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China says Australia must accept Taiwan reunification or face ‘no forgiveness’
(www.theaustralian.com.au)
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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It's not from an approved propaganda source. The tankie won't read it. They're just maga for Communism... everything to them is fake news if it doesn't feed into their views.
They are as much communists as maga are rational patriots. Auth-simps self isolating in a chosen echo chamber. Then when reality comes knocking, instead of wandering out to take a look like a well adjusted person. They run deeper into the closet.
Communists in the West read twice as much as you liberals. We had to to even become communists. We had to read everything you had to read in school. We were raised by liberal parents just like you were, and they read the same shit your parents did and passed it down to us. We have to read the same anglosphere internet content and mainstream news sources, we watch the same movies and TV shows you do.
And then we ALSO have to read everything else that contradicts it and dismantles it and argues against it. And then, because this is how intellectual honesty works, then we have to dig deeper into the anti-communist Western corpus in order to review the arguments against communism and find the arguments that directly attack the procommunist content we recently found. I dare say communists are likely to have read two or three things for every one thing you've read.
Just because you only consume propaganda from your dominant culture doesn't mean that people who disagree with you are just consuming propaganda from some other culture. It's not really possible for it to be that way anyway. It's not like I went through 16 years of communist schooling, or spent 30 years watching communist news casts and working with fellow communists in the work place or hanging out with communist friends. I have been fully immersed in Western anti-communist, Russophobia, sinophobic, capitalist white supremacist patriarchy, just like you have been.
I just read different things and came to different conclusions than you did.