And the 'mighty' Chinese regime, who try to prove themselves mighty and undefeatable, once again are shown to be terrified of a woman with ink.
If the Chinese Government is so strong, why are they such cowards?
China has become the kind of dystopian hellhole that if you threw it in a George Orwell book it would sound too exaggerated.
They have quite thin skin, to the point where they censor Winnie the Pooh pictures on WeChat and other Chinese social media.
I wouldn't be surprised if some Chinese citizens "disappeared" because of the memes they posted.
Pretty much this. It is both willfully naive and dangerously complacent to characterize China's authoritarian methods as "thin skinned," easily offended or otherwise petty.
Fomenting unrest, any type of dissent, first requires individuals to be able to poignantly express that there is something they are unhappy with. If not even seemingly innocuous caricatures, like the comparison of Xi to Winnie the Pooh, are not allowed, then ultimately there can be no method for dissent, unrest or revolution from any angle, let alone mocking their President-now-Dictator's near-likeness to a children's book character.
China wants desperately to be a world leader a la USA or EU, but they will never be as long as their government is a corrupt shithole dictatorship
It's always been an Orwellian hellhole.
i truly hope you are right
With the current political climates of both the EU and the USA right now, China has an open path to global hegemony.
It's regressing back to the days of Mao under Xi Jinping.
Bye, man
Says man nervously for 10th time this year
No regime lasts forever, empires and world powers have been destroyed from within and without its only a matter of time.
It's naive to think that democracy is the path that countries will inevitably adopt because it is somehow the best. History is littered with examples of nations that willingly forwent democracy. There's no reason to assume that dictatorships will inevitably fail and be replaced by a democratic government, nor that only democracies can be superpowers.
I'm glad I live in America where I can say what I want,
He wants to be king!
Yeah I agree they need to get closer to the USA's model by downsizing on the secret police kidnappings and double down on the concentration camps and mass shootings
America is fucked up but were nowhere near the Orwellian state that China is
Of course I wouldn't understate the dangers of China's authoritarianism, and of course the reasoning being people who are afraid of you are less likely to oppose them. However, as a citizen of Earth who believe fully in the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights, I believe we have not only a right, but a duty, to criticise our Governments and to further the discussion of human society.
A nation who cannot respect these fundamental human rights is a failed state, and thus we have a duty to denounce China, to denounce Fascism, and to denounce Xi Jingping's tiny little dick.
Don't worry, at this pace they'll get there.
I don't know about that. We have a right to fight back in the event something like that happens here, and you can bet there'd be an uproar. In China, you don't have that right. Hell, you don't even have rights in China
Yeah yeah I'm sure a bunch of people with rifles will do really well against an army of blokes in tanks and jet fighters with access to nuclear armament who already has several torture camps which they will gladly throw you in without due process.
If the US decides to really go full dictatorship your right to fight back will poof out like dust and you'll be left massively outgunned and outnumbered.
No.
Tanks do not occupy your local school, drones do not run your local office, and nuclear weapons sure as hell don't patrol on your street corner.
The insurgency in Afghanistan has proven that as long as there is the will to resist, and a group determined to fight for that cause, you can fight against even the most technological and numerically superior force.
The insurgency in Afghanistan was fought on foreign soil with relatively limited supplies and personnel, it being on foreign soil.
In a hypothetical scenario where the US manages to turn tyrannical to the extent at which China sits, the full extent of the military would be used on US soil because that is how China handles its mass dissent. One of the most well known examples of China's rampant militaristic totalitarianism is them responding to a mass protest with tanks rolling down the street and then censoring the event in their own country.
You say this under the assumption that the military is a monolithic entity and not made of citizens of the very same country. I hesitate to say that soldiers of the US would willingly shoot their own countrymen given our history.
I do agree with you to a certain extent that most military assets could be used in whatever initial confrontation there is (with tge exception of the nukes you listed in your previous example and I think it would be so utterly ridiculous as any use domestically would ruin whatever legitimacy the sudden authoritarian government was trying to project), these things ultimately could not, and would not, be used indefinitely.
An occupying force is made up of people.
Collaborators run the local government. People are in the police force, and whatever garrison in the area.
If you are resisting tyranny these would be what the average Joe with an AR would be fighting of which are highly susceptible to bullets. And you have to be concerned about this happening everywhere. Drone striking your own citizens or rolling over a local with your tank may work initially, but if you keep doing it the occupying force (which will in the large scale be in the minority in terms of population) will not have the numbers to quell the increasing discontent. They may roll another tank in, but when that tank leaves there will always be people targets to fight against.
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I would like to agree with you, but history does not.
Depends who they're shooting. You're a bit more inclined to the pull the trigger on people hurling insults or rocks at you for instance.
The insurgency in Afghanistan resulted in Al Qaeda collapsing as an organization and the US militarity utterly destroying most of the insurgent groups they fought.
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