Interesting Global News
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Something that happened or was uncovered recently anywhere in the world. It doesn't have to have global implications. Just has to be informative in some way.
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[Opinion] prefix
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"The absence of evidence is all the evidence I need!" /s
Your reading comprehension remains sorely lacking. The whole point is that it's not newsworthy, but you can still collect information on it happening by looking up extradition statistics or w/e
Wow 4 hexbear upvotes and one from .ml, you guys are so busy with apologising for Chinese and Russian authoritarianism lately, I don't know how you get anything else done. It's not racist to point out that shit like this isn't ok. You can pretend it's not happening all you like, nobody is fooled.
Yes but it is racist to assume that it's happening because you just feel in your bones that china bad.
This is why we have to actually establish beyond 'yeah but that's the sort of thing they do' that it's actually something bad happening, which is the point of the conversation
'Anyone that doesn't automatically assume everything bad about China is true must be evil' is not a good argument
Go back to reddit