it’s more than that: they’ve been hiring literacy coaches to sit in on and improve literacy classes across the state and rating schools while double-counting the performance of the bottom 25%. plus lots of testing
i def agree that /0 is having a lot of flippancy and groupthink issues, but i would not call them authoritarian. i would say it has true leftists, just a culture of extremely mean ones who don't need too much evidence to be persuaded into exclusion
your point (on free speech) is not supported if there are seldom protests on national issues.
could you give an example of a dissident movement that has openly protested? i would not think the white paper protestor count as an organization (organizing, sure, but there's a difference)
in the past ten years, human flesh searching most often targets those perceived to make anti-nationalist comments.
i'll agree that it's questionable if it has state backing but i completely missed your claim that doxxing campaigns are the result of the government. unfortunately my honest reaction to that is "huh‽"
March 2006
March 2006 was a much more liberalized time.
you just don't find these kinds of firebrand figures anywhere in the mainstream
well yeah, because there are no mainstream politics in china that are not local. instead, they do non–party-threatening punditry. i'm talking people like zhang xuefeng and yuan tengfei (note that despite impressions some outdated reports might give, zhang xuefeng was only temporarily suspended, which well carlson has been too.), or hardcore hardcore domestic tankies like guyanmuchan.
that's politicians. politicians do get relatively long sentences for corruption in europe. there's so many ways to abuse workers besides bribery
and in any case, none of the executions have been for bribery that caused neglect to workers' rights or safety collapses as you calimed. the most i've found for these cases is 15 years and merely expelling for Yang Dongliang—whose neglect caused 173 deaths, 798 injuries, and nearly ¥7B of property damage in the horrific Tianjin explosions—not even anywhere close to a single life expectancy. the medicine Duilio Poggiolini took bribes to approve didn't even kill anyone and he still served half of Yang's sentence.
the only tangential one was Zheng Xiaoyu, who state-approved medicine that in one instance caused "14 patient deaths, hundreds being permanently disabled, and several thousand more falling seriously ill", which has no comparable case in europe with a similar impact per-capita.
China at a local level is incredibly directly democratic
i actually agree with that. but the local governments cannot override the system decided higher-up by democratic centralism.
Despite the increase in protests, some scholars have argued that they may not pose an existential threat to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule because they lack "connective tissue";[7] the preponderance of protests in China are aimed at local-level officials, and only a select few dissident movements seek systemic change.[8]
these already exist... it can only get better if china has better free speech because currently these exist only on the pro-china side. nationalism anywhere is suffocating but it feels worse in china when it's a one-sided battle
not exactly. if you're worried about the differences between bash 3 and 5, you're probably using some intermediate bash-exclusive features because that's the headlining changes between these versions (google says associative arrays and new shellvars. even if zsh has equivalent features, the syntax would be different.) it's only "guaranteed" to run fine in both shells if the shebang ends in /sh to call the POSIX shell without any bash- or zsh- specific features.
it’s more than that: they’ve been hiring literacy coaches to sit in on and improve literacy classes across the state and rating schools while double-counting the performance of the bottom 25%. plus lots of testing
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/podcasts/the-daily/mississippi-schools-test-scores.html