but it’s (for the most part) not propaganda, because it’s not state run.

On the level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the imbecile flatness of the present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Every web forum is a propaganda machine, the whole point of a web forum is to convey ideas and information.

Then there’s the whole silencing of Hong Kong, and I don’t now enough to say what happened there, so I won’t. Just know something did.

I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK

Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?

It won’t do!

It won’t do!

You must investigate!

You must not talk nonsense!

Unless we’re calling substantial swathes of Amerika fundamentally uncreative and fundamentally inhuman

Supporting Israel or health insurance companies is advocating for violence.

“Uhhhh ‘the machine’ is clearly Big Woke that’s trying to make us all gay trans Muslims. It’s like you don’t know anything 🙄”

If it walks like a liberal and talks like a liberal, it’s a liberal.

That’s about the level of response I’d expect from a lib to inconvenient facts

What does China have to do with anything?