TrueStalinistPatriot [comrade/them, any]

Polish Communist. My other account: [email protected]

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  • Again I’m not really certain about this position I might be completely wrong and I’ll admit that these arguments are not a result of hours of analysis and may contain many contradictions (and that I need to read more lol). This whole situation needs more attention and thought than I can give it right now

    American movies and Hollywood are tools of capital but are also an endless flowing river of soft power for the West.

    Because the west is a sort of personification of capitalism. While it’s true that industries can serve both purposes simultaneously (capital and national ideal) I believe that this is only the case when the capital and national ideals are not contradictory (if they even can be but this shifts the conversation towards is China revisionist which I don’t really want to talk about I’ll recommend this article about it tho).

    Also China has its own separate version of TikTok called Douyin.

    Without TikTok, the genocide in Gaza would have gone much more under the radar in the West.

    This is also true but you fail to analyze why. From my perspective this is not because TikTok is Chinese because for example Instagram is not Chinese yet multiple accounts like Eye on Palestine operate within it. I think the general reason why is because TikTok is popular i.e. the user base itself is talking about Palestine not because TikTok in itself is anti imperialist.

    The only merit I can see is that Chinese capital does not really care about Israel it’s not its ally I’d even say that it is its enemy on the global market which gives more freedom of speech on that platform about this certain topic (although within “reason” censorship on TikTok is still a big thing which is one of the reasons I stopped using it)