• Gloria@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    It was the biggest sign of Chinese people actually demonstrating in the streets fighting the opression. Not sure we will see something like that in the next 20 years in China again. It was impressive to see how they were organized and fought for their freedom

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          1 month ago

          That’s why they are mostly alive. If they were armed, they would have been massacred in great numbers.

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              1 month ago

              Well, it has gone fairly well for a few hundred years in the USA.

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                1 month ago

                Oh god, hexbear lives on; you think the US has been an authoritarian dictatorship like China since it declared independence.

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                  1 month ago

                  Your reply seems really disingenuous but sure, I will bite.

                  I am not from hexbear, I’m pretty sure they got their domain back anyhow.

                  I never said the USA is comparable to China. In fact I never even mentioned China, so I’m not sure what you got that from.

                  I just said that the people of the USA are essentially occupiers of land that belongs to the Indians.

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        1 month ago

        It’s crazy that they protested to allow covid, instead of to make Shanghai comply with zero covid and stop incubating and reinfecting the rest of the country.

        Taken from another post:

        Covid cases from March-April 2022.

        Blue line: Shanghai, orange line: Shenzhen

        Shanghai: population 24.87M, density ~4000/sqkm, Western-style lockdown

        Shenzhen: population 17.56M, density ~7000/sqkm, Zero Covid lockdown

        By December 2022, the entire national Zero Covid policy had to be abandoned. Because one city refused to comply with the national policy.

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          1 month ago

          Where’s your source for Shanghai not being under a strict lockdown?

          The COVID lockdown was ended after two nights of protests in response to a towerblock in Umruqi burning down while locked shut to keep people and no one could get it opened up in time.

          That was not the first case of a sealed building burning, and very shortly after the Guizhou bus crash with no survivors carrying people to a quarantine site late at night.