@realcaseyrollins @matrix China's very effective at suppressing protests before they start because they control all the media and have a formidable surveillance apparatus.
@moonman @realcaseyrollins @matrix I've heard that in East Germany in the USSR, 1/4 of the population were paid informants, who would rat out anyone planning anything, including each other. That plus a guilty-until-proven-innocent legal system makes opposing the state impossible.
I'd bet China is similar. They disappear people frequently. In Egypt they stopped the protests with snipers shooting from the rooftops.
It's ironic that the people who call the USA fascist are actually able to protest without being murdered here. If Trump were Hitler, you wouldn't see people calling Trump Hitler, because they'd be disappeared.
I'd bet China is similar. They disappear people frequently. In Egypt they stopped the protests with snipers shooting from the rooftops.
It's ironic that the people who call the USA fascist are actually able to protest without being murdered here. If Trump were Hitler, you wouldn't see people calling Trump Hitler, because they'd be disappeared.
@aven @moonman @matrix @realcaseyrollins
I don't think China disappears people at the rate that East Germany would. China is way more insular and the government, particularly nowadays, has a much better control of information than anything the Stasi could have dreamed of in their wildest dreams.
Not to mention that China has pulled a LOT of people out of poverty. So long as they keep improving their lifestyles, the typical chinese plebian won't have a good reason to cause problems.
I don't think China disappears people at the rate that East Germany would. China is way more insular and the government, particularly nowadays, has a much better control of information than anything the Stasi could have dreamed of in their wildest dreams.
Not to mention that China has pulled a LOT of people out of poverty. So long as they keep improving their lifestyles, the typical chinese plebian won't have a good reason to cause problems.
@nerdman @aven @matrix @realcaseyrollins protests in China tend to be at the local level, where corruption is most unchecked. If you can avoid getting beaten up by your city's paid goons, you can protest them and the national government may listen and investigate. But if you try to protest the national government, you get accused of trying to undermine socialist ideals which is illegal.
@moonman @aven @matrix @realcaseyrollins
I get it, I get it. I mean. Normies (in all places) just want to do what they always do, and a little more. Maybe watch soccer. Maybe play some games. Maybe play some movies. Maybe buy a new couch.
So long as they get to do those things for what is considered by them a reasonable effort, there won't be a rebellion. Most people don't have use for their rights.
Take freeze peach. NPCs don't need that because they'll just regurgitate what they're told. It's when you disagree with the norm that you require protection, and that happens when there's increasinyg scarcity.
Who knows, after the trade war with USA perhaps we'll start seeing more discontent and protest against the CCP.
I get it, I get it. I mean. Normies (in all places) just want to do what they always do, and a little more. Maybe watch soccer. Maybe play some games. Maybe play some movies. Maybe buy a new couch.
So long as they get to do those things for what is considered by them a reasonable effort, there won't be a rebellion. Most people don't have use for their rights.
Take freeze peach. NPCs don't need that because they'll just regurgitate what they're told. It's when you disagree with the norm that you require protection, and that happens when there's increasinyg scarcity.
Who knows, after the trade war with USA perhaps we'll start seeing more discontent and protest against the CCP.
@matrix But China did send in the military.
@matrix this shit baffles me. i would genuinely have thought people would unite against china but no.
@matrix Two weeks ago, a south asian was murdered by HK police just like Floyd. Nobody was charged. Nobody appologized. Protests were arrested for postering on Lennon Wall, while police or their childern will not be charged for stealing or keeping drugs.
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