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bazookabill@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Chinese activist who mocked Xi Jinping flees to South Korea on jet ski, arrested

www.indiatoday.in

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Chinese activist who mocked Xi Jinping flees to South Korea on jet ski, arrested

www.indiatoday.in

bazookabill@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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The jet-ski escapee is Chinese rights activist Kwon Pyong. He had posted pictures on social media mocking Chinese President Xi Jinping, and spent time in jail in China for subversion.
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    China simps will find a way to say this is also exactly like what America would do

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      Treason and sedition is a no-no around the world…

      There’s a difference between going “yo government y’all suck” and “let’s take up arms and overthrow the government”

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      “Someone will find a way to make this about America” he said, immediately making it about America.

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      He was trying to cross a border illegally. So yeah, its exactly what america would do, except maybe they would have shot him.

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        Yeah the American government always imprisons those who make fun of them. Exactly the same as this for sure.

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          Chapter 10 in this book gives lots of examples of political repression in US where activists have been harassed, arrested, and even assassinated by the state https://archive.org/details/DemocracyForTheFew16147062951821

          The fact that you think US government doesn’t do these things says a lot about the effectiveness of western brainwashing.

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          Please show me where he was arrested for criticising the Chinese state.

          Pretty ironic comment coming from @SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org I thought liberals had labelled him a russian spy

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            It’s in the article.

            and spent time in jail in China for subversion

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              but he didnt escape from jail and steal a jetski

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            Yeah I’m sure the Chinese government would freely admit to that being the reason lol

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              deleted by creator

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        Does america arrest people LEAVING the country?

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          This guy was arrested by south Korea, not China.

          Oh yeah and america definitely does.

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          Yeah, and put them in Guantanamo Bay

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