He was a really nice guy it turned out, and also innocent, and also a pretty good oil painter. He had a whole series of paintings of the incident, including a couple where he is depicted arresting himself. In a classic interview where he is having a laugh about the event and showing some of the pictures he ends the section by cooking a succulent Chinese meal for the interviewer.

There was also a wine released called get your hand off my pinot. The world feels a little smaller without him.

Is someone secretly poisoning him? He just seems to be getting more stupid by the day.

If true, good on whoever it is.

Ah, fair dos. I thought the US might have been added along with that bunch of other Western countries as part of a recent push to encourage tourism to China

Actually you can visit China visa free if your are visiting for less than 14 days. I’m pretty sure the US is on that list of countries

There was a lemm.ee post with wording almost identical to this. I was going to respond but I realised I just didn’t have the energy.

Ok, but isn’t calling for the deaths of billionaires (not that I disagree) on the internet just armchair communism? Do you do any real world communism(ing)?

And why not join a community? If you look at hexbear you might actually realise you like it. And if you have an account with history rather than thousands of throwaways, your words might cary more weight. You might make friends. You might learn stuff from your fellow comrades. What is communism without community?

I guess participation doesn’t count then. Leafleting, organising, protesting, educating. All of that doesn’t count because hexbear call people out when they show their arse eh?

As if there is nothing more to our lives than what we post on an online discussion board.

If you go to hexbear’s front page you’ll see that we have a strong culture of promoting leftist theory. Our internal culture is a mixture of seriousness and silliness, with a lot of struggle sessions where we try to hammer out our differences.

And yeah, we do do quite a bit of trolling, because ultimately federation has put us in contact with an awful lot of easy marks. So sorry if that has upset you. If your own instance had a decent culture of it’s own, maybe you wouldn’t feel so threatened.

I mean, I’m a paid up participating member of the communist party, but whatever you say.

It’s still a uk thing. I was the GDPR officer for our company when it was introduced and as far as I know it hasn’t been repealed in UK law yet.

Edit: Looking into it further it appears that we now have a UK GDPR law which is essentially the same thing and is in lockstep with the EU version.

GDPR, go gettem.

You cannot share customer data with third parties without explicit consent. It has to be clearly labelled and not hidden in T&Cs

Looking at the state of things they might not have cushy jobs for long.

Japan should align with China, you know, assuming China wants them. They probably need to apologise for all their warcrimes first.

You’d think that maintaining something like the boards on a pier would be a fairly straightforward exercise.

I mean come on.

Ok grandad.

Those boosters had families!!!

They are just injecting a bit of humour. It’s not literal

Parlor Pinks? That’s a new one on me. Sounds like something my grandad would have said.

Can one of his bodyguards or employees please push this man down the stairs already. Ffs

Kids are crying because their dad is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon

What, not hexbear?