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I don't know how to be any more clear this. Using whataboutism is using whataboutism. If I talk about China and you say "but what about US!", that's a whataboutism, because we're not talking about the US. And vise versa. It's a clear attempt to excuse and deflect blame away from the topic at hand and onto someone else.
I'm glad you finally understand.
and you still don't seem to get that condemning "rampant ccp propaganda!" when we praise it's accomplishments is not honest, and that neither country is in a vacuum.
today's us colonial and fascist strategy is directly related to how they want to hurt china, and that also shows in the anti-chinese western narrative. and you don't really have the moral high ground to criticize them in light of this.
neatly wrapped in a single word to deflect us responsibility for the shitty state of the world.
i repeated that point a couple of times in different ways, so i'm just gonna wish you a nice day, and may your mind eventually be freed from that.
You can repeat the same nonsense all you want, it's still nonsense. I hope one day your "mind is freed" from comparing everything to the worst possible example as an excuse for bad behavior.
you guys are the ones coming up with chinese propaganda allegations then immediately deflecting when we point out you think like that because you are immersed in anticommunist propaganda yourselves.
i'm not gonna play the game of exchanging insults with you as i have nothing against you personally, i'm just hoping you free yourself from it eventually.
You didn't "point out" anything, you deflected to another country while ignoring the discussion at hand (AKA whataboutism) which is what tankies do every single time. It's almost like you have nothing else...
we have all been pointing this out in this entire thread.
if you want to know what more we have, you can ask any of the many communists in the fediverse about it instead of referring to them with an anticommunist pejorative.