This video is by Eric Hovagim an up and coming Tankie “reporter” and in his video he even unironically leans into China is just doing a “combatting terrorism”, just like the US gov does, amongs other things to justify chinas various human rights abuses.
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What is that quote about how the goal of a propagandist is not to get you to believe their lies, but to get you to believe everyone fighting them is just as dishonest?
Anyway, yeah, no, not all sides on every issue are equally dishonest, and any sources found to be deceptive should be pushed back on.
That’s basically what the employees from the Russian troll factories were saying as well. Their goal was to sow discord and distrust. It played perfectly well into Putin’s politics of essentially saying that democratic countries are chaotic and there needs to be a strong hand to guide people towards order.