trying to get me into an absurd argument with petty provocation, I am not that stupid.

  • Why does it say nothing about the 1989 protests on Tiananmen Square, Beijing?

    In this article on baidu, there is a gap between 1988 and 1999, why is there nothing about some kind of protest that everyone keeps telling me about?

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    Edit: Thank you for responding, you have taught me a great deal about the usage and necessity of propaganda, counter-propaganda and censorship in a Marxist-Leninist state like China. Although some relied upon lies and insults as a means of trying to win an argunent, I got actual contentful theoretical education out of this, thanks.

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    Question abou lt Al Jazeera news

    I haven't heard of them until like 2-3 years ago and I see them posted in World News quite often. What kind of a news source is this? Are they biased in some way? Where are they based? Is there anything notable to know about them?

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    Opinion on Karl Popper and Falsificationism?

    See title

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    Who is Jordan Peterson, what does he say and why is he bad (or is he good)?

    I don't know anything about him...

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    Question about "memes" of Chinese government officials

    I have some questions about the "funny memes" about President Xi as Winnie the Pooh or Chairman Mao as a cat (I'm sure there are many more, for example I heard some people call President Xi an "accelerator in chief", a very narrow minded and rude term in my opinion).

    I basically only know the western narrative about those memes, I want to learn about how they are regarded in China, if they are actually illegal and/or "censored" and why, what their origins are, what they mean (I know from my scarce knowledge of Hanyu that Mao also means cat for example), and who made them.

    I am trying to "de-propagandize" my mind, since I grew up only being taught the opposing side's narrative. I don't want to be disrespectful, and if I am please tell me, it is not my goal to be rude.

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    The more I learn about how capitalism works in every aspect of my daily life, the more depressed I get somehow

    This whole system is purely designed to keep a few people in power and it is fucking insane. We wouldn't even have the internet if a governmental institution hadn't created it, because the free market deemed it unprofitable. How can we as a society achieve progress like that?

    I am constantly surrounded by people that defend free market capitalism without questioning it nor having independent thoughts about it, even though they are not stupid. I feel constantly alienated because I have to discuss the most ridiculous thing with me peers when I try to show them the massive amount contradictions of this system,, and they just reply that it does not work. Without having a single grasp of how politics work. I don't mean to say that the general population is stupid, but it feels like they are constantly influenced by pro-capitalist information sources. I don't know, I regularly question my beliefs and apply constructive criticism to my thoughts, but I always come to the same conclusion. Am I getting insane, or am I just to alienated?

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    Is this a sensible counter argument?

    I recently had a discussion with someone about socialism etc... I thought about countering the argument that socialism doesn't work, because it has failed once. I came up with: "Well, the first French revolution failed, and the people still continued establishing a second bourgeois democratic republic. So why should we stop to create a second socialist republic, just because the first attempt failed / has issues?"

    Does this argument make any sense, or is this incomparable (I know it kind of is, but still)?

    Also, isn't it a core value of Marxism-Leninism to learn from past failed policies and politics, and correct them in the future?

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