China using families as 'hostages' to quash dissent abroad - Lemmy
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/863209 [https://lemmy.zip/post/863209] > Archived version: https://archive.ph/5Ok1c [https://archive.ph/5Ok1c] > Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230731013125/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-66337328 [https://web.archive.org/web/20230731013125/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-66337328]

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  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, honestly the most stand-out part of the thread to me was people directionlessly freaking out about the presence of those dang tankies

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It's extremely funny that their ultimate boogie man is at most 10-20k extremely online posters. Like what do they think we're gonna do? Do they understand at all how absolutely dominant their cultural hegemony is? Did they all swallow the Bernie Bro discourse but it got lodged in their throat sideways? Everyone's screaming their heads off about tankies, but y?