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_YeezyYeezyWhatsGood t1_iy2vxif wrote

Reply to comment by -Prophet_01- in China COVID cases hit fresh record high after weekend of protests by TequillaShotz

That rotten scum government will kill millions of protestors over admitting they were wrong once, let alone give up an atom’s worth of power.

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Mostofyouareidiots t1_iy38elh wrote

Yep, the weakest most dishonorable people are always the ones obsessively concerned with saving face.

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Lord_Shisui t1_iy3tkbx wrote

Don't we, as in the West, have like 10-15 times more deaths per capita than they do?

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Mostofyouareidiots t1_iy40nvj wrote

I mean, yeah- if you believe the numbers being put out by an authoritarian government whose big motivation is making the rest of the world think they have super low covid numbers.

Xi put a ton of effort into zero covid and massively inconvenienced hundreds of millions of people for years. If he has to change course because of protests then that is incredibly humiliating and makes him look weak. ...which is the last thing the CCP wants.

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Force3vo t1_iy468kk wrote

I love how gullible people apparently have become when it's in favor of authocracies. This "The truth is somewhere in the middle, always" bullshit needs to stop.

China would never in a million years post anything officially that's not implying they are the greatest in everything. Why people choose to believe that I don't understand.

Same with russia and their claims of being decades ahead militarily of the rest of the world. If your source has shown zero interest in truth stop believing them...

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Tamrannman t1_iy5teht wrote

The truth is somewhere in the middle applies to alot of things BUT and thats an astronomically huge but, in order for it to apply the "argument" or whatever has to be where both sides argue in good faith and with the same assumptions. Sad to see so many just eating up the words of authoritative voices just because they are authoritative. "They are very authoritative, so they must know what they are talking about" or whatever :(

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Trayeth t1_iy4gxdb wrote

Not sure where you got that. Even Tiananmen only a few thousand died.

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