freagle@lemmygrad.ml 4 weeks ago
Dictatorships use solitary confinement as a form of torture
Solitary confinement is a form of torture. It’s torture when China does it, it’s torture when the USA does it. The difference isn’t which country is a dictatorship. The difference is that the USA does it to infants and children after ripping them away from their parents who are seeking asylum and does it to prisoners when their prison guards have their ego bruised, while China is using it on a literal enemy of the state trained and funded by a foreign government with a long history of being an adversary.
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
What makes him an ‘enemy of the state’? What crime did he commit? There is absolutely nothing.
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 weeks ago
I get that you dislike China, but sedition is a crime everywhere.
freagle@lemmygrad.ml 4 weeks ago
He collaborated with war Hawks in the USA like Bolton and Pompeo as part of his campaign as a British national to fight against the return of Hong Kong to the governance of China, spread anti-chinese propaganda, and politically organizing against the state.
That’s all that’s needed. If a British national who lived in California and built up relationships with Russian and Iranian leaders was organizing politically to have California secede from the USA you can be damned sure that person would be in prison.
Horse@lemmygrad.ml 4 weeks ago
conspiring with the US government against China
Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
These are empty words. What exactly did he do?
If you just parrot propaganda, I won’t respond anymore.
Horse@lemmygrad.ml 4 weeks ago
he had private meetings with Pence, Pompeo, and Bolton while being a prominent proponent of a protest movement heavily boosted and funded by states hostile to China
an analogue would be a rich businessman affiliated with the Scottish independence movement meeting with Mishustin, Lavrov, and Belousov,
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 weeks ago
He is a media mogul advocating for sedition, why do you play dumb?
freagle@lemmygrad.ml 4 weeks ago
This article that you posted is you parroting propaganda. Try not to immediately believe everything Western media tells you and try not to immediately dismiss anything that runs counter to the Western propaganda line.