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NKato
Except that this time, China can't control the narrative anymore. It's spread like wildfire.
TossedSaladsandScrambledEggs
alenfishman
Can I just come on here 1 day and not run into another crisis...
Pentjotal
Under lockdown for more than 100 days !
deadendkyo
As a HKer this is just sweet karma to me, mainland students mocked HK protesters for HK freedom & now they yearn for freedom.
BearUnhinged
daRealFuckfaceVonClownstick
Protests in China need to be a John Cena meme. You can’t see them.
TwoBitGreaser
33 years ago, perpetrated by exactly the same regime.
obesiusthewide
Funny way to say unplanned armor parade with collateral damage
bayesiancuttlefish
My ZTE phone is showing puppies.
Drakhma
duktayp
Chinas' best defense vs. outbreaks is still "lockdown"? Lockdowns are sooooo 2019
jakobbp
Nevermind me, just here to collect downvotes https://www.fridayeveryday.com/how-psy-ops-warriors-fooled-me-about-tiananmen-square-a-warning/
TheRockDude
lmao fuck you buddy, my uncle was there. he saw people get shot next to him as he hunkered behind concrete barriers
latenightbreeze
Xi isn't the only one at fault. He is super heavy handed with the lock downs but the general public is too cavalier towards covid as well.
oneillwith2ls
China is... complicated.
StevenFarmer
How dumb Marty was always bothered me.
cunninglinguist85
Dopeden
TheRockDude
shit, man, my uncle survived that first one
amergin
MachinimaMachinima
Your blood is expendable to them, theirs is equally expendable to you. Seek peace and love, but stop at nothing to extinguish your oppressor
MachinimaMachinima
It's a little radical, but that's pretty much the state of the world rn. When you're competing against military you don't have many options
Renza0
Nothing bad ever happened at Tiananmen Square, especially in 1989. -china
Monkeynutsjoe
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
VibratingNipples
I know this is gonna to end badly
navagon
There's no way the whole situation in China isn't going to end badly. If people learnt what's being hidden it would change things fast.
kingbudo101
oh it will
Youhavinagiraffe
Passively accepting covid-zero policies is ending badly too. A public who feel there's nothing to lose is authoritarianism's biggest threat
Cucumberclouds
It already has for some- an apartment building caught fire and they let them burn to death
somethingcleverlol
for those that havent caught up with the news today https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/china/china-lockdown-protests-covid-explainer-intl-hnk
iDrinkDrano
Given how much our outlets tend to mischaracterize Chinese sentiment, I have no idea who to believe on this one.
AntiProtonBoy
Nerfgunner
Any support for protests, fuck this whole trade shit
dennydorko
Anyone else remember 2 1/2 years ago when USA had violent COVID protests because we couldn't get haircuts?
FlyingButtPliers
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/28/chinese-bots-flood-twitter-in-attempt-to-obscure-covid-protests
OmnesMundiLardum
I think the link is broken. It doesn't load on my huawei phone.
dan144
Very concerning friend! Please stop by the nearest embassy to get replaced
SoraHjort
Hope the protesters stay safe. The CCP on the other hand can suck themselves into oblivion.
WhistlePig
*fuck themselves and die a fiery death*
BORGALOOGIE
MadmanApex
@botdrawa Xi Jinping in a winnie the pooh costume
BotDrawA
@MadmanApex Here's your drawing of a "Xi Jinping in a winnie the pooh costume"
BotDrawA
@MadmanApex Here's your (experimental extra) drawing of a "Xi Jinping in a winnie the pooh costume, Dream
Dopeden
MadmanApex
@botdrawa Xi Jinping in a winnie the pooh costume
BotDrawA
@MadmanApex Here's your drawing of a "Xi Jinping in a winnie the pooh costume"
BotDrawA
@MadmanApex Here's your (experimental extra) drawing of a "Courtroom sketch of Xi Jinping in a winnie the
Rainbowdaesh
My Huawei phone says this post can't be loaded...
RadioFloyd
The post says the are a of in.
amergin
Not the only phone manufacturer....
FuckingTurtleBear
the hell?
viila
On one hand allowing Airdrop for everyone was insane to begin with, on the other, fuck Apple for restricting it when people found a good use
Irarelypostbutwhenidoitsucks
Apple is asshoe
craz1000
Does it really?
RigoryMorty
How dumb are you? They commented on the fucking post.
DoubleSunMoonMoon
So it loads the post but not the content. Have you never had that happen on imgur before?
Movietimeme
Lol
whitewater0034
AtaSeaParks
The past can load while the image may not. They are separate things.
Ellisd83
ikr lets be a complete asshole to some internet stranger. gfy.
MrJollyBear
First time on the internet?
AnalFistingPornstarLegendWolverine
Just because a thing has always been shit doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to improve it.
f00l82
Its always weird when I read these kind of threads because I have no idea who is dunking....
Musicosity
Dunking?
FlamedLion
It changes with the mood of the hive mind
Brhino
Glad to see people rising up against dictators in China and Iran but skeptical that they can make a difference against those regimes.
quadraspaz1
Hong Kong showed us that China doesn't bow
pgdave
I'd say protest only work in a democracy, but look how much they don't work in the US - they're just not effective at effecting change.
nlky
The regimes have nothing without the labor of the proletariat, work stoppage will bring any country to its knees. Even America.
allihearisnoise
You let them worry about their governments, you focus on your own.
Dasnekones
Iran is possible i guess but it would be long and very very bloody
Gestalt7
An Imgurian had a great post about this a few weeks ago. The takeaway was that this uprising doesn't have the numbers to do it with only...
Gestalt7
about 10-15% of the populace involved. The regime-changing uprisings typically have to engage about 50% for it to stick
Dasnekones
The path forward that i see for toppling the Iranian government is assuming that the government starts to kill tens or hundred of thousands
Dasnekones
At which point the required number of rebels might grow enough in numbers and ferocity to work.
DrKriegersClone
And even the ones who are engaged don't seem to be willing to kill over it. They're saying it's a revolution, but how many of the police 1/
DrKriegersClone
2/ who've gotten surrounded in protests got actually shanked, instead of just roughed up a little bit? No, that's protest, not revolution.
Monkeyspearfish
The thing to bear in mind here is that it is not a movement against the Chinese government, the protests are very specifically against >
Masotti316
They literally say step down government and step down xi
Monkeyspearfish
Yes, but these protests are specifically in relation to covid policy and not how the CCP governs generally.
siccoyote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHlO09T4umo "communist party - Step down" sounds like it.
justsotired
as the title says "Xi Jinping, step down!" its more angry at him and the policy than at the party as a whole
siccoyote
There's a mixture of different chants in there
Monkeyspearfish
covid policies. That's not to say the movement won't evolve, but there has been very little general dissent against the CCP in recent >
Tarlon
There has definitely been people who's called for the CCP to be removed in at least some of those protests. It's very unprecedented.
Monkeyspearfish
years, barring what happened in Hong Kong (which had very little chance of spreading to mainland China, as it was only HK citizens who had >
Monkeyspearfish
a vested interested in protesting their cause).
Gestalt7
True. Though the Committee may decide to lop off the top head because his policies have brought disorder from the populace.
Monkeyspearfish
I'd be surprised. Xi has tightened his grip on the CCP and has effectively removed the old guard from the party. There is effectively no >
Monkeyspearfish
opposition.