The summer offensive that has been going on for what? One week? Looking at how fast Russia gained ground in bakhmut, vuhledar, and avdiivka, this offensive is going swimmingly

That is still not sourcing to specific claims made in the article, just pointing to a reporter, which is not how sourcing works. There is a certain paranoia on this board, at no point did I say I disagreed with the claims made, just that it isn’t a news article

So I could just post a number of news outlets and call it news? Just post a link to the frontpage of the guardian? The post itself even refers to previous posts as “discussion”. The bulk of the “article” is unsourced so I don’t even know how you determined this as news.

They did indeed, but as you are fully aware, the Taliban’s rule of Afghanistan is currently very friendly with China and Russia, and is very staunchly anti-american

So you argue that the massacre makes sense, that it is fair for the Chinese government to kill whoever took part in the protest. I just don’t understand why denying the extent or rationalizing it through ‘they attacked first’, when killing counter revolutionaries seems to be a completely valid reason for killing people who took part

Right, the point I was trying to make was; they acknowledge that people died in the protest (300 or whatever it is), so what exactly is the issue and necessity to deny what happened? Why this obsession with “setting the record straight” when there is nothing really to refute?

Why? Weird line to draw if you are fine supporting the Taliban

Effectively suppressed by tanks and rifles? What exactly is the problem with acknowledging what happened if it can be seen as a deterent for future counter-revolutionaries?

Unless they’re anti-american of course

Wait, we’re supporting the Taliban now?

This is an opinion piece and not a news article

You must have seen something else in the link than I did, since it’s an excerpt from a chinese news program

I feel attacked I’m calling the police

I don’t know how to interpret “everyone should feel welcome here” other than it is for everyone. As far as culture shift, it really is impossible to maintain the more “fringe” leftist culture with an increase in users, marxist-leninist simply do not exist in large enough numbers. I don’t really see why lemmy.ml shifting its majority political leaning would be something negative to you, since the only thing that would happen would be more discussion in the comments, and if discussion isn’t something desirable, places like lemmygrad do exist

… I don’t expect Chinese state media to show a bunch of killed people

Why does it always seem when I read those sources that they act as a justification of violence more than a refutation of that it happened

Nah, eventually they will be outnumbered an dislike to go beyond lemmygrad because they get endlessly shit on

I mean he did give his dad as s source, that is a lot closer to s source you can get than what you can get a westerner

So what is the point of having peace talks if not the cessation of war?

So if the war end right now would that mean Russia would withdraw it’s troops from Ukraine? No it wouldn’t, so implicitly engaging in peace talks while Russia holds territory in Ukraine would mean conceding territory. Why would china want that? Isn’t that meddling in the war?