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Re: Vacations in the Soviet Union

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Post by krzyk » Fri, May 05, 2023, 8:47 PM UTC

FooBarWidget wrote: post #302

krzyk wrote: post #186

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Like the right to protest?

Well people protested against 0-covid during a time that the media reported as "Xi wants to maintain 0-covid forever because he wants more control". Mere days later, 0-covid was lifted. Sounds like a prime example of "the expected dystopia never materializes" to me.

I'm sure people that protested were taken care of. Like the one that just got out of jail after 3 years (he reported the spread in Wuhan).

BTW. How is Wikipedia looking from China, blank spots?

Re: Vacations in the Soviet Union

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Post by DiogenesKynikos » Sun, May 07, 2023, 4:59 PM UTC

mannerheim wrote: post #420

DiogenesKynikos wrote: post #419

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Everything you said was ridiculous hyperbole. That's not a "nitpick." You took the most extreme thing that ever happened anywhere in China during the pandemic, wildly exaggerated it, and then presented it as normal life in China.

I said it was the authentic Chinese experience. Would you say the twenty some million denizens of Shanghai had an inauthentic experience?

The lockdown was a difficult but highly unusual event. However, it also wasn't nearly as extreme as you describe: people didn't live in cages and they didn't starve.

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