• Hegar@kbin.social
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    People are taking this as a dig on China, but it’s a tale of how fragile nationalists are the world over. This is a level of dumb on par with freedom fries.

    • 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.

  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Mao Anying, a Chinese military officer, was killed by US bombers on 25 November 1950 during the Korean war. A persistent but frequently denied rumour says he was trying to cook egg fried rice instead of taking shelter, and the smoke from the fire exposed his position to enemy forces.

    I mean… There’s stupid and then there’s stupid.

  • dji386@infosec.pub
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    At first I thought this was going to be a piece about Uncle Roger, but reality is funnier than anything he could ever put out.

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        Sure, everyone must become a martyr for the noble cause and sacrifice their entire career so you can conveniently upvote and move along to the next meme. Fucking A+ 5/5 gr8 b8 m8

      • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf
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        The guy he reposted is a literal cult member, of a cult they still glorifies foot binding and is known worldwide for spreading lies about China. Literal cult member. Of a cult implicated in trafficking. Not taking the video down would be the bigger piece of shit move. Don’t promote cultists.

        • Quokka@quokk.au
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          Likewise don’t promote genocidal authoritarians like the CCP.