https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/1355113169962692610
Wasn’t a billionaire and executions by the state, especially only 2 weeks after the trial, are not things to be celebrated :comrade-doggo:
Everyone's all rah rah guillotine emoji eat the rich until it actually happens
There's a big difference between doing it in a revolution vs an established state doing it.
Did you also get mad when the Capitol Hill rioters killed a cop, or when the cops killed one of those shitbirds?
the revolution only ends when the state withers away
until it actually happens
What happened? The rationalized bureaucratic state scapegoated some guy to externalize the internal contradictions?
:liberty-weeping: oh no a poor multi millionaire CEO, the humanity :liberty-weeping:
wouldn’t it be better to just throw him in a labor camp for the rest of his days, executions have been proven to not be an effective deterrent for crime.
China also executes people for drug charges, I hope you wouldn’t agree with that being something good
IMO leaving these rich & powerful people alive is always dangerous, it's better to just get rid of them. Plus, if the CCP was ever to collapse, at least there won't be a possibility of these people getting freed from jail -- which you know would happen if some pro-western group was to take power in the country.
But yeah, I don't think random drug dealers should be executed.
"wouldn’t it be better to just throw him in a labor camp for the rest of his days" No. This guy's execution good, drug dealer's execution bad (unless they're CIA or something)
after 2008 issuing the death sentence for a couple of corrupt bourgeois fuckers
America only arrested one or two guys, China is much better, they go after ten or twelve!
One or two unimportant low-level scapegoats that got a very light punishment. This guy was actually powerful and influential.
Yeah much better for the state to execute someone before their trial even when they've not been accused of any wrongdoing..... RIIIIIIiiiiiiighhhhtttt?
Testing the theory to see if one can remove one's own upvote and make it show as a zero
Edit: Yep that's how. Removed the default upvote.
I'm not a believer in state-sanctioned capital punishment on principle, but I'm not gonna lose much sleep over this one.
my thoughts exactly. i try not to cheer for death but, i won't be crying here either
The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of billionaires to kill. Deng made sure to supply the state with a fresh quantity of billionaires so they could get chopped later :deng-smile:
The use of a death penalty is not very controversial in China. The western left cares about this issue a lot more. Justice reform efforts here focus on other aspects.
Doesn't mean I have to cheerlead their executions though does it?
it's certainly less controversial than in the west but I don't think it's universally accepted, i believe around 60-80% of the population supports it
The number does not reveal the whole sentiment. It is not the biggest issue for most who oppose it and the objection does not look the same as the western discussion of the issue.
this is like saying "it's very imperialist and racist to criticize the illegality of homosexuality in the middle east"
ik that's a hyperbolic example, but you can't expect everyone to respect a value/practice that can be reactionary and infringe on human rights. not to blame individual chinese people for being fine with it, and it might not be a big deal, but that doesn't mean we can't call out the practice regardless of the country.
Sure, death penalties are a problem though, outside of crisis and conflict. That is when the productive forces are developed as they are in China. The tradition of execution can also be traced to pre-Socialist movements and practices of parts of what we now call China (and the fucking imperialist Brits who used it at every opportunity). As such it predates Marxist-dialectical understandings and isn't just to be supported for the sake of it being practiced.
That said, Central Park looks good at this time of the year.
I mean we don’t have to cheerlead it but everyone’s all “eat the rich” and “break out the guillotines” until someone actually does it to a billionaire that is much worse than even the average billionaire.
Restorative justice for the proles, liquidation for the bouge
I would generally agree with you regarding effectiveness, except that being as there are only a few thousand billionaires on the planet, I reckon that executions would be pretty effective at resolving that problem.
actually a bunch of teens fucking each other and a 60-year bilionaire taking a sex slave are exactly the same
If women are liberated from being sex slaves under communism, why is it illegal to be untruthful and mess with patriarchal property rights?
Without knowing greater context, my guess would probably be that your bigamy isn't the same thing as a billionaire's bigamy
why are all 300 to 600 chinese billionaires still alive anyways? stealing workers' surplus value should be the line, not full on bribery and corruption
This was the only article I found that really went into detail..
I found 5 others that were just quotes of the exact same wire.
The bigamy charge just seems like a cherry on the top for good measure.
I wish China was more upfront about state executions. If anyone has any resources on that I would be grateful.
people seem to forget that China is a former victim of Western Imperialism, why would they even bother seeking the approval of their former oppressors? It's like Westerners, even leftists, think China owes them an explanation for everything they do. If an African nation should ever rise to the level of global prominence like China has, I would expect them to tell their former oppressors to fuck off and mind their own business.
oh great, now the poly people are gonna cancel China
/actually reads article
Lai Xiaomin, who accepted bribes of over 1.79 billion yuan ($277 million),
This mfer took 277 million in bribes as a member of the CCP, why does his secret marriage matter lmao
