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No thanks China! (lemmy.today)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Lol comment removed for (I guess?) linking to a Wikipedia article on Chinese dissidents...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think the comment shouldn't have been removed, but principally because it is trivial to refute. The US is well aware of the fact that people calling for revolution have no teeth, while the people who actually did substantial law-breaking on Jan 6 (which itself had no teeth, but I digress) were indeed arrested.

Meanwhile, Wikipedia's list of Chinese"dissidents" includes blatant fraudsters like Miles Guo, who fled China to evade capture for financial crimes before being imprisoned in the US for continuing to commit financial crimes, to say nothing of the "dissidents" involved in actual insurrectionary activity that killed PLA soldiers.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

If all you did was drop a wiki link that's a pretty worthless comment. Do you think China is the only country where dissidents get in trouble with the government? Do you think the U.S. doesn't harass (or worse) dissidents?

Who knows, use your words