TheDWGM
TheDWGM t1_iy16flv wrote
Reply to comment by UniversalMomentum in Victorian Liberal party left shellshocked after another heavy election defeat by trist1322
>liberal means new ideas
This is literally only true in America. Liberal everywhere else refers to... liberalism. The semantic meaning of words is contextual to time and space, your entire commentary is premised on a terrible and outdated take on philosophy of language.
TheDWGM t1_iya568h wrote
Reply to comment by dreggers in Chinese authorities on Monday appeared to be moving to frame a wave of nationwide anti-lockdown protests at the weekend as the work of "hostile foreign forces," with university students ordered to leave campus and go back to their hometowns aboard specially arranged train services by EssoEssex
What exactly do you propose is foreign interference? Did the CIA infiltrate the regional government and implement the lockdown measures which empowered the fire incident to happen? Did they somehow hire 10,000s of actors to show up and organise these protests? This is the problem with CCP mouthpieces, as well as other cases like Iran, they never point to anything concrete and instead just try to deflect to the United States whenever something they don't like happens.
Conversely it's pretty easy to point to what the Russian interference in the 2016 election was. They set up spam internet camps in places like Belarus and Thailand, paying people to propagate fake news and misinformation. There have been massive FB pages with millions of followers that have been outed as set up to do this. Even if US intelligence is somehow amplifying the calls on Chinese social media, which is probably impossible given that they are a locked down system unlike Western platforms with harsh government control of moderation, that is completely different from the analogy you are trying to make.
They are treated differently because anyone with a brain can see that they are empirically distinguished from one another.