Federal prosecutors said the accused portrayed himself as a proponent of democracy in China to gain the trust of dissidents. He was convicted of sharing information with Beijing’s Ministry of State Security.
Archived version: https://archive.ph/vMLGK
Is it “armchair” because I call for it but don’t have any intention of doing anything about it?
Absolutely!
I don’t agree with trolling as a tactic, I don’t want to associate with people who do, and if I don’t 100% swallow the koolaid of hexyneocommunism, then I will be banned.
That’s why I don’t join.
Hexbear as a whole, Lemmy.ml as a whole, not for me… mostly because I’m not a communist. There are lots of things that I agree with, but it isn’t a system that has any chance of being applied correctly. Every implementation has failed. China… is not communism. And anyone who promotes China is an idiot. (No, the US is shit too).
I don’t respect people because they have an old account or a post history, because anyone can do that. Talk is cheap.
You want me to join something? Show me a group who is not affiliated with any government, religion, political ideology, and whose sole purpose is popping billionaires with an existing track record. I’ll be there in a flash. But that only happens in movies.
Otherwise every other group is mostly brainwashed idiots who need to belong and have space to park their armchair.
What do I do? I vote. And, occasionally, I spray paint “kill the billionaires” on things. But I live in a city where that’s not a taboo statement so I don’t think it means much here.