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BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)

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Re: BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)

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I’m curious: looking at your posting history, are you at least being paid to astroturf pro-CCP propaganda, or do you do it for free? Could you give us some insight into how it works?

Social Credit points perhaps?

ethnonationalism is a helluva drug

Re: BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)

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Wow somebody came in and downvoted EVERYBODY in this thread. Five cent army, assemble!

> Five cent army, assemble! Quick link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party They also flag posts to take down from the first page. Just look how many votes do this post have but barely on the first page, about to fall down.

@dang, might some intervention be in order?

Re: BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look up almost any genocide or mass killing of the 20th century, even the late 20th century, and see how nobody outside the area gave a damn. Pre-WW2, you've got millions exterminated in the Congo Free State. The Ottoman Empire killed a million Armenians, 500,000 Greeks, 400,000 Assyrians. The British starved five million Indians to death in 1900 and two million Bengalis in 1943 and nobody gave a single solitary shit…

I'm just wondering what kind of genocide can make Uyghur population in Xinjiang grow from 5M to 25M?

LOL. It looks like you got downvoted for pointing out an inconvenient truth.

Re: BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)

#46

Anyone care to say what they believe should be done, or is this just another mad about things thread? Anyone have ideas? What is the solution?

The answer is war. It's really that simple. Do we want to bear that cost? Personally my answer is please God no, but that doesn't mean war isn't the only real option.

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I’m curious: looking at your posting history, are you at least being paid to astroturf pro-CCP propaganda, or do you do it for free? Could you give us some insight into how it works?

Why can’t he or anyone, present an alternative question to elicit a conversation about it?

Otherwise, we will have mob rule.

Re: BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)

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Anyone care to say what they believe should be done, or is this just another mad about things thread? Anyone have ideas? What is the solution?

An unpopular answer: we can't do anything. This is about maturity of the mankind. Long ago it was expected to eat your enemies "to gain their power". Now it's labor camps for enemies of the state. Soon labor camps will be replaced by exile on remote islands (just like brits sent people they didn't like to australia). In distant future we'll just ignore the outcasts.

Re: BBC: The cost of speaking up against China (Uyghurs)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look up almost any genocide or mass killing of the 20th century, even the late 20th century, and see how nobody outside the area gave a damn. Pre-WW2, you've got millions exterminated in the Congo Free State. The Ottoman Empire killed a million Armenians, 500,000 Greeks, 400,000 Assyrians. The British starved five million Indians to death in 1900 and two million Bengalis in 1943 and nobody gave a single solitary shit…

Wouldn't it be a good idea to stop?

I bet that most dictators are addicted to power over other people. They can't just stop.
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