It’s kind of an ego boost that in 2024 my politics would be illegal in large parts of Europe. Literally can’t go there because they’d arrest me for being so cool.

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BEIJING, China - After making a harmless post on popular, state owned social media, a 41 year old woman was arrested for sympathizing with Palestinian refugees. The message in question was a popular slogan, “from the river to the sea”, taken from a longer refrain and often used as a symbol of resistance against persecution. State police would not comment on what the charges were, and it is unclear what sentencing she will be facing. Western nations were quick to condemn China and the ruling Communist Party for this act of suppressing speech - Chinese officials declined to comment.

Gestapo state intimidates dissidents in regime-wide crackdown

Germany really feeling itself

I definitively have more free speech right now on my vacation in China than German citizens do in their own country.