That’s not how it works, the meme is only pointing out the irony, not saying the Taliban is not allowed to fight back against the Islamic State.

You seem to have some trouble differentiating between making fun the Taliban vs defending the enemy of them. If I make fun of the US, that doesn’t mean I am defending China or Russia. Somehow, your head have managed to mix these two things together.

Can I chalk this up to you strongly supporting the Taliban to the point that any slight against them means it is defending their enemy?

Again, I’m asking where he defended the Islamic State like you claimed. Making fun of the Taliban is not defending their enemies.

Can you show me where they defended the Islamic State?

If you want to use soap, you can use soap. But would you rather clean you poop smeared hand with water or just wipe with toilet paper?

They’re the same level to me who’s watching from the sidelines.

Most of their ads are still skippable, aren’t they? And can you prove no one asked for a premium service? I certainly recognize ads are a way to pay content creators and would like an alternative way to pay them in exchange for not seeing ads, so that already disproves your claim.

And what does YouTube being profitable have to do with paying content creators, anyway? YouTube, who were known for running at a loss for years at the start, needs a way to pay content creators as well as pay for server costs to host YouTube videos.

Sure, they are also greedy, but watching content without paying the creators is not the actual way to fight that, is it? If you disagree with how Google runs YouTube, just stop watching YouTube instead of punishing the content creators. Go watch them on alternative platforms where you can directly pay for their content like Patreon or Ko-Fi.

Yeah, but that excuse is only used when people are criticising communist using China as an example, that’s why I consider China’s status as a communist nation an opinion that lemmy.ml always flip flops on.

And by what metric is China considered a communist nation?

I’ve heard lemmy.ml claim China is not communist, before. I guess they are communist only when it supports your argument.

When did I say you pay for individual videos? You pay for access to those videos by watching ads or paying for premium.

If someone wants to watch videos without dealing with ads or payments, there are sites for that, too. Why aren’t you going to those sites, instead?

By not paying the content creators for the content you consume.

They created the problem of creators needing to be paid without using ads?

True, but there is a lot of overlap. You could say that the social anxiety is what makes some people an introvert, since they just exhaust themselves from too much worrying.

Then what’s the point of your previous comment talking about the narrator being reliable or not? Sounds like you just had no actual point and wants to use inconsistent logic whenever you want by calling it wisdom.

All I’m saying is that a corrupt individual is not a reliable narrator, therefore it’s illogical to use their corruptness as proof of their reliability at calling out corruption. Your counter examples are not relevant because their qualities does not directly make their statements unreliable.

And again, I’m not calling out the truthness in this matter, since I also believe the IBA is corrupt, but I’m calling out your use of bad logic to support that position. I’m sure if you actually read my comments properly you’d understood that I never questioned the truth in your statement about IBA, only one of the logical reasoning you used.

Is the IOC a reliable narrator, then? Being a corrupt organization would put them in the category of being unreliable to me.

I think that’s just how the shooting stance works. Hooking your hand in your pocket prevents it from moving and messing with your aim.

It works well enough if you don’t mind the occasional disconnect and slow connection to wifi, which is true for a lot of people like me. It’s still pretty annoying to deal with sometimes, just not enough to go replace the WiFi card or anything.

While it may be true that IBA is corrupt, let’s not use the logical reasoning that IOC’s reputation for corruption adds more credibility to their claim. Imagine if Trump called someone corrupt, would his own corrupt reputation leads you to believe his accusation more? I don’t believe so.

We should avoid using bad logic to support a correct opinion because it only damages the perception of your other arguments.

This is not AI, though. Just Excel’s pattern recognition doing its job.

Nice. I am not really suggesting that they are being actively silenced, since I do see them there from time to time. What I do notice is that stories that are critical of China always get zero or barely any engagement.

Not really a good indicator of lemmy.ml’s willingness to discuss China’s flaws. This is in comparison to the wall of text that love to comment whenever it comes to defending China or blaming the western countries.

We’ll see how many lemmy.ml users comment on your post this time.

Can’t find this posted in !worldnews@lemmy.ml. Can you link to one?