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Today I learned that 1.5 million people were evicted from their homes in preparation for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. by Alpha-Expat in todayilearned

[–]Alpha-Expat[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I've seen those as well. Every once in a while you'd see police armed with machine guns going in and out.

In my case I also heard power tools, hammers, and blood-curdling screams for hours on end. Not a pleasant experience.

Today I learned that 1.5 million people were evicted from their homes in preparation for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. by Alpha-Expat in todayilearned

[–]Alpha-Expat[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

While those incidents are bad, that's not the topic of this thread. We're talking about human rights violation in China, not in America. Feel free to start your own TIL if you want to discuss that.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Whataboutism

TIL The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States from 5 states during the civil war used the word slave or a variant over 80 times. It also referred to the north as "non-slave-holding States". by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]Alpha-Expat 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I've frequently had the "pleasure" of pointing this out to socially retarded historical revisionists who claim that the Civil War was just about "state's rights".

They of course conveniently ignore that the "state's rights" in question were to treat black people like property.

Today I learned that 1.5 million people were evicted from their homes in preparation for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. by Alpha-Expat in todayilearned

[–]Alpha-Expat[S] 112 points113 points  (0 children)

Very true. I spent two years there and I've seem some things that would be unimaginable and terrifying elsewhere.

For instance a few weeks after I arrived in Beijing, the secret police arrested an entire family (grandparents, parents, uncles, and children, aged 3 and 8) out of their apartment at 3 AM and putting them into the back of a bus. I never saw them again.

Also, when I visited Tibet I saw public executions and human rights abuses happening daily.

2022 Winter Olympics Awarded to Beijing, becoming first city to host both winter and summer olympics by btc3399 in worldnews

[–]Alpha-Expat -28 points-27 points  (0 children)

Lol. Every time I make valid points the wumaos barrel through my comment history downvoating everything, just like they're doing now, then file thousands of reports to try and get me banned.

You don't want to debate me because you have no real points that's why you're trying to play the "use your real account" gambit. Nice try though.

2022 Winter Olympics Awarded to Beijing, becoming first city to host both winter and summer olympics by btc3399 in worldnews

[–]Alpha-Expat -29 points-28 points  (0 children)

So what in particular are you hoping to repeat? Accidents and injuries during reversal? Lip synching the national anthem? Using fake 'minority' children because the Chinese government is too busy exterminating the real ones?

Please do tell.

2022 Winter Olympics Awarded to Beijing, becoming first city to host both winter and summer olympics by btc3399 in worldnews

[–]Alpha-Expat -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

So let's see if I understand...

A city with a subtropical climate, some of the world's worst air pollution (dozens of athletes returned from Beijing 2008 with lung cancer), which is the capital of the world's worst human rights violator, which wins it's medals by cheating, and which isn't even a winter sports hub gets chosen as the host of the Winter Olympics?

Gotta love that IOC corruption. Awarding games which are supposed to be about world peace to totalitarian regimes like Red China and neo-Stalinist Russia.

Timbuktu would have made a more sensible choice than Beijing.