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4 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
We don't talk enough about how bat shit insane it is that monopolistic Silicon Valley corporations censor people in obedience to US government orders, up to and including censoring discussion of a wildly important historical figure who was assassinated by that same US government.
Medhurst literally just posted screenshots from this thread. Tell me what's in here that you think should be censored on US government orders and why that should not freak you the fuck out.
When I talk about censorship on social media I always get airheads bleating "Hurr, durr, it's not censorship, it's a private company enforcing their TOS." No it's censorship you idiot. It's just a job that's been outsourced by the government like everything else in neoliberalism.

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28 Dec 21
This is what happened in Syria, it's what happened in Libya, and it's what was on track to happen in Xinjiang before Beijing said "nah" and launched its crackdown. The west isn't mad at Beijing for committing a "genocide", it's mad at Beijing for preventing one.
Lots of overlap with all three, BTW.
The actual interest in Xinjiang has been about the fact that it is a key geostrategic region that the western empire would greatly benefit from balkanizing away from China so it can't fulfill the role planned for it in the Belt and Road Initiative.
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27 Dec 21
You can understand why the US political system refuses to bring Americans out of debt and impoverishment by imagining what would happen if it didn't. Ordinary people would use their new financial influence to create a system that serves them rather than a globe-spanning empire.
In a system where money equals power, people would begin using their new economic power to change political and economic realities for their benefit. They'd begin working to divert wasteful war machine spending to themselves. The oligarchs who control US politics can't have that.
Money is power and power is relative, so those with lots of money are incentivised to keep as much money as possible for themselves to maximize their power. If everyone a is king then nobody is a king.
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15 Dec 21
Western concern trolling about China has nothing to do with "human rights". Every establishment China narrative is about the fact that it's in the western empire's interests for China to be weak and small while it's in China's interests for China to be big and strong. Thread.
Pretty much everything China gets slammed for by the imperial media is a response to western aggressions, whether you're talking about Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, border disputes, sea navigation, or domestic authoritarianism. The US is the aggressor.
You'd have to be an absolute moron to believe the US and its allies give a shit about Muslims in Xinjiang after spending the last two decades butchering Muslims *by the millions* in the Middle East. It's because it's a geostrategically crucial region.
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14 Dec 21
China is far, far better than the US. That doesn't mean China is awesome, it just means the US is far, far worse than anyone else in terms of tyranny and destructiveness. Working to destroy any population which disobeys you anywhere in the world makes you worse than anyone else.
The only reason nobody seems to recognize this in the west is because the US has such phenomenally excellent global narrative control. If it didn't, the entire world would've laughed when the butchers of the Middle East started pretending to care about Muslims in Xinjiang.
"China is more oppressive domestically, US is more oppressive abroad."

Nothing China is doing domestically is anywhere remotely as bad as what the US is doing abroad. Nothing China is doing rises to the level of the US killing millions and displacing tens of millions since 9/11.
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12 Dec 21
Very cute how The Guardian never uses the word "imperialism" except when it wants to criticize a nation the world's leading imperialist power doesn't like.
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