Someone commented that sanctions wouldn’t work on China because sanctions were too harsh, and that the US should treat China as a parent does a child, educating them and encouraging them toward US goals so that sanctions were unnecessary.
I pointed out that China and the US do not remotely have a paternal relationship and a culturally American call to China would not elicit a culturally American response from China because of how different the cultures are.
Got banned for “Orientalism”.
It’s a mixed bag. Some communities on lemmy.ml are awesome but all the news related ones tend to be tankie circle-jerks. The mods over there are usually hands-off so I am surprised OP got banned.
The problem is that there actually is an extremely loud minority actively flooding the place with pro-Russian, pro-China and anti-western news articles. They will usually follow up with hostile comments pushing additional misinformation. (.ml/usa is a good example.)
They are so active, I suspect they are a contracted troll farm. I have no proof, but it’s still highly suspicious.
Out of curiosity, I found that I can comment nothing, that’s new
That’s a weird shadow ban, if it even is one. It could just be a bug, which is still not uncommon with Lemmy and it’s various clients.
It has taken in upwards of a day for some of my comments to propagate before, but that was only during the last round of instance upgrades.