• LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
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      4 hours ago

      As someone that supports Palestine I think my odds are significantly less likely of getting black bagged in China than in the US.

      US just making people disappear without due-process right now but western brain still thinks “China is the real dystopia”

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        3 hours ago

        In the US making people disappear without due process is news, in China it’s a daily occurrence.

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          3 hours ago

          Yeah. But the difference in China is the people that get disappeared are billionaires that started criticisming the government too much. Id rather we disappear some billionaires here. Instead of brown people protesting a genocide.

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              She didn’t disappear mate. She’s made several public appearances since. Literally read the article. She just disappeared from social media. There is no evidence she was “taken”.

              Was she censored heavily upon making accusations? Absolutely. But censored is not “being disappeared”. Do you think this is the same as taking people to a prison in another country with zero due process?

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            1 hour ago

            You have a highly idealistic perspective on China. This isn’t to say that things are lerfect in Europe or North America - they most definitely aren’t. But it is to say that two things can be true at the same time, i.e., there are growing issues in the West and China has a highly oppressive regime.

            There is a natural temptation to whitewash and exxagerate the good in other times and places, especially ones that are directly juxtaposed to the one you are inhabiting and are critical toward.

            However, we must resist these temptations lest we doom ourselves to repeat the same mistake over and over.

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            2 hours ago

            Never heard of the Xinjiang concentration camps? In China it’s also mostly brown people who criticize the government who are disappeared, the billionaires are the exceptions that make the news.

            The USA might be getting worse, but it’s still a far cry from China.

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        15 minutes ago

        Read about the plight of the Uyghurs in China. If you support the Muslims in China, you will end up in a CCP sponsored mobile organ donor chop bus.