• tehcooles@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    As far as I understand from the article, by Chinese law what they’re accusing him of is a crime, so technically this is much, much stupider.

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      1 year ago

      Yes it’s a very stupid law. “No cooking fried rice on anniversary of death of son of great leader who cooked fried rice in Korean War during bombing run, literally exposing his own position”

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          If you’re seriously questioning this, then the actual terrible laws and acts going on in China would BLOW your mind in… five.

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          Same regime that outlawed posting pictures of Winnie the Pooh because he was being compared to their figurehead. With that context, the surprise should be…lessened.