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I'm assuming you don't pretend that a society that Hamas governs would be a free society. Right?
My question remains unanswered: In the USA and many western countries, there are journalists, activists, commentators etc who are openly pro-Beijing in their rhetoric. Are there equivalents in China who would be pro-NATO/Taiwan/USA?
Loool. There is is. Pinkwashing Zionist scum
I said absolutely nothing about the conflict there. Israel can be barborous in whole and it would have nothing to do with how civil society would look if Hamas governed them. The USA and Israel were utterly wrong to bomb Iran, but that doesn't magically make Iran a free society.
My question remains unanswered: In the USA and many western countries, there are journalists, activists, commentators etc who are openly pro-Beijing in their rhetoric. Are there equivalents in China who would be pro-NATO/Taiwan/USA?
Don't care about your question, pink washing Zionist
So you have no answer.
"Answer my question! Answer my question! Debate me! Debate me!"
No, fuck off.
You came to me. You reply to me, I'll reply back.
I replied to condemn your disgusting use of pink washing, I don't give a fuck about your "you have to answer my question!" Debatelord bullshit.
Pinkwashing what? I’m making the point that these are valid aspects to measure how free the people of a country are. In the USA and many western countries, there are journalists, activists, commentators etc who are openly pro-Beijing in their rhetoric. Are there equivalents in China who would be pro-NATO/Taiwan/USA?
As I said, you reply to me - I'll reply back.
Lol. "How was my obvious pinkwashing, pinkwashing!!??"
What was I trying to pinkwash?
No, fuck off
So no ability to explain it.
And I'll do whatever I like, and without your permission.
No, fuck off
Make me. You can't.
I will never stop replying.
The point is that Iran or Palestine or China, or whoever being unjust targets of US/western imperialism or bad faith allegations or genocide doesn't automatically make their societies egalitarian or democratic. Both things can be true.
No, that was never the point, you just randomly brought up LGBT rights in China to pinkwash
I also bought up their poor journalistic and political freedoms.
And yes, that is my point.
Your point was, indeed, you pinkwashing
No, it was not.
The OP claimed, or strongly suggested that China is more democratic than the west. This seems farcical given the points I raised.