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by GekkePrutser 1418 days ago
I can't really help not feeling bad for them. I think the Chinese people need a reality check. Hopefully this kind of movie will spread awareness. The people that should feel bad are those supporting the regime.

The CCP exists because the Chinese let it exist. If they want to have a fair society they'll have to overthrow it sooner or later. We can't do it for them. There is no other way. Even sanctions hurt the people more than the regime (see North Korea). People are nothing but livestock to them. Hopefully these examples will help teach the population to see what they really are. The people 'displaced' by the Olympics are another example.

It seems pretty popular still, but cracks seem to be forming after the heavy-handed Corona measures in Shanghai. I'm hoping it will sow the seeds of discontent and eventually a revolution will happen. Or a gradual move to democracy perhaps. But the tighter controlled a dictatorship is, the lower the chance of that.

Maybe I'm too optimistic but I think that dictatorships will always fall eventually. Even strict ones like China and North Korea.