[QUOTE=Kangodo;51232142]Tibet is already free, Mao freed it from the monks.
I'm not so sure the people of Tibet celebrated having their monks and nuns raped and murdered and their country stolen. Maybe thats just me.
Except you're talking about socialism. Communism is an entire different beast. One that can only be maintained by brutal authoritarianism. Remember how the Soviet Union fell? Their president made the mistake of actually allowing a free election and every Soviet leader got voted out of office.
Also, can you really call it happiness when it's enforced by the mantra of "so much of say that something might not be ok and you'll be arrested"?
Artist/free thinker has problem with living under tyranny and does a soft protest.
Doesnt surprise me.
Will anyone do anything about China? No only the chinese people can once they get sick of living in hell
Commie supporter talking about democracy....what?
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I will try
1948-1990 500k people fled from commie regime.
1990-2007 (dont have data past 2007) Roughly 40k I guess. Data from this are skewed because after 1990 we had big surge of workers from Ukraine who usually worked here for a year and when they return to their home countries they count as Czech emigrants in statistics
source : https://is.muni.cz/el/1423/jaro2004/...on_country.pdf
Well, this is interesting. Right in his description - Valiantly upholding the immortal science of Marxism by posting online. If he was just a western journalist I'd say he was naive, but seeing where he works that's a pretty laughable description. Marxism prescribes prison labor and ethnic conflict!?
Further down he has a bunch of anti-India stuff. That's just schilling for a nation-state, or in his case the foreign government that pays him. That's fine, but hard to take the high minded principled claims of being a real Marxist seriously.
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Probably helps when the walls get taken down.
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/05/2...ssacre-report/
His house was raided, his personal belongings were confiscated, he was forcibly removed from his home and is being held against his will. Arrested is the word we use in English to describe that kind of event.
On a side note, while I don't agree with pretty much anything Zenkai ever says on these forums, engaging in personal attacks instead of responding to his question is not only poor form on your part, but also against forum policy.
Oh, and you never did respond to question posed by the original post. It's sad, really, because I'd enjoy hearing your thoughts on why you seem to think that what they did was okay. It seems like you have no interest in actual dialogue, however, as you name call consistently and never actually give your thoughts and reasoning on the original post. Unfortunate for those of us with open minds and a willingness to discuss things.
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That country is rotten and corrupted to the core. Freedom of speech is basically non-existent and on their forums like Baidu you are at the mercy of moderators who abuse their power incessantly. Moochamp vs Baidu is like heaven and hell.
" If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.." - Abraham Lincoln
“ The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to - prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms..” - Samuel Adams
Probably fewer than you do for your constant spamming.Originally Posted by freefolk
As I've said before, I'm over here doing things like teaching Constitutional Law and cross culture communication. I prepare Chinese students to go overseas and study, where they will be exposed to foreign ideas/ideals and will bring them back. What are you doing, keyboard hero? I'm betting that I'm doing more for social change here than you and your usual echo chamber combined have done.
And if a thirty year old symbol is supposed to hold meaning for you, what do *you* do to remember Kent State. Unlike China thirty years ago, the US had been out of feudalism for more than a century. We sent in armed soldiers with fixed bayonets against our students. The tanks in front of tank guy ... stopped. The soldiers at Kent State fired on those who protested the US extending military operations into Cambodia. Then again, maybe the reason you are so fast spamming Tank Man threads is to make sure people focus on something outside of the US.
With COVID-19 making its impact on our lives, I have decided that I shall hang in there for my remaining days, skip some meals, try to get children to experiment with making henna patterns on their skin, and plant some trees. You know -- live, fast, dye young, and leave a pretty copse. I feel like I may not have that quite right.
They didn't run him over and no one is really sure who he was or what happened to him after. The one thing we do know is that he did not die.
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The USSR was not a democratic system no matter how much they called themselves that. If you think that they were democratic even if even the people who want that system back does not think so you are just delusional. Communism might have its selling points but democracy isn't one of them.
Also, socialism and communism might be related but they are absolutely not the same thing. Socialism is anything that is owned "socially" and communism is when everything of substance is owned that way. It is basically a difference of quantities.
The only USSR referendum happened in 1991. Exactly because USSR was already moving in democratic direction.
And could have moved further without dissolution.
But people like Yeltsin and his advisors thought "Listening to people? Maintaining existing ties? Seeking consensus? Noone has time for that! We already know that Western way is the only way! Got to burn entire system and shed all those useless satellites that weight us down, so that we can get to glorious future!"
...and, well, we're in that glorious future right now, almost thirty years later.
And people don't like it. They didn't like burning down part too, and still hold grudges about that.
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