• Just because one state is also shitty to dissenters does not mean another state isn’t. They don’t cancel each other out.

    Dissident is pretty vague, probably on purpose. As much as I dislike the US government, I can say the government here is shit and not get hauled to jail for the most part. The same is not necessarily true in China

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      is it?

      how is the us treating communists, smaller trade unionists, palestine supporters, blm people and such over there? those people have sharp criticism and are the true dissenters to varying degrees.

      ask one of those what could happen to them if they get singled out as a leader or something. i judge by actions not words.

      e: immigrants too