Chay

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/RBLX/holders/

Doesn’t seem like Tencent has that much ownership of it unless I’m missing something

Readeck

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Any society is authoritarian, it depends who wields it.

Left anticommunists moment

Dictatorship is when bad country, democratic is when good western country

Capitalism worked under Eastern aggression

Right, the countries that invaded the USSR in its nascent years, constantly tried to assassinate leaders of progressive movements, couped most countries on Earth.

Communist economic sanctions, Communist covert actions

The projection lol

and a propaganda apparatus far more widespread than anything from the West.

As that joke goes, a CIA and KGB officer meet at a bar. The CIA officer says to the KGB officer “You’ve got a good propaganda machine!”, the KGB officer replies “Well, yours is unbeatable.”

The CIA agent responds with “What propaganda? In the West we don’t have propaganda.”

hi lib

what happened to the marketplace of ideas

I wanted to cross-post this to lemmy.ml’s memes community, but you did that already. The libs are coming in, beautiful lmao.

Seems like it. There’s even a “better dead than red” reply, incredible lol

Yep, tried explaining that but he said it’s still more “free” than in muh evil authoritarian 1984 lol, cannot talk with these people

I told this joke to a Western lib once in real life and he replied with “Yes, it might be true […] but here we have the free press” and went off about how in the Western societes there’s this magical “free press”, I thought he was sarcastic at first