Babs

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

The only thing the Hong Kong protests accomplished was allowing a murderer to go free https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Poon_Hiu-wing

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the only thing I know about Jiang Zemin and I think I might be okay with that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGPJzusNPA

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which governments aren't authoritarian then?

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Supplied arms to support genocide in Indonesia, among other crimes. Him building homes now is just some light penance before he's shipped off to hell. https://fair.org/media-beat-column/jimmy-carter-and-human-rights-behind-the-media-myth/

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He set up Popular Revolutionary Tribunals to prosecute public officials charged with political crimes[12] and corruption, considering such elements of the state counter-revolutionaries.[15] This led to criticism by Amnesty International for human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions and arbitrary detentions of political opponents.[16]

idk sounds pretty authoritarian to me.