That article mentioned Ai Weiwei spread misinformation doubted the result of the US election and was accused of spreading conspiracy theory on Twitter.
I have watched several documentaries produced by him in the past. Quite disappointed.
He also called Germany "still a Nazi country" because one(!) Taxi driver in Berlin refused service after threw an entitlement fit. That's after he lived in Germany for many years and was supported by the government in every way possible.
Dude has delusions of grandeur.
The article (If you listen to it if you can't get around the paywall) mentions that Ai Weiwei spread information that doubted the results of the US 2020 election and was accused of 'spreading conspiracy theories' on social media.
Maybe the parent comment agrees that having an opinion (conspiracy or not) is a crime in the US, otherwise what was the 'criminal record' that Credit Suisse is mentioning on a person that was never charged or convicted of any crimes?
I edited that out because it's distracting. Realistically, Trump was clearly a practical revolutionary, standing in stark contrast to a vested establishment that ceaselessly sought to upend him and his supporters.
How is saying Trump won the election an act of political dissent? Trump was president!
The overton window has shifted so far on this site that saying "I don't like this person" is grounds for starting a whole debate about cancellation! Y'all are absolutely out of control
People are allowed to not like other people. Sorry if people you like aren't liked by other people
> Used to be a fan of him until he actively spreading lies of US election. Turned me off.
You have to look at things from the perspective of those people. They're not part of your domestic political faction, they're dissidents from a foreign country. Western politicians have been mealy mouthed and soft for decades with regards to the PRC. As far as I know, Trump was the first American president to take a hard line against them in my conscious lifetime (even though his motives were unprincipled), and they probably decided to throw their weight behind him lest things return to the status quo and they lose hope for the thing they really care about: China.
Or postal vote... Like how would you ever secure such system to acceptable level. Maybe it is barely acceptable in limited scale. But in general it seems open to exploitation and something that would only be used in countries without real democracy.
How would you corrupt a postal election without getting caught? Maybe you could get a handful of bad votes in, but I don’t know how you could do it at scale.
A frequent schema in my country is to buy votes from local drunks. Go to a local bar with minivan. Grab a bunch of people, drive them to polling station, drive them back, buy beer and give some change.
This doesn't scale that much because you can't verify the vote and you're limited to few days. It's pretty easy to spot it too. Other politics' support is on the lookout for returning cars and scout cheap bars too.
Now move this schema to postal voting. You've plenty of time to buy voting ballots off drunks. And you can fill them in yourself. It's much harder to spot too.
Where I live there are nested envelopes. The outside envelope is associated with you, but the inner envelope that has your vote is not. So they can see that you voted, but not how you voted.
It's insane to me to see so many other countries have ways to verify you're a citizen of the country when going to vote, but in America it's such a controversial issue that anybody mentioning it is immediately bombarded with heinous accusations and name-calling.
> It's insane to me to see so many other countries have ways to verify you're a citizen of the country when going to vote, but in America it's such a controversial issue that anybody mentioning it is immediately bombarded with heinous accusations and name-calling.
Yeah. It's so stupid that the Democrats don't knock the wind out of the Republicans' sails by embracing voter ID requirements coupled with an intense, funded push to provide an ID to everyone who lacks one (e.g. have government employees who go around to places like homeless shelters and jump through all the bureaucratic hoops and pay all the fees to get someone an ID).
Lacking official ID is a serious hindrance to modern life (and fixing that can have a lot of Catch 22s), so getting people ID is a great way to help the disadvantaged.
Bcs maybe Blue corp dont want to make itself useless solving problems? Its the loop of getting votes by crying Wolf as opposition even while ruling and never solving the issues to use them as votes grab next cycle
See most other Chinese dissidents given sanctuary in the US so they may be wielded as propaganda mouth pieces / geopolitical tools. Ultimately these people are more interested in undermining the land they left then the wellbeing of their host countries, i.e. survey of 300K Hong Kong Canadians living in HK indicated their primary concern during last federal election was wellbeing of HK not Canada. Countries reliant on immigration ultimately imports drama from their most vocal diasporas, but very few managed to gain clout like the anti PRC crowd who has heavy support from the US political establishment. Though hilariously, at this point, FLG / Epochtimes has caused more harm to US society than it ever did to China. I mean it's their right since they are mostly naturalized Americans afterall, but in my experience diasphora democracy activists tend not to care about democracy of their new "home" because their identity and paycheck doesn't depend on it.
Chinese government even get benefit from FLG in such a way that FLG create a lot oversea Chinese support CPP. Maybe due to FLG members zest behavior.
I don't believe CPP intentionally doing anything manipulating FLG that but there are some conspiracy theory about controlled opposition.
At least there's a very good strategy that attack a political opponent in a very bad way, for example smear in very stupid lies, can actually give the opponent a boost. I haven't seen any real sample of a politician using this strategy yet.
He is much better than average dissidents who are usually worse on integrity. It's a very mysterious phenomenon that the dissidents, whether inside China or overseas, almost all happened to have integrity issues. A lot of them including a few famous dissednets, are quite abnormal. There's an exception named ZHANG heci who keeps his integrity but has been often attacked by his fellows.
It's also very interesting that western journalists have been hiding the integrity issues related to Chinese dissidents by portraying them as heroes until last election that a lot Chinese dissidents involved in US domestic politics. WSJ is one example.
Western public are not aware of this wired issue because most of them don't read Chinese. For those who read Chinese, here's a site that exists for almost 20 years.
> It's a very mysterious phenomenon that the dissidents, whether inside China or overseas, almost all happened to have integrity issues.
Oh, so very mysterious!
It's called a smear campaign. The government purposefully discredits the people it does not like because it is unable to directly address the dissident propositions. It is a very simple and old propaganda trick, and yet you allowed yourself to become a complete victim to it.