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Great, now reveal all epstein files without black outs.
General Xu was 100% correct. The entire CCP and high ranking PLA officers should have thrown into a courtroom and sent to prison for murder.
Don't worry, I've been told by users that it didn't happen, and that if it did, it wasn't what we saw, and it wasn't that bad, and that, if it was, they deserved it.
I’ve been told by users that it didn’t happen
Don't be shy. Name some names.
You're more than welcome to go through alllllll my comments to find some interactions. I couldn't be arsed
It's all AI anyway. If you saw tank man before, you are being lied to by western propaganda.
Ai in 1989 was so advanced lol
Like, duh? It's all laid out in Neuromancer. 🤷♂️
ICE was black back then, too.
Ice like in cyberpunk or...?
The fatal firewall shit.
Imagine if 2020 had AI becoming this popular.
Pretty sure there would be conspiracy theories that accuse the George Floyd's murder video of being "AI"
The future is so cooked.
Thats my take on them as well.
Time to change some of my challenge responses on some of my equipment to include him as the greatest chinese citizen. I have the standard remember Tiananmen Square response. Always fun to let them port scan and attempt to brute force with those responses.
Modern journalism headline
For anyone else that is interested in what came of him:
Xu was expelled from the CCP and sentenced to five years in prison. He lived the rest of his life exiled from Beijing and died in 2021 at the age of 85.
A much happier ending than I expected.
If I'm understanding correctly he was a general. He was powerful enough to merely be court martialed. I doubt the same mercy extended very often to individual soldiers who refused orders.
In Qing Dynasty, the entire family and close relatives would've gotten publicly executed.
Yay CCP is slightly less cruel than a medieval monarch
No kidding. If this happened in North Korea the trial would have lasted 15 minutes and the execution would have been a public spectacle.
Can't make a public spectacle of something that "never happened".
You're clearly not well-practiced at doublethink.
Good man. Too bad China kills good people. It's a horrible empire.
Too bad China kills good people.
He wasn't killed, he was court marshalled and released five years later. He died in '21 at the ripe old age of 85
It seems like all empires are horrible to me. Humans suck, especially when they have power
It's a flaw of empires in general. They become this pervasive machine where ends always justify the means and there's just too much power and slow rare of change. Just a bad system no matter how you look at it.
I agree, that’s why all empires must die
Yeah.
There’s lots of instances throughout history that prove that humans with power suck.
I like to think that it’s because nice people aren’t the type to accumulate power rather than power corrupts nice people who do get power.
Power corrupts insecure people
I think we make the mistake of letting people govern groups of people that they are too distant from to care about. Leaders are essential, but they have to care about the people they lead. I dont think its actually possible to care about people a thousand miles away the same way as the people in your community. I think this is why the largest countries that are controlled by the fewest people have the most problems. Its a delegation issue essentially.