I shrugged it off as a conspiracy theory for a while, but I'm pretty convinced he's MIA now. I don't quite believe he's been assassinated, but I think they could've struck a deal and extradited him secretly, and plan on now just not confirming or denying anything, so his story gets lost in the confusion/arguments/doubt.
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> You can think of Western oppression as being snake-like, while Chinese or Russian oppression is dragon-like. If someone speaks out against the establishment in China or Russia, the response will be brute-force - the dissident will be assassinated. Well, I think this is bollocks. I think what you described is what the western media would like you to believe: Russia and China assassinate, whereas the USA "only" makes…
I'm sure you can find counter-examples, but there are qualitative and quantitative differences in the oppression styles List of journalists killed in Russia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_... List of assassinated American politicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assassinated_American_... In America, they have to at least keep up the pre-text that you are free. Because of the stat…
Thank you.