bleepbloopbop [they/them]

ooh are we playing telephone now?

What a joke. Maybe the US should grow a pair and stop giving israel the weapons and funding to bomb embassies in 3rd countries.

John, 41, had previously been the head of a little-known group calling itself the Hong Kong Independence Party, where he operated the group’s Facebook and other social media accounts as well as a UK-registered website.

The group advocated for foreign intervention in China’s rule over Hong Kong following the 2019 pro-democracy protests.

In the wake of Beijing’s crackdown on protest, the group called for the “UK and US to send troops to Hong Kong” with online posts about petitions for foreign intervention and crowdfunding for an independent Hong Kong army.

Regardless of how unsuccessful they were, this was the head of a secessionist political group, calling out for foreign invasion and raising money to physically fight the state… That being illegal is pretty normal. Even in the US, while the speech might be allowed, the latter part would not. Groups have been raided by the FBI for much less.

the 44 billion is the total amount of loans she’d given herself and her proxies via her illegal control of the bank. 27 billion is the amount she’s supposed to return to avoid death. No idea what the 12.5 number is but it seems to have come from the AP as the amount she embezzled, so maybe that’s the amount she took personally, rather than it going to allied companies and such?

It’s the death penalty only if she does not return some large percentage of the money. The death penalty here is the incentive for her to actually try to claw back the money. Though western outlets are speculating she’ll never be able to recover the 27bn they are asking for. (44bn in damages overall)

I would argue life imprisonment is actually significantly crueler than death, assuming the conditions are anything resembling a US prison, or even most european ones. Either actually work to reform people and treat them with human dignity, or you might as well kill them, really.