Full disclosure, I live in Africa and don’t have a dog in this fight. I like proper discourse and it’s alright if I and another person disagree on something, what is important is that we communicate and understand where the other is coming from. The ultimate goal is the satiation of needless and avoidable suffering for all minds.
I’ve only been on Lemmy for a few days but across any sub I’ve noticed any criticism of China or the CCP is met with immediate downvotes and anything remotely positive of the US or really any western country whatsoever meets a similar fate.
Anything pro-African is mostly neutral but in essence ignored, no upvotes, no downvotes, no comments.
Has anyone else noticed this? Am I completely off base here? And is there anything else here that seemingly gets downvoted automatically. It would be sad to see the fediverse and Lemmy be nothing more than just another echo chamber on the web.
Finally, I am posting this assuming it will also be downvoted to hell based on the title alone and that itself will be some monochrome of truth of the situation here.
Have you seen how much bullshit “The West” has been responsible for lately?
I dont think it’s strange at all for there to be a strong undercurrent of anti-western sentiment.
Being angry at “the west” is easy, as it’s an open book.
Let’s investigate other societies and see how transparent their imperial actions are.
Ehhh, not so easy to do…
Whatever.
It’s easy because our current geopolitical reality has been contrived by western hegemony.
Plenty of criticism to go around but there’s little question that our current reality is mostly a direct result of the decay of western capitalist democracy.
yeah, but we suffered communism and capitalism already. time to build something good this time.
How about a well executed social democracy?
In no particular order:
Markets are good sometimes
Central planning is good sometimes
Meritocracy is good
Social justice is good
Proper allocation of capital is good
Hoarding capital is bad
Corruption is bad
Democracy is good
Authoritarianism is bad
Properly implemented regulations/rules are good.